Canada

A Canadian legal activist is warning the federal government to grant asylum to democracy activists in Hong Kong and expanded settlement to those with links to Canada before China prevents them from leaving.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s comments came after the Chinese Embassy expressed its “firm opposition” to the Meng ruling and accused Canada of acting as an “accomplice” of the United States, urging the nation “not to go further down the wrong path.” 

Canada's commercial landlords got a request and a warning from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to buy into rental assistance program launching next week, as part of a handful of moves in one day to get billions in federal aid to companies large and small.

It may not feel like it the morning after a blizzard, but Canada gets less snow than it used to — a lot less.

Canada and the United States are both "very comfortable" with their mutual ban on non-essential cross-border travel, but Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland won't say if the Americans want to extend the restrictions beyond June 21.

Canada is not yet prepared to confront the challenges inherent in reopening the shared border with the United States, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday, May 13, 2020, stopping short of confirming that a ban on non-essential travel will be extended to June 21.

Canada's death toll from COVID-19 passed the 5,000-mark on Tuesday, May 12, 2020, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the pandemic had exposed serious cracks in Canada's hard hit long-term care that governments will have to fix.

The old-fashioned way Canada records deaths means the country could be missing out on data important to addressing the COVID-19 crisis.

The federal heritage minister says if new tools are needed to get digital giants to pay for Canadian content, they will be built.

Canada is on track to complete its millionth test for COVID-19 sometime in the next 24 hours but is still falling far short of the number of daily tests the country's chief public health officer said last month should soon be possible.

Canada is keeping a safe distance — for now — from the theory that the COVID-19 outbreak began by accident in a virology laboratory in China — a narrative that's gaining traction by the day, thanks to the White House, American intelligence agencies and media outlets friendly to President Donald Trump.

Canada took further baby steps toward post-pandemic normalcy on Friday, May 1, 2020, as Atlantic provinces began easing rigid restrictions imposed to curb the COVID-19 scourge, while Quebec's death toll climbed past 2,000 as it set to ease its measures.

COVID-19 has reached Canada's High Arctic.

The federal government has betrayed Canada's dairy processors by allowing the United States to activate the new North American trade deal on July 1 — a month earlier than the industry was expecting, the Opposition leader in the Senate said on Tuesday, April 28, 2020.

A $1.2-billion writedown in the value of its oil and gas assets around the world due to low global commodity prices resulted in a first-quarter net loss of $1.3 billion or $8.42 per share for Vermilion Energy Inc., the energy producer announced on Tuesday, April 28, 2020.