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Canada moves to end port lockouts and orders binding arbitration

Nov. 12, 2024 11:07 AM EST

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada’s labor minister said Tuesday he is intervening to end lockouts at the country’s two biggest ports. Labor Minister Steven Mackinnon said the negotiations have reached an impasse and he is directing the Canada Industrial Relations Board to order the...

Canada's Trudeau revives a Cabinet-level panel to address concerns about a Trump presidency

Nov. 07, 2024 17:45 PM EST

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday he is re-establishing a special Cabinet committee on Canada-U.S. relations to address his administration's concerns about another Donald Trump presidency. Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who is also the...

Canada orders TikTok's Canadian business to be dissolved but won't block app

Nov. 06, 2024 21:39 PM EST

TORONTO (AP) — Canada announced Wednesday it won’t block access to the popular video-sharing app TikTok but is ordering the dissolution of its Canadian business after a national security review of the Chinese company behind it. Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said...

Demonstration outside Canadian Hindu temple broken up after police spotted weapons

Nov. 05, 2024 10:27 AM EST

BRAMPTON, Ontario (AP) — A Hindu temple near Toronto where violence erupted over the weekend was the site of another demonstration this week that police broke up after they say weapons were spotted in the crowd. Peel Regional Police said in social media updates that the...

Australian foreign minister raises allegations of India targeting Sikhs in Canada

Nov. 05, 2024 09:38 AM EST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s foreign minister said Tuesday she raised allegations with her Indian counterpart that India has targeted Sikh activists in Canada. Foreign Minister Penny Wong said she discussed the Canadian allegations with Indian Foreign Minister S....

Murray Sinclair, First Nation advocate for justice and Canadian senator, has died

Nov. 04, 2024 16:11 PM EST

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Murray Sinclair, a former First Nation judge, senator and chair of the commission that delved into Canada's troubled history of residential schools for First Nations students, has died. He was 73. The father of five died peacefully Monday morning in a...

India protests Ottawa's allegation its home minister ordered targeting of Sikh activists in Canada

Nov. 02, 2024 09:45 AM EDT

NEW DELHI (AP) — India officially protested on Saturday the Canadian government’s allegation that the country’s powerful home minister Amit Shah had ordered the targeting of Sikh activists inside Canada, calling it “absurd and baseless.” Relations between the two countries...

Canada alleges Indian Home Minister Amit Shah ordered campaign targeting Sikh separatists

Oct. 29, 2024 23:01 PM EDT

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A Canadian official alleged Tuesday that Indian Home Minister Amit Shah ordered a campaign of violence, intimidation and intelligence-gathering targeting Sikh separatists inside Canada. Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister David Morrison told Parliament members of...

Canadian opposition party says it wants to topple Trudeau's government in Parliament

Oct. 29, 2024 14:42 PM EDT

MONT-TREMBLANT, Quebec (AP) — A Quebec nationalist party said Tuesday it will work with other opposition parties in Canada's Parliament to topple Prime Minister Justin Trudeau' s minority government. Trudeau’s Liberals have only 153 seats in the 338-seat House of Commons and...

Canada will reduce immigration targets as Trudeau acknowledges his policy failed

Oct. 24, 2024 17:40 PM EDT

TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that Canada will significantly reduce the number of new immigrants it allows into the country after acknowledging that his government failed to get the balance right coming out of the pandemic. Trudeau's Liberal government...