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OTTAWA — American authorities are facing a key deadline at the end of the month to formally request the extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou from Canada to the United States.Friday, a spokesman for Canada's Justice Department said the U.S. had yet to file the required paperwork in the Meng case and stated the Americans have until Jan. 30 to do so. If the U.S. misses the deadline, lawyers with expertise in extradition cases say the door could open for Meng's eventual release.Canadia

OTTAWA — Federal New Democrats have enlisted two former members of Parliament to run in the upcoming election, and the party says they're in talks with a few more.An NDP official told HuffPost Canada that while discussions are ongoing, the courted candidates haven't yet decided whether to join former MPs Andrew Cash and Svend Robinson, who are hoping for political comebacks in 2019.Karl Belanger, former national director of the federal party, described Robinson's nomination announcement ea

A new petition launched by consumer-rights activists is calling on Canada's largest private-sector employer to raise wages.More than 15,000 people have signed a petition at SumOfUs.org asking food retailer Loblaw Co. to raise pay for its workers to a "living wage."The campaign's organizers say a number of factors prompted the petition, one of them being the Ontario Progressive Conservative government's decision not to move forward with a planned hike in the minimum wage, to $15 an hour, that was

BURNABY, B.C. — The federal Liberals have named a new candidate to run against NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in the Burnaby South byelection.They say former provincial legislator Richard T. Lee will replace Karen Wang on the ballot on Feb. 25.Wang stepped aside Wednesday after she urged Chinese people to vote for her, the "only" Chinese candidate, instead of Singh, who she described as "of Indian descent."The Liberals say Lee represented Burnaby in British Columbia's legislature for 16 years, s

SHERBROOKE, Que. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday all indications are that a Canadian woman who has been missing in Burkina Faso for more than a month is still alive.Fears for the well-being of 34-year-old Edith Blais of Quebec mounted this week with the killing of a Canadian mining executive in the West African country."As far as we know, she is," Trudeau said when asked by a reporter whether Blais was still alive. He said Blais' story has people across the country preoccupied.

SAINT-HYACINTHE, Que. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was challenged on climate change during the opening moments of a town hall meeting in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que.Several early questions focused on the environment, with one man asking Trudeau how he can claim to be pro-environment after his government chose to purchase the Trans Mountain pipeline.Trudeau responded that economic development and environmental protection have to go hand in hand.But he said Canadians will still be dependent on f

SAINT-HYACINTHE, Que. — Ottawa's decision to sign the UN compact for migration in no way limit's Canada's sovereignty or ability to choose its own immigrants, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday at an animated town hall meeting in Quebec.The prime minister was cheered and occasionally heckled as he answered questions on a variety of topics, ranging from the environment to immigration to NAFTA, during the two-hour meeting in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que.The most heated exchange came on immigr