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Finance Minister Bill Morneau painted a rosy picture of Canada's economic future on Wednesday, January 16, 2019, despite diplomatic and political upheavals around the world that could disrupt global trade and impede growth just as this country prepares to head to the polls in October.

"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.

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.

The United Nations secretary-general flew back to global climate talks in Poland on Wednesday, December 11, 2018, to appeal to countries to reach an agreement, as some observers feared the meeting might end without a deal.

NDP MP Hélène Laverdière demanded the Trudeau government launch an independent investigation Friday, in the wake of new evidence compiled by National Observer showing Canadian weapons being used in the Saudi-led war in Yemen.

Use of Canadian arms in the Saudi-led war in Yemen has been confirmed by a former White House official who was once responsible for Saudi Arabian policy at the Pentagon. Weapons experts who consulted their own databases and analyzed a collection of publicly posted photos and videos agree.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives in Buenos Aires this morning for a high-stakes G20 summit set to begin on Friday, November 30, 2018, and draw global attention over trade tensions between China and the United States.

Canada might follow a U.S. decision to put personal sanctions on Saudi Arabian officials allegedly involved in killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey last month, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government wants answers from Saudi Arabia on the country's "perspective and their participation, potentially," in the killing of a journalist.

The Canadian government is showing no signs of toughening its stance on arms sales to Saudi Arabia, even after Canada's spy chief heard a recording of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

OPEC and allied oil-producing countries will likely need to cut crude supplies, perhaps by as much as 1 million barrels of oil a day, to rebalance the market after U.S. sanctions on Iran failed to cut Tehran's output, Saudi Arabia's energy minister said on Monday, November 12, 2018.

Justin Trudeau says Canadian intelligence officials have listened to a recording of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

"The war in Yemen and in Syria, in which Saudi Arabia plays a role, has created a refugee crisis around the world that is having national repercussions here," says Marie Lamensch, project coordinator at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia University.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday it could cost "billions of dollars” to break a contract providing light armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia but the government is looking at that option to assert Canada’s commitment to human rights and protection of journalists.