Tag: Canada

Trudeau’s oil pipeline tarnishes his climate credentials ahead of Canadian election – Reuters

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has cast himself as a champion in the fight against climate change while pushing to expand an oil pipeline to help struggling producers, a contradiction that may hurt his re-election bid next month.
— Read on www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-election-energy/trudeaus-oil-pipeline-tarnishes-his-climate-credentials-ahead-of-canadian-election-idUSKCN1VR0E1

NDP struggling to nominate candidates as election call draws nearer | CBC News

The NDP is facing massive gaps in its candidate roster as the official start of the federal election campaign draws nearer. The party says it has named 175 candidates to run under the orange banner in the upcoming election, meaning just under half of the 338 ridings don’t have a New Democrat candidate yet.
— Read on www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-nomination-candidates-1.5263840

Forgotten working class could trigger populist backlash in Canada, says report by ex-Harper advisor | National Post

‘Over the long term, an economy that has nothing to offer people is going to create not just economic consequences, but political ones,’ Sean Speer says
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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…
— Read on www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/chrystia-freeland-condemns-violence-in-hong-kong-sparking-backlash-from-china/ar-AAFZbfQ

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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Trudeau’s Chinese Trade Headache Worsens With Meat-Export Ban – Bloomberg

Beijing’s latest move adds to an already long list of irritants between the two countries as Canada tries to reduce its reliance on the U.S. market
— Read on www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-27/trudeau-s-chinese-trade-headache-worsens-with-meat-export-ban

Did Quebec take a populist turn with its new religious symbols law? | CBC News

The word is loaded, wildly overused and highly contested. But perhaps the time has come to consider whether populism is an appropriate term to describe the recent turn in Quebec politics.
— Read on www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/did-quebec-take-a-populist-turn-with-its-new-religious-symbols-law-1.5185858