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Arabnews24 - Canada:Canada’s Ministers of Foreign Affairs and National Defence will be meeting with their American counterparts in the U.S. capital on Friday.The topic expected to be featured prominently on the agenda is the two Canadians currently detained in China.Chrystia Freeland and Harjit Sajjan will hold a bilateral meeting with U.S. Secretary of State

Arabnews24 - Canada :US president Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen has been sentenced to three years in prison for crimes including hush money payments to two women during the 2016 presidential campaign.Cohen had claimed Mr Trump ordered the payments, which violated campaign finance laws.Sentencing Cohen in Manhattan on Wednesday,

Arabnews24 - Canada : Ontario Provincial Police interim commissioner Brad Blair is asking the the province’s ombudsmen to investigate the recent appointment of Ron Taverner as commissioner.OPP confirmed to CityNews Brad Blair has called for an investigation into Taverner’s appointment, but couldn’t expand on any of the details. It has also confirmed Blair has hired a lawyer.

Arabnews24 - Canada :Canada’s top court has refused to hear an appeal from a Toronto police officer jailed for the shooting of a teenager on an empty streetcar five years ago.In a decision released on Thursday, the Supreme Court of Canada denied Const. James Forcillo leave to appeal his conviction and sentence.In 2016, a jury acquitted Forcillo of the second-degree murder of 18-

Arabnews24 - Canada : Chinese officials are demanding that Canada release Huawei Technologies’ chief financial officer, who was arrested in Vancouver over the weekend and faces possible extradition to the United States.Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters today that the Chinese government also wants Canadian officials to reveal the reasoning behind Meng

Arabnews24 - Canada :International tributes pour in for 41st U.S. president, who died at 94.....As praise for the life of former U.S. president George H.W. Bush flooded in from around the world, a Canadian connection to the late leader's final tribute emerged Saturday — one of four eulogies at Bush's funeral next week will be delivered by former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, a long-time friend. Bush, the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993, died at his home in Houston, Tex.

Arabnews24 - Canada: The kingdom is ultra-sensitive about the case of detained women's rights activist Samar Badawi...Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to release women's rights activist Samar Badawi when he spoke to him at a dinner hosted by Argentine President Mauricio Macri in Buenos Aires Friday night November 30, a senior government official told CBC News.In a press conference after the closure of the G20 summit, Trudeau said he had spoken to the crown prince

Arabnews24 - Canada: All six boys — two aged 14 and four aged 15 — appeared in a youth court Monday afternoon Nov 19 and were released on bail. They will be back in court on Dec. 19.The students are not allowed to communicate with their coaches or go within 200 metres of where the alleged victim would be known to be. They can only be on social media under the supervision of their parents

Arabnews24 - Canada :The federal environment minister’s end-run around the province is part of a wider effort to shut Ontario out of climate policy talks.That’s the claim Ontario environment minister Rod Phillips made Thursday afternoon, responding to plans announced by his federal counterpart Catherine McKenna to distribute national climate fund dollars directly to provincial institutions and businesses.“While she says that she would have been happy to have worked together with us,

Arabnews24 - Canada: Canada wants to walk down the path toward a free-trade agreement with a bloc of 10 Asian nations as early as next spring, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday in his only opportunity to directly address the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.Trudeau told a leaders’ luncheon that exploratory talks could be wrapped up by the spring with negotiations to begin soon after — timing that would be close to next fall’s federal election.