Canada

Indigenous protesters are using snowplows and wooden barricades to block a vital cross-country railway to protest construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline, which they say runs through their land.

The court said the government has adequately consulted with indigenous groups about the pipeline expansion. First Nations have said that they remain concerned about the project's environmental impact.

If there is a global war for tech talent, right now Canada is winning. And U.S. immigration policies are part of the reason.

Meng Wanzhou was arrested in 2018 as she changed planes in Vancouver. The U.S. says the Chinese technology giant misled banks about the nature of Huawei's business in Iran.

Last year, more than 760 people were shot. Canada has tighter gun laws than in the U.S., and officials and gun control advocates are trying to figure out why the surge is happening and how to stop it.

After many denials, Iran's admission that it accidentally downed a Ukrainian plane was cautiously embraced by world leaders as a "step forward." Back in Tehran, protesters' reaction was far angrier.

U.S. and Iranian officials on Friday offered dueling assertions of what caused the crash. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed it on an Iranian missile, while Iran said that was clearly not the case.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the plane crash in Tehran that killed 176 people "heartbreaking." One newspaper reported that nearly half of the Canadians who died are from the Edmonton area.

The AFL-CIO president praised the agreement, which includes stronger enforcement of labor and environmental provisions. One lawmaker called it "a triumph for workers everywhere across America."