Canada

Canada abstained from a contentious United Nations vote on Thursday, December 21, 2017, that delivered a resounding rebuke to Donald Trump over his decision to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

While they have slightly differing views on the landmark tax cuts just adopted in the U.S., and their potential effect on Canada, some of the country's leading fiscal-policy experts agree on one thing.

Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson has wrapped up her inquiry and found that Trudeau contravened sections 5, 11, 12 and 21 of the Conflict of Interest Act.

Canada and the United States will co-host in a meeting of foreign ministers in Vancouver on Jan. 16, 2018 on the North Korean nuclear crisis.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development released its assessment of Canada’s environmental performance on Tuesday.

A trade deal between Canada and the European Union could amount to a lump of coal for the U.S. at Christmastime.

The scandal-tinged defeat of Roy Moore in Alabama's special Senate election is raising faint hopes that it might embolden some decidedly reluctant Republicans to speak out in support of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Officials with the U.S government say it's time to consider the possibility that endangered right whales could become extinct unless new steps are taken to protect them.

Federal officials have been on a months-long campaign to surreptitiously slip the name Gordie Howe into conversations with top-level American counterparts to promote the new border crossing that will bear the hockey player's name.

"I like the prime minister very much. Prime Minister Trudeau. Nice guy. Good guy. No, I like him. But we had a meeting... He said, 'No, no, you have a trade surplus.' I said, 'No we don't.' He said, 'No, no you have a trade surplus,'" Trump told the Florida crowd.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says Canada and China have made good progress on environmental laws and regulations that are among the barriers to launching official free trade talks.

Pursuing free trade with China and preserving the North American Free Trade Agreement are part of Canada's international mission to combat the rising tide of populism, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday.

Canada and Quebec should look at their own records before "giving lessons" to other jurisdictions about human rights, Julie Miville-Dechêne, Quebec’s newly-appointed international envoy for human rights, told an international conference in Montreal.

Québec Solidaire's Manon Massé believes that, in the legislature like elsewhere, many women decide not to denounce their aggressors out of fear of hurting their own careers. "You shut your mouth because you want to work until the end of your days," said Masse,

Without enforceable Net Neutrality principles telecom companies could put a tollbooth on the Internet charging both websites and Internet users special fees to avoid slowdowns, writes Steve Anderson.