Justin Trudeau

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/1/2020
  

  A Statue of Canada’s First Prime Minister Is Toppled, but Politicians Want It Restored

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau angered Canadian antiracism activists by condemning vandalism of a statue of the country's first Prime Minister. He angered other Canadians by not offering a stronger condemnation at a time when public acknowledgment of Candian oppression of indigenous people is becoming a hot issue. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/20/19
  

  It's Not Just Justin Trudeau: Canada’s Surprising History of Blackface

  Scandalous images of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau don’t just tarnish his image—they also point to the hidden history of racism and minstrelsy in his country.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-15-18
  

  Justin Trudeau’s Official Home: Unfit for a Leader or Anyone Else

  No recent prime ministers have been willing to commit the tens of millions of dollars it would take to make the stone house habitable again.

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• SOURCE: The Globe and Mail
  11-6-18
  

  Justin Trudeau apology to Canadian Jews for turning away the desperate refugees of the St. Louis in 1939

  Hundreds died in Nazi death camps.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  6-21-18
  

  That Time the U.S. Almost Went to War With Canada

  by Kevin Lippert

  And other tales from the Northern border.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6-17-18
  

  Trump-Trudeau tiff is the latest in a history of President-PM disputes

  by Ron Stagg

  While this very public spat is perhaps the most publicized disagreement between an American president and a Canadian prime minister, there have been notable confrontations in the past.

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• 6/17/18
  

  Is the West in Disarray?

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  That sounds like a topic from another era. But it’s shockingly of the moment.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  4-3-18
  

  More than 150 Years Later, Canada Exonerates Six Indigenous Chiefs Hanged in 1864

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau affirmed that the chiefs had acted in ‘war, not murder’ when they attacked white settlers who had encroached on their land.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-28-17
  

  Canada Offers $85 Million to Victims of Its ‘Gay Purge,’ as Trudeau Apologizes

  The government program, which lasted for more than 30 years and ended only in the 1990s, caused thousands to lose their jobs and sometimes face prosecution because of their sexual orientation.