Category: Canada Business

Police have killed the suspected gunman, Cherif Chekatt, who was the subject of a two-day manhunt after a shooting that killed at least three people near a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, on Tuesday, according to France’s interior minister.

Fuelled by outrage over Saudi Arabia’s murder of journalist and Virginia resident Jamal Khashoggi, Congress on Thursday took a historic vote to end U.S. involvement in the war in Yemen, the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe. Here are key questions about the resolution.

A Canadian citizen in China that Canada lost contact with after he was questioned by Chinese authorities has been identified as Michael P. Spavor, the founder of a company that arranges cultural exchanges with North Korea

A global firestorm was set off with the arrest of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou. As she awaits extradition hearings on $10 million bail, CBC answers some frequently asked questions about the case.

Canada’s chief public health officer says the need to increase access to a “safer supply” of opioids is being reviewed with provinces and territories — a move encouraged by a number of public health experts.

In blocking a Tory coup, May has managed to sidestep her party’s brutal family feud, the same one that started the U.K. down the bumpy Brexit road in the first place. But getting through that challenge was only one obstacle on a road still crowded with obstacles.

Christina Gliddy died in hospital in 2016, after being found by a railway bridge in Thunder Bay. Hers is one of several cases under review in a probe of alleged systemic racism in the way Thunder Bay police handle missing-person and death cases involving Indigenous people.

Three people were killed and 12 wounded in a shooting near a Christmas market in the eastern French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday, according to France’s Interior Minister Christophe Castaner.

Huawei’s chief financial officer will be released on $10 million bail — with five guarantors — as she awaits possible extradition to the United States on fraud charges, a B.C. Supreme Court justice has ruled.

U.S President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Canada denied Chinese claims that there is political motive behind Canada’s arrest of Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei’s CFO, hours before Trump told Reuters he would be willing to intervene in the case if it would help his country’s interests.