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OTTAWA – Canada is weighing its options regarding the $15-billion contract to sell light armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said “Canadians and people around the world will expect consequences” for the killing of a Saudi journalist. “We are looking at, as I said suspending export …

OTTAWA: A new ranking has named Canada the most spiritual country in the world. On the Global Spirituality Index, released by luxury travel planning agency Wayfairer Travel, Canada took the top spot after ranking highly in categories like quality of life and religious freedom. Because for the list, authors evaluated …

OTTAWA: The youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate and the Pakistani activist for female education, Malala Yousafzai on Saturday called on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for a comprehensive discussion on G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council (GEAC). Canadian prime Minister Justin Trudeau, sharing a photograph on his tweeter handle regarding his meeting …

I had the pleasure of visiting the Pakistani consulate in Toronto the other day to renew my passport. Every time I enter the consulate, it’s like I am transported back in time to a bureaucratic government office in Islamabad in the 90s. Passport renewal process in Pakistan has been improved …

Canada plans to seek help from the United Arab Emirates and Britain to defuse an escalating dispute with Saudi Arabia, sources said on Tuesday, but close ally the United States made clear it would not get involved. The Saudi government on Sunday recalled its ambassador to Ottawa, barred Canada’s envoy …

The first shots have been fired in the unexpected trade war between Canada and the United States, but it’s not immediately clear who’s going to take the most casualties. On Thursday, the U.S. government made a stunning announcement that Canada’s exemption from steel and aluminum tariffs, which U.S. President Donald …

A publisher has rejected a request from a law firm that represents the Saskatchewan farmer acquitted in the fatal shooting of a young Indigenous man who now wants to tell “his side” of what happened. Last month, a jury found Gerald Stanley not guilty of second-degree murder in the 2016 …

CANADA – A Quebec man whose pit bull-type dog mauled a young girl in 2015 will be sentenced today. In convicting Karim Jean Gilles last month, the judge in the case suggested the sentence would be longer than the three years the Crown recommended. Quebec court Judge Pierre Belisle found …

The Toronto police board voted unanimously to commission an external investigation into how the force conducts missing-persons probes, as members of the city’s LGBTQ community detailed what they said is critically low trust in police. The independent investigation, initiated by groups within the LGBTQ community and brought forward by Mayor …

Five stories in the news for Thursday, March 22 ——— SON OF IRANIAN-CANADIAN WHO DIED IN JAIL SPEAKS OUT The son of an Iranian-Canadian professor who died in a Tehran prison says he can’t grieve his father until his mother is released to Canada. Mehran Seyed-Emami says he and his …