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A few days before he stepped into a boxing ring with Senator Patrick Brazeau in 2012, Justin Trudeau rose in the House of Commons and asked the Conservative government about its support for young people. James Moore, the heritage minister at the time, stood to respond. “My colleague will have …
Read More »Liberals won’t underestimate new Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, minister says
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc says his party won’t underestimate new Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre after the MP won a decisive victory in the party’s leadership election. “We don’t underestimate at all … our adversaries in politics,” LeBlanc told chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton during an interview on Rosemary Barton …
Read More »Interim Conservative Leader Candice Bergen says she’s not running in next election
Interim Conservative Leader Candice Bergen says she won’t be running in the next federal election, but will stay on as an MP after a new leader is selected this weekend. “Serving the constituents of Portage-Lisgar for 14 years has been the honour of my political life and I am eternally …
Read More »Conservatives prepare to elect new leader
Former Conservative cabinet ministers James Moore and Monte Solberg discuss the upcoming party convention and whether it’s still Pierre Poilievre’s race to lose. News Source link
Read More »Russians pay respects to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as Putin snubs funeral
Muscovites lined up near the Kremlin on Saturday to pay their respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who was widely admired in the West for his reforms and who lived long enough to see Russia’s leadership roll back much of that change. Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at …
Read More »Putin says he will not attend funeral for Gorbachev, former Soviet leader
Russian President Vladimir Putin paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday but will not attend the late former Soviet leader’s funeral, a decision reflecting the Kremlin’s ambivalence about Gorbachev’s legacy. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that prior to departing for a working trip to Russia’s westernmost Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, …
Read More »Najib Razak becomes 1st Malaysian leader to be imprisoned after losing corruption sentence appeal
Malaysia’s Najib Razak will become the country’s first former prime minister to be jailed, after losing his final appeal on Tuesday in a graft case linked to the looting of the 1MDB state fund. The top court unanimously upheld his conviction and 12-year prison sentence, meaning Najib will have to …
Read More »U.S. drone strike kills al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, Biden confirms
A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan this weekend killed Ayman al-Zawahri, who took over as al-Qaeda leader after Osama bin Laden’s death during a raid on his compound by U.S. forces in 2011, President Joe Biden confirmed Monday, less than a year after American troops left the country following a …
Read More »The National | Al-Qaeda leader killed, B.C. fires, England soccer victory
Aug. 1, 2022 | Al-Qaeda leader and mastermind of 9/11 attacks, Ayman al-Zawahri, killed by U.S. drone strike in Kabul. Plus, growing fire forces more evacuations in B.C. News Source link
Read More »B.C. Indigenous leader Ed John’s trial comes to abrupt halt as Crown stays sex charges
The B.C. Prosecution Service says a stay of proceedings has been directed in the sex assault trial of former provincial cabinet minister and Indigenous leader Edward John, 73. The decision to halt the case in the B.C. Supreme Court in Prince George follows cross-examination of the complainant on four counts of sexual intercourse without …
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