This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareBEIRUT — Iranian investigators blamed the downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet over Tehran earlier this year on the misalignment of an air defense unit's radar system, in a report issued late Saturday.All 176 passengers and crew aboard Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 were killed in the Jan. 8 crash, which sparked widespread public anger. Iranian authorities took days to admit that the country’s forces had fired an antiaircraft missile at the Boeing 737-800 shortly after its takeoff from Imam Khomeini...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareBEIRUT — Iranian investigators blamed the downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet over Tehran earlier this year on the misalignment of an air defense unit's radar system, in a report issued late Saturday.All 176 passengers and crew aboard Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 were killed in the Jan. 8 crash, which sparked widespread public anger. Iranian authorities took days to admit that the country’s forces had fired an antiaircraft missile at the Boeing 737-800 shortly after its takeoff from Imam Khomeini...WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareCanadian businessman Michael Spavor was put on trial in China on Friday in closed-door proceedings that lasted two hours, in a case widely criticized by Western officials as a violation of international law and a .Diplomats from Canada and more than half a dozen other countries, including the United States, Britain and Australia, as well as journalists were barred from the proceedings at a court in the northern Chinese city of Dandong. Canadian officials said their denial of entry breaches the country’s consular agreement...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareCanadian businessman Michael Spavor was put on trial in China on Friday in closed-door proceedings that lasted two hours, in a case widely criticized by Western officials as a violation of international law and a .Diplomats from Canada and more than half a dozen other countries, including the United States, Britain and Australia, as well as journalists were barred from the proceedings at a court in the northern Chinese city of Dandong. Canadian officials said their denial of entry breaches the country’s consular agreement...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharecorrectionA previous version of this article misstated the U.S. rate of vaccination compared with that of Canada. The United States has administered four times as many doses per capita, not vaccinated four times as many people.TORONTO — For much of the coronavirus pandemic, Canada’s middle-of-the-pack performance shined in comparison to that of the United States. With , Canada has suffered less than a third as many cases per capita as its southern neighbor, and less than half as many deaths per capita.But now the United...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharecorrectionA previous version of this article misstated the U.S. rate of vaccination compared with that of Canada. The United States has administered four times as many doses per capita, not vaccinated four times as many people.TORONTO — For much of the coronavirus pandemic, Canada’s middle-of-the-pack performance shined in comparison to that of the United States. With , Canada has suffered less than a third as many cases per capita as its southern neighbor, and less than half as many deaths per capita.But now the United...WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareTORONTO — Children’s hospitals caring for adults. All but emergency medical services canceled. Patients transferred from overrun intensive care units to sites hundreds of miles away, sometimes without their consent.Severely strained hospitals in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, are undertaking unprecedented measures to cope as a variant-driven resurgence of the coronavirus tears through much of the country.There were a record 851 adult patients with coronavirus-related critical illnesses in Ontario ICUs on Sunday,...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareTORONTO — Children’s hospitals caring for adults. All but emergency medical services canceled. Patients transferred from overrun intensive care units to sites hundreds of miles away, sometimes without their consent.Severely strained hospitals in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, are undertaking unprecedented measures to cope as a variant-driven resurgence of the coronavirus tears through much of the country.There were a record 851 adult patients with coronavirus-related critical illnesses in Ontario ICUs on Sunday,...WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareTORONTO — Helmut Oberlander and his wife disembarked from the Arosa Kulm in Quebec in 1954 and began building a new life together.The couple settled in Waterloo, Ontario, where Oberlander became a successful real estate developer. They started a family and gained Canadian citizenship in 1960. World War II appeared to be in the rearview mirror. But decades later, the past would come back to hover over them.During the war, Oberlander served as an interpreter for a roving Nazi death squad that killed at least 20,000 people in...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareTORONTO — Helmut Oberlander and his wife disembarked from the Arosa Kulm in Quebec in 1954 and began building a new life together.The couple settled in Waterloo, Ontario, where Oberlander became a successful real estate developer. They started a family and gained Canadian citizenship in 1960. World War II appeared to be in the rearview mirror. But decades later, the past would come back to hover over them.During the war, Oberlander served as an interpreter for a roving Nazi death squad that killed at least 20,000 people in...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareTORONTO — Canadian officials are defending a decision to accept coronavirus vaccines from a program aimed primarily at helping low- and middle-income countries, saying that drawing doses from the Covax Facility was always part of Canada's strategy.“Our government will never apologize for doing everything in our power to get Canadians vaccinated as quickly as possible,” Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said this week. “We’re focused on getting Canadians vaccinated, while making sure the rest of the...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareTORONTO — Canadian officials are defending a decision to accept coronavirus vaccines from a program aimed primarily at helping low- and middle-income countries, saying that drawing doses from the Covax Facility was always part of Canada's strategy.“Our government will never apologize for doing everything in our power to get Canadians vaccinated as quickly as possible,” Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said this week. “We’re focused on getting Canadians vaccinated, while making sure the rest of the...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareWhen Mike Sack handed out lobster licenses to Indigenous fishers in Nova Scotia last month, he expected some pushback from commercial fishers. But the Sipekne’katik First Nation chief did not foresee the violence to come.Mi’kmaq fishers say non-Indigenous commercial fishers in the Maritime province have threatened them, cut their lines, pulled their traps from the water and formed flotillas to intimidate them on the waters of St. Mary’s Bay.Tensions boiled over this month when angry mobs ransacked two lobster pounds...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareWhen Mike Sack handed out lobster licenses to Indigenous fishers in Nova Scotia last month, he expected some pushback from commercial fishers. But the Sipekne’katik First Nation chief did not foresee the violence to come.Mi’kmaq fishers say non-Indigenous commercial fishers in the Maritime province have threatened them, cut their lines, pulled their traps from the water and formed flotillas to intimidate them on the waters of St. Mary’s Bay.Tensions boiled over this month when angry mobs ransacked two lobster pounds...WW…