Canadian leader Justin Trudeau's wife recovers from coronavirus illness
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's wife said Saturday that she has recovered from being ill from COVID-19 disease caused by the new coronavirus. "I am feeling so much better," Sophie Gregoire Trudeau said in a statement on social media. She said she received the clearance ...
Canada urges U.S. not to put troops at border during coronavirus pandemic
Canada said Thursday it told the U.S. that a proposal to put troops at the U.S.-Canada border amid the coronavirus pandemic was entirely unnecessary and would damage relations between the two longtime allies. The Wall Street Journal, citing an unidentified U.S. official, later reported that ...
Canada says it won't participate if Tokyo Olympics go ahead as planned
The Canadian Olympic Committee says it won't send athletes to the Tokyo Games unless they're postponed for a year, becoming the first country to threaten such a move in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. The committee sent out a statement Sunday evening saying it ...
Inside the stout fins of a fish that, about 380 million years ago, prowled the shallow waters of an estuary in what is now eastern Canada, scientists have found what they call the evolutionary origins of the human hand. The researchers were examining a remarkably ...
Japan automakers to halt North American plants as coronavirus spreads
Toyota, Honda, and Nissan announced Wednesday they would suspend operations at their plants in North America due to the spread of the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
In bid to slow coronavirus, Canada shuts borders to foreign nationals
Canada closed its borders to all foreign nationals except U.S. citizens and permanent residents on Monday, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urging people to limit social contact to stem the spread of the new coronavirus. Several other countries have taken the same step. The 27-nation ...
Canada ratifies trade pact with U.S. and Mexico, then suspends Parliament over coronavirus
The Canadian Parliament rushed through ratification of the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact on Friday before taking a three-week break to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, a top government official said. Canada was the last of the three signatories to formally adopt the USMCA ...
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's wife tests positive for coronavirus
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's wife has tested positive for the new coronavirus, his office announced Thursday night. It said Sophie Gregoire Trudeau was felling well and would remain in isolation. "The Prime Minister is in good health with no symptoms. As a precautionary measure and ...
Japanese Canadian arrested over quarter-ton stimulant haul in Kichijoji
A 56-year-old man was arrested last month in Japan on suspicion of smuggling about 240 kilograms of illegal stimulant drugs with an approximate street value of ¥14.4 billion ($140 million), narcotics control authorities said Monday. It is one of the largest hauls confiscated by the ...
Trudeau wants it all on climate and oil, but it's not working out
Justin Trudeau's ambition was to forge a grand bargain to develop Canada's resources. In trying to please everyone, he has pleased no one. The Canadian prime minister pledged that increased support for the environment and indigenous rights would help win the social license for major ...
U.K. wants same legal autonomy on trade from EU as Japan and Canada, Johnson's office says
Britain wants the European Union to show the same respect for legal autonomy it afforded countries such as Canada and Japan when signing trade deals with them, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's office said on Tuesday. Johnson's office said Britain was determined to protect its legal ...
Canadian police move in to clear indigenous blockade of rail line
Police moved in on Monday morning to clear a rail blockade by an indigenous group in eastern Canada that had been stopping freight and passenger traffic for more than two weeks on one of the country's busiest lines. Canadian National Railway Co. obtained an injunction ...
