WATCH: Thousands of Iranians, allies in Vancouver celebrate death of Ayatollah Khamenei

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Thousands of Iranians and allies gathered downtown on Saturday afternoon to celebrate the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iran's now-former supreme leader was eliminated less than 24 hours after Israeli and American forces launched attacks on the Islamic regime.

News of Khamenei's killing broke as people began arriving at David Lam Park. Those in attendance expressed their gratitude to President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"USA, Israel, continue — thank you!" they chanted.

Before long, the area was packed, with Iranian, Canadian, and Israeli flags flying as far as they eye could see.

While organizers led a number of chants, the majority of the time was spent singing and dancing. Continue…

No ‘Imminent Threat’ to Canada Amid Fallout of US Attack on Iran: Police

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Canada continues to grapple with the fallout of the ongoing conflict in Iran after the United States and Israel launched a major attack on the Middle Eastern country that left the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dead.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada supports the U.S. action in Iran, but Canada will not get directly involved in the conflict.

On home soil, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police says there is “no indication of any imminent threat to Canada or Canadians” based on current intelligence, but police leaders are warning the public to be vigilant as airstrikes in Iran continue for a second day.

“Experience shows that periods of geopolitical tension can sometimes inspire extremist networks, hate-motivated individuals or proxy-related threat actors to exploit these situations to incite hate-fuelled violence,” the association says. “While there is no specific threat at this time, awareness and early reporting are essential components of prevention.” Continue…

Canada Aims to Sign Trade Deal With India by End of Year: Carney

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Prime Minister Mark Carney says Ottawa is aiming to sign a comprehensive trade agreement with New Delhi by the end of this year and double two-way trade by 2030.

“We’re now negotiating a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement with the intention to double two-way trade by 2030,” Carney told a business audience at the Canada–India Growth and Investment Forum in Mumbai, India, on Feb. 28.

“Our goal, to be clear, is to sign that agreement by the end of this year.”

Carney is currently visiting India as part of an ongoing effort to reset Ottawa and New Delhi’s bilateral relationship and build stronger trade ties.

Carney said at the forum that India is one of Canada’s “natural partners” and that his visit is focused on the “core areas” where Ottawa and New Delhi can work together to create “greater sovereignty, greater choice, and greater prosperity for our people.”

He said investment between the two countries totals $100 billion, with two-way trade exceeding $30 billion per year. The two countries should “aim much higher” and “be more strategic in our partnership,” he added. Continue…

No safety violation in death of worker found in Halifax Walmart walk-in oven: N.S. Labour Department

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The province’s Labour Department has finished its investigation into the death of an employee at the Walmart on Mumford Road in Halifax 16 months ago and says it found no safety violations.

Gursimran Kaur, 19, was found dead in a walk-in oven in the store’s bakery department on Oct. 19, 2024.

The department’s safety branch conducted an investigation into workplace conditions and the bakery oven involved in the incident.

“Investigators determined the oven was in proper working order at the time of the incident, and no safety violations were identified that could have contributed to the worker’s death,” the department said in a news release. “The department also found no broader safety concerns associated with the type of oven.”

Kaur was found at the store by other staff members, including her mother. Continue…

Davos speech clicked because 'everyone's thinking the same thing,' Carney says

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Back on the international stage for the first time since his headline-grabbing speech in Davos, Prime Minister Mark Carney is taking that message on the road, first to India, then likely later to Australia when he addresses its Parliament.

Carney’s rallying cry last month was that middle powers must unite against “hegemons” and he told an audience in India that his words resonated because he said out loud what many of those middle powers are thinking.

While government officials downplayed the question of whether the prime minister on his travels would be delivering a “Davos-type speech” on his first trip since making that address, his words continue to prove a fascination for foreign audiences — and serve as a script for how Carney pitches Canada to the world.

“The main thing I took from that speech,” Carney said to a crowd of roughly 100 business leaders gathered in India’s financial capital Saturday evening, where he participated in a question-and-answer with a CNBC Indian journalist, “I hate to say it — the analogy was right.”

That analogy, which came from an essay by Václav Havel who recounted how totalitarian regimes maintain their power through the compliance of everyday people, told the story of a shopkeeper who placed a pro-Communist sign in his window, despite not believing the message himself.

In his World Economic Forum speech, Carney turned that analogy into a stark diagnosis of where middle power countries find themselves with the world order as they knew it upended by the United States and China, urging them they confront reality as is.

Or, as the prime minister put it in Davos: “Taking the sign out of the window.”

“The analogy is there because in a totalitarian regime, everyone is thinking the same thing,” Carney told the crowd in Mumbai. Continue…