Canada election: Trudeau says he would would make it crime to block hospitals, intimidate health-care workers

Protesters from the so-called “freedom convoy” in Ottawa have torn down a fence that had been put around the National War Memorial to protect it from further desecration.

According to TMZ, rapper Kodak Black was among those who were shot. The gunfire erupted outside The Nice Guy restaurant, hitting four men ages 60, 19, 20 and 22, LAPD Officer Lizeth Lomeli said. Their names were not released.When officers arrived on the scene, they located three people who had been shot.

as she shares a fresh update with fans. The update from Rylan comes on social media a day after he was rushed to hospital.

The number of coronavirus infections is continuing to plummet in all 10 boroughs in Greater Manchester, latest figures show.

Late Friday afternoon, a judge granted an injunction which prevents protesters from stopping the flow of traffic across the Ambassador Bridge. Sean O’Shea reports.

“Freedom Convoy” originally meant to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates and quarantine rules for cross-border truck drivers has entered its 16th day on Saturday.Police in Windsor, Ont. say they’ve begun enforcement actions against protesters who blocked access to the Ambassador Bridge for days.They say they’ve told protesters at the scene to head home, and several have begun packing up tents.

COVID-19 today as virus-related hospitalizations continue to decline across the province.The Health Department says 2,143 people are in hospital with the disease, after 144 patients were admitted in the past 24 hours and 215 were discharged.#COVID19 – En date du 11 février, voici la situation au Québec: https://t.co/pwoUoaBgaF pic.twitter.com/aR2nlnEvXO— Santé Québec (@sante_qc) February 12, 2022It says the number of overall virus-related hospitalizations are down by 71.Officials say 153 patients are listed in intensive care, a drop of 11.The province is also reporting 2,359 new cases confirmed by molecular testing, which is limited to certain higher-risk groups.They say 33,661 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine were administered on Friday.

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Police in Windsor, Ont., commenced their enforcement Saturday of an injunction granted on Friday by an Ontario judge to allow for protesters at the Ambassador Bridge to be cleared out. Sean O’Shea has more details on how the enforcement proceeded, with protesters closest to the bridge seen moving back peacefully, while others drove their vehicles away from the area.

COVID-19 in Nova Scotia declined slightly since Friday, the province announced on Saturday.In an abbreviated weekend news release, the province said there were 79 people in hospital who were admitted due to COVID-19 and were receiving specialized care in a designated unit. That’s down by three since Friday.However, another three people were in intensive care, for a total of 14.

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SALT LAKE CITY - Traffic deaths decreased in Utah after the state enacted the strictest drunken driving laws in the nation five years ago, new research published Friday by a U.S. government agency shows.The findings, which pertain to fatalities involving and not involving alcohol, provide initial validation for conservative lawmakers who passed the law over concerns from restaurant and tourism industry lobbyists.In the study published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, researchers wrote that, in the years after Utah changed the drunken driving threshold from .08% to .05% blood-alcohol content, the number of crashes and fatalities fell even though drivers logged more miles."Changing the law to .05% in Utah saved lives and motivated more drivers to take steps to avoid driving impaired," said Dr.

HARPER, Kan. - Rain on a wedding day can be upsetting for any couple, but a tornado can be downright frightening during the vows.In some cultures, rain is viewed as good luck, symbolizing various things from fertility to unity. It can also represent that your marriage will last a lifetime. Candra and Caleb Pence would agree.It was May 19, 2012, and the 21-year-old bride was ready to marry the man of her dreams.

MOSCOW - With the risk of war looming larger, Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden held a high-stakes telephone call Saturday as a tense world watched and worried that an invasion of Ukraine could begin within days.Before talking to Biden, Putin had a telephone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, who met with him in Moscow earlier in the week to try to resolve the biggest security crisis between Russia and the West since the Cold War. A Kremlin summary of the call suggested that little progress was made toward cooling down the tensions.The closely watched call between Biden and Putin began shortly after 11 a.m.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital Saturday condemned President Joe Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of America’s 9/11 victims — saying the money belongs to Afghans.Protesters who gathered outside Kabul's grand Eid Gah mosque asked America for financial compensation for the tens of thousands of Afghans killed during the last 20 years of war in Afghanistan.Biden's order, signed Friday, allocates another $3.5 billion in Afghan assets for humanitarian aid to a trust fund to be managed by the U.N.

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COVID-19 on Saturday.According to the provincial COVID-19 dashboard, the deaths involve a person in their 70s and two people in their 80s in Zone 1 and one person in their 90s in Zone 4.A total of 286 people with COVID-19 have now died in New Brunswick. Anti-mandate demonstration in Fredericton enters Day 2 Since Friday, hospitalizations have dropped by 13, for a total of 122 people in hospital.

Ottawa is seeing another influx of people in the downtown as the demonstrations against COVID-19 public health measures and vaccine mandates enters its third weekend. Reports say there was some sort of party or additional protest late Friday night.

WILLINGBORO, Pa. - Officials in Burlington County announced Saturday that a man was shot and killed in a parking lot in a Willingboro shopping center. The investigation began after officers were called to the Kennedy Plaza in the 400 block of John F. Kennedy Way just after 7:30 p.m.

COLOMBO (News 1st); President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that the nature or extent of the challenges will not matter in fulfilling the promises made to the people.He noted that development activities continue in the country while taking necessary steps to control the COVID-19 pandemic.The President also pointed out that the economy, which had been collapsed for nearly two years, is gradually recovering.The President made these remarks participating in the first round of discussions in a series of sessions with professionals representing various fields, held at the President’s House on Friday (11).The professionals who participated in the discussion said that they are further committed to make the national programme a success by giving the necessary strength to achieve the goals desired by the President, said a statement.The professionals vehemently rejected the allegations spread by some sections with the objective of achieving narrow political agendas, the statement added.Experts in the field said that the new approach to agriculture initiated by the President is being continuously supported by the researchers and entrepreneurs who are engaged full time in these fields, further noted the statement.Representatives from a wide range of fields, including education, policy, sociology, agriculture, research, water and renewable energy, medical, engineering and innovation, were present at the discussion with the President.Ministers, State Ministers, Members of Parliament, the Governor of the Central Bank, the Secretary to the President, the Principal Advisor to the President and many others were also present.

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Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau is calling Alberta’s COVID-19 crisis ‘heartbreaking.’ Abigail Bimman explains how Trudeau took swipes at Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole over the situation.

campaign event of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.While the words may be the same, experts say the anger expressed at some Liberal rallies is not necessarily directly influenced by events in the U.S., but reflect a simmering resentment that has existed even before Trump.Carleton University political science professor Jonathan Malloy said that anger with institutions and “elites” was evident before Trump’s election victory, such as the vote to approve Brexit in the U.K. in June 2016.

Jody Wilson-Raybould, Canada’s first Indigenous justice minister and attorney general, has released her tell-all book “Indian in the Cabinet” just days before the election. She recounts how she faced discrimination in her political career, and her conversations with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the SNC-Lavalin affair.

Justin Trudeau is standing behind comments he made to a protestor who directed a misogynistic slur at Trudeau’s wife, saying “he went after my family.”As Trudeau prepared to sit down with Global BC’s Neetu Garcha outside the broadcaster’s Burnaby, B.C., station, protesters blasted music and hurled obscenities across the parking lot. The situation grew heated when a protester hollered at the Liberal leader about his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau.

Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau responded to questions on Tuesday regarding his comments toward a heckler suggesting he go protest at a hospital, telling reporters the heckler “said hateful, misogynistic” comments about his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau. “I signed up for this.

Justin Trudeau on Monday appeared to taunt angry protesters who attempted to drown out a planned interview in British Columbia, by asking them if there was “a hospital you should be going to bother right now?”Trudeau was preparing to sit down with Global BC’s Neetu Garcha outside the broadcaster’s Burnaby, B.C., station as he continues his election campaign, but protesters blared loud music and shouted obscenities from across the parking lot.At one point, while the song “We’re Not Gonna Take It” played through loudspeakers on a cart, one protester called Trudeau a communist and made derogatory comments about Trudeau’s wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau.“Isn’t there a hospital you should be going to bother right now?” Trudeau responded, pulling

Global’s Neetu Garcha speaks one-on-one with Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau ahead of the Sept. 20 federal election.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau told off a protester on Monday ahead of an interview with Global BC, when the person began to shout various expletives and other words, prompting Trudeau to ask “isn’t there a hospital you should be going to bother?” The comment appeared in reference to protests taking place outside hospitals in opposition to COVID-19 measures.

As protesters against pandemic restrictions and vaccine passports rally outside Canadian hospitals, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is vowing that, if he’s re-elected, he will make it illegal to block access to health-care sites.

Justin Trudeau says he hasn’t “ruled out” federal intervention to challenge Bill 21 in court.The contentious bill, also known as Quebec’s ‘secularism bill,’ is legislation across the province that prohibits public service workers including teachers, lawyers and police officers, from wearing religious symbols while on the job.Critics have argued that it disproportionately targets Muslim women who wear the hijab or niqab and effectively treats them and other religious minorities as second-class citizens.

In the final stretch of the federal election campaign, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is trying to win over progressive voters from his opponents. Abigail Bimman reports on Trudeau’s latest messages on gun control, the climate, child care and Indigenous rights.

On the campaign trail, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is facing questions about his former justice minister, Jody Wilson-Raybould. As Abigail Bimman explains, an excerpt from Wilson-Raybould’s soon-to-be-published book contains some damning allegations.

Howard Anglin was Senior Advisor, Legal Affairs and Policy, and deputy chief of staff to former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He is a postgraduate researcher in constitutional law at Oxford University.Only the most fanatical Justin Trudeau partisans will begrudge Jody Wilson-Raybould for her moment of revenge.Reading the first excerpt of her book, I did find myself occasionally cocking an eyebrow at the portrayal of a wide-eyed innocent who somehow awoke to find herself in a den of partisan thieves.

On Saturday, Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau faced questions regarding former cabinet member Jody Wilson-Raybould’s description of him in her new book, wherein she claimed he asked her to lie amid what she called a pressure campaign to interfere in a criminal prosecution during the SNC Lavalin scandal. Trudeau denied this while speaking with reporters Saturday.

Justin Trudeau said he would “never” ask Jody Wilson-Raybould to lie, after an explosive book excerpt from the former Liberal cabinet minister alleged he wanted her to do just that.In the book, Wilson-Raybould describes conversations she had with Trudeau about what would later become publicly known as the SNC-Lavalin affair. Timeline: What’s happened so far in the SNC-Lavalin affair The excerpt from her soon-to-be-published book, ‘Indian’ in the Cabinet, was published as an op-ed in The Globe and Mail.Wilson-Raybould said that during those conversations, Trudeau was pushing her to lie about how his team had handled the situation.“I knew what he was really asking.

COVID-19 pandemic, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is standing firmly behind his decision.Speaking to reporters during a Friday press conference, Trudeau was asked if he has any regrets about triggering the election and sending Canadians to the polls.“No.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh debated the inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) on Thursday, with Singh criticizing Trudeau for not having acted on the “calls for justice.” In the meantime, Green Party Leader Annamie Paul said the debate was a reason for having more diversity in politics.

federal 2021 election coming to a close just over a week before polls open, party leaders have made their last pleas to Canadians to secure their vote.Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet, and Green Party Leader Annamie Paul met back on stage just a day after clashing on Wednesday’s French-language debate.The topics, which were again debated at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., included health and the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, climate, affordability, and leadership and accountability.Here are the highlights from Thursday’s English-language debate.

During the English-language federal leaders’ debate on Thursday night, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau exchanged criticism over the parties’ climate action targets, with Singh saying that the government under Trudeau has had the “worst track record in all the G7.”

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole claimed Thursday that people were worried the Liberals would tax primary home sales if the party is elected, a claim that Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau repeatedly said was untrue.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau defended his government’s handling of China and the detainment of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor when challenged by Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, saying “you can’t be lobbing tomatoes across the Pacific.” Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet also challenged Trudeau, saying while people can’t be “throwing tomatoes” as a solution, he said the Liberal leader’s record on human rights is “not perfect.”

Green Party Leader Annamie Paul slammed Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau over his claims of being a feminist on Thursday during the English-language leaders’ debate as he defended his government’s handling of the military sexual misconduct crisis, saying she does “not believe that Mr.

election — and their feet were held to the fire throughout the rest of the night.Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet and Green Party Leader Annamie Paul each faced questions on their leadership qualities and shortcomings from moderator Shachi Kurl at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que.As the topics moved into climate change, Indigenous reconciliation, affordability and the COVID-19 pandemic, all five leaders defended their records and plans. But Trudeau, who is seeking a third term as prime minister, faced the harshest scrutiny.

Quebec Premier François Legault was riled up after Wednesday night’s French-language debate. Speaking to reporters at the Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) pre-session caucus in Quebec City, the premier bemoaned that none of the federal party leaders are willing to increase health transfers to the level provinces are asking for.He was particularly critical of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and accused him of meddling in provincial jurisdiction.Legault said the Trudeau government frustratingly withheld needed funds for Quebec housing.“It took four years!” Legault exclaimed.“Mr.

Federal leaders trade barbs on COVID-19, Indigenous rights in French election debate Ipsos’ Political Atlas tracker measures sentiment and volume on Twitter and can act as a “leading indicator” of both how leaders perform as well as their overall reach into the social media universe.The volume of Twitter traffic about the leaders favoured Trudeau going in, as he attracted slightly more mentions on the social media platform than did his opponents, but not by much.

election night.Justin Trudeau, Jagmeet Singh, Erin O’Toole, Yves-Francois Blanchet and Annamie Paul duked it out on topics including climate, Indigenous Peoples and cultural identity, cost of living and public finances, justice and foreign policy, and health care and the COVID-19 pandemic.Here’s a list of highlights that you may have missed during the debate.