Nov 15 2018 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — SINGAPORE — Talented people who immigrate to Canada don't necessarily abandon their home countries, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told students in Singapore Thursday, when he had to defend the consequences of this country's efforts to draw the best and the brightest from overseas. During the one-hour question-and-answer session at the National University of Singapore, a […]
Nov 15 2018 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — SINGAPORE — Talented people who immigrate to Canada don't necessarily abandon their home countries, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told students in Singapore Thursday, when he had to defend the consequences of this country's efforts to draw the best and the brightest from overseas. During the one-hour question-and-answer session at the National University of Singapore, a […]
Nov 15 2018 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — SINGAPORE — Slowly strolling along a paved walkway, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looked around Fort Canning and came face-to-face with his history. The brick walls lining the stairs on the park's edges hold memorial stones of its historical residents, including Esther Bernard, one of Trudeau's ancestors. She was the daughter of one of Singapore's most […]
Nov 15 2018 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — SINGAPORE — Slowly strolling along a paved walkway, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looked around Fort Canning and came face-to-face with his history. The brick walls lining the stairs on the park's edges hold memorial stones of its historical residents, including Esther Bernard, one of Trudeau's ancestors. She was the daughter of one of Singapore's most […]
Nov 14 2018 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — SINGAPORE — Canada wants to walk down the path toward a free-trade agreement with a bloc of 10 Asian nations as early as next spring, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday in his only opportunity to directly address the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Trudeau told a leaders' luncheon that exploratory talks could be wrapped […]
Nov 14 2018 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — SINGAPORE — Canada wants to walk down the path toward a free-trade agreement with a bloc of 10 Asian nations as early as next spring, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday in his only opportunity to directly address the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Trudeau told a leaders' luncheon that exploratory talks could be wrapped […]
Nov 13 2018 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — SINGAPORE — Canadian companies doing business with a bloc of Asian nations need to stick around and do the hard work of building trade ties even after the ink dries on any government-struck trade deals, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in laying down the challenge Tuesday. Speaking to a room of Canadians already invested in the […]
Nov 13 2018 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — SINGAPORE — Canadian companies doing business with a bloc of Asian nations need to stick around and do the hard work of building trade ties even after the ink dries on any government-struck trade deals, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in laying down the challenge Tuesday. Speaking to a room of Canadians already invested in the […]
Nov 12 2018 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — PARIS — Politicians working to harness the power of social media to connect with voters need to figure out how to do so positively in the face of leaders using those platforms to undermine democracy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says. Without mentioning anyone by name at an event in Paris on Monday morning, Trudeau suggested there are […]
Nov 12 2018 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — PARIS — Politicians working to harness the power of social media to connect with voters need to figure out how to do so positively in the face of leaders using those platforms to undermine democracy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says. Without mentioning anyone by name at an event in Paris on Monday morning, Trudeau suggested there are […]
Nov 11 2018 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — PARIS — A series of international leaders used a global commemoration of the end of the First World War to warn about the risk politicians who call themselves nationalists pose to a fragile peace, in a message aimed at the American president. What started with the French president saying that nationalist leaders threaten to erase a nation's moral values […]
Nov 11 2018 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — PARIS — A series of international leaders used a global commemoration of the end of the First World War to warn about the risk politicians who call themselves nationalists pose to a fragile peace, in a message aimed at the American president. What started with the French president saying that nationalist leaders threaten to erase a nation's moral values […]
Nov 10 2018 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — VIMY RIDGE, France — The iconic monument at Vimy Ridge served Saturday as a reminder of Canadians' wartime sacrifice, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made another visit to the memorial one day before the world marks 100 years since the end of the First World War. Running his hands along the carved names of Canada's war […]
Nov 10 2018 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — VIMY RIDGE, France — The iconic monument at Vimy Ridge served Saturday as a reminder of Canadians' wartime sacrifice, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made another visit to the memorial one day before the world marks 100 years since the end of the First World War. Running his hands along the carved names of Canada's war […]
Nov 9 2018 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has set off on a 10-day voyage across Europe and Asia to pursue his oft-stated goal of finding markets for Canadian goods and services beyond the United States. Trudeau travels first to France, then on to summits with other world leaders in Singapore and Papua New Guinea, looking to push trade across the Pacific. Observers say Trudeau's […]