Highlights from the news file for Monday, Jan. 16
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ETHICS WATCHDOG LOOKING INTO TRUDEAU VACATION: Canada’s ethics watchdog plans to take a closer look at Justin Trudeau’s recent family holiday at the Aga Khan’s private island in the Bahamas, fanning the flames of a controversy the government has so far been unable to snuff out. Trudeau’s holiday with the Aga Khan — a family friend, noted philanthropist and hereditary spiritual leader to the world’s approximately 15 million Ismaili Muslims — bears closer scrutiny, ethics commissioner Mary Dawson confirmed Monday. In a letter to Blaine Calkins, one of two Conservative MPs who …read more
Source: National Newswatch
