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Iranian minister to briefly join Canadian-hosted meeting
Iran's foreign minister is to make a brief appearance today, February 15, 2020, at a meeting hosted in Germany by Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne with counterparts from countries that lost citizens the Ukrainian jetliner crash near Tehran last month.
Trudeau says no plan to tell police to end blockades
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has no plans to order the RCMP to end the blockades of vital rail links across the country.
Anti-pipeline protests push Ottawa to set up meeting with chiefs
Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller has offered to meet with three Indigenous leaders, saying their protests against a pipeline in northern British Columbia are a volatile situation.
Trump nominates new US ambassador to Canada
Aldona Z. Wos, a former Manhattan physician, Republican fundraiser and North Carolina lawmaker who once was George W. Bush's ambassador to Estonia, has been nominated by President Donald Trump as the next American emissary to Canada, the White House announced on Tuesday, February 11, 2020.
More Wuhan evacuees arrive in Canada
A second Canadian plane carrying evacuees from the quarantined region of Hubei, China, has landed at Canadian Forces Base Trenton in southern Ontario.
There's a Canadian on Diamond Princess confirmed to have coronavirus
Princess Cruises says a Canadian is among an additional 66 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in the Japanese port city of Yokohama, just outside Tokyo.
Trudeau goes to Kuwait to visit troops
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to visit Canadian troops in Kuwait on Monday, February 10, 2020, about a month after they were relocated there from Iraq.
Iran doesn't have expertise to analyze crash flight recorders
Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says Iran doesn't have experts who can analyze the data recorders from a civilian airliner it shot down last month and it's time to send the black boxes out of the country.
Canada's Institute of Infection and Immunity invests in new coronavirus research
As governments and health agencies around the world race to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus outbreak, the federal funding agency for health research is set to back work aimed at better understanding the virus — including the fear it causes.
Snowstom buries southern Quebec
Drivers were urged to stay off the roads and children got an unexpected day off from school on Friday, February 7, 2020, as heavy snow battered a large swath of southern Quebec.