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Chrystia Freeland condemns violence in Hong Kong, sparking backlash from China

OTTAWA — Chinese officials accused Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland of “meddling” in China’s internal affairs Sunday after her weekend statement condemning violence in Hong Kong in the wake of escalating tensions between pro-democracy protesters and police. Freeland made the remarks in a joint statement issued Saturday with her counterpart in the European Union, Federica Mogherini, urging restraint amid “a rising number of unacceptable…
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Duelling Hong Kong protests face off outside Chinese consulate in Vancouver

Pro-Hong Kong and pro-Beijing protesters faced off against each other for the second day in a row in Vancouver, a sign of tensions in Hong Kong spilling over into the Chinese diaspora in B.C. Hundreds of people showed up at a rally organized by a group called the Vancouver Society in Support of Democratic Movement outside the Chinese consulate on Granville Street Sunday afternoon to condemn what it called police brutality in Hong Kong. Waving…
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‘Greenland belongs to Greenland’: Denmark says selling world’s largest island to US is absurd

Trump’s is due to visit Copenhagen early next month, when the Arctic will be on the agenda in meetings.
— Read on www.cnbc.com/2019/08/18/greenland-belongs-to-greenland-denmark-says-selling-worlds-largest-island-to-us-is-absurd.html

The RCMP’s chat with Jody Wilson-Raybould stirs echoes of painful Liberal past | CBC News

The news on Friday that the former minister of justice and attorney general spoke with someone from the national police force in the spring punctuates another difficult moment for Justin Trudeau’s government.
— Read on www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-jody-wilson-raybould-liberals-analysis-wherry-1.5250693

Trudeau doubles down on not apologizing for SNC-Lavalin affair | CBC News

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remained dogged Thursday that he doesn’t need to apologize for his role in the SNC-Lavalin affair, a day after Canada’s ethics watchdog found he violated the Conflict of Interest Act by trying to influence the former attorney general while she was dealing with the SNC-Lavalin case.
— Read on www.cbc.ca/news/politics/philpott-snc-report-1.5247792

Forgive and forget? That’s Trudeau’s hope now for the SNC-Lavalin affair | CBC News

There is what the ethics commissioner’s report into the SNC-Lavalin affair says, and then there is the task of deciding what, if anything, the report says about Justin Trudeau — about a prime minister, his government and how it has carried out the responsibility of governing and leading.
— Read on www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-snc-lavalin-ethics-analysis-wherry-1.5246731

‘I take responsibility,’ Trudeau says in wake of damning report on SNC-Lavalin ethics violation | CBC News

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he accepts full responsibility after Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion found he violated the Conflict of Interest Act by trying to influence then-justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould and get her to overrule a decision to not grant a deferred prosecution agreement to Quebec-based engineering firm SNC-Lavalin.
— Read on www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-snc-ethics-commissioner-violated-code-1.5246551

It’s not the first time U.S. has tried to buy Greenland – MarketWatch

The U.S. in 1946 proposed to pay Denmark $100 million (in gold) to buy Greenland, the Associated Press reported in the early 1990s, citing Danish press and…
— Read on www.marketwatch.com/story/its-not-the-first-time-us-has-tried-to-buy-greenland-2019-08-16

Trump’s interest in buying Greenland is being mocked, but so was the Alaska purchase | National Post

The idea was derided on Twitter, though he isn’t the first president to covet the ice-encrusted island
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