Beijing and Ottawa are negotiating how to increase flights between China and Canada after a US deal in June.Transport Canada says there were more than 100 flights a week between the two countries during the summer in 2019 before Covid-19, but the number of weekly flights has dropped significantly.This number has come down to just 10 this season.The decline stems from China's strict Covid-19 regulations, which included overseas flights and frequent quarantine and testing requirements for tourists.However, China relaxed the Covid regulations earlier this year.Aviation analyst Helen Becker said d

British police are investigating the deaths of 88 people in the UK who bought products from Canada-based websites that allegedly contained lethal substances for self-harm.Britain's National Crime Agency said that in the last two years, 232 people in the U.K. who bought substances from websites have been identified and 88 of them have died.National Crime Agency deputy director Craig Turner said his sympathies go out to the family members of the victims.They are being assisted by specially trained officers of the police force.The investigation actually started after the arrest of a Canadian man

Singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh-starrer 'Punjab 95' based on the life of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, faces a setback.The movie has been removed from the line-up of the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival, starting on September 7. Directed by Honey Trehan, the movie was scheduled for a world premiere in the Gala Presentations section on September 11, but the TIFF’s website has no mention of the biographical drama in its line-up anymore. There has been no official statement regarding the removal of ‘Punjab 95’, nor has anyone from the film commented on the same. Produc

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly has appointed senior public servant Natalka Cmoc as Canada's new ambassador to Ukraine.Global Affairs Canada describes Cmoc as a career expert on Ukraine who worked previously on the creation of Operation UNIFIER, the Canadian military's training and capacity-building mission in support of the Ukrainian military.The department says Cmoc also was involved in Canada's implementation of democracy programming in Ukraine and Canadian monitoring of Ukrainian elections following the 2015 presidential campaign.A Ukrainian speaker, Ms. Cmoc has deep connections to

Quebec university administrators and professors are praising the provincial government's rejection of an idea by the federal housing minister that Canada could cap the number of student visas it issues.They say that limiting the number of international students will do little to address housing shortages and would instead hurt university research and deprive Quebec of skilled immigrants.On Monday federal Housing Minister Sean Fraser suggested that capping the explosive growth in the number of international students recruited to Canada in recent years was an option to reduce demand for housing.

Canada's corporate ethics watchdog is investigating allegations that Walmart, Hugo Boss and Diesel involved forced labor in their supply chains.Sheri Meyerhoffer released three reports today that say none of the three companies have done enough to disclose that the products they are selling in Canada are free of slave labor.These are the fourth, fifth and sixth investigations announced by the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) since it began accepting complaints in March, 2021.Last month CORE announced investigations into Nike Canada and Canadian mining company Dynasty Gol

To discuss the housing crisis, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has demanded Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to start the Parliament session at the earliest.After the three-day Liberal cabinet retreat ended, Poilievre blamed Trudeau for the housing crisis, adding that the Conservative Party had more policies to balance the budget to lower mortgage interest rates.Taking a dig at Trudeau, Poilievre said that now the holidays are over and the House of Commons proceedings should resume so that Canadians can be given homes.The session is scheduled to start on September 18.According to the Canada

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it's wrong to blame international students for the housing crisis.He said that the reason for the housing crisis comprises of many other factors.Trudeau, on the final day of a three-day cabinet retreat in Prince Edward Island, said international students were being blamed for the housing shortage, and that it was wrong to link the housing crisis to immigration.Trudeau said that people are facing tough times and everyone is having a hard time right now.Currently, Canada has 800,000 active study permit holders, and plans to bring in 500,000 new immigrants each

Canada's Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has been fined $273 for speeding.Freeland was speeding in Grand Prairie and Peace River, Alberta, when she was stopped and issued a $273 ticket.However, Freeland spokeswoman Katherine Cuplinskas said Freeland has paid the full amount of the fine.Freeland was driving at a speed of 132 km per hour in a 110 km per hour zone.It is worth noting that Chrystia Freeland claimed last month that she does not even have a car and travels by train while her children walk, cycle and use the subway.