Tag: Justin Trudeau

NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Feb. 14)

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invokes emergency powers to deal with the Freedom Convoy, the United States is closing its embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, and a new court filing says the Hillary Clinton campaign allegedly paid an internet company to infiltrate servers at the Trump Tower and the White House.


A Salute to Our Truckers

Commentary Canada is a magnificent country! But our land can also be treacherous because of its unforgiving weather, bad roads, and vast distances between villages, towns, and cities. I was born and raised a 10-hour drive from the closest next big city, Montreal. Ten hours of sinuous roads and, in winter, driving conditions that didn’t…


Trudeau: Ontario’s Declaration of State of Emergency Over Trucker Protests ‘Responsible and Necessary’

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Ontario Premier Doug Ford did the right thing by declaring a state of emergency over the trucker protests in Windsor and Ottawa. “Ontario’s announcement this morning is responsible and necessary,” Trudeau said at a press conference on Feb. 11. Ford said at a press conference on Feb. 11 that the…


LIVE: Justin Trudeau Delivers Remarks


Trudeau Blames Increasing Protests and Disruptions on Conservatives

With cross-country protests against COVID-19 restrictions increasing, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday the Conservative Party is to blame because it has encouraged the movement. Conservative Leader Candice Bergen said during question period on Feb. 10 that critical infrastructure has been restricted because of Trudeau’s failure to deal appropriately with the issue and asked if…


Former Liberal Ministers Speak Out in Support of Liberal MP Who Criticized His Party’s COVID Policies

Former Liberal cabinet ministers previously expelled from caucus for expressing dissenting views have come out in support of Liberal MP Joël Lightbound, who recently criticized the position of his party on its COVID-19 policies, approach, and discourse. “Glimmers of democratic independence from MPs in Ottawa (Canada needs a wave of this),” said former minister of…


Opposition Echoes Dissenting Liberal MP’s Demand That Trudeau End ‘Politicization’ of Pandemic

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced off familiar calls from the official opposition to drop pandemic mandates during question period today, but this time they leveraged the words of a dissenting Liberal MP who broke ranks this morning by heavily criticizing COVID-19 restrictions and calling for their dismissal. Interim Conservative Party Leader Candice Bergen said her…


Liberal MP Breaks Ranks, Calls for End of ‘Divisive’ COVID Policies

Liberal MP Joël Lightbound gave a solo press conference this morning to call on his own government to lift COVID-19 restrictions and to change its “divisive” tone on the issue. Taking an opposing stance to his party’s leader, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Lightbound said legitimate concerns about restrictive policies should not be dismissed and governments…


Canadians ‘Deliberately Misled’ by Government and Media on Diversity of Truck Protest, Professor Says

Canadians are being deliberately misled by the Trudeau government and their “arms in the media” on the large diversity of supporters of the trucker convoy demonstration in Ottawa, an academic says. Since the “Freedom Convoy” converged in Canada’s capital on Jan. 29 to protest federal vaccine mandates and other pandemic-related policies, supporters say the movement…


Protesters Rebuke Trudeau’s Accusations Against Trucker Convoy

Trudeau lashed out at the trucker convoy protests in Ottawa’s downtown core in a virtual press conference on Jan. 31, but protestors took offence to his accusations and mis-characterization of the ongoing event.