USA

Prospect of labour tweak for continental USMCA trade deal

Editorial Bureau November 28, 2019

Adjustments could be made to how labour disputes are handled in the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal to help push through its ratification in the United States, Mexican deputy foreign minister Jesus Seade said on Wednesday. Seade, the Mexican official in charge of

USA

Newly passed law in Canada’s British Columbia gives indigenous peoples more sway

Editorial Bureau November 28, 2019

British Columbia passed a law that will give indigenous people more sway in matters affecting them, becoming the first Canadian province to formally adopt U.N. standards on the issue. “It is time we recognize and safeguard indigenous peoples’ human rights, so that we may finally move away from conflict, drawn-out court cases and uncertainty, and […]

Tech

Probe suggests data firm broke Canadian privacy laws with involvement in Brexit, U.S. campaigns

Editorial Bureau November 27, 2019

OTTAWA- Canadian data firm AggregateIQ broke privacy laws with some of the work it did for a leading pro-Brexit group in Britain and a number of U.S. political campaigns, according to a report of an official probe released on Tuesday. Daniel Therrien, the federal privacy commissioner, along with Michael McEvoy, his counterpart in the province […]

Asia

Canada’s new foreign minister says he pressed China on detainees

Editorial Bureau November 24, 2019

OTTAWA- Canadian Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, who has been in the job for four days, said on Saturday he had pressed his Chinese counterpart about the case of two Canadian citizens jailed in Beijing. China says the two men are being held on state secrets charges. They were detained last December, shortly after Canadian police […]

World

China envoy warns of ‘very bad damage’ if Canada follows U.S. lead on Hong Kong

Editorial Bureau November 23, 2019

OTTAWA – China’s new ambassador to Canada on Friday warned Ottawa not to follow the U.S. lead and formally back protesters in Hong Kong, saying such a move would cause “very bad damage” to already poor ties with Beijing. Canada, locked in a trade and diplomatic dispute with China, has repeatedly expressed concern about the […]

Sport

Davis Cup Finals- Australia pull out of doubles in tit-for-tat with Canada

Editorial Bureau November 22, 2019

MADRID- Australia retired one game into their doubles dead rubber against Belgium at the Davis Cup Finals, placing the revamped tournament under further scrutiny a day after Canada forfeited a doubles rubber against the United States. With a scheduling logjam pushing matches past midnight for a second successive day, Australia won both their singles against […]

World

Trudeau to shuffle cabinet, foreign minister set for big new role

Editorial Bureau November 20, 2019

OTTAWA- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet on Wednesday and insiders say he may well move Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland into a new job and ask her to prevent a national unity crisis. Trudeau’s Liberals lost their majority in an October election and now have no legislators in the western energy-producing provinces […]