McCallum firing leaves Canada's China strategy in disarray

OTTAWA -- Canada's strategy for navigating growing tensions with China is in disarray after Justin Trudeau fired his ambassador to Beijing. The prime minister's office announced Saturday that ambassador John McCallum had been told to hand in his resignation -- just hours after he weighed in on a high-stakes extradition case for the second time in less than a week. McCallum was quoted in a Vancouver newspaper as saying it would be "great for Canada" if the United States dropped its extradition re