Tag: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Trudeau to probe allegation Canada spy helped smuggle UK teens

OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged Wednesday to “follow up” on allegations that a spy working for Canadian intelligence trafficked British schoolgirls into Syria where at least one married an Islamic State fighter. According to a Times report in Britain, in 2015 then-15-year-old Shamima Begun and two friends received help from a people-smuggler recruited by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to get to war-ravaged Syria from their Bethnal Green Academy in […]

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Indigenous groups lose court bid to block Canada pipeline

  By Michel COMTE Agence France-Presse Ottawa, Canada (AFP) — Canada’s federal court on Tuesday denied a bid by indigenous tribes to block a long-delayed expansion of an oil pipeline, dismissing their claim that they had not been adequately consulted on the project. The decision is a win for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose government in 2016 approved the project connecting the Alberta oil sands to the Pacific coast for crude shipment to new overseas markets. […]

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New docs, recording released in Canada PM meddling scandal

by Michel COMTE Agence France-Presse OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) – A political meddling scandal threatening Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s re-election bid was given fresh impetus Friday with the release of messages and a secret recording supplied by his former attorney general. The House of Commons justice committee, looking into the explosive allegations that Trudeau officials pressured attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to shield engineering firm SNC-Lavalin from trial, released the materials from the now former official. The controversy […]

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Justin Trudeau — Marvel’s latest superhero

MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — He snowboards, he hikes, he surfs — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is already a bit of an action hero. But now, Marvel has made him into a real superhero, in a comic book that hit newsstands Wednesday. Trudeau graces one of two covers of the latest edition of “Civil War II: Choosing Sides” — seated in the corner of a boxing ring, smiling, his elbows resting on the ropes, with […]

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Trudeau to host Obama, Pena Nieto for North Americas summit

by Michel COMTE OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canada, Mexico and the United States will look to dovetail their climate and other policies into a continental strategy when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hosts Barack Obama and Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday. But Britain’s shocking vote to quit the European Union has also abruptly shoved itself onto the agenda of the summit, which the countries tend to hold once a year. Trudeau and Obama had both called […]

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Canada PM Trudeau says no to ransoms

OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canada will not pay ransoms for the release of its citizens held hostage overseas, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday after the gruesome killing of a Canadian in the Philippines. “Canada does not and will not pay ransom to terrorists, directly or indirectly,” Trudeau said, vowing instead to hunt down and prosecute hostage-takers. His comments come after Trudeau delivered the grim news on Monday that Canadian John Ridsdel had been killed […]

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Palace condoles with Canadian government, family of beheaded hostage

MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Tuesday expressed its condolences to the Canadian government and the family of mining executive John Ridsdel, who was killed by the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG). Ridsdel was among the four hostages who were abducted by ASG bandits on September 21 last year from the Holiday Ocean View resort on Samal Island, Davao del Norte. Also seized were Canadian Robert Hall, Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad, and Filipina Marithes Flor. “We extend our […]

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Cold blooded murder Canadian PM cries against Abu Sayyaf’s beheading of its captive

QUEZON City, Philippines – Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned the act of the Abu Sayyaf when said group decapitated its Canadian captive five hours after the deadline of the payment of the ransom for said hostages. Trudeau called the act “cold-blooded murder” during his Cabinet retreat in Alberta. According to reports, the Armed Forces of the Philippines found the head in an island in Jolo after the lapse of the deadline. The AFP and […]

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Canada’s Trudeau sets up inquiry on missing and murdered Aboriginals

Vowing to renew the relationship between Canada and its Aboriginals, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday (December 08) his government would set up an inquiry on missing and murdered indigenous women, a measure opposed by his predecessor. Trudeau said his government was committed to repairing the partnership with Canada’s Aboriginals, who make up 5 percent of the population but have higher levels of poverty and addiction and are far more often victims of crime […]

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