#Canada

南華早報·20:22

Canadian plan to clear Hongkonger migration backlog hailed…

A Canadian goal of clearing a backlog of more than 30,000 applications from Hongkongers awaiting permanent residency is “encouraging” but questions remain about whether it can be achieved by 2027, advocates and immigration experts have said. Experts and Canadian parliamentarians said on Saturday that Ottawa’s new one-off measure to add more quota spaces to clear the Hong Kong immigration pathways backlog would help address the uncertainty facing tens of thousands from the city still waiting for...

#Hong Kong lifeboat scheme#Hong Kong pathways#Jenny Kwan#Lena Metlege Diab#permanent residency#Hong Kong

南華早報·00:12

Call to end ‘unjust’ national security cases as Hong Kong s…

Ten countries – including the “Five Eyes” allies – have called for an immediate end to “unjust prosecutions” under Hong Kong’s national security law after opposition activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung was jailed for 10 years, while the government has urged foreign forces to stop their “baseless malicious attacks”. The foreign ministers of the 10 countries issued a joint statement on Friday, a day after the High Court sentenced Wong over his role in a global campaign to instigate sanctions against...

#New Zealand#national security law#United States#Joshua Wong Chi-fung#Canada#Australia

南華早報·11:20

Canada budget charts ‘economic independence’ in decisive sh…

Canada unveiled a budget on Thursday that calls for “economic independence” and says that while reducing its reliance on the United States will take time, “the shift is under way”. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s second budget since taking office last year was presented to parliament just two days after President Donald Trump suffered a sweeping midterm election rebuke. While Democrats, who will take control of the US House and Senate next year, have already voiced a desire to ease Trump’s trade...

#Canada#Donald Trump#Justin Trudeau#United States#US-ally trade wars#Mark Carney

南華早報·10:02

Hunt in Canada after multiple grizzlies suspected of killin…

More than one grizzly may have been involved in a bear attack that relatives say left a mother and daughter dead in Bella Coola along the province’s central coast, the Conservation Officer Service in British Columbia said. The service’s Inspector Jeff Tyre said in a video message that the second body had been found in a search by Royal Canadian Mounted Police and conservation officers on Tuesday afternoon that followed the discovery of the first set of remains a day earlier. He said it’s “not...

#Canada#Animals

BBC News·07:50

Mother and daughter die after suspected grizzly bear attack…

#Canada#British Columbia#Bears

南華早報·05:10

Canada to curb reliance on US despite Trump team’s midterm…

Canada’s push to reduce economic dependence on the US will not change after President Donald Trump’s Republican Party suffered a crushing midterm election defeat, an official said on Wednesday. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has maintained that trade with the US, a cornerstone of the Canadian economy, will not return to a pre-Trump normal and that his country must urgently diversify its trading relationships. US Democratic Party leaders have been critical of Trump’s trade war with Canada...

#Canada#US midterm elections 2026#Donald Trump#US-ally trade wars#Mark Carney#Trade

南華早報·22:00

‘More carve-outs’? How the midterms could affect US trade p…

The Democrats’ comprehensive victory in the US midterm elections could embolden Congress to assert greater authority over trade policy and scrutinise the deals President Donald Trump made with China, analysts say, though a dramatic shift in Washington’s trade policy is unlikely. “Congress, including pro-free trade Republicans who have been intimidated into standing down, might be inclined to reassert some degree of congressional authority on trade,” said Stephen Olson, a former US trade...

#Democrats#Singapore#Beijing#Republicans#Washington#Iran

南華早報·13:33

US voters unleash blue wave, handing Congress to Democrats…

Follow the SCMP’s live coverage here After weeks of insults, fearmongering and eye-popping spending on advertising, Americans settled down to vote on Tuesday, unleashing a blue wave that saw Democrats projected to take the House and the Senate, in a sharp rebuke to US President Donald Trump and his controversial governing style. In a stunning development, the Associated Press also projected that Democrat James Talarico won the Texas US Senate election, defeating Republican nominee Ken Paxton and...

#US midterm elections 2026#Donald Trump#Germany#Georgia#Canada#United States

南華早報·07:42

Trump says US close to trade deal with Canada, Carney says…

US ⁠President Donald Trump said on ⁠Tuesday the United States was close to making a trade deal with Canada, but Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said work remained to be done ‌and that Washington had dropped some demands. “Canada is very good, we’re going to make a deal with Canada very soon. We’re going to make a great deal,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News. Canada and ⁠the US have slapped billions of dollars in tariffs ‌on each other in recent months. The imposition of tariffs on...

#United States#Canada#Donald Trump#Mark Carney#US-ally trade wars#Diplomacy

南華早報·20:30

As I see it | The new Canada is much like the old one

I came of age in Canada during the Pierre Trudeau years – the Trudeau whom Canadians actually respect – as a high school student from Hong Kong. Back then, Canadian politics meant deliberate independence from the United States. Some Canadians today, especially younger ones, seem amazed that Prime Minister Mark Carney, a Liberal like Trudeau, is charting foreign, defence and economic policies more independent of the US while moving closer to Europe. That is because they grew up in a US-led global...

#Canada#European Union#Diplomacy#Russia#United States#France