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Protest clash and Russian war games: in the news of February 11

By Joseph M. Meeks
February 11, 2022
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In The News is a roundup of articles from The Canadian Press designed to start your day. Here’s what’s on our editors’ radar for the morning of February 11… What we’re watching in Canada…

In The News is a roundup of articles from The Canadian Press designed to start your day. Here’s what’s on our editors’ radar for the morning of February 11…

What we’re watching in Canada…

OTTAWA — An anxious sense of anticipation is building amid growing demands to end protests crippling downtown Ottawa as well as border crossings near Coutts, Alta., Emerson, Manitoba, and the busy Windsor-Detroit Ambassador Bridge.

Last night, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau briefed all opposition leaders on the latest developments and urged them to speak out against “the illegal blockades and occupations taking place across the country”.

Trudeau also posted on Twitter that federal officials would continue to work with provincial and municipal governments to end the protests, which he warned are “damaging our country’s jobs, businesses and economy.” .

Interim Conservative Leader Candice Bergen joined other party leaders on Thursday in calling on protesters to stand down to stem escalating economic damage from the protests.

Meanwhile, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said the RCMP was sending reinforcements to Ottawa and Windsor.

The latter city was granted intervenor status Thursday in an application for an injunction that would prevent protesters from blocking traffic bound for Canada at the Ambassador Bridge crossing. An Ontario Superior Court judge was scheduled to hear the submissions on Friday.

The same court on Thursday granted a request by the Ontario government to freeze protesters’ access to the millions of donations raised on the GiveSendGo fundraising platform.

South of the border, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in a written statement urged Canadian authorities to immediately end blockades that now threaten her state’s economy by slowing hundreds of millions of dollars in cross-border trade .

But despite all the pleas, the protests showed no signs of letting up.

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Also this…

WINDSOR, Ont. – An Ontario Superior Court judge is due to hear today an application for an injunction that would stop protesters from blocking the Ambassador Bridge border crossing in Windsor, Ont.

The Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association requested the injunction and the City of Windsor was granted intervenor status.

Geoffrey Morawetz adjourned proceedings yesterday, saying that while the case had big economic consequences, a decision banning protests would be serious and the defendants should be given the opportunity to respond.

They must resume at noon.

The Ambassador Bridge connecting Windsor and Detroit is considered the busiest commercial land border crossing in North America.

The protest is one of many protests taking place across the country over COVID-19 measures.

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What we’re watching in the US…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX’s Elon Musk said Thursday the first orbital flight of his towering Starship — the world’s most powerful rocket ever built — could take place in a month or two.

Although he anticipates failures, he is confident that Starship will reach orbit by the end of this year.

Musk provided his first major Starship update in more than two years as he stood alongside the 119-meter rocket at SpaceX’s spaceport in Texas. He urged the nighttime crowd, “Let’s make it real!”

“It’s really wild stuff here,” he said. “In fact, hard to believe it’s real.”

NASA plans to use the fully reusable spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon as soon as 2025. Musk, meanwhile, hopes to deploy a fleet of spacecraft to create a city on Mars, ferrying equipment and people there. low.

For now, the initial flights would carry Musk’s internet satellites, called Starlinks, into orbit.

“There will probably be some bumps in the road, but we want to smooth them out with satellite missions and test missions” before we get people on board, he said.

SpaceX’s Super Heavy first-stage booster hasn’t lifted off yet. But the futuristic steel bullet-shaped vessel – perched on top and serving as an upper stage – managed to launch and land on its own last May, following a series of spectacular explosions. The rocket climbed more than 10 kilometers.

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What we’re looking at in the rest of the world…

MOSCOW — Britain’s defense secretary traveled to Moscow on Friday for talks on easing tensions amid massive Russian war games near Ukraine.

Ben Wallace’s trip comes a day after British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss held talks in Moscow, urging Russia to withdraw more than 100,000 troops amassed near Ukraine and warning that attacking its neighbor “would have massive consequences and entail significant costs”.

Russia says it has no intention of invading Ukraine but wants the West to keep Ukraine and other former Soviet countries out of NATO. He also wants NATO to refrain from deploying weapons there and roll back alliance forces from Eastern Europe – demands flatly rejected by the West.

In an interview with NBC News on Thursday, US President Joe Biden reiterated his warning that all Americans still in Ukraine should leave as soon as possible.

“It’s not like we’re dealing with a terrorist organization. We are dealing with one of the largest armies in the world. It’s a very different situation and things could get crazy fast,” he said.

When asked if there were any scenarios that would lead him to send American troops to Ukraine to rescue Americans, the president replied: “There are none. It’s a world war when the Americans and Russia start shooting at each other.

Amid rising tensions, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Thursday that the Ukraine crisis had become “the most dangerous moment” for Europe in decades.

NATO has stepped up military deployments to bolster its eastern flank, with the United States sending troops to Poland and Romania.

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On this day in 1945…

US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement, in which Stalin agreed to declare war on Imperial Japan after Nazi Germany surrendered.

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In entertainment…

ORLANDO — A Florida medical examiner says comedian Bob Saget died of blunt-force head trauma, likely from a backward fall.

The 65-year-old was found dead in a Florida hotel room on Jan. 9 after performing a stand-up the night before.

Thursday’s statement from medical examiner Joshua Stephany in Orlando says a toxicology scan found no illicit drugs or toxins in Saget’s body.

The statement says Saget’s death was an accident.

This finding was first announced by the ‘Full House’ star’s family.

They said the coroner concluded that “he accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and fell asleep”.

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ICYMI…

CANBERRA, Australia — Koalas were declared officially endangered in eastern Australia on Friday as they fall prey to disease, habitat loss and other threats.

Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley downgraded their conservation status on the country’s east coast in Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, on the recommendation of the government’s science committee on the threatened species.

Previously, they had been listed as a vulnerable species.

Many koalas in Australia suffer from chlamydia. Koala populations in New South Wales have fallen by 33-61% since 2001. In 2020, a parliamentary inquiry warned that the species could be extinct before 2050 without urgent action.

The number of koalas in Queensland has halved since 2001 due to drought, fires and deforestation. Some are killed in dog attacks or run over on the roads.

“Koalas have gone from unlisted to vulnerable to endangered in a decade. It’s an incredibly rapid decline,” said Stuart Blanch, a conservation scientist at World Wildlife Fund-Australia.

“Today’s decision is welcome, but it won’t stop koalas from sliding towards extinction unless it’s accompanied by tougher laws and incentives for landowners to protect their forest habitats. “, did he declare.

The Australian Koala Foundation estimates that there are fewer than 100,000 koalas left in the wild, possibly as few as 43,000. Summer bushfires in 2019-20 killed at least 6,400 of the animals, as rescuers worked desperately to save them and tend to their injuries.

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This report by The Canadian Press was first published on February 11, 2022

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