The federal government is challenging charges from U.S. environmentalists that it's not doing enough to protect critically endangered north Atlantic right whales, claiming measures taken since 2018 have reduced the risk of entanglements in the critical Gulf of St. Lawrence snow crab fishery by 82 per cent.
A Hamilton philanthropist's website that he says helps educate about Ukraine and the "true realities of warfare" is under fire by some anti-war activists, who argue it promotes "illegal recruitment" and violates Canada's 85-year-old Foreign Enlistment Act.
In an unorthodox diplomatic move, Canada's UN mission on Thursday tweeted out a heavily annotated letter Russia had sent to the United Nations, including in the rewrite pointed comments, later prompting Russian accusations of "kindergarten-level libel."