Tag: Canada

• Friday, May 12th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

  On Brazil's lead, Canada and Mercosur advance trade negotiations

  

  Brazil is leading efforts to increase its own and Mercosur interests in closer trade and investment relations with Canada. This week the Brazilian Foreign Trade Secretary from the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services, MDIC, Tatiana Prazeres received the Canadian ambassador in Brasilia, Emmanuel Kamarianakis and special representatives, with the purpose of strengthening trade relations between both countries and the regional block Mercosur.

• Monday, April 10th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

  Mercosur, Canada to resume trade deal talks

  

  Negotiations for an agreement between Mercosur and Canada to eliminate tariffs on industrial and agricultural goods, services, intellectual property, and government purchases are to resume after more than three years, CNN Brazil reported. The initiative had been halted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

• Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 09:06 UTC

  Canada agrees to compensation for abuses of Indigenous peoples at the hands of the Catholic Church

  

  Canada has reached a settlement agreement worth US$2.09 billion, (€1.93 billion) with representatives of Indigenous peoples, abused for nearly a century by Church residential institutions. The sum will be placed in a not-for-profit trust aimed at financing Indigenous education, culture, and language, the Canadian government announced.

• Thursday, November 17th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  China/Canada incident in Bali: Xi “reprimands” PM Justin Trudeau

  

  An ill tempered Chinese President Xi Jinping reprimanded on Wednesday Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau allegedly over media leaks of the two leaders' meeting, during an encounter on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia.

• Monday, September 26th 2022 - 10:05 UTC

  Fiona causes havoc in Canada

  

  Hurricane Fiona has left unprecedented damage after making landfall throughout five provinces in eastern Canada, it was reported.

• Tuesday, July 26th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  Pope asks for forgiveness for atrocities against native Canadian children

  

  Pope Francis has apologized in Canada for the deaths and abuses against children from native communities at Catholic residential schools.

• Monday, July 25th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  Pope lands in Canada to seek forgiveness from native communities

  

  The Argentina-born Pope Francis Sunday arrived in Canada despite his walking impairment on a mission to seek the forgiveness of native communities for abuses perpetrated at education institutes run by the Catholic Church, which have been unearthed recently.

• Wednesday, June 15th 2022 - 22:36 UTC

  Canada, Denmark agree on territorial dispute over Arctic island

  

  Canada and Denmark have agreed on a mechanism to settle a sovereignty dispute over Hans' Island, an uninhabitable 1.2-square-kilometer territory in the Arctic Ocean which will be split into two roughly equal parts using a natural cleft in the rocky terrain as a reference.

• Wednesday, May 11th 2022 - 20:28 UTC

  US releases report on fate of Native American children at boarding schools

  

  The United States Interior Department Wednesday released a report on what was common practice in 37 states nationwide, where children of native American tribes were separated from their families and sent to 408 boarding schools.

• Thursday, March 24th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Trudeau to remain Canadian PM until 2025

  

  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has brokered a deal with opposition leaders to stay in office until 2025, it was announced Tuesday in Ottawa.