New York City police have released body-worn camera footage of officers shooting and killing a machete-wielding man who stabbed three people at a Grand Central subway stop last month.

The video clip posted on the department’s YouTube page Friday shows officers confronting Anthony Griffin after he had randomly slashed three people at the 42nd Street-Grand Central subway station, which connects to Grand Central Terminal.

The uniformed officers, identified in the video as detectives Ryan Giuffre and Anthony Manetta, are seen encountering the 44-year-old as he walks up a stairwell holding a large knife at around 9:40 a.m. on April 11.

They order Griffin to drop the weapon multiple times, but Giuffre draws his gun as Griffin continues to hold the knife high near his head.

Griffin then retreats back down the stairs but starts moving toward the officers with the knife still overhead when they start to pursue him.

“Nobody wants to hurt you,” Giuffre says in the video. “We can talk about it. Get down. Get down. Dude, I’m not going to ask you again. Please. Please. Please. Get down!”

But Griffin continues shouting and moving erratically toward the officers with the large blade raised up.

“I don’t want to be here. Shoot me,” he says at one point. “I am Lucifer,” he says at another.

Giuffre then fires two shots at Griffin, who immediately drops to the ground. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at the time of the incident that the officers ordered Griffin to drop the knife at least 20 times but he refused to comply.

“Our officers were confronted with an armed individual who had already injured multiple people and was continuing to pose a threat,” she said. “They gave clear commands. They attempted to de-escalate. And when that threat did not stop, they took decisive action to stop it and to protect New Yorkers on one of the busiest train platforms in the city.”

The three stabbing victims — an 84 year-old male, 65-year-old male and 70-year-old female — sustained injuries including “significant lacerations to the head and face” and a skull fracture, though the wounds were not considered life-threatening, Tisch said.

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The Toronto Police Service is asking for the public’s help identifying a vehicle linked to a suspected hate-motivated assault in the city’s north end.

Police say the incident happened April 30 in the Bathurst Street and Lawrence Avenue West area, where a suspect in a vehicle allegedly fired an Orbeez-style replica gun at victims who were visibly identifiable members of the Jewish community.

Investigators say the victims suffered minor injuries and the suspect fled the scene in a blue SUV.

The case is being treated as a suspected hate-motivated offence and is being led by the force’s Hate Crime Unit.

Police have released video of the vehicle and are asking anyone with information to come forward.

The incident comes as May marks Canadian Jewish Heritage Month, a time recognizing the contributions of Jewish Canadians and celebrating Jewish culture, history and communities across the country.

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Canadians who cross the border to catch cheap flights have one less option, after the collapse of Spirit Airlines in the United States.

The carrier announced Saturday it is shutting down operations effective immediately, cancelling all flights and warning passengers not to head to the airport.

The Florida-based budget carrier said the decision follows mounting financial pressure, including a sharp rise in fuel prices that left the company unable to secure additional funding.

“For more than 30 years, Spirit Airlines has played a pioneering role in making travel more accessible and bringing people together while driving affordability across the industry,” said Dave Davis, Spirit’s president and chief executive officer.

Davis explained that in March 2026, the company reached an agreement with bondholders on a restructuring plan that would have allowed them to emerge as a go-forward business.

However, “the sudden and sustained rise in fuel prices in recent weeks ultimately has left us with no alternative but to pursue an orderly wind-down of the Company,” he added.

That move could have ripple effects for Canadian travellers, particularly in Ontario and Quebec, where some passengers cross the border to fly out of U.S. cities like Plattsburgh and Niagara Falls for cheaper fares.

“The spirit brand had a lot of value in the marketplace,” said John Gradek, expert in aviation management with the McGill university.

“This was a cash problem, and they just could not get enough revenue to cover overhead,” he added.

The airline said it would have needed hundreds of millions of dollars to sustain the business.

“This is tremendously disappointing and not the outcome any of us wanted,” Davis said.

The move comes as the broader airline industry faces rising costs linked to global instability, including the ongoing conflict involving Iran, which has driven up oil and jet fuel prices.

Other Canadian airlines are already adjusting.

Air Canada has suspended several routes, while WestJet is consolidating flights and Air Transat has announced capacity cuts.

Despite having domestic refining advantages, experts say Canadian travellers could still face higher fares and more cancellations if fuel prices remain elevated.

“Even some of the major (airlines) could be in trouble. It’s not going to be a pretty picture,” Gradek said.

“The question right now is how high fuel prices are going to go?” he added.

Passengers who booked directly with Spirit will receive automatic refunds, while those who used third-party services are being told to contact their provider.

Compensation for guests who booked flights using other methods, including vouchers, credit or Free Spirit points, will be determined at a later date through the bankruptcy process.

More details can be found on the Spirit Airlines website.

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A Canadian premier delivering a commencement speech at an American university isn’t exactly standard, but Doug Ford leaned into the moment, even acknowledging the obvious question: why him?

The Ontario premier received an honorary doctorate from Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan on Saturday, where he delivered a commencement address to graduating students, pitching his vision to heal frayed ties between Canada and the United States.

Wearing a black cap and gown, Ford used the speech to reflect on his time living and working in the United States, telling graduates he spent nearly two decades building his family’s printing business south of the border.

“Our success, our prosperity, is not an accident,” he said. “It’s the result of more than 200 years of work on both sides of the border.”

But Ford also used the moment to warn that those ties are being tested.

“Over the last year and a half, that partnership between the U.S. and Canada has been tested by tariffs and trade wars,” he said, adding the relationship has been “strained” and “shaken and undermined.”

“Protectionism has never worked in the history of the world and it won’t work now,” he said.

Ford highlighted former U.S. president Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs when he argued, “Markets shrink and collapse. Businesses and industries shut down and millions of people lose their jobs.”

Ford has positioned himself as a vocal critic of U.S. tariffs in recent months, launching an anti-tariff ad campaign in American markets last October and briefly imposing a tariff on electricity exports, then suspendingit.

In his address, Ford stressed how deeply interconnected the two countries remain, stating “our economies, our cultures are so closely linked,” with millions of workers relying on cross-border trade.

“I always say, folks, we can’t unscramble an egg, we can only make that omelet larger,” Ford added.

The university’s president, George Grant Jr., called Ford a friend and thanked him for supporting strong partnerships across the Great Lakes region.

Despite those tensions, Ford ended his speech on a more personal note, telling the audience, “never ever forget the importance of teamwork, of relationships, and of loyalty … these are the attributes that will make you succeed,” as they move into the next stage of their lives.

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MONTREAL – Four overtimes. Six one-goal games. A single two-goal lead — lasting just 5:37 — in 360 minutes of hockey.

It’s only right that the Montreal Canadiens and Tampa Bay Lightning are headed to Game 7 in a first-round series defined by razor-thin margins.

“It’s so even, from the special teams to the goaltending to the everything,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “That’s how you get Game 7s. To win this, I mean, you’re going to have a special game from your team, and I’m assuming that the team that wins is probably going to get one more break than the other one.”

The two sides will decide Sunday in Tampa, Fla., who advances to face the Buffalo Sabres in the second round after the Lightning staved off elimination Friday with an epic 1-0 overtime win in Game 6 at the Bell Centre.

Gage Goncalves scored the winner 9:03 into overtime, while Andrei Vasilevskiy made 30 saves in a spectacular goaltending duel with Jakub Dobes.

The Canadiens missed a chance to clinch a series in front of a full-capacity home crowd — something they haven’t done since 2014 — and to advance past the first round for the first time since their 2021 run to the Stanley Cup final.

As disappointing as it was, Canadiens coach Martin St. Louis framed the loss and upcoming Game 7 as an opportunity for his inexperienced group — the youngest team in the playoffs — to grow.

Only six players remain from that surprising, pandemic-era run that ended with a loss in five games to the Lightning.

“It’s meant to be, it’s destiny for our young team,” St. Louis said. “A lot of players haven’t taken part in a Game 7, I think that’s part of our path and you have to embrace the moment. It’s about getting back up and let’s go.

“You can’t buy these reps like this. These guys are getting unbelievable reps right now and it’s fun to watch. I keep telling them I got the best seat in the house.”

Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki said post-game the team’s mentality was to “stay positive.”

“We were the better team for pretty much most of that game, and just didn’t score,” he said. “Thought Vasilevsky kind of won them that game, so I thought everyone played a great game, just didn’t get the result.

“Ready to go down to Tampa and win Game 7.”

The Canadiens have already won twice in Tampa, defeating the Lightning in Games 1 and 5 in this see-saw series. Montreal also posted a 24-9-8 record on the road this season, second-best in the NHL behind only the Colorado Avalanche.

The experienced Lightning, meanwhile, are trying to avoid a fourth consecutive first-round exit, a run that has featured its share of heartbreak on home ice.

The message out of their room following the emotional Game 6 win? Job’s not finished.

“I’m sure guys were pumped, but we haven’t won anything yet,” Cooper said. “All we did was win a game to send us back to Tampa and keep our season alive.

“You don’t want to rain on the parade because what a hell of a win by the guys, but we haven’t accomplished anything yet.”

This is only the sixth NHL playoff series to have each of the first six games decided by one goal. If recent history is any indicator, it might become just the third to extend that streak to seven on Sunday.

“It’s been unreal to be honest, obviously we both had 106 points coming in this series. They’re a really good hockey team over there, we’re a really great hockey team here,” Lightning forward Brandon Hagel said. “I don’t think we expected anything else other than what’s been going on here.

“It’s going to come down to one game and I’m excited.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 2, 2026.

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EDMONTON – Saying Saturday was not a day for big decisions or announcements, Edmonton Oilers general manager Stan Bowman did concede next season’s team will “not be the same group as today.”

Two days after the Oilers were eliminated in six games in the first round of the NHL playoffs, Bowman told a media session there are positives in young players like Matt Savoie, Josh Samanski and Vasily Podkolzin, but changes to the roster are definitely needed.

“We do need some new players. I don’t know if we’re going to have a dramatically different roster next year,” Bowman said. “We don’t need to rewrite everything but we do need adjustments.”

He did agree that some major decisions he made in adding players this season “did not work out,” pointing to goaltender Tristan Jarry and forward Andrew Mangiapane.

Bowman is facing hard choices this summer. He has to deal with a number of free agents while figuring out how to revamp the roster to improve its goaltending and address glaring defensive deficiencies.

Asked his thoughts on how to improve the team defensively, head coach Kris Knoblauch said the issue was mainly “the mentality of wanting to play good defensive hockey.”

“I thought we were trending in the right direction,” he said. “You look at how we played the last few weeks of the regular season, it looked like we had bought in and were determined to play a good, defensive game. In the playoffs we got away from the way we played the last few weeks and played more like we did most of the season.”

Both Bowman and Knoblauch agreed that captain Connor McDavid was totally correct when he said the Oilers were an “average team” this season.

“That was an accurate portrayal of our season … we were not able to get any momentum during the season,” said Bowman. He said injuries that plagued the team all year played a significant role in that but added it would be “hard to handicap” if the team was declining.

Bowman and Knoblauch both pointed to injuries being a factor in the playoffs, noting that both McDavid and Jason Dickinson played with fractures in their foot/ankle areas.

The Oilers went from a team that was one goal away from a Stanley Cup win in 2024 to losing the final in six games in 2025 to not getting past the opening round this year. And the Oilers, who lost to an Anaheim team that was younger and faster, are not getting any younger. Leon Draisaitl just completed his 12th season and will be 31 early next season while McDavid is 29 and has played 11 seasons.

Knoblauch said McDavid’s assessment after the team was eliminated by Anaheim Ducks was “a very fair comment … we were not an elite team … we struggled to find our identity.”

Addressing McDavid’s frustration and his stated commitment to winning in Edmonton, Bowman said he is on the same page as his star player whose two-year contact extension kicks in next season.

“We’re pushing hard … it’s not like we’re building for five years from now. Now is the time we want our team to win, we’re not looking down the road,” said Bowman.

“Regardless of Connor’s contract, the clock is ticking,” said Knoblauch. “You see how long windows last … right now it is win now. It’s highlighted a little more with Connor’s situation.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 2, 2026.

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WINNIPEG –

Emile Chenevert hopes to wear an Olympic medal around his neck in two years instead of a stethoscope.

A family doctor in Quebec City, Chenevert is attending the Canadian men’s flag football selection camp this weekend at Princess Auto Stadium.

The camp is one of two this year that will be used to choose the squad that competes at the International Federation of American Football (IFAF) world championship in Germany in mid-August.

The top two teams in Dusseldorf will earn berths to the 2028 Los Angeles Games, where men’s and women’s flag football will make its Olympic debut.

“That would be surreal,” Chenevert said of claiming an Olympic medal. “We don’t talk about it too much. We’re really focused on the next practice, on the next camp.

“But we do have this in the back of our mind and it keeps us really motivated and really accountable.”

The six-foot-two defensive back wasn’t one of the 28 players practising with the team because he’s recovering from a foot sprain he suffered in late January while playing a flag game in Quebec City.

It’s almost healed, but doctor knows best so he’s only taking part in meetings and watching practice.

“I want to be with the team. I’m a team-player guy,” Chenevert, 29, said. “If we were playing the worlds right now, I could be playing. It’s more preventive for me not to participate in the camp.”

National team head coach Paul LaPolice was happy to have the former Laval University player at camp, noting Chenevert was a starter on last year’s 12-man national flag team that won a bronze at the IFAF Americas Continental Championship in Panama.

“He’s one of our best players,” LaPolice said. “He’s big, physical, fast, got a lot of range. You want your DBs to have range to be able to knock footballs down, so he does it.”

LaPolice also pointed out the doctor’s maturity and leadership qualities.

In his fourth year at Laval in 2019, Chenevert was doing a full-time internship at hospitals while playing for the Rouge et Or. He’d finish at 5 p.m. and race to practice.

The COVID-19 pandemic cancelled football in 2020 so Chenevert focused on his medical degree.

Now in his third year as a physician, he works full-time at a clinic and also attends long-term care facilities in Quebec City.

His outlet is flag football, which he began playing in 2020.

“I’m a defensive back, so the part of the game I like is the passes and the defending,” he said. “Flag is simply this, minus the contact, so I love it better.”

Flag football has five players per side on a 70-yard by 25-yard field. There’s no blocking or contact allowed and the game moves quickly.

A new national team is chosen each year. Up to 20 players will be picked to attend a June selection camp in California, where 12 will make up the roster for the tournament in Germany.

Receiver Daniel Petermann is aiming to be among the lucky dozen.

One of a number of camp participants with CFL experience, Petermann played 75 games over five seasons with Winnipeg (2018-19), Ottawa (’21) and the B.C. Lions (’22-23).

The Stoney Creek, Ont., native is a personal trainer in Burlington and coaches tackle football at Hamilton’s Cathedral High School.

A standout receiver at McMaster University, Petermann began playing flag football in Grade 4. After his CFL career, he took up touch football.

Now the 30-year-old is aiming to make the national flag team after he was asked last year to try out by LaPolice, who was his offensive co-ordinator with the Blue Bombers and his head coach with the Redblacks.

“He called me and I said, ‘Why not?’ I’m in shape,” Petermann said, adding an Olympic experience was an incentive.

He hasn’t played a game yet, but he’s impressed with the skill level, especially when it comes to avoiding having your flag grabbed by an opponent.

“It’s crazy to watch some of those (Quebec) guys, they can get low. It’s nuts,” Petermann said.

“I’ve got to add that to my repertoire. I can do it, I’ve just got to do it in my head. I’m not used to doing that, I’m used to just trying to make a cut.”

LaPolice expects his team will be competitive. It turned heads last year by defeating the United States in a game at the International Bowl. It was the Americans’ first loss in eight years.

If the U.S. reaches the final in Germany, the top-three teams will secure Olympic berths because the Americans get one spot as host. Other berths will be available through the 2027 IFAF continental championship and a final Olympic qualifier series in 2028.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 2, 2026.

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GENEVA – Canada’s Kadriana and Colton Lott are world championship medallists.

The married duo from Gimli, Man., earned a dominant 11-3 victory over Italy’s Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner on Saturday to win bronze at the world mixed doubles curling championship.

The win marked Canada’s first medal at the world championship since 2019. It also marked Colton Lott’s second international medal of the 2025-26 season, after winning silver last month playing third for Team Matt Dunstone at the men’s worlds.

“To share this together, to go on world stages to different parts of the world, it’s something we want to continue, and we’ll cherish these moments forever throughout our lives,” said Kadriana Lott, who earned her first career world medal. “Just super proud of us, and I’m happy to have that medal around our necks and happy to be standing at the podium at the end of this week.”

Canada, which fell to Sweden in the semifinals, capitalized on its scoring opportunities, notching two four-enders and one three-ender.

Canada’s 89 per cent shooting accuracy outpaced Italy’s 65 per cent. A costly miscue from the opposition in the first end allowed Canada to jump ahead, as Italy came up light on a draw and Canada got a tap around a guard to score four.

“It gives us all the momentum going forward, right from the get-go,” Colton Lott said. “Especially after that first end, we could really tell that they weren’t quite on their game, and as long as we kept applying pressure, tried to make them make really precise shots, we were going to get mistakes, and for the most part, we capitalized on that and just kept bending all the way through.”

The decisive moment came in the sixth end when Canada used its power play to draw for four and the Italians conceded the final two ends of the contest.

Australia’s Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt defeated Sweden’s Therese Westman and Robin Ahlberg 8-4 in the gold-medal game.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 2, 2026.

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Canada’s initial position supporting Washington’s war in Iran shifted over the subsequent days as U.S. President Donald Trump’s objectives became more clear, Prime Minister Mark Carney told The Canadian Press.

“The scale of what the objectives were, or the clarity about what the objectives were, were not there at the start and have arguably evolved over time,” Carney said in a Friday interview.

On Feb. 28, the day the U.S. war on Iran began, Carney expressed unequivocal support for the action. A few days later he expressed regret that Washington did not consult the United Nations on a conflict that he said likely violates international law.

The shift prompted widespread criticism from multiple quarters. Some of Iran’s opponents argued that Carney had watered down a principled stance, while some advocates for international law said Carney was contradicting his speech at Davos about rejecting hegemonic behaviour by great powers.

“Our first comment was within hours of it beginning,” Carney said in his West Block office Friday.

Ottawa has long held the view that Iran is “the largest exporter of terror, state-sponsored terror, in the world. It’s murdered hundreds of Canadians,” Carney said. He added the Iranian regime is already causing suffering around the world and must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.

“From the perspective of an action, that we’re going to reduce that, we’re supportive of those objectives,” Carney said.

“Now, there’s objectives and there’s how you pursue those objectives, and the clarity was around how they were being pursued and the extent to which they were consistent with international law.”

While Canada has stayed out of the conflict so far, the prime minister has said Ottawa might send support to restore shipping access in the Strait of Hormuz if there is a functional ceasefire. Carney’s government is seeking investment from Gulf countries.

Carney is set to be in Armenia this weekend for the European Political Community summit, which primarily focuses on how countries from Iceland to Azerbaijan co-ordinate on politics, security and infrastructure in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Carney said “one of the reasons” he is going to the summit as the only non-European leader is that he will join colleagues who “have banded together to provide assistance once a durable ceasefire is established.”

Carney said that, despite Washington’s claims that it has paused the conflict, there is not a “durable” ceasefire.

“We’re not in that position now, to be absolutely clear,” he said.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney is headed to Armenia on Saturday for a visit his office says is framed around Ukraine’s defence and drumming up more trade and investment in Europe.

Jean-François Ratelle, an international studies professor at the University of Ottawa who specializes in the Caucasus region, said it’s disappointing that the visit doesn’t seem to be aimed at continuing Canada’s years of advocacy for democracy and peace in Armenia.

“We are witnessing a complete change of our foreign policy and what are our general interests,” Ratelle told The Canadian Press.

“It’s looking for our own interests and our own opportunities, and not playing that leading role in norms, and what used to define Canada.”

The prime minister will be in the Armenian capital Yerevan from Saturday until Monday for the European Political Community summit touching on strategic co-operation in politics, security and infrastructure.

Canada is the first non-European country to attend these meetings, which have taken place twice a year since they began after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The meetings include EU countries and others, such as Iceland, Turkey and Ukraine itself.

“It’s really mainly an attempt to create a forum to talk to each other,” said Achim Hurrelmann, co-director of the Centre for European Studies at Carleton University. He said Carney seems to be attending to advance defence procurement deals with Europe.

“My guess is that he is primarily interested in the opportunity to meet EU leaders, and leaders from especially Ukraine and the U.K. all at once, to try to move toward implementing some of the common initiatives that have been launched with the European Union.”

Hurrelmann said it’s possible the trip could help Carney identify projects his government could pursue after repeated high-level statements about defence co-operation.

“What has actually proven to be more difficult is to create joint projects (and) find the private investment that is necessary for that,” he said.

The prime minister’s news release announcing the trip did not touch on the recent history of the Caucasus region. The previous Trudeau government weighed in multiple times on ethnic conflict in the region and often expressed support for the Armenian diaspora in Canada.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought for control of the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Canada and other countries recognize the region as part of Azerbaijan, despite its population being largely ethnic Armenians.

The conflict has flared up at various points, particularly when Russian peacekeepers thinned out after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Azerbaijan restricted access to the region and eventually launched a military campaign against separatist groups that caused more than 100,000 people to evacuate in 2023, just as Canada opened an embassy in Yerevan.

Canada has spoken out against Azerbaijan’s actions, joined an EU security mission and at one point halted military exports to Turkey over concerns that country was sending Canadian components to its ally Azerbaijan to be used in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Ottawa also sought to support what it called “fragile” democracies in former Soviet states such as Armenia through, among other things, efforts to counter misinformation.

Ratelle said that work has largely stopped since Carney took office and there has not been much visible work by the embassy in Yerevan on advancing democracy.

“We virtue-signalled with regard to ethnic cleansing, with regard to the importance of democratization, but we didn’t really walk the walk after that,” he said.

“In a sea of authoritarianism and backsliding countries, Armenia is really the one that has more hope of developing a better agenda for democratization and human rights. At the same time, Canada was never really involved a lot in trade or economic relations with Armenia.”

That transition away from authoritarianism is far from complete. Freedom House noted in its 2025 report that in Armenia, “the courts face systemic political influence, and judicial institutions are undermined by corruption.”

Ratelle said the region is taking on increasing geopolitical importance, with Armenia and Azerbaijan both share borders with Iran. Both are welcoming American investors as part of a U.S. initiative to broker peace between the two countries through shared economic and infrastructure links that would bolster trade between Asia and Europe.

Those efforts could yield “tremendous opportunities,” Ratelle said, but only if the geopolitical situation remains relatively stable for 10 to 15 years. Armenia and Azerbaijan still have disputes over borders, prisoners of war and Azerbaijan’s recent destruction of Armenian cultural heritage sites.

Ratelle added that Armenia feels it lacks international support in the ongoing “slippery peace process” with Azerbaijan, a country that Turkey supports heavily.

The disappointment was compounded last June, Ratelle said, when Carney hosted the G7 summit and did not list Caucasus issues among Canada’s geopolitical priorities for discussion with U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders.

“It speaks, I think, volumes of the current administration that the priority is more about economic trade … than upholding international law,” he said.

He said Armenia likely invited Canada in an effort to forge stronger relations with middle powers.

Carney said Wednesday he had never been to Armenia before. The last prime minister to visit was Justin Trudeau at the Francophonie summit in 2018.

This weekend’s visit comes as Canada works to build trade ties with countries such as Turkey, where Carney is expected to visit for the NATO summit in July.

Ahead of that trip, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and others took part in events marking the Armenian genocide, a term rejected by the Turkish government.

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