Tag Archive for: Justin Trudeau

#IStandWithCanada

Good for a Laugh—American Network Fails at French Translation of PM Trudeau

Transnational humor in a funny failure at ABC News, via Buzzfeed Canada. See below for a sampling, or click here for the whole rundown of botched captions inadvertently provided to US viewers by ABC.

Mr Trudeau Comes to Washington

Joyous arrival ceremony at the White House welcoming Canadian PM #JustinTrudeau and the entire Canadian delegation. Later, in DC this morning, Michele Obama and Sophie Gregoire Trudeau spoke at an event promoting girls’ education around the world. #LetGirlsLearn. This is going to be a great opportunity for American and Canadians to renew our national bonds with values of tolerance, caring for the planet, education, and much more.

Justin Trudeau Was Great on 60 Minutes, While CBS Correspondent Lara Logan was Terrible

TrudeauI was eager to watch Justin Trudeau on 60 Minutes Sunday night, and indeed he handled himself very well, but I gotta say I disliked the attitude adopted by interviewer Lara Logan, which had a noticeable American rightwing edge to it with tendentious questions about the 25,000 Syrian refugees Canadians have admitted to their country since last December, and about ISIS. Prime Minister’s Trudeau’s executed a rapid turnaround in Canada’s international reputation, and is showing Canada and the world how to lead one’s country in a new direction, cultivating core social values, all with welcoming inclusion.


Update: During the CBS broadcast, I heard Lara Logan refer to Margaret Trudeau, Justin Trudeau’s mother, and they showed a picture of a young woman with Pierre Elliott Trudeau. The only problem with this? Turns out, they had shown a picture of a different woman (Kim Cattrall, then a young actress). This reminded me that Logan has long been prone to making serious errors as a correspondent for 60 Minutes, like she did in 2013 when she promoted a faux memoir of a security operative who claimed, falsely, he had been in Benghazi when the US embassy there was attacked in 2012. I wrote about this at the time on my other blog, The Great Gray Bridge.

All the Ways Justin Trudeau’s making Canada Canada again, Contrasted with the Trump Platform

Since Canadian PM Justin Trudeau took office a few months ago I've been cheering his work at bringing his country back…

Posted by Philip Turner on Tuesday, 1 March 2016