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Canada: Another Indian-origin person shot dead in Surrey in suspected target killing

This incident comes just days after a 21-year-old Sikh woman was shot dead outside a gas station in Mississauga, Canada

Canada’s Justin Trudeau invokes emergency powers to quell ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests

For more than two weeks, thousands of protesters in trucks and other vehicles have clogged the streets of Ottawa, the capital, and besieged Parliament Hill, railing against vaccine mandates for truckers and other COVID-19 precautions

Canada detects first two cases of new coronavirus variant in Ontario, say health officials

'The cases are a couple from Durham with no known travel history, exposure, or high-risk contacts,' Barbara Yaffe, acting chief medical officer for Ontario, said in a statement

Coronavirus outbreak: Toll in China rises to 132, over 6,000 people infected; US, Japan begin evacuating nationals as experts fear mutations

Countries on Wednesday began evacuating their citizens from the Chinese city hardest-hit by an outbreak of a new virus that has killed 132 people and infected more than 6,000 on the mainland and abroad

Wife of Canada’s first coronavirus patient tests positive, 19 suspected cases under investigation; govt advises citizens to avoid travel to Hubei

The wife of Canada’s first confirmed patient with the fast-spreading Wuhan coronavirus also has tested positive for it at an Ontario laboratory, and 19 other suspected cases in Canada are under investigation

Justin Trudeau kicks off re-election campaign in Canada, faces questions over showing undue favours to construction firm

Polls strongly suggest that Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau may not win enough seats to govern by himself after a series of missteps that called into question his leadership while cutting into his once sky-high popularity

Bernie Sanders buys cheaper insulin from Canada, accuses US pharma companies of letting diabetic people 'die out of greed'

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders accused American pharmaceutical companies of letting diabetic patients die out of 'greed,' after he accompanied a group of Americans to Canada to buy insulin.

Justin Trudeau condemns Donald Trump's attack on four Democratic Congresswomen, saying 'that is not how we do things in Canada'

'That is not how we do things in Canada,' said Justin Trudeau after an attack by US Donald Trump against four minority Democratic congresswomen.

Rahul Gandhi's minimum income guarantee scheme based on idea of Universal Basic Income: The concept and its feasibility

A Universal Basic Income scheme involves paying all citizens a certain monthly sum unconditionally, regardless of whether they work and how much they earn.

Ontario to include some Tesla car owners under its rebate plan for e-vehicles

The incentive programme provides rebates of up to C$14,000 ($10,640) for people who bought electric cars.