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A video of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau singing Bohemian Rhapsody just days before Queen Elizabeth’s funeral kicked off a debate on social media, with some criticizing Trudeau for a lack of decorum. In a video circulating on social media, Trudeau is seen standing over a piano singing “easy come, easy …
Read More »While in London for the Queen’s funeral, Trudeau also discusses economy and Ukraine with leaders
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met his British counterpart and other world leaders in London on Sunday, as talk of the economy and the war in Ukraine took their place alongside the sombre preparations for Queen Elizabeth’s funeral. Trudeau spent about 40 minutes at 10 Downing Street early in the afternoon …
Read More »‘I will miss her so’: Trudeau mourns the death of Canada’s Queen
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a solemn statement Thursday shortly after Queen Elizabeth’s death, saying Canadians are grateful for the monarch’s decades of service to the country and the Commonwealth. “It was with the heaviest of hearts that we learned of the passing of Canada’s longest-reigning sovereign, Her Majesty Queen …
Read More »Trudeau defends CSIS after U.K. author claims agency informant smuggled girls into Syria
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood behind the country’s top civilian intelligence agency on Wednesday in response to an allegation that one of its contractors helped traffic three British teenage girls to Islamic State extremists seven years ago. A new book by U.K.-based writer Richard Kerbaj — The Secret History of the Five Eyes — …
Read More »PM Trudeau could face subpoena to testify at residential school reparations trial
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could face a subpoena to testify as a witness during a trial scheduled to begin this month for a class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the cultural devastation wreaked by residential schools, court records show. Lawyers representing 325 First Nations — more than half of all recognized First …
Read More »Two years after Trudeau promised a made-in-Canada COVID vaccine, the country is still waiting
In the early days of the pandemic, the federal government announced a multi-million-dollar funding agreement with the National Research Council (NRC) to expand a vaccine facility in Montreal — a site Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said would pump out Canadian-made COVID-19 shots by November 2020. Two years after the prime …
Read More »Ottawa-area Trudeau event cancelled due to ‘size and composition’ of protest group
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s day of whistle stops in the Ottawa area ended early today as anti-Liberal protesters gathered outside a brewery before he arrived. Following uneventful stops in Gatineau Park in Quebec and two Ottawa suburbs earlier in the day, Trudeau was on his way to the Brasserie Étienne …
Read More »Trudeau announces deal to build $1.5B electric vehicle battery plant in Ontario
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday that Ottawa and Ontario have signed a deal with Umicore, a global metals refiner, to build a new battery materials facility in the province’s Loyalist Township. Speaking at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., the prime minister said the facility will supply materials for one million electric vehicles a …
Read More »Trudeau makes an announcement in Kingston, Ont.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne and Ontario’s Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade Vic Fedeli make an announcement in Kingston, Ont. News Source link
Read More »NBA player calls out Trudeau for Canada’s inaction on Uighur ‘genocide’
NBA star and human rights campaigner Enes Kanter Freedom says he is frustrated with what he calls a lacklustre response from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to his calls for more action to help Uighur Muslims in China. The basketball player, who is currently a free agent after being cut by the Houston Rockets earlier …
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