I have been briefed by Global Affairs Canada officials about the overnight explosions in Iran. We are monitoring the situation closely. We will address the situation with the Foreign Ministers at the G7 session this morning in Italy.

I'm posting this on Friday. The importance of the date will be clear once you watch the story. A beautiful tribute to Eddy Noland by Michael Armstrong globalnews.ca/video/10418782…

'This is a tragedy. It was a terrible chain of errors and it should never have happened. The IDF takes full responsibility for this regrettable loss of life.'

Watch IDF Spokesperson RAdm. Daniel Hagari’s full statement regarding the summary of the Fact Finding and Assessment…

“These are the heroes of WCK. These 7 beautiful souls were killed by the IDF in a strike as they were returning from a full day's mission. Their smiles, laughter, and voices are forever embedded in our memories.” - Erin Gore, CEO. Read more: wck.org/news/honoring-…

“We are sorry …” is said as part of this new IDF statement.

Following up on reporting about Canadian military equipment donations to #Ukraine Bill Blair says he is waiting for Teledyne Technologies to update delivery date of +800 drones worth $95 million dollars. The minister told me in Kyiv back in Feb delivery would happen in April.

Hi GazaMedicVoices Tanya Haj-Hassan Omar Abdel-Mannan could one of your team members pls DM me

A court in the Russian city of Kazan has ruled to extend the pretrial detention of RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasheva until June 5, and rejected her request to be moved to house arrest.

2/2 We condemn these strikes & call for a full investigation.🇨🇦 expects full accountability for these killings & we will convey this to the Israeli government directly. Strikes on humanitarian personnel is absolutely unacceptable. International humanitarian law must be respected.

1/2 I am horrified to hear reports of the IDF strike taking the lives of 7 World Central Kitchen employees in Gaza yesterday, including a Canadian citizen.

IDF spokesperson, RAdm. Daniel Hagari, spoke with World Central Kitchen founder, Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳, and expressed the IDF's deepest condolences to the entire World Central Kitchen family.

The work of WCK is critical.

World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza. Read our full statement on the loss of our team members here: wck.org/news/gaza-team…

One last little Mulroney memory…

I had the chance to go to Baie Comeau this week and meet one of his life long friends.
Walter Bisson and Mulroney were buddies basically as toddlers.

It’s meeting people like Walter that makes my job so special.

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A message from Catherine, The Princess of Wales

“They're seeing life being lost… in front of their eyes in the most dramatic fashion… This is about human survival.”

@rescueorg calls the imminent famine in Gaza “a profound failure of humanity.”

Here's my conversation with its CEO David Miliband

Prime Minister Netanyahu approved the departure of an Israeli delegation, led by Mossad Director Barnea, tomorrow for Qatar to meet with CIA Director Burns, Qatari PM Mohammed bin Abd Al Thani and Egyptian Intelligence Minister Kamel, to advance the release of the hostages.

Officials from 36 countries and UN agencies are meeting in Cyprus talking about making use of the sea corridor that World Central Kitchen successful used to get aid into Gaza by water.

The American Secretary of State has been doing a lot of travel in the Middle East. Diplomatic efforts by many countries have been high for months.

We are 78 days to D-Day.

Tens of thousands of Canadians took part in the Normandy Campaign in 1944. Peter Bismutka was one of them.

Learn more about the road to #Day80 : ow.ly/q1LW50QX68I

#CanadaRemembers