Author: Rob Gillies
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A government official says Canada will restore funding to embattled UN agency in Gaza
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Canada will restore funding to the United Nations relief agency for Palestinians, a government official tells The Associated Press, weeks after the agency lost hundreds of millions of dollars in support following Israeli allegations against some of its staffers in Gaza
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Canada plans state funeral for late Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there will be a state funeral for former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, though no date has been set yet
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Brian Mulroney, former Canadian prime minister who forged closer ties with US, dies at 84
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Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has died at 84
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Canadian police arrest 2nd suspect in stabbing rampage
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JAMES SMITH CREE NATION, Saskatchewan • The final suspect in a stabbing rampage that killed 10 people in and around a Canadian Indigenous reserve died after being arrested by police Wednesday following a three-day manhunt, authorities said. One official said he died of self-inflicted injuries. Myles Sanderson, 32, was caught on a highway near the…
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Trudeau revokes emergency powers after Canada blockades end
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TORONTO • Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday he is removing emergency powers police can use after authorities ended the blockades at the borders and the occupation in Ottawa by truckers and others opposed to COVID-19 restrictions. Trudeau said the “threat continues” but the acute emergency that included entrenched occupations has ended. His government…
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Truckers hold their ground despite threats of crackdown
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OTTAWA, Ontario • Hundreds of truckers clogging the streets in Canada’s capital stood their ground and blasted their horns Thursday as police poured in for what the protesters feared could be an attempt to break up their nearly three-week demonstration against the country’s COVID-19 restrictions. Busloads of police officers arrived near Ottawa’s Parliament Hill in…
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Tensions mount in Ottawa as police warn truckers to leave
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OTTAWA, Ontario • A showdown appeared to be shaping up in Ottawa’s nearly three-week siege by truckers protesting the country’s COVID-19 restrictions as police in the capital warned drivers on Wednesday to leave immediately or risk arrest. The big rigs parked outside Parliament represented the movement’s last stronghold after demonstrators abandoned their sole remaining truck…
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Ottawa’s police chief ousted amid truck protest in Canada
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OTTAWA, Ontario • Ottawa’s police chief was ousted Tuesday amid criticism of his inaction against the trucker protests that have paralyzed Canada’s capital for over two weeks, while the number of blockades maintained by demonstrators at the U.S. border dropped to just one. The twin developments came a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked…
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U.S. urges Canada to use federal powers to end bridge blockade
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TORONTO • The Biden administration urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government Thursday to use its federal powers to end the truck blockade by Canadians protesting the country’s COVID-19 restrictions, as the bumper-to-bumper demonstration forced auto plants on both sides of the border to shut down or scale back production. For the fourth straight day, scores…
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COVID-19 protests threaten border trade between Canada, U.S.
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OTTAWA, Ontario • Canadian lawmakers expressed increasing worry Tuesday about the economic effects of disruptive demonstrations after the busiest border crossing between the U.S. and Canada became partially blocked by truckers protesting vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions. The blockade at the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, prevented traffic from entering Canada while…