Environment Minister Catherine McKenna pounces on a Rebel Media reporter at the closing news conference of the environment ministers’ meeting in Vancouver, demanding his organization stop calling her a “climate Barbie.”
A judge in Spain has issued an arrest warrant for Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and four of his former councillors. Puigdemont says he will run in snap election.
The Canadian government used a powerful new legal weapon — The Magnitsky Act — for the first time Friday, slapping sanctions on 52 officials from three countries: Venezuela, South Sudan and Russia.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau is the only cabinet member who currently holds assets outside a blind trust, though Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould was previously in the same situation, Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson says.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is criticizing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for praising Gov. Gen. Julie Payette in the wake of Payette's suggestion that "divine intervention" did not play a role in the creation of life on Earth.
About 70 million people, including an estimated 250,000 Canadians, are infected with hepatitis C worldwide. The majority could be cured of the liver-damaging virus in 12 weeks at a cost of just $50 US each, researchers say.
Isabelle Lagacé, a Quebec woman who pleaded guilty to her role in importing more than 30 kilograms of cocaine into Australia, was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on Friday.
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