Federal leaders trade barbs on COVID-19, Indigenous rights in French election debate

Piers Morgan has expressed his concern for the Queen after Prince Charles tested positive for Covid just days after seeing her. It was confirmed on Thursday that Prince Charles, 73, has contracted the virus for a second time after recently meeting with his mother, the monarch. A Palace source said that Elizabeth II, 95, is not displaying any symptoms of illness but did not disclose whether she has also tested positive. Reacting to the news, Piers, 56, tweeted: ‘Prince Charles testing positive for covid just 2 days after seeing the Queen is filling me with deep unease.’ According to the Palace insider, the situation will continue to be monitored, but that a running commentary would not be provided on the monarch’s health. It is not known when exactly Prince Charles met with the Queen.However, he held an investiture on Tuesday at Windsor Castle, where she is currently staying.

@Robcollins2016 wrote: “Not surprised. How can you possibly hope to avoid Covid when you're stuck in that little box of a house without any garden space?”  @RtHonJon said: “Presume you’d rather see more ‘Cancel your Netflix subscription and you can afford a house in London in 4,000 years’ kind of headlines?”@ToSuff penned: “…you do know it doesn’t just disappear if it’s not in the news right?”@MDMcDonough89 said: “K- I love ya, but keeping people in the dark about a deadly virus & not reporting the *heir to the throne* catching it (recently w/the queen) won't stop the virus from spreading.“That's just a ridiculous, dangerous take.“Is there overkill? Of course.

Piers Morgan has shared his concerns for the Queen on Twitter amid Prince Charles testing positive for Covid.The next in line to the throne had reportedly seen his mother two days before he received the result.Reacting to the news, Piers opened up to his 7.9 million followers.He wrote: “Prince Charles testing positive for covid just 2 days after seeing the Queen is filling me with deep unease.”The Prince of Wales, 73, has tested positive for the virus for the second time.According to Clarence House, he is isolating at home following the result.It came just minutes before he was thought to be arriving in Winchester.They posted on Twitter this morning: “This morning The Prince of Wales has tested positive for COVID-19 and is now self-isolating.“HRH is deeply disappointed not to be able to attend today's events in Winchester and will look to reschedule his visit as soon as possible.”It is thought he had tested positive during a routine Covid test.A Palace source has claimed he met with the Queen a few days ago.However, they also confirmed that she is not showing any symptoms.According to Hello!, they added that she is being monitored for any symptoms following the news.However, Buckingham Palace is yet to confirm this.Prince Charles previously tested positive with Covid in 2020.He was a guest at the British Museum last night, where he was celebrating the British Asian Trust.Among the attendees were Rishi Sunak, Priti Patel and Ian Rush.Kirstie Allsopp also reacted to the news that the Prince of Wales had Covid in a tweet earlier today.Earlier today, she retweeted Chris Mason’s announcement of the news.Kirstie wrote: “And? Everyone will get Covid at some point, many people will get it many times.“Prince Charles, who is vaxed

trucker convoy in Ottawa are spilling over onto new fronts Thursday, with police reporting “a concerted effort to flood” 911 lines, protesters mobilizing at the local airport and hackers taking aim at city council.Earlier in the day, city officials had warned of traffic disruptions at the city’s international airport as the trucker convoy encamped across the city enters its 14th day, and some members appeared to be encircling the airport.That now appears to have ended, but it remains unclear whether the group will move to a different site or return to the airport.Ottawa police had told Global News they are “aware” of the convoy’s presence at the airport and shortly after, issued a tweet warning of attempts to target emergency lines.“We are aware of a concerted effort to flood our 911 and non-emergency policing reporting line. This endangers lives and is completely unacceptable,” the police service said.“It is a crime to unnecessarily call 911 or our non-emergency number (613-236-1222).

Beth Potter, president of the Tourism Industry Association of Canada, Dr. Dominik Mertz, division director of infectious diseases at McMaster University, and Dr.

New rules on international travel in Scotland will come into effect from tomorrow as the country continues to emerge from the worst of the Omicron Covid wave.

Queen Elizabeth II met with Prince Charles before he tested positive for COVID-19 and is now being closely monitored, a royal source tells ET. On Thursday, Clarence House announced that Charles — who is vaccinated and boosted — tested positive for COVID-19 that morning and is now self-isolating. Our source tells ET that 95-year-old Elizabeth and 73-year-old Charles met on Tuesday after she returned from Sandringham.

The Queen's health is reportedly being "monitored" after she met with her eldest son Prince Charles recently, as he has been confirmed to test positive with COVID-19 on Thursday, February 10. While the 95 year old monarch has seen the first in line to the throne recently, Buckingham Palace have reportedly refused to confirm or deny whether she is currently testing positive for the virus.The palace source did confirm that the Queen is yet to display any symptoms, however.

Justin Trudeau and his Conservative rival implored supporters to stay the course and avoid vote splitting that could hand their opponent victory.Both men campaigned in the same seat-rich Toronto region on Saturday as they tried to fend off voter defections to the left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP) and the populist People’s Party of Canada (PPC), both of which are rising in polls.The latest Sondage Leger poll conducted for the Journal de Montreal and the National Post newspapers put the Conservatives one percentage point ahead of Trudeau’s Liberals, with 33 per cent over 32 per cent. The NDP was at 19 per cent while the PPC was at 6 per cent.

hit the polls in an historic election taking place amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Still undecided about which federal party for whom you should cast your vote? Here’s everything you need to know before the 2021 federal election on Sept. 20.Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau formally launched his campaign on Aug.

As Alberta Premier Jason Kenney reverses his province’s restrictions and faces an onslaught over criticism over how he handled the pandemic, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is now staying silent.

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

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau on Monday appeared to take aim at protests set to take place at hospitals across Canada against COVID-19 restrictions, saying if re-elected the party would make it a criminal offence to obstruct access to various health-care buildings such as hospitals, vaccine clinics and abortion clinics. He also said they would make it a crime to intimidate or threaten health-care workers or people seeking health-care treatments.

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.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh condemned on Monday the planned demonstrations outside of hospitals across Canada stating it is “wrong” and “not a place to protest.” He added that no one should have a barrier from accessing health care.

As warnings are issued ahead of a number of anti-vaccine demonstrations expected to take place at hospitals across Canada on Monday, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole said the protests and the “harassment of our front-line nurses, doctors is completely unacceptable.”

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.

federal election.It was then that Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole raised the spectre of a re-elected Liberal government taxing the sale of primary residences.“Mr. Trudeau, Canadians are worried you’re going to be taxing their primary home sales,” O’Toole said during the segment of the debate devoted to the theme of affordability.“Your advisers have said it … it’s on page 14 of its policy book,” the Conservative leader said, speaking to Trudeau and referencing the Liberals’ election platform.

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.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is denouncing the demonstrators who pelted him and others with small rocks as he left Monday’s campaign event in London, Ontario. Abigail Bimman explains who these protesters are, and how they’re tracking Trudeau’s stops.

Justin Trudeau was pelted with gravel while at a campaign stop in London, Ont. The attack came on the heels of some fiery protests throughout the Canadian election campaign where Trudeau had been assailed by angry anti-vax protesters.To at least one expert, the violence on display towards Trudeau is relatively unsurprising given some of the rhetoric online and at his protests.“I think there’s increasing concern that this violence is becoming organized, that there are far-right movements that are intersecting with the anti-vax movements,” said Stephanie Carvin, an assistant professor and national security expert at Ottawa’s Carleton University.

Justin Trudeau as well as accompanying journalists during a campaign event on Monday.In a statement to Global News, local police confirmed the probe into the incident, which Trudeau and other federal party leaders on Tuesday condemned as “unacceptable.” Trudeau says he was hit by gravel, condemns rock throwing as ‘unacceptable’ “London Police are aware of an incident which occurred on September 6 during a visit to London by Prime Minister Trudeau as well as other elected officials, in which rocks were thrown, striking some participants.

Justin Trudeau reaffirmed Tuesday that “anti-vaxxer mobs” won’t stop him from in-person campaigning this election.While at a campaign stop in Montreal, Trudeau spoke out against people who have hurled obscenities towards him throughout the election, with the latest incident happening Monday in southern Ontario.“Nobody should be doing their jobs under the threats of violence or acts to put them in danger.

Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau condemned on Tuesday the actions of angry protesters who threw gravel at him at a campaign stop in London, Ont. a day prior.

Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole in Ottawa on Tuesday announced that if elected, he would allow foreign companies to compete in the Canadian market for cell phone and Internet service. He said those companies would have to be from countries that allow Canadian providers to compete in their markets.

In Ottawa on Tuesday, Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole talked about his stance on guns and said “public safety is a priority of mine,” and that he would focus on enforcement of gun smuggling at the border if elected.

Campaigning in Montreal on Tuesday, Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau blasted Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole about his promise to get 90 per cent of Canadians vaccinated against COVID-19.