“The issue in case is why Mr. Zameer chose to make a series of maneuvers, driving his vehicle in close proximity of two people who were also police officers. The issue is also whether Mr. Zameer knew or was willfully blind that Officer Northrup was a police officer acting in the execution of his duties.”

According to the government's answer to questions posed by Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer, tabled this week, Trudeau's 10-day vacation with his family to Prospect Estate near Ocho Rios cost taxpayers $230,442, a 42 per cent increase over the $162,000 cost of a similar trip over the Christmas holidays in 2022-23.

Trudeau's most expensive vacation to date as prime minister was a visit to the Aga Khan on a private island in the Bahamas, which ended up costing taxpayers $271,000 and resulted in a ruling that he had violated the ethics rules that govern members of Parliament.

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Trudeau's office initially said that he paid for his family's accommodations during the trip to Jamaica, a stay that some have estimated to be worth as much as $84,000. His office later corrected that to say Trudeau stayed for free at the resort owned by longtime family friend Peter Green.

Trudeau has defended his trip to Jamaica, saying that — like other Canadian families — his family took a vacation over the holidays and stayed with friends, and that all of the rules were followed.

Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein said Trudeau's office consulted his office before he went to Jamaica. He said the rules that govern the gifts and travel MPs can accept make an exception for gifts and travel offered by friends or family.

"What we have here is clearly a generous gift between people who are friends and I don't see why, just because they are well off, they can't exchange gifts," von Finckenstein told members of the House of Commons ethics committee in January during a hearing on the trip.

According to the documents tabled in the House, the largest single expense for this year's trip to Jamaica was for the RCMP officers who accompanied the Trudeau family.

While the RCMP reported the trip cost the police service $162,051, not including the regular salaries of its officers, it declined to provide a breakdown or say whether its officers paid to stay at the resort owned by the Trudeau family friend.

This year's Jamaica trip also made headlines because the Canadian Armed Forces plane that brought him to the Caribbean island experienced a mechanical problem which forced the CAF to send a second plane to Jamaica with a crew to fix it.

Like all prime ministers, Trudeau is required for security reasons to fly in government planes and reimburses the government for the cost of commercial airfare when travelling for personal reasons.

The documents tabled in the House report that the second plane accounted for $20,835 of the $57,553 the trip cost the armed forces.

They also report that the mechanical problem the plane encountered was a malfunctioning Integrated Standby Instrument (ISI), "which is used as an alternative source for flight and navigation data."

Retired lieutenant-colonel Dean Black said the part would have needed replacing before the plane could return safely to Canada.

"An integrated standby instrument (ISI) provides standby altitude, altitude and airspeed information to the flight crew, these being critical data components to the safe operation of an aircraft," said the longtime pilot.

Another mechanical flaw caused the C-150 Polaris ferrying Trudeau to and from the G20 Summit to be grounded in New Delhi, India in September 2023.

The third government department to incur costs related to the trip was the Privy Council Office (PCO), which provides an employee charged with ensuring the prime minister has access to secure communications. The PCO reported that its employee's 15-day stay in Jamaica cost $10,838, including $2,681 to stay at an AirBnB.

Documents obtained from the RCMP under access to information law also report that there was an incident during Trudeau's stay in Jamaica.

RCMP report 'incident' during Trudeau's stay

While the documents are heavily redacted, officers reported on Dec. 29 that an individual showed up at the Frankfort villa where the Trudeaus were staying, wanting to speak with the prime minister.

"Update on (redacted). The individual who wanted to meet (redacted) returned but this time to (redacted)," an officer wrote in an e-mail. "PPO spoke to him advising he was not to return. (redacted) agreed.

"The pics and vehicle info was shared with our partners for their situational awareness."

The e-mail chain, under the subject line "Comments on X (Twitter) re: location," said the individual left a business card with the manager.

RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Kim Chamberland confirmed that the incident took place but said Trudeau was not in danger.

"The RCMP spoke to the individual, who left without incident," she said. "There was no need to engage local authorities. For privacy and security reasons, we cannot speak further on details regarding the individual, nor what prompted the incident. However, we can reassure you that at no time was the prime minister's security jeopardized during that incident."

Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officers tried to disperse the shouting crowd but were largely unsuccessful and two people were taken away from the scene on stretchers.

The protesters — who arrived at the building at about 5:30 a.m. local time — said the province’s fishery is over-regulated and the handful of established processors and buyers are acting like a cartel, pushing down prices.

“Government won’t allow any new buyers to come in. They won’t issue any new (buyers’) licences and they’re protecting these millionaire merchants while the rest of us are struggling,” fisherman Jason Sullivan, from Bay Bulls, N.L., said in an interview outside the legislature.

“We’re here today to change government policy … We just want to get paid fairly.”

Finance Minister Siobhan Coady had been scheduled to release her 2024-25 budget on Wednesday with an expectation that the books would be balanced. Her department said the budget presentation has been delayed until further notice.

The scene in front of the Confederation Building became confused and disorderly when two constabulary officers rode their horses into the crowd as officers tried to disperse the fishers. Protesters yelled, some fell over and there were shouts from the crowd that people were being injured.

The provincial NDP issued a press release at 10 a.m. NT saying its members would not attend the budget, as hundreds of fish harvesters protested outside Confederation Building in St. John's.

The protest was met by dozens of Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officers in riot gear.

"The premier has let the situation get out of control," said NDP Leader Jim Dinn in the press release. "If the premier had shown the same determination in resolving this issue even a year ago, as he has demonstrated in pushing his own agenda, we wouldn't need police in riot gear."

A spokesperson for the government sent a memo to reporters at 8 a.m., saying the budget would be going ahead. They followed up later, telling reporters to enter the building with a police escort at 9:30 a.m.

At least five of the province's media outlets — CBC, NTV, VOCM and the St. John's Telegram — opted not to cross the protest line. CBC executive producer Peter Gullage cited safety concerns and uncertainty in minute-by-minute decisions being made by the provincial government.

Before the media agreed not to cross the protest line, the provincial government had already cancelled budget lock-ins — when groups are given copies of the budget to review in advance of its official release — for unions and members of the public due to safety concerns. Those decisions were not relayed to media outlets.

Earlier in the morning, police were seen having a cordial conversation with protest leaders, urging them to avoid a repeat of Wednesday's raucous events — particularly with a court-ordered injunction now in place that prohibits protesters from blocking safe access to Confederation Building, which is both home to the legislature and the main government complex.

Protest leader John Efford Jr. addressed the crowd a few minutes later.

"We're just going to make our presence known to the people that are going to work this morning. But we are going to be peaceful," he said over a megaphone. "Do not, do not get caught up in cat-calling. Do not get caught up in incitement. If anybody says anything to you today, say, 'Have a nice day.'"

Protesting demanding changes in fishing industry

The group of mostly fish harvesters has been protesting since early March on a number of conditions. For one, they want to be allowed to sell their catch to buyers outside the province. As it stands, they can sell only to buyers within the province at a price negotiated by the Fish, Food & Allied Workers union and the Association of Seafood Producers.

They also want processing limits lifted on independent fish plants to allow them to compete with the few companies that largely control processing in the province.

"Basically our message is free enterprise," Efford Jr. told CBC News on Thursday morning, adding the current system is "against what Canada believes in."

Across Germany, in schools, city halls, synagogues, churches and parliament, people were coming together Thursday to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht — or the “Night of Broken Glass” — in which the Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Germany’s main Jewish leader, Josef Schuster, were set to speak at an anniversary ceremony at a Berlin synagogue that was attacked with firebombs last month.

The commemoration of the pogrom comes at a time when Germany is again seeing a sharp rise in antisemitism following Hamas’ brutal attack that killed 1,400 people in Israel on Oct. 7 and triggered an ongoing war in Gaza.

“I was there during Kristallnacht. I was in Vienna back then,” Holocaust survivor Herbert Traube said at an event marking the anniversary in Paris on Wednesday.

“To me, it was often repeated: ‘Never again.’ It was a leitmotif in everything that was being said for decades,” Traube said, adding that he is upset both by the resurgence of antisemitism and the lack of a “massive popular reaction” against it.

On Nov. 9, 1938, the Nazis killed at least 91 people and vandalized 7,500 Jewish businesses. They also burned more than 1,400 synagogues, according to Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.

Up to 30,000 Jewish men were arrested, many of them taken to concentration camps such as Dachau or Buchenwald. Hundreds more committed suicide or died as a result of mistreatment in the camps years before official mass deportations began.

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The interior of Berlin's Fasanenstrasse Synagogue after it was set on fire during Kristallnacht on Nov. 9, 1938. Getty Images

Kristallnacht was a turning point in the escalating persecution of Jews that eventually led to the murder of 6 million European Jews by the Nazis and their supporters during the Holocaust.

While there’s no comparison to the pogroms 85 years ago, which were state-sponsored by the Nazis, many Jews are again living in fear in Germany and across Europe, trying to hide their identity in public and avoiding neighborhoods that were recently the scene of violent, pro-Palestinian protests.

Jews in Berlin had the Star of David painted on their homes, and Jewish students in schools and universities across the country have experienced bullying and discrimination.

The German government has been one of Israel’s staunchest supporters since the Oct. 7 attack, and Scholz and other leaders have vowed to protect Germany’s Jewish community.

Still, Anna Segal, the manager of the Berlin Jewish community Kahal Adass Jisroel, which was attacked last month in an attempted firebombing, told The Associated Press that not enough is being done to protect them and other Jews in Germany.

She said the community’s 450 members have been living in fear since the attack and that authorities have not fully responded to calls to increase security for them.

“The nice words and the expressions of solidarity and standing by the side of the Jews — we are not very satisfied with how that has been translated into action so far,” Segal said. “I think there is a lack of a clear commitment that everything that is necessary is invested in the security of the Jews.”

HONG KONG — Some of the last giant pandas in the United States are heading back to China.

The National Zoo announced last month that its three pandas — Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their 3-year-old male cub, Xiao Qi Ji — will return to China by Nov. 15, earlier than expected.

Panda fans have been flocking to say goodbye to the black-and-white bears, who have long been one of the zoo’s main attractions.

“It’s probably going to be a long time, possibly one of the last times I see a panda in captivity,” Ryan Nickol, who has traveled from Pennsylvania to see the pandas multiple times in recent weeks, told NBC News. “So it’s pretty frustrating and also a little sad.”

Their departure leaves Zoo Atlanta as the only one in the U.S. with a giant panda program. But the loan agreement for the zoo’s four pandas expires next year, raising the prospect that there could be no pandas in the U.S. for the first time since 1972.

The U.S. is not the only country facing the loss of the beloved bears, which China has long gifted to other countries in what is dubbed “panda diplomacy.” The only pair of pandas in Britain is set to return to China from the Edinburgh Zoo by the end of the year, while Australia and China are negotiating the extension of a loan agreement for two pandas at the Adelaide Zoo that expires next year.

Depending on what happens, all three countries could be panda-less by 2024.

The panda exodus comes as the U.S. and its allies are at odds with China over a number of issues including trade, technology, the status of Taiwan and China’s stance on wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Both the U.S. and China have expressed interest in improving ties, and President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to meet in San Francisco this month, their first interaction in a year.

Pandas set to leave National Zoo and return to China after more than five decades

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Animal keepers and curators at the National Zoo have been preparing the pandas for their 20-hour journey by crate-training them.

“The pandas absolutely love their crates,” said animal keeper Mariel Lally, who is traveling with them on a chartered FedEx flight. “Some pandas, like Mei Xiang, actually don’t want to leave their crate.”

“We have to bribe them with food to get them out of it,” she added.

The pandas are expected to spend much of the flight sleeping and eating. The zoo plans to bring about 200 pounds of bamboo for the flight, in addition to other food like apples, carrots and sweet potatoes.

Mei Xiang and Tian Tian arrived at the National Zoo in 2000 under a 10-year agreement that has been renewed three times since 2010. Xiao Qi Ji, whose name means “little miracle,” was born in 2020 as a result of artificial insemination.

Efforts to renew the zoo’s current panda agreement, which ends Dec. 7, have been unsuccessful.

Laurie Thompson, the zoo’s assistant curator of giant pandas, said the trio’s return to China would be difficult for the keepers who see them, as she says, “almost more than I see my family.”

“It’s a little bit heartbreaking to not have them here,” she said.

The first giant pandas came to the U.S. in 1972 under President Richard Nixon, after he made a historic visit to China that paved the way for the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1979.

The other panda leaving the National Zoo is Tian Tian, who has been there since 2000. Liu Jie / Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images file

“It’s basically a symbol of friendship between China and the rest of the world,” said Chee Meng Tan, an assistant professor at Nottingham University Business School’s Malaysia campus who has studied panda diplomacy.

The giant panda, which is endemic to China, is no longer endangered but still considered at risk. There are an estimated 1,800 in the wild and an additional 600 living in captivity around the world, with foreign zoos paying China rent on the bears that goes toward conservation efforts.

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The lapsing of the panda agreements is an indicator of the “generally worsening” U.S.-China relationship, as each country takes actions that hurt the other but are ultimately counterproductive, said Graham Allison, a professor of government at Harvard and former Defense Department official.

“This is a good example because this is not going to make the folks that came to see the panda happier,” he said. “It will make them sadder, and they’re more likely to blame China than they are the U.S.”

Pandas have already been a point of contention amid U.S.-China tensions. Ya Ya, a panda with a chronic skin condition that returned to China from the Memphis Zoo this spring, became the subject of online nationalistic fervor after animal welfare activists accused the zoo of mistreating her and Le Le, a 25-year-old panda that died in February. Both the zoo and Chinese officials said the pandas received excellent care.

In the U.S., Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., introduced a bill last year that would “give freedom to the pandas and allow pandas born in the United States to stay in the United States.”

The U.S. and China should continue the exchange of pandas no matter how bad their relationship is, said Victor Gao, vice president of the Center for China and Globalization in Beijing and chair professor at Soochow University.

People view an exhibit at the Panda House in September during the National Zoo’s “Panda Palooza” farewell event.Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images file

“Although we have a quite intense relationship, pandas could contribute a lot to alleviating it,” he said.

One country that received two new pandas in 2019 is Russia, which has grown closer to China, especially since President Vladimir Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Putin and Xi both attended the opening ceremony for the Panda Pavilion at the Moscow Zoo, which Xi said would “become another good story of friendship between the Chinese and Russian people.”

Although the National Zoo pandas are leaving sooner than expected, their departure has been long anticipated.

“When we entered into this relationship 23 years ago, we knew this was the eventuality,” said Bryan Amaral, the zoo’s senior curator of pandas. “So we’re happy at the same time that we’ve been able to sort of cross the finish line with three healthy, well-adjusted pandas going back to China.”

Larissa Gao reported from Hong Kong and Megan Lebowitz from Washington.

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With the violence having already claimed thousands of lives on both sides, several countries have launched operations to repatriate their citizens, while others plan to do so in the coming days.

Here is an overview of ongoing and planned evacuations, according to official sources.

• Argentina -

Argentina, the Latin American country with the largest Jewish population, on Tuesday started evacuating more than 1,200 of its citizens from Israel.

Three air force flights a day will take the 1,246 Argentines who have asked to be evacuated to the Italian capital Rome, Defence Minister Jorge Taiana said.

From there, state-owned airline Aerolineas Argentinas will fly them to Buenos Aires.

• Brazil -

Brazil's government plans to mobilise at least six planes in a bid to rapidly repatriate any of its citizens who wish to leave Israel and the Palestinian territories.

It said that about 14,000 Brazilians live in Israel and 6,000 live in the Palestinian territories.

Some had already left on commercial flights, it said.

• Nigeria -

Nigeria has airlifted more than 300 of its citizens back home after they fled to Jordan from Israel, where they were on a Christian pilgrimage, the Lagos state government said.

The group was travelling from Bethlehem to Nazareth when they heard news of the attack in the south of Israel.

With the war erupting, the group and the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims' Commission organised for them to travel by road to Jordan and then take a chartered flight to Lagos.

• Switzerland -

Swiss International Air Lines repatriated 220 Swiss nationals on Tuesday.

A second special flight with a capacity of 215 seats is planned for Wednesday, requested by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

A third flight is scheduled for Thursday, expected to land in Tel Aviv in the afternoon, also with a capacity of 215 seats.

Around 28,000 Swiss citizens and their families are officially registered as living in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

• Spain -

Spain organised a flight from Tel Aviv overnight with 200 people on board, its foreign ministry said.

• South Korea -

A flight carrying 192 South Korean citizens took off from Tel Aviv and landed at the Incheon International Airport near Seoul early on Wednesday, the foreign ministry said.

Another 30 South Korean nationals will be evacuated later in the week by commercial flights, it said, adding that 27 others, who were in Israel on a Christian pilgrimage, will go by road to neighbouring Jordan.

• Canada -

The Canadian government said it would organise special flights from Tel Aviv later in the week for Canadian nationals, with help from the Canadian military.

• France -

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna announced on Tuesday that her ministry's crisis unit was organising a special Air France flight from Tel Aviv on Thursday to help repatriate any French nationals who have been unable to leave.

• Germany -

Germany said it was working with Lufthansa to organise "several special flights" on Thursday and Friday to repatriate German citizens.

"Around 4,500 German citizens" have registered on a list seeking help to return home, a foreign ministry source said. (AFP)

The railway giant said its team made use of the period after the horse racing season ended last month to install the gates.

They will be put into service next month when the racing season commences, making it the first East Rail Line station to have automatic platform screen doors.

This will be the first of 13 stations on the East Rail Line that the MTR planned to install platform screen doors at.

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The whole project involves 35 platforms and almost 1,600 pairs of gates and was expected to be completed by the end of 2025.

The overall cost of the project is about HK$510 million, as the railway line is the last one without such measures to prevent commuters from falling onto the tracks.

The MTR has finished installing automatic platform screen doors at Racecourse station to keep punters safe.

The railway giant said its team made use of the period after the horse racing season ended last month to install the gates.

They will be put into service next month when the racing season commences, making it the first East Rail Line station to have automatic platform screen doors.

This will be the first of 13 stations on the East Rail Line that the MTR planned to install platform screen doors at.

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The whole project involves 35 platforms and almost 1,600 pairs of gates and was expected to be completed by the end of 2025.

The overall cost of the project is about HK$510 million, as the railway line is the last one without such measures to prevent commuters from falling onto the tracks.

The MTR has finished installing automatic platform screen doors at Racecourse station to keep punters safe.

The railway giant said its team made use of the period after the horse racing season ended last month to install the gates.

They will be put into service next month when the racing season commences, making it the first East Rail Line station to have automatic platform screen doors.

This will be the first of 13 stations on the East Rail Line that the MTR planned to install platform screen doors at.

The Standard Channel

https://www.thestandard.com.hk/video-list/1/224/(Education-Talks)-Character,-Curriculum-and-Career:-How-CAIS-Prepares-Students-to-Flourish

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The whole project involves 35 platforms and almost 1,600 pairs of gates and was expected to be completed by the end of 2025.

The overall cost of the project is about HK$510 million, as the railway line is the last one without such measures to prevent commuters from falling onto the tracks.

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Image caption,Melody Thornton, who plays the role made famous by Whitney Houston, said she "fought really hard" to continue

Singer Melody Thornton has apologised after rowdy audience members halted a performance of The Bodyguard musical.

The ex-Pussycat Dolls star was unable to complete the show's final song due to the disruption at Manchester's Palace Theatre on Friday.

Speaking on Instagram, Thornton said she "fought really hard" to finish the show, but it had not been possible.

The theatre said two audience members who refused to sit down and stop singing were removed by security staff.

The theatre had previously asked people not to sing along to the stage adaptation of the 1992 film, which stars Thornton and former Emmerdale and Hollyoaks actor Ayden Callaghan in the roles made famous by Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner.

A representative said staff were "disappointed that the last 10 minutes of the show needed to be cancelled due to disruptive customers refusing to stay seated and spoiling the performance for others".

They praised the work of the venue's security for "dealing with these difficult circumstances in a professional and calm way" and thanked Greater Manchester Police (GMP) "for their assistance".

The force confirmed officers had attended after two people were removed by security staff.

'Disgusting behaviour'

Audience member Karl Bradley told BBC Radio Manchester that some spectators in the higher tier had started a countdown ahead of the finale, which features the classic song I Will Always Love You.

He said they "started to project themselves" by singing along and attempted to hit the song's high notes, but could not "and that's when the chaos began".

He said Thornton's microphone was cut, though the star kept singing, but "eventually the lights cut off as the drama unfolded".

He added that there were "audible gasps" from other audience members and