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Canada police threaten crackdown as protests spread to other countries
Feb 10, 2022 09:14Canadian police have threatened to start arresting truckers and other demonstrators who have shut down central Ottawa and disrupted cross-border trade for two weeks in protest against the government's COVID-19 measures, as similar protests have spread to other countries to demand an end to pandemic restrictions.
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Canada intensifies crackdown as protests spread
Feb 08, 2022 05:00Police in Canada's national capital have seized thousands of liters of fuel as part of a crackdown to end days long protest against the government's COVID-19 measures.
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Pro-Palestine Canadian activists protest Israel’s aggression
Jan 31, 2022 02:49Pro-Palestine Canadian activists and demonstrators have staged a protest against Israel’s decades-long aggression and atrocities against Palestinians, to which state-run media have chosen to turn a blind eye under the pretext of covering a rally against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
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Iran's rights official takes swipe at Canada over indigenous children killings
Jan 27, 2022 07:57A senior Iranian rights official has denounced Canada for its “hypocritical” double-standard approach to the issue of human rights, after shocking reports emerged of the discovery of new graves near a former school for indigenous children there.
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Iran's official calls on annulment of Canada’s anti-hijab law in defense of Muslim teacher
Dec 17, 2021 09:09A senior Iranian rights official has called on the Canadian government to revoke a discriminatory law that removed a citizen from her teaching post for wearing a hijab in classroom in the eastern Province of Quebec.
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Iran says all aspects of 2020 Ukrainian plane crash ‘adequately’ investigated
Dec 01, 2021 03:40Over a week into the launch of a hearing process over the accidental downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane near Tehran, Iran has defended its investigations into the case and said it has provided “adequate” attention to all aspects of the deadly tragedy that happened early last year.
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Iran: Canada-drafted UN rights resolution lacks legal credibility
Nov 18, 2021 10:46Iran has condemned a United Nations resolution on the human rights situation in the country, urging Canada, which is among the co-sponsors of the motion, to end its genocide of indigenous people and complicity in the Israeli regime’s crimes against the Palestinians instead of focusing on human rights in other countries.
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Canada floods cut railway to Vancouver Port
Nov 17, 2021 04:37Floods and landslides that have killed at least one person have cut all rail access to Canada's largest port in the city of Vancouver, a spokesperson for the port said on Tuesday.
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Burning ship carrying chemicals spews toxic gas off Canada's Pacific coast
Oct 24, 2021 12:08A container ship carrying mining chemicals has caught fire off Canada's Pacific coast near British Columbia posing a major environmental threat to the surrounding area.
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US, Canadian warships sail through Taiwan Strait ‘to provoke’ China
Oct 18, 2021 04:43The US military has announced that two American and Canadian warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait last week in what China called an attempt “to provoke and stir up trouble” in the strait.