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Arabnews24 - Canada: Canadian diplomats on Friday paid their third visit to Michael Spavor, one of two citizens detained in China after the arrest of a senior Huawei Technologies Co Ltd executive in Vancouver, Ottawa said.Spavor and former diplomat Michael Kovrig were picked up by Chinese authorities in early December. Officials say they are being questioned extensively.“The Canadian government remains deeply concerned by the arbitrary detention by Chinese authorities of these two Canadians

Arabnews24 - Canada: A youth was charged on Friday with “facilitating a terrorist activity” in eastern Ontario and trying to persuade a friend, who is a Syrian refugee, to plant a bomb in a public place. The refugee was released from custody although the possibility of charges against him remain.The youth who was charged was not identified, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police would not describe him. But the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Canadian Press news agency identified his

Arabnews24 - Canada:A young offender has been charged with terrorism-related offences following the arrest of two people in Kingston as part of a national security investigation.The RCMP, with the assistance of Kingston Police and the FBI, say a young person is facing a charge of knowingly facilitating a terrorist activity and counselling a person to deliver, place, discharge or detonate an explosive with intent to cause death or serious bodily injury.The youth cannot be named under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.The RCMP say the investigation began in late December 2018 after they recieved credible FBI

Arabnews24 - Canada: A Canadian kidnapped this week in a restive region of Burkina Faso has been found dead, a spokesman for the security ministry told Reuters on Thursday.The man was abducted after nightfall on Tuesday by a dozen gunmen on a mining site owned by Vancouver-based Progress Minerals in the northeast near the border with Niger, an area that the government says is under growing threat from armed jihadists.“It’s the Canadian that was found last night in the province of Oudalan,” said spokesman

Arabnews24 - Canada :Four men, a woman and a teenage boy are collectively facing more than 250 identity theft fraud charges in connection with an ongoing taxi fare scam investigation.Police said that customers would get into various taxi cabs during the evening and morning hours and when they would attempt to pay with either a debit or credit card, the driver would swap their card with a fake card and steal their identity.The drivers allegedly handed customers an altered Point of Sale machine and when the

Arabnews24 - Canada : Rahaf Alqunun, the 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled her family saying she feared for her life, has landed in Canada today 12 January , after being granted asylum in the North American country.Alqunun was welcomed by Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland at Toronto's airport on Saturday."This is a very brave new Canadian," Freeland told reporters, with a smiling Alqunun standing by her side.Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday that Canada had accepted a request from the United

Arabnews24 - Canada: A Saudi asylum seeker who fled alleged abuse from her family is leaving Thailand today for Canada, according to Thailand's immigration chief.Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, will board a Korean Air flight from Bangkok to Seoul on Friday night local time, immigration chief Surachate Hakpark said, before going on a connecting flight to Canada. "Canada has granted her asylum," Surachate told Reuters. "She'll leave tonight at 11:15 p.m.," which is 11:15 a.m. ET.

Arabnews24 - Canada:A civil liberties group, a teachers union and a queer mother asked a court Wednesday to shut down Ontario’s new sex-education curriculum, in a legal challenge with no direct precedent in Canada.The Canadian Civil Liberties Association, joined by Becky McFarlane and her daughter, who is in Grade 6 in Toronto, say that Ontario’s Doug Ford government is discriminating against same-sex parents and their children by “erasing” them from a curriculum put in place last summer.

Arabnews24 - Canada :The federal government will open the door to new requests from Canadians who believe they are victims of thalidomide, expanding on a landmark program that compensates survivors of one of this country’s worst drug scandals.The expansion could offer compensation to dozens of Canadians who say they were born with severe birth defects owing to the

Arabnews24 - Canada :Families across Canada are welcoming some of the country’s first babies of 2019. Baby Fatima Al-Ameri was born seconds after midnight at Scarborough General .parents Mohammed and Dina Al-Ameri were surprised. Fatima wasn't just a New Year's baby — she was among the first in Canada, born just eight seconds into 2019.But her parents thought she wouldn't be arriving for a few more days."I feel very excited and very special and very pleased to have this special baby girl," Dina said.