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Canada expels a top Indian diplomat after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there are credible allegations linking the government of India to the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh Khalistani activist and naturalised Canadian citizen shot to death outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, British Columbia, in June.
2023-09-18

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau nominates judge Michelle O'Bonsawin to the Supreme Court of Canada. An Abenaki member, O'Bonsawin would be the first Indigenous Canadian to sit on the country's highest court.
2022-08-19

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and major Canadian airlines agree to suspend all flights to "sun destinations" such as the Caribbean and Mexico until April 30.
2021-01-29

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that the country will receive 240,000 doses of Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine candidate by the end of the year.
2020-12-7

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces that Canada will ban all single-use plastics as early as 2021 in a bid to significantly reduce plastic pollution.
2019-06-10

Fan Wei, a Canadian citizen in China, is sentenced to death following his conviction for producing and trafficking methamphetamine. Canada has requested clemency for Fan, who is the second Canadian citizen sentenced to death this year. The application of the death penalty was condemned by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland added, "Canada stands firmly opposed to the death penalty everywhere around the world."
2019-04-30

Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau confirms that Canadian intelligence officials have listened to the recording provided by Turkey of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, though he himself had not heard it.
2018-11-12

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reaffirms his support for the Trans Mountain expansion project after the Federal Court of Appeal rules suspension of the project.
2018-08-31

After her appointment by Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, former astronaut Julie Payette, in an installment ceremony, becomes the 29th Governor General of Canada.
2017-10-2

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government has "compelling reason to believe" that Robert Hall, who was held hostage in the Philippines, has been killed by his captors, presumably the same Abu Sayyaf militants who beheaded another Canadian, John Ridsdel, on 25 April 2016.
2016-06-13