China has sentenced a fourth Canadian citizen to death on drug charges in less than two years following a sharp downturn in ties over the arrest of an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei. Ye Jianhui was sentenced Friday by the Foshan Municipal Intermediate Court ...
Canada's last intact Arctic ice shelf collapses, losing 40% of area in two days
Data shows that last month was the world's third-hottest July on record, heat that has also been linked to wildfires that have been scorching patches of Siberian forest.
China sentences Canadian to death for drugs amid strained ties
A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian man to death on drug charges, a decision that follows capital punishment rulings handed down to other Canadians and comes as ties between Beijing and Ottawa remain fraught. The Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court on Thursday sentenced Canadian Xu Weihong ...
When scientists first unearthed fossils of a horned dinosaur called Centrosaurus in the badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park in Canada's Alberta province in 1989, they spotted a badly malformed leg bone they figured was a healed fracture. A fresh examination, researchers said on Monday, shows ...
China halts Hong Kong extradition treaties with Canada, Australia and U.K.
China announced the suspension Tuesday of Hong Kong's extradition treaties with Canada, Australia and Britain in a tit-for-tat move following similar decisions by those countries over a controversial new security law. Western nations have angered Beijing over their responses to the law imposed on Hong ...
Blue Jays to play in Buffalo amid pandemic after being barred from hosting games in Canada
The team had been looking for a major league ballpark for its home games but its search was unsuccessful.
Tool discovery dramatically alters perceived timeline of humans in America
Tools excavated from a cave in central Mexico are strong evidence that humans were living in North America at least 30,000 years ago, some 15,000 years earlier than previously thought, scientists said Wednesday.
Canada's government indicated concern over the risk of players traveling back and forth from the United States, which has seen a sharp increase in coronavirus infections.
Coronavirus cold war flares up with claims of Russian vaccine hack
The international race for protection from the virus escalated to a new level with allegations that vaccine development has become a target of Russian cyberattacks.
Russia is hacking coronavirus vaccine trials, U.S., U.K. and Canada say
Western governments on Thursday accused hackers believed to be part of Russian intelligence of trying to steal valuable private information about a coronavirus vaccine, calling out the Kremlin in an unusually detailed public warning to scientists and medical companies. The alleged culprit is a familiar ...
A shot at hostage diplomacy with China backfires in Canada
The letter circulated by Huawei Technologies Co. was blunt. Canada was becoming dangerously entangled in the diplomatic feud between Washington and Beijing, it said, and there was only one answer: for Justin Trudeau’s government to free the state-championed tech giant’s chief financial officer and ...
