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CANADA

Japan Times
WORLD
May 4, 2016
Fort McMurray wildfire near Alberta's oil sands area jumps river, forces 80,000 to flee
An uncontrolled wildfire burning near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta, the heart of Canada's oil sands region, has forced the evacuation of nearly all the city's 80,000 residents, local authorities said on Tuesday.
WORLD / Society
Apr 1, 2016
Sponsor complaints prompt Canada to accept 10,000 more Syrian refugees
Canada will take in an additional 10,000 Syrian refugees, adding to the more than 25,000 already received in the last few months, Immigration Minister John McCallum said on Thursday in Germany, where an influx of refugees has sparked a backlash.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 12, 2016
Trudeau sees no flood of Americans to Canada if Trump wins
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday joked that he is not expecting an influx of unhappy Americans across the border if firebrand Republican Donald Trump becomes president.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 28, 2016
Canadians gear up to handle any influx of Americans if Trump wins presidency
Americans have said it many times before when eyeing a White House prospect they view as unpalatable: "If that guy is elected president, I'm moving to Canada!"
SOCCER
Feb 20, 2016
U.S., Canada book tickets to Rio
Striker Alex Morgan scored a hat trick as the United States booked a place in the Rio Olympic women's soccer tournament with a 5-0 demolition of Trinidad and Tobago in a semifinal at the CONCACAF qualifying tournament in Houston on Friday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 17, 2016
Canadian behind Rodman trips to bring hockey to North Korea
The Canadian man who once helped bring basketball hall-of-famer Dennis Rodman to North Korea is now eyeing another project: a hockey tournament that could see former NHL players visit the secluded nation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 30, 2016
Canada's Trudeau visits aboriginal town after deadly shooting
Residents of the remote Canadian town of La Loche, having softened frozen cemetery ground with bonfires, prepared to bury their loved ones as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived on Friday at the site of Canada's worst mass shooting in a decade.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 24, 2016
Canadian town reels after shooting left four dead
The remote, northern Canadian community where a shooter killed four people and injured seven on Friday has long struggled under the weight of poverty, high suicide rates and disadvantages that most of the country can hardly imagine.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 9, 2016
Canada rejects African-American man's asylum claim
A Canadian tribunal has rejected a claim for refugee status from an African-American man who said he feared persecution and police abuse in the United States based on his race, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada said Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 21, 2015
Canadian diplomats say pastor jailed in North Korea in good spirits: church
Canadian diplomats were allowed to meet a Canadian pastor soon after he was sentenced to life in prison in North Korea last week and found him in good spirits and health, a church spokeswoman said on Sunday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 18, 2015
Canadian man kills Brit in psychedelic ceremony in Peru's Amazon
A Canadian killed a Briton after the two men took a hallucinogenic plant brew known as ayahuasca together at a spiritual retreat in the Peruvian Amazon, authorities said Thursday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 16, 2015
North Korea sentences Canadian pastor to hard labor for life: Xinhua
North Korea's highest court has sentenced a South Korea-born Canadian pastor to hard labor for life for subversion, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 26, 2015
Canada's murder rate in 2014 falls to 50-year low
Canada's murder rate in 2014 edged down to a near 50-year low, but aboriginals accounted for a disproportionately high number of victims, official data showed on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 25, 2015
Canada delays deadline for taking in 25,000 Syrian refugees beyond Jan. 1
The Canadian government on Tuesday pushed back to the end of February its deadline for accepting 25,000 Syrian refugees, in a concession that its original Jan. 1 target was too difficult to meet.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 21, 2015
Canada's Trudeau glides through first world trip
New Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau started his first international trip with a stumble before recovering to impress world leaders keen to bask in the success of his big election win last month.
WORLD
Nov 12, 2015
Corpulent Canadian suffers fatal heart attack, squashes wife in Mexico
A middle-aged Canadian couple died in a sexual embrace at a Mexican resort after the corpulent husband suffered a heart attack in a hot tub and squashed his slender wife, authorities said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 11, 2015
Canada beauty pageant finalist says China delaying her entry over rights comments
Canada's China-born Miss World contestant said Tuesday her visa to travel to the beauty pageant at a Chinese resort has been delayed and her father has been harassed by Chinese officials because she has spoken out about human rights abuses in the communist country.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 9, 2015
The new Trudeau's new Canada: what to expect
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promises to bring Canada back to multilateral engagement, offering a stark contrast from his predecessor's divisive foreign policy.

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