"In line with Canada’s robust export control regime and due to the ongoing hostilities, I have suspended the relevant export permits to Turkey, so as to allow time to further assess the situation," said Champagne.
One in 10 may have caught COVID, as world heads into 'difficult period': WHO
“Our current best estimates tell us about 10% of the global population may have been infected by this virus. It varies depending on country, it varies from urban to rural, it varies depending on groups. But what it does mean is that the vast majority of the world remains at risk,” Ryan said.
Madrid begin partial virus lockdown amid political conflict
Madrid’s government led by Isabel Diaz Ayuso of the conservative Popular Party has said it will enforce orders from the Spanish government, but has also challenged them in the Ayuso National Court and its regional ministers said the restrictions would cause “chaos ”, Injure an already weakened economy and violate their competence as regional authorities.
Contact Tracing, Key to Reining In the Virus, Falls Flat in the West
Despite repeated vows by Western nations to develop “world-beating” testing and tracing operations, those systems have been undone by a failure of governments to support citizens through onerous quarantines or to draw out intimate details of their whereabouts. That has shattered the hope of pinpoint measures replacing lockdowns and undermined flagging confidence in governments.
Ottawa won’t say whether it let military sales to Turkey slip through arms embargo
The federal government is refusing to divulge whether it’s been allowing exports of target-acquisition systems slip through a ban on military exports to Turkey.
Questions are now being raised about gear by L3Harris Wescam, which makes imaging and targeting systems for laser-guided bombs launched by drones or fighter aircraft.
Clare Bronfman sentenced to almost 7 years in prison for offences in NXIVM cult
The defendant had long been affiliated with NXIVM, giving away tens of million of dollars of her fortune to bankroll Raniere and his program of intense self-improvement classes. She also paid for lawyers to defend the group against a lawsuit brought by its critics.
Feds investigating claims Canadian technology being used in Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
Sevag Belian, executive director of the Armenian National Committee of Canada, told CTVNews.ca that there's "overwhelming evidence" in Turkish and Azerbaijani media that these drones are being used "to specifically find [and] target both military targets and civilian targets."
Canadian pension funds investing in multinational companies with ties to Myanmar’s military
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and the British Columbia Investment Management Corp., or BCI, are among the large Canadian investors in multinational companies that have partnered with the Myanmar military, or Tatmadaw, whose “economic interests enable its conduct,” according to a 2019 report to the UN Human Rights Council.
Fractious presidential debate unlikely to move needle for Trump
It was unlikely the president succeeded, largely because of his own combative and chaotic behavior but also because the insult-filled and often fact-free affair may have left the few undecided voters watching at home more dispirited than engaged.
Global Coronavirus Deaths Surpass One Million
U.S. accounts for nearly a fifth of the more than 33.1 million Covid-19 cases reported globally