Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has stated that Canada strongly condemns Iran’s attacks on Israel, as tensions between the two countries continue to rise, increasing the risk of a broader conflict in the Middle East.
Trudeau said this after Iran’s government-controlled media said Iran shot big missiles at Israel on Saturday. This was Iran’s first direct military attack on Israel.
Once again, these attacks show that the Iranian government does not care about peace and stability in the region. “We believe Israel has the right to protect itself and its people from these attacks,” Trudeau said at a dinner for the press at Parliament.
He said he’s getting regular updates from important people in charge of national security and intelligence.
Israel said that Iran had shot over 100 drones carrying bombs towards them.
US officials, who didn’t want to say their names, said they stopped some of the missiles that were on the way.
Israel stopped all planes from flying on Saturday because they thought Iran might attack. On Sunday morning, loud noises and warning sirens were heard all over the country.
The Israeli military’s spokesperson, Rear Adm Daniel Hagari, said that Iran launched many drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles. Most of them were stopped before reaching Israel’s borders. He said that warplanes stopped more than 10 cruise missiles, even outside of Israel’s airspace.
He said only a few were able to arrive in Israel.
Tensions between the two countries got worse after an airstrike, thought to be from Israel, destroyed Iran’s consulate in Syria and killed two Iranian generals. Tehran promised to get back at someone.
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said on Friday that it’s better for Canadians to not travel to Israel because it’s not safe right now.
She said Canadians in Israel should go home by regular airplanes.
Pierre Poilievre, who is against the government, said on Saturday that Canada needs to work with other countries to make Iran take responsibility for their actions.
“The Canadian government needs to quickly make a law to stop the IRGC, a terrorist group controlled by Tehran. This will keep our people safe and prevent the regime from using our country for fundraising, planning, and organizing,” he wrote in a statement.
The government has been asked to call the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is part of Iran’s military, a terrorist group.
NDP politician Heather McPherson, who is her party’s spokesperson for foreign affairs, said Canadians are concerned about the impact of a war in the region.
“Negotiation is the only way to solve this. ” Canada and other countries need to make the situation better now,” she wrote on X, which used to be called Twitter.
Many countries are criticizing Iran for their actions, and the United Nations leader is asking for the fighting to stop right away.
The ambassador from Israel to Canada said thank you to Trudeau and Joly for their kind words of support.
Israel will keep protecting itself from attacks by Iran and its allies in the area. Iran is trying to cause problems in the area and we are grateful for our friends’ help during these events,” said Iddo Moed in a statement.
Air Canada said they won’t fly to Tel Aviv on Saturday. The airline flies back and forth between Toronto and Tel Aviv four times a week without any stops. The next one will happen on Monday.
“We have a new flexible policy for customers who need to change their booking. We will keep an eye on the situation to make sure everything is okay. ” The spokesperson said they will change our schedule to fit the region’s needs.
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Justin Trudeau denounces Iran’s aggression against Israel
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to meet Premier Danielle Smith on National television in Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada will visit Calgary on Wednesday morning to meet with Premier Danielle Smith for the first time in months. The meeting will be at 8:30 in the morning and will be shown on CTV News.
The provincial government and the federal government have had a difficult relationship lately. Smith has talked about many government rules.
The Alberta government said it will not join a national program for prescription drugs. The agreement would let all Canadians with a health card get diabetes medicine and birth control for free.
The province says it won’t allow Ottawa to select which coverage is available to people in Alberta.
Smith is worried about the new goals for reducing pollution and the carbon tax set by the government.
She said Alberta’s power grid would not work if it tried to meet the goals and she thinks the emission cuts are not allowed by the constitution.
Smith has been leading a plan to remove the province from the Canada Pension Plan, which some people disagree with.
Prime Minister Trudeau will talk about dental care and meet with older people in Calgary before he leaves. -
Official jet of Justin Trudeau breaks down again
The airplane of Canada’s leader, Justin Trudeau, stopped working while he was on a trip to Jamaica. This is the second time in four months that he has had trouble during his travels.
The Canadian military had to send another plane with a repair team to fix the problem.
Mr Trudeau went to the Caribbean island for a vacation with his family.
In September, Mr. Trudeau had to stay in India for two extra days because of a problem with the plane.
The Prime Minister had to fly on a military plane for safety and went to Jamaica on 26th December.
CBC news reports that the issue was found on 2 January.
The next day, another plane took a team to fix the first one, according to a spokesperson from Canada’s defense department.
He came back on 4 January like he was supposed to.
Both planes were new CC-144 Challenger aircrafts owned by the Canadian Armed Forces.
Mr Trudeau has had a lot of problems while traveling in the past few years.
In September, his plane had a problem and was delayed when he was leaving Delhi after a G20 meeting.
In 2019, while running for re-election, a bus carrying reporters crashed into the wing of an airplane rented by Mr. Trudeau’s Liberal party.
Later that year, he had to use a different plane to go to a Nato meeting in London because the first plane was broken in an accident.
However, there was a problem with the extra airplane, so the prime minister had to use another one to go back home. -
Justin Trudeau, prime minister of Canada, and wife Sophie set to divorce
On Wednesday, Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, announced that he and his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau were divorcing.
We have decided to separate, Trudeau added, following “many meaningful and difficult conversations” with Sophie.
As always, he added, “we continue to be a close family with a deep love and respect for each other and for everything we have built and will continue to build.”
For the sake of their children’s safety, he requested that their privacy be maintained.
The couple “have signed a legal separation agreement,” the prime minister‘s office stated in a statement on Wednesday.
According to the statement, “They have worked to ensure that all necessary legal and ethical steps with regard to their decision to separate have been taken, and will continue to do so going forward.”
According to the official biography of the Canadian Prime Minister, Trudeau returned to Montreal in 2002 after spending several years as a teacher in Vancouver. It was there that he met Grégoire.
“Justin moved back to Montréal in 2002, when he met Sophie Grégoire. They were united in marriage in 2005, and today they are the proud parents of Hadrien, Ella-Grace, and Xavier.
According to the Liberal Party website for Grégoire Trudeau, he graduated from the University of Montréal with a degree in communications and afterwards worked in sales and advertising before becoming a reporter for television and radio.
Last year, Grégoire Trudeau said on Instagram that he and his wife had “navigated through sunny days, heavy storms, and everything in between and it ain’t over.”
Long-term partnerships are difficult in a variety of ways, she continued. They require ongoing effort, adaptability, sacrifice, devotion, patience, and a whole lot more. There is no perfect relationship since none of us are, but love is only real when it protects, liberates, and develops its recipient.
The two met US President Joe Biden in March and went to King Charles’ coronation in London earlier in May.
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G20: Xi accuses Trudeau of leaks to media about China-Canada relations
China’s Xi Jinping has been filmed accusing Justin Trudeau of leaking meeting details, days after they held talks at the G20 summit in Bali.
President Xi told the Canadian PM, via a translator, this was inappropriate and accused him of lacking “sincerity”.
He was likely referring to reports that Mr Trudeau discussed alleged Chinese espionage and interference in Canadian elections at the sit down.
The talks, which happened behind closed doors, were the pair’s first in years.
In the footage, filmed by journalists at the now finished gathering of world leaders, President Xi and Mr Trudeau can be seen standing close to each other and conversing via a translator.
“Everything we discussed has been leaked to the papers and that is not appropriate,” the Chinese leader told Mr Trudeau in Mandarin.
It captures a rare candid moment of President Xi, whose image is normally carefully curated by Chinese state media.
After smiling and nodding his head, the Canadian PM responded by saying “in Canada we believe in free and open and frank dialogue and that is what we will continue to have”.
“We will continue to look to work constructively together but there will be things we disagree on,” he added.
Before Mr Trudeau could finish, President Xi cut his counterpart off and asked that he first “create the conditions” – eventually shaking Trudeau’s hand and walking away.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson played down the incident, describing it as a normal exchange that should not be interpreted as criticising or blaming anyone.
The spokesperson, Mao Ning, added that Beijing supported having frank exchanges as long as they were held on an equal basis.
The short but revealing exchange highlighted tensions between China and Canada, running high since the detention of Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou in 2018 and Beijing’s subsequent arrest of two Canadians on spying charges. All three were later released.
But tensions recently resurged following the arrest of Yuesheng Wang, a public utility worker at Hydro-Quebec, who was charged with espionage.
Mr Wang “obtained trade secrets to benefit the People’s Republic of China, to the detriment of Canada’s economic interests,” Canadian police said in a statement.
At the time, Mr Trudeau and President Xi were at the G20 summit on the Indonesian island of Bali.
Source: BBC.com
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Matthew Perry can’t remember if he beat up Justin Trudeau in new interview
On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Canadian-American actor Matthew Perry shared a story about a rumour that he may have beaten up Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in grade school. He was on the show to promote his new memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.
When Colbert asked him if he did, Perry responded “I don’t think so.”
Perry recalled the story after Colbert asked him who is more recognizable in Canada: him or Justin Trudeau. Though he conceded and said Trudeau is more easily recognizable, he then told the story about how his friends Chris and Brian Murray alleged that they had beaten up Justin Trudeau in elementary school. Without any evidence or recollection of that moment, Perry said he “just believed them.”
According to Perry, Trudeau eventually got word of the story and reached out to him on Twitter and asked Perry if he wanted to have a fight.
“You have your own army. No thanks,” Perry said, who added that their online scuffle ended there.
That’s not Perry’s only brush with a Canadian celeb on his current book tour. He apologized for writing in the memoir: “Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?”
Source: Complex.com
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Freedom Convoy: The police dealt with ‘inhuman situations’, inquiry hears
When protesters descended on the city last winter, Ottawa police did their best under “inhuman circumstances,” according to the force’s former chief.
On Friday, Peter Sloly testified at an inquiry into Canada’s use of the Emergencies Act to end the ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests, saying that police were under enormous pressure at the time.
The protests began on January 29 and lasted three weeks.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act on 14 February.
Mr Sloly resigned as chief of Ottawa police on 15 February amid criticism of his force’s response to the protests.
Testimony presented before the Public Order Emergency Commission so far has suggested the force was dealing with power struggles, communication gaps and infighting as it scrambled to control the anti-vaccine mandate and anti-government protests.
In an emotional defence of police actions on Friday, Mr Sloly said his force tried to deal with the protests while facing a lack of resources and staffing issues.
“It was too cold and it was too much. But they did their very best. And I am grateful to them,” he said.
The Public Order Emergency Commission began six weeks of hearings on 13 October, and in other recent developments:
- Some police forces were weighing bringing in military assistance in early February to help with the protests, according to tabled documents, though Mr Trudeau was saying publicly at the time he was wary of such a move.
- Canadian intelligence services believed the protests to be driven largely by domestic concerns and did not see signs of funding from “foreign actors” despite money flowing in from Canada and elsewhere to online fundraising platforms in support of the protesters.
- The inquiry has summoned Ontario Premier Doug Ford to testify, believing he has relevant evidence to share as his provincial government worked to end the protests with Mr Trudeau and Ottawa. Mr Ford has challenged the summons in court.
The winter protests paralysed much of Ottawa’s city centre with hundreds of heavy trucks, while smaller, shorter-lived protests elsewhere blocked two key US-Canada border crossings.
The protests in Ottawa – deemed an illegal blockade by police and the federal government – were eventually cleared by police on the weekend of 18 February.
The public inquiry, which is required under law when the Emergencies Act is invoked, will hear from more witnesses over the coming weeks, including Mr Trudeau.
His government has said that the use of the Emergencies Act – for the first time since it became law in 1988 – was a necessary “last resort” to deal with unprecedented protests.
A final report on the inquiry’s findings will be released early next year.
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Otumfuo receives official invitation to Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral
King Charles III of Great Britain has extended an official invitation to the Asantehene to attend the state burial of Queen Elizabeth II.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II was invited to the lying-in-state of the late queen as well as the king’s reception, state funeral service, and the foreign secretary’s reception, according to the invitation that was delivered by the Protocol Directorate of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the British government on behalf of the king.
It further stated that the Asantehene could bring his spouse or a companion to the state funeral, which is set for Monday, September 19, 2022.
Otumfuo will be the second invitee to the queen’s funeral from Ghana, the first being President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who was reportedly invited as the president of Ghana, a Commonwealth nation.
GhanaWeb can, however, not independently confirm if President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has officially received his invitation.
Invitations have also been sent to all leaders from the Commonwealth nations.
So far, as the BBC reports, the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese; New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern; and Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, have all confirmed their participation in the funeral.
The Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, and the Sri Lankan president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, have also reportedly accepted invitations.
Other world leaders who have confirmed they will be attending the state funeral include King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain, royal families of Norway, Sweden, and Demark, Belgium’s King Philippe and Queen Mathilde, President of the United States of America, Joe Biden and the First Lady Jill Biden.
View Otumfuo’s invitation below:
📌His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, has received the invitation of His Majesty King Charles III to attend the events marking the State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.#Opemsuoradio #opemsuo1047 pic.twitter.com/gxlFenGnzU
— Opemsuo Radio (@OpemsuoRadio) September 15, 2022