Also: Canada and the U.S. are a step closer to redrawing the border treaty
, extending gains from their best quarter in nearly 10 years, as strong Chinese factory activity data and signs of progress in U.S.-China trade negotiations gave investors reason to cheer. Tokyo’s Nikkei gained 1.4 per cent, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng 1.8 per cent, and the Shanghai Composite 2.6 per cent. In Europe, London’s FTSE 100, Germany’s DAX and the Paris CAC 40 were up by between 0.6 and 1 per cent by about 6:50 a.m. ET. New York futures were also up.
Bessma Momani is a professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.: “Finally, a Canadian court has reached a conclusion that long seemed inevitable: putting a prison inmate in solitary confinement for more than 15 days constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of Section 12 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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