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Canada shot back at China on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, branding the death sentence imposed on a British Columbia man as inhumane and flaunting the support of its allies in trying to win the release of two other imprisoned Canadians.

"It's a complex world so people do anything and everything to save themselves," Mario Calla, executive director of the immigrant services agency COSTI, told reporters after Rahaf Mohammed made her last public statement. "Social media may now be a tool for them," he said. "It depends on whether or not it grabs the attention of the right people."

A Saudi teen who shot to international prominence through her dramatic flight from an allegedly abusive family said on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, that she will devote her new life in Canada to fighting for the freedom of women around the world.

Chinese President Xi Jinping's government is sparing no expense to its international reputation in its determination to force Canada to back down over the case of a Chinese telecommunications executive it detained last month.

A Saudi teen whose flight from her allegedly abusive family captured global attention will give a public statement in Toronto this January 15, 2019, morning.

Canada's acceptance of a Saudi Arabian teenager seeking asylum is sparking debate within that country about loosening laws restricting women's freedom, but also a backlash that could initially repress more women, analysts say.

A planned move by TransCanada Corp. to change its name to TC Energy will help it attract investors who are "leery" of putting money in anything Canadian given the country's recent difficulty in building energy projects, a U.S.-based financial analyst said on Wednesday, January 9, 2019.

President Donald Trump took his case for a wall along the southern U.S. border directly to the American people on Tuesday, January 8, 2019, using the first televised Oval Office address of his presidency to justify an 18-day government shutdown that observers say is beginning to manifest itself along the country's northern boundary with Canada.

A decade-old goal to get at least half a million electric cars on Canada's roads by the end of 2018 appears to have missed the mark by more than 400,000.

Longshoremen at Canada's second largest port have voted nearly unanimously for a strike mandate in a move that is largely symbolic.

A new report on the country's highest-paid CEOs is adding evidence to the argument that women face a "double-pane glass ceiling" at the top of Canada's corporate ladder — first in getting to the executive suite and, once there, earning as much as their male counterparts.

Western allies' support for Canada in its argument with China over the arrests of two Canadians on national-security grounds have made China "very dissatisfied," its foreign ministry said on Monday, December 24, 2018.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the most divisive prime minister in the history of Canada.

The Canadian representative to the United Nations Refugee Agency is worried about the misleading rhetoric being used by Conservative voices to speak about refugees and asylum seekers — cautioning the government and human rights advocates to "enter into a serious dialogue" to dispel the myths and remain committed to a growing global migration crisis. 

China has now granted Canada access to both of its recently arrested citizens — a move one former Canadian consular official sees as an encouraging sign.