On Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced Canadian intelligence providers are investigating “a potential link” between India’s authorities and the loss of life of Sikh chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar in B.C.
India calls these claims “absurd and motivated,” main Trudeau to induce India to take the allegations severely and co-operate with a police investigation.
Canada expelled a senior Indian diplomat Monday.
Then India expelled a Canadian envoy, arguing it was due to issues Canada is harbouring extremists who desire a separate nation for Sikhs.
Busy day for Trudeau at UN General Assembly
If you suppose your Wednesday goes to be busy, pour one out for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Canada’s to-do checklist on the United Nations? Confronting the local weather disaster, serving to Ukraine defeat Russia and eradicating international poverty, amongst different issues.
Trudeau will soak up a UN Security Council debate on the way in which ahead in Ukraine, the place President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is scheduled to talk.
At a local weather ambition summit, Secretary-General António Guterres is anticipated to carry leaders to account on what they’re doing to confront the emergency.
Trudeau can even participate in high-level conferences on creating new finance fashions to assist the growing world discover sustainable options.
And he’ll be part of Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault at an occasion aimed toward serving to growing international locations take care of their carbon emissions.
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Unifor reaches tentative take care of Ford
Unifor says it has reached a tentative take care of Ford Motor Co. that might keep away from employees happening strike.
The union says the proposed contract shall be dropped at members shortly for a vote.
Negotiations with Ford are anticipated to set expectations for what employees will get in contracts from General Motors and Stellantis.
The tentative take care of Ford comes as U.S. autoworkers proceed to strike in opposition to Ford in addition to at General Motors and Stellantis crops.
U.S. autoworkers are pushing for upwards of 40 per cent wage good points, whereas Unifor has not put out a quantity, saying solely that it needs to see important will increase.
Along with greater wages, Unifor says its different key priorities are pensions and points round job safety and the transition to electrical automobiles.
The union says particulars of the settlement will first be introduced to members at Ford Motor Company in ratification conferences to be held within the close to future.
Emergency supervisor to testify at convoy trial
The testimony of Ottawa’s emergency providers supervisor is anticipated to proceed at this time within the felony trial of two “Freedom Convoy” organizers.
Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are on trial for alleged mischief and counselling others to commit mischief, intimidation and different offences throughout the protest.
Kim Ayotte oversaw the town’s bylaw enforcement, fireplace and paramedic providers throughout final yr’s demonstration, in addition to the division that oversees particular occasions.
He stepped into the witness field Tuesday afternoon, however his testimony was stalled as he struggled to reply particular questions with out access to his textual content messages and different communications together with his workers.
Ayotte additionally offered every day scenario updates to then-mayor Jim Watson and the remainder of metropolis council throughout the demonstration.
Nygard sex-assault case to seem in Toronto court docket
The sexual-assault case in opposition to Canadian vogue mogul Peter Nygard is anticipated to be again in a Toronto courtroom at this time after jury choice in his trial was delayed final week.
The expenses within the case had been lowered from 11 to 6, after a court docket heard three of the eight unique complainants within the case aren’t anticipated to testify.
Court paperwork present Nygard is now going through 5 counts of sexual assault and one depend of forcible confinement, down from eight sexual assault and three forcible confinement expenses.
Nygard, who appeared in court docket in a wheelchair on Sept. 11, faces expenses in three jurisdictions in Canada and one within the U.S. after authorities alleged he used his place within the vogue trade to lure ladies and ladies.
He faces two intercourse expenses in Quebec and can be charged with sexual assault and illegal confinement in Manitoba after an individual got here ahead with allegations from the early ’90s.
GardaWorld employees held in Libya for 2 months
Seven workers of Montreal-based safety big GardaWorld languished in detention for almost two months after their arrest earlier this yr by a strong Libyan militia.
The employees’ ordeal underscores the continuing dangers of working in a risky area in addition to the monetary toll on international firms exacted by armed teams and state actors amid a fluid energy battle within the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
GardaWorld, one of many largest international safety corporations working in Libya, provides providers starting from armoured vehicles to safety stories for diplomats and multinational firms. But its position there got here to a jarring halt on April 11, when the Rada militia at Tripoli’s Mitiga airport seized GardaWorld’s contractors, who had been offering safety for the EU Border Assistance Mission within the nation.
N.L. college opened doorways to OceanGate: emails
A analysis institute at Newfoundland and Labrador’s Memorial University threw open its “proverbial doors” final yr to the corporate that owned the doomed Titan submersible, lower than a yr earlier than the vessel suffered a catastrophic implosion whereas diving to the Titanic shipwreck.
Emails obtained by The Canadian Press present officers with Memorial’s Fisheries and Marine Institute signed an settlement with OceanGate in December permitting the corporate to retailer tools with the college and promising that college students and college would have alternatives “to join OceanGate expeditions to support research endeavours.”
The memorandum of understanding additionally says the marine institute would present OceanGate’s submersible to guests in an effort to advertise ocean literacy and the “blue economy.”
The Titan submersible was final heard from on June 18, after it dropped into the North Atlantic on its method to the Titanic wreck web site. Officials say its mom ship, the Canadian-flagged Polar Prince, misplaced contact with the small sub about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive. The descent sometimes takes about two hours.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Sept. 20, 2023
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