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Oct

2023

‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry dies of possible drowning at 54

ACTOR Matthew Perry, beloved star of the top-rated 1990s U.S. television sitcom "Friends" as the wise-cracking Chandler Bing, died after apparently drowning in a hot tub. He was 54. The Los Angeles Times and TMZ.com, citing law enforcement sources, reported that the American-Canadian performer was found dead in a jacuzzi at his Los Angeles home. NBC, which broadcast "Friends" for 10 years, confirmed his demise in a statement on social media platform X. The news brought an outpouring of grief from fellow celebrities and other high-profile personalities. Actor Mira Sorvino said on X: “Oh no!!! Matthew Perry!! You sweet, troubled…

Oct

2023

By The African Mirror

Canada wants private talks with India to resolve diplomatic spat

WORLD

CANADA wants private talks with India to resolve a diplomatic dispute over the murder of a Sikh separatist leader, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said, after a report said India had asked the country to withdraw 41 diplomats. India has told Canada that it must repatriate the diplomats by October 10, according to the Financial Times. Neither Joly nor Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded when asked if the report was accurate. "We are in contact with the government of India. We take Canadian diplomats' safety very seriously and we will continue to engage privately because we think diplomatic conversations are best…

Sep

2023

By WA LONE and STEVE SCHERER

Canadian Sikhs stage protests against Indian government over murder

WORLD

CANADIAN Sikhs staged small protests outside India's diplomatic missions, a week after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there may be a link between New Delhi and the murder of a Sikh separatist advocate in British Columbia. Trudeau a week ago stood in parliament to say that domestic intelligence agencies were actively pursuing credible allegations tying New Delhi's agents to the shooting of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, in June. About 100 protesters in Toronto burned an Indian flag and struck a cardboard cut-out of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a shoe. About 200 protesters also gathered outside the Vancouver consulate.…

Sep

2023

By MICHELLE NICHOLS

Canada’s Trudeau wants India to cooperate in murder probe, declines to release evidence

WORLD

CANADIAN Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called on India to cooperate with an investigation into the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia and said Canada would not release its evidence. Trudeau said on Monday that Ottawa had credible allegations linking Indian government agents to the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June, prompting an angry reaction from New Delhi. Najjar, 45, was a Canadian citizen. The Canadian government has amassed both human and signals intelligence in a months-long investigation into the Sikh separatist leader's murder, CBC News separately reported on Thursday citing sources. Traditional Canadian allies have so far taken…

May

2021

By The African Mirror

Remains of 215 children found at former indigenous school site in Canada

WORLD

ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY THE remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking. The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978, according to the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc Nation, which said the remains were found with the help of a ground-penetrating radar specialist. "We had a knowing in our community that we were able to verify," Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc Chief Rosanne Casimir said in a statement. "At…

Dec

2020

By The African Mirror

Canada expands added screening to travellers from South Africa amid COVID-19 variant worries

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CANADA has expanded enhanced screening and monitoring measures to travelers arriving from South Africa, citing the rise of a more infectious variant of COVID-19 in that country, similar to one that has emerged in the United Kingdom. This follows a move on Wednesday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to extend to January 6 a ban on passenger flights arriving from Britain, citing the variant. It also announced added screening for travellers, from Britain. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on AI and Quantum Computing. No cases of the variant have been found in Canada so far, Health Canada said in a…

Oct

2020

By The African Mirror

Canada will continue to stand up against Chinese human rights abuses, PM Trudeau says

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CANADIAN Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will continue to stand up against China's "coercive diplomacy" and human rights abuses in Hong Kong and Xinjiang after being rebuked by Beijing for similar comments earlier this week. "We will stand up loudly and clearly for human rights all around the world, whether it is talking about the situation faced by the Uighurs, whether it is talking about the very concerning situation in Hong Kong, whether it's calling out China for its coercive diplomacy," Trudeau said in a news conference. However, Trudeau added that he was not looking to escalate tensions with…