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Canada threatens trade war with EU over oil sands
MONTREAL — Canada has threatened to lodge a World Trade Organization complaint against the European Union if the bloc labels oil from Alberta’s tar sands as highly polluting, documents published Monday show. Environmental group Friends of the Earth Europe obtained a copy of a letter sent in December by Canada’s…
Canada’s use of torture data sparks outcry
OTTAWA — Human rights groups and opposition leaders in Canada were in uproar after the nation’s public safety minister this week defended the use of information extracted through torture “if Canadian lives are at stake.” According a directive obtained by Canadian media through an access to information request, Ottawa ordered…
Deported Rwandan charged with plotting genocide
KIGALI — A Rwandan sought by the authorities in Kigali over the 1994 genocide and deported by Canada after a long legal battle, was charged Thursday with plotting genocide, incitement and distribution of arms. Leon Mugesera, who had been fighting his deportation to Rwanda for the past 16 years, asked…
More Russia diplomats depart Canada: report
OTTAWA — Canada has expelled two more Russian diplomats following the arrest earlier this month of a Canadian soldier charged with leaking secrets to a foreign entity, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Canada’s Globe and Mail said the two diplomats had been removed from the list of envoys officially recognized by…
Canada urged to conceal fetal sex over abortion fears
An editorial in a major Canadian medical journal urges doctors to conceal the gender of a fetus from all pregnant women until 30 weeks to prevent sex-selective abortion by Asian immigrants. A separate article in the same issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal warns that Canada has become “a haven for parents who would terminate female fetuses…
Canada to deport man linked to Rwanda genocide
MONTREAL — Canada has ordered a Rwandan refugee accused of inciting genocide to be deported next week, but his lawyer vowed on Thursday to continue a 17-year legal battle to quash his expulsion. Leon Mugesera, now in his late 50s, was informed last month by Canadian authorities that he must…
Canada secretly shipping ‘bomb-grade’ uranium to the U.S.
According to a confidential Canadian government memo, shipments of “bomb-grade” uranium are being moved secretly from Canada into the United States. The memo was obtained through an “Access to Information Act” filed by the CBC or Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Documents show that one shipment of nuclear material has been moved…
Canada’s Kyoto withdrawal under fire from China
Canada’s historic decision to withdraw from the Kyoto protocolprovoked heavy criticism from China on Tuesday, with Beijing saying the move went against international efforts to combatclimate change. Canada on Monday became the first country to declare it was formally exiting the pact, a reversal that will save it billions of dollars…
Japanese return to Canada’s WWII internment camps
Seven decades after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese are returning to the camps in Canada where they were interned during World War II. The December 7, 1941 attack on the main US naval base in the Pacific plunged the United States into war but also changed the fate of…
UK secretly promoting oil extraction from Canadian tar sands
Canadian politicians are being secretly aided by the highest levels of the British government in their attempts to ward off European penalties on the use of oil from Canada’s highly polluting tar sands The Guardian reported on Sunday that documents obtained under a freedom of information request show that at…
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