Brexit

Canada's chief electoral officer says there's not much his independent agency can do to counter fake news circulated about a candidate in the midst of an election.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro pledged to work "in harmony with the world" to cut carbon emissions, aiming to quell international concerns that his country, the main custodian of the oxygen-rich Amazon, could put economic interests over environmental ones.

Canadian Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says his support for Britain's departure from the European Union is undiminished, despite the chaos Brexit has sown in British politics.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed shared concern Thursday over the current fate of the international order that both their countries help to create after the carnage of the Second World War.

Facebook gave an update Monday on its investigation, first announced March 21, into applications that vacuumed up large amounts of personal information from its platform in the days before it changed its policy and restricted such access in 2014.

Zackary Massingham and Jeff Silvester, of Victoria, B.C.-based political data firm AggregateIQ, appeared before the House of Commons ethics committee April 24 to defend their company’s work for campaigns to leave the European Union.

Facebook has suspended Canadian political consultancy AggregateIQ from its platform, after reports emerged alleging its involvement in a global controversy over misuse of social media data for political ends.

"Let's say he had boundary issues on data even back then," said the insider, who noted that Christopher Wylie's descriptions of his methods in media reports sounded familiar. "He effectively pitched an earlier version of exactly this to us back in 2009 and we said, 'No.'"

Award-winning author Michael Adams believes Trump-style populism will likely never catch on north of the border.

Mike Summers, a member of the Falklands legislative assembly, said the economy of the remote South Atlantic archipelago is based on fishing, agriculture and wildlife tourism.

Canada and Britain are holding informal free trade talks, even though Britain is barred from direct negotiations before it formalizes its Brexit divorce from the European Union.

A Trudeau cabinet minister entrusted with bringing high-level talent to Canada hopes new budgetary measures will help his determined efforts to recruit brains from abroad.

The European Union's trade chief says Canada is a key partner against the job-killing, anti-trade sentiment coming from Donald Trump's administration.

Britain's government will begin the process of leaving the European Union on March 29, starting the clock on two years in which to complete the most important negotiation for a generation.

According to High Commissioner Howard Drake, Britain is bound by all European Union treaties until it formally leaves — a process destined to take more than two years.