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Amira Elghawaby has apologized for her comments on Quebec’s secularism law as Justin Trudeau offers support
The prime minister’s first special representative on Islamophobia won’t be starting the job for another three weeks, but she’s already engaging with political leaders as she faces a wave of criticism for past comments on Quebec’s controversial secularism law, Raisa Patel reports. Trudeau, meanwhile, stood by his decision to appoint Elghawaby and aimed to calm tensions, saying “Quebecers are not racists.”The provincial law bans people who deliver public services from wearing religious symbols.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was expected to stifle the global move to green energy — then something else happened Facing an abrupt cutoff of Russian gas, and amid a spike in prices, European leaders scrambled for fossil fuels. Suddenly, oil and gas seemed to be treated not as the leading causes of the climate crisis but as key geopolitical resources, Marco Chown Oved reports, leading to frustration among some environmentalists. Now, nearly a year later, it’s become clear that the war ultimately sped up the global transition to clean energy.
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