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Canada will always be there to defend the right of peaceful protest: Trudeau on farmers protest

Trudeau returns to campaign with promise of lower taxes

2:59 pm September 23, 2019

Montreal: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resumed his re-election campaign on Sunday with a promise to lower taxes, but once again had to apologise for a photo showing him in blackface makeup. Trudeau, 47, was already under fire for an ethics lapse and other controversies, and the decades-old photos and videos that resurfaced last week […]

EU’s Juncker says not too late for Brexit deal

7:56 pm September 22, 2019

Madrid: There is still time for London and Brussels to make a Brexit deal, outgoing European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said in remarks published Sunday, as the clock runs down to a October 31 deadline. Juncker also told the Spanish daily El Pais that he wished the Commission had played a more active role in […]

Trudeau says regrets wearing 'unacceptable' blackface makeup

Trudeau’s support holds after apology for wearing brownface

5:17 am September 21, 2019

TORONTO: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged Friday that he let down his supporters — and all Canadians of color — by appearing years ago in brownface and blackface. Yet the scandal’s fallout may be limited in a country without the harsh and still-divisive racial history of the neighboring United States. “I hurt people who […]

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UK claims ‘momentum’ in Brexit talks

8:28 pm September 20, 2019

Brussels: Brexit talks are progressing with “momentum”, the British minister in charge of the divorce said Friday after meeting his EU counterpart, despite warnings that a deal was still some way off. After talks in Brussels with EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier, Brexit Minister Stephen Barclay said there was a “shared sense of purpose” to […]

Trudeau says regrets wearing ‘unacceptable’ blackface makeup

2:10 am September 20, 2019

Ottawa: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday it was “absolutely unacceptable” to have worn blackface makeup at parties decades ago, after damning images of him in costume dogged his re-election bid. “I recognize that it is something absolutely unacceptable to do,” Trudeau told a news conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Too many people, he said, […]