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The European Union may never again be able to conclude free trade deals if its long-awaited treaty with Canada collapses, EU leaders have said. Canadian and European leaders have spent seven years negotiating the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA),

LUXEMBOURG (AP) — The European Union’s foreign trade chief acknowledged that member states will likely be unable to back a landmark trade deal with Canada as scheduled on Tuesday but she was optimistic the deal could still be signed next week.

Canada’s Liberal Prime Minister has suggested that if the European Union (EU) cannot even do a trade deal with his country then its existence is pointless. Justin Trudeau said that any failure by the bloc to conclude the Comprehensive Economic

Polar bear populations are getting out of control and posing a threat to human lives. Obviously the greenies don’t want you to know this. Last month in  Tuktoyaktuk in Canada, on the edge of the East Beaufort Sea, five children were terrified

A man was stabbed to death outside a Canadian university residence by a Muslim acquaintance after an argument about Islam and Arabs reportedly got out of hand. A rooming house outside of Toronto, Canada’s York University was the site of

The Canadian government has announced its decision to no longer refer to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) by its name and will instead call the group by the Arabic acronym Daesh.

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Canada’s Enbridge is buying Houston-based Spectra Energy for about $28 billion, creating North America’s largest energy infrastructure company.

At a news conference on Friday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said that Canadian jihadi Aaron Driver, shot by the police after detonating a bomb in a taxicab, filmed a “martyrdom video,” pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, and was planning a “dreadful” attack.

(AFP) – An alleged Islamic State sympathizer shot dead by Canadian federal police had been detained last year for pro-IS media posts, and an investigation has revealed extensive ties to foreign jihadists. Aaron Driver, 24, was killed Wednesday during a

Working on a tip from the American FBI, Canada’s Royal Canadian Mounted Police moved against 24-year-old Aaron Driver, an Islamic State supporter, and killed him after a tense standoff on Wednesday, before Driver could carry out a planned suicide bomb attack.

A Canadian man previously banned from associating with Islamic State extremists prepared a martyrdom video and was about to commit a terrorist attack but was killed.

(Reuters) – Canadian police killed a man on Wednesday, national television news channels reported, after the police said they had identified a suspect after receiving “credible information of a potential terrorist threat”. The suspect was killed during a police raid

MONTREAL – The federal government has distanced itself from a major international gathering opening Tuesday in Montreal following complaints that its programming included anti-Semitic content.

An oil sands group in Canada has been forced to apologize for a cheeky ad promoting oil from liberal Canada over homophobic Saudi Arabia.

Contents: Arab League in chaos as it fails to address Arab existential threats; ASEAN in chaos as it fails to address South China Sea threats; France’s François Hollande declares war on ISIS after terror attack kills priest; Turkey fears that Gulen will flee the United States

Contents: Japan’s elections put constitution’s pacifism clause into question; Nato deploying a ‘tripwire’ of 4,000 soldiers along Russia’s border

Judge Harry Van Harten ruled that an indigenous woman named Tamara Crowchief from Calgary, Canada, who yelled, “I hate white people,” before punching a white woman in the face, did not commit a racially motivated hate crime.

Canada’s Prime Minister marched in Toronto’s gay pride parade this weekend — and a Syrian refugee was at his side the whole time.

On December 1 of this year, the Canadian government will lift the visa requirement for Mexican visitors. Immigration experts are concerned that “Canada will now become even more of a launching point for illegal entry into the United States.”

According to TheRebel reporter Faith Goldy, a freedom of information request yielded 2,700 documents concerning the “fiasco” of placing “unassimilated Muslim migrant men” into Fredericton High School in New Brunswick.

An international research team has located a tunnel in Lithuania used by Jewish prisoners to escape Nazis during World War II, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked Abu Sayyaf group, based in the southern Philippines, is threatening to behead the two remaining hostages from a group of four it kidnapped last year if a ransom of nearly $13 million is not paid.

Canada’s highest court has just ruled that some sex acts between humans and animals are legal.

The Times of Israel reports: Some 20,00 people marched through Toronto on Sunday in an annual show of support for Israel that also raised over one million dollars for education and projects in the Jewish state.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – A bill legalizing medically-assisted suicide in Canada strikes the right balance between defending fundamental freedoms and protecting against abuses, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday, predicting confusion if it is not approved.

Legislation proposed in Canada by Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party would seek to ban criticism of transgender people or the “gender fluid” ideology, with violators facing up to two years in jail when found guilty.

An agency for migrants in Canada reports that they face a new case of domestic violence every week. Zena Al Hamdan, a programme manager at the Arab Community Centre in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, says the “trauma of migration” has

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada will introduce legislation to protect transgender people from discrimination, the prime minister said on Monday, as the political debate around such rights heats up in the United States. Recently elected Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said

Mark Carney was imported from his native Canada to become Britain’s Bank of England governor on an £874,000 salary for one reason and one reason only: to serve as the creature of Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.

The sweeping wildfire that has consumed a fifth of Fort McMurray, Canada, has slowed its march over the city’s surrounding forests, but experts still warn it could be “months” before the last ember is put out.

The New York Times reports: EDMONTON, Alberta — As evacuees from the Fort McMurray wildfire arrive at shelters, hotels and homes of friends here, many say they now have a taste of what a wave of refugees experienced in Syria before they made it to Canada a few months ago.

A convoy of Royal Canadian Mounted Police have begun the trip into Fort McMurray, Alberta, where police expect to evacuate as many as 45,000 people from fires that have already consumed over 200,000 acres of land.

Newly surfaced video footage reportedly released by the Filipino jihadist group Abu Sayyaf purportedly shows three hostages pleading for their life and the decapitation of a fellow captive.

Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada is in flames. Thousands of residents have lost their homes. But it’s not all bad news, as this guy helpfully tried explaining on Twitter. @JamesDelingpole Check out @BlakeSiefken being glad homes are burning in #ymmfire because

A drug, which is purportedly ten thousand times more powerful than morphine, has descended into the United States from drug pushers in Canada, authorities say.

According to the Archbishop of Aleppo, when Westerners open their doors to Syrian refugees, it hurts, rather than helps, their cause. The solution lies not in welcoming more refugees, but in helping resolve the situation back home so they will not need to leave.