It’s official: Justin Trudeau has finally given up on being the prime minister of Canada.
There have been plenty of previous warning signs. During the NAFTA renegotiations, for instance, Trudeau pressed the United States and Mexico to include progressive concepts like gender rights and Indigenous rights, which have nothing to do with free trade.
There are lots of mostly bad things that President Joe Biden can justly take credit for, but the fall of Syria is not one of them. The only real reason this happened is because Israel threw off the shackles and decided to go after Hezbollah after a year of terror. And Biden did everything to prevent that.
At the very end, he used an arms embargo to force Israel into a fake “ceasefire” with Hezbollah. But by then Israel had done enough damage to Hezbollah that Turkey’s Jihadists were able to just roll into Syria, and Iran decided to sell them out and pull back.
But now Biden is trying to take credit.
Tensions were apparent in the Liberal caucus Wednesday after a committee chaired by Liberal MP Lena Metlege Diab released a report endorsing the disputed concept of anti-Palestinian racism.
Attorney General Arif Virani said he was “alive to concerns” about the notion of anti-Palestinian racism, but stressed the need to confront the rise in hatred since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in southern Israel.
President Biden has commuted jail sentences for nearly 1,500 people and granted 39 pardons, marking the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history, the White House announced Thursday morning.
Sentences were commuted for inmates placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic and who “have successfully reintegrated into their families and communities,” according to the announcement.
Did he even know where he was that day? h/t Mauser
The Justice Department has charged a third TD Bank employee for his alleged role in a money-laundering scheme that led to over $3 billion in fines against the bank and prompted calls for greater accountability against TD executives.
Leonardo Ayala, a 24-year-old former TD employee who worked at a branch in Doral, Fla., was arrested on Tuesday and charged with facilitating money laundering to Colombia, prosecutors said. The charges against Ayala were unveiled Wednesday.
No one at TD Canada suffers much, they just raise fees to cover fines.
“Why should you go back when you have everything here”, says Europe’s most famous Syrian migrant as publishers across continent heap on column inches for the case against refugees from the now-deposed Bashar al-Assad going home.
In the summer of 2021, Justin Trudeau argued that he needed a new mandate to lead Canadians through the COVID-19 pandemic.
It was a curious move — calling an election in the middle of a public health crisis, with lockdowns still in place, masks mandatory, and uncertainty gripping the nation.
Yet his justification was clear: leading through an extraordinary challenge required fresh validation from the people.
OTTAWA, Canada — A sensitive analysis from a key arm of the People’s Republic of China’s overseas influence operations, published just weeks after Canada’s 2021 federal election, reveals Beijing’s strategic interest in the comparative success of Chinese and Indian immigrant communities in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 votes, particularly the extraordinary influence wielded by Sikh leaders, who reportedly pressured Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to amend an extremist threat report linked to the 1985 Air India bombing by warning that failure to comply would cost the Liberal Party financial backing and access to Sikh voters.
The mysterious reported sightings of drone clusters in the night skies over New Jersey and other parts of the US north-east has prompted frustrated outbursts from Congress members, triggering calls for a limited state of emergency to be declared over the region.
Jon Bramnick, a Republican state senator in New Jersey, has demanded a ban on all drones until the mystery is solved. ABC’s Action News reported that he called for a “limited state of emergency … until the public receives an explanation regarding these multiple sightings”.
This is now a dramatic & totally new scenario. @DeptofDefense now admits these mystery so-called ‘drones’ are NOT foreign adversaries nor are they from US Govt. What other potential prosaic explanations are there? These are not amateur hobbyist craft. We have been assured for… https://t.co/n06CHIciVr
— Ross Coulthart (@rosscoulthart) December 11, 2024
The rate of medical assistance in dying – also known as euthanasia – has grown in Canada for the fifth straight year, albeit at a slower pace.
The country released its fifth annual report since legalising assisted dying in 2016, which for the first time included data on the ethnicity of those seeking euthanasia.
Around 15,300 people underwent assisted dying last year, accounting for 4.7% of deaths in the country. Canada lawmakers are currently seeking to expand access to euthanasia to cover people with mental illnesses by 2027.
An inquest into the death of Sara Sharif should examine if concerns over cultural sensitivities meant teachers were afraid to question why she began wearing a hijab after being seen with bruises, an MP has suggested.
Will Forster, who became MP for Woking in July, said that the review into the 10-year-old’s death had to look at every aspect of her care.
At the Old Bailey on Wednesday, Urfan Sharif, Sara’s father, 42, and Beinash Batool, her step-mother, 30, were convicted of her murder.
Islamophobia and community cohesion should have been co-accused.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Canada’s premiers on Wednesday to discuss Ottawa’s plan to address U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s concerns about the Canada-U.S. border.
This is the second time Trudeau has met with premiers since Trump threatened to hit Canada with steep tariffs last month — and the first meeting since the prime minister’s dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
When Stefan Schreiber decided to invest in a carbon emission reduction project with a Chinese company, he was convinced he was dealing with a trustworthy business partner. “They made a very professional impression: the way they presented themselves, the way they communicated,” he said.
DW met Schreiber in a meeting room at his company’s plant in Schwedt, a town near Berlin. The office overlooked huge pipes and tanks, and trucks trundled past. Schreiber is a board member of Verbio, a German biofuel producer that also trades carbon certificates.
While taking part in a geography student awards ceremony in 2016, Vladimir Putin corrected a schoolboy who said Russia’s border with the U.S. ended at the Bering Strait.
“Russia’s borders have no end,” Putin said, before clarifying. “This is a joke.”
It was the same kind of mirthless, menacing crack that permeates Donald Trump’s repeated reference to Canada as the 51st state of America .
