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FILE PHOTO: Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou leaves court on a lunch break in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada March 15, 2021. REUTERS/Jennifer Gauthier/File Photo
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada has called for two of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou’s main arguments in her fight against U.S. extradition to be dismissed, saying her claims are not backed with evidence and one issue has been ruled on, court documents released on Tuesday showed.
Meng, 49, was arrested at Vancouver International Airport in December 2018 on a warrant from the United States, where she faces charges of bank fraud for allegedly misleading HSBC about Huawei’s business dealings in Iran, causing the bank to break U.S. sanctions.
The Tablet April 9, 2021
A woman with Lou Gehrig’s disease is pictured in a file photo outside the British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver, where she was testifying to challenge the law regarding assisted suicide. Canadian bishops say the nation’s new medical assistance in dying law will pressure people with mental illness or disabilities. (Photo: CNS/Ben Nelms, Reuters)
By Agnieszka Ruck
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (CNS) Canada’s Catholic bishops said the possible pressures the country’s new assisted suicide law will place on Canadians with mental illness or disabilities are “all too real, perilous and potentially destructive.”
In a statement April 8, the Canadian Conference Catholic Bishops denounced the expansion of “medical assistance in dying” or MAiD, as it is known to those who are not near death. They called on people of faith to pray and to lobby elected officials about the issue.
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Subversive Acquisition LP Announces Extension of Permitted Timeline for Completion of Its Qualifying Transaction
TORONTO, April 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)
SUBVERSIVE ACQUISITION LP (TSX: SVX.U, NEO: SVX.U, OTCQX: SBVRF) (“
SVX”) announced today that the date by which SVX has to consummate its qualifying transaction is extended to August 31, 2021 (the “
Extension”).
On January 26, 2021, SVX announced its qualifying transaction to combine with InterCure Ltd. (dba Canndoc) (TASE: INCR), Israel’s leading cannabis company (the “
Business Combination”). Canndoc, a wholly owned subsidiary of InterCure Ltd., is Israel’s largest licensed cannabis producer.
On April 6, 2021, unitholders approved the Business Combination, with over 89.36% of the votes cast in favour of the plan of arrangement (the “