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world news Diamars 15 Februari 2022
Trudeau to use emergency powers to quell protests

(AP) — Prime Minister mor, a machete, a large quan- Act would allow the federal
Justin Trudeau has decid- tity of ammunition and high- government to declare the
ed to invoke emergency capacity magazines. Ottawa protest illegal and
powers to quell the pro- clear it out by such means as
tests by demonstrators Alberta Premier Jason Ken- towing vehicles, Wark said. It
who have paralyzed Ot- ney also said protesters in would also enable the gov-
tawa and blocked border a tractor and a heavy-duty ernment to make greater use
crossings in anger over the truck tried to ram a police of the Mounties, the federal
country’s COVID-19 re- vehicle at Coutts on Sunday police agency.
strictions, a senior govern- night and fled.
ment official said Monday. An earlier version of the
“This is extremely concern- Emergencies Act, called
The prime minister met ing,” he said. “There is, at the War Measures Act, was
virtually with the leaders least in that case, a small cell used just once during peace-
of Canada’s provinces and of people who wanted to take time, by Trudeau’s late fa-
planned to address the nation this in a very dangerous and ther, Prime Minister Pierre
late in the afternoon. Members of the self-styled “This is the biggest, greatest, dark direction.” Trudeau, to deal with a mili-
Freedom Convoy have also most severe test Trudeau has tant Quebec independence
The senior government offi- blockaded various U.S.- faced,” said Wesley Wark, a But Kenney said he told movement in 1970.
cial who confirmed Trudeau’s Canadian border crossings, University of Ottawa profes- Trudeau it would not be a
decision said emergency though the busiest and most sor and national security ex- good idea to enact emergency Invoking emergency powers
powers would be invoked important — the Ambassador pert. measures in his province. “I would be “a signal to both
for all of Canada. The official Bridge connecting Windsor, In other developments, the am concerned that there is a Canadians across the country
was not authorized to discuss Ontario, to Detroit — was Royal Canadian Mounted certain kind of person, if the and also an important sig-
the matter publicly and spoke reopened on Sunday after Police said they arrested 11 federal government proceeds nal to allies like the United
on condition of anonymity. police arrested the last of the people at the blockaded bor- with this, who will be further States and around the world
demonstrators and broke the der crossing at Coutts, Alber- inflamed,” he said. who are wondering what the
For more than two weeks, nearly week-long siege that ta, opposite Montana, after hell has Canada been up to,”
hundreds and sometimes had disrupted auto produc- learning of a cache of guns Over the past weeks, authori- Wark said.
thousands of protesters in tion in both countries. and ammunition. ties have hesitated to move
trucks and other vehicles against the protesters around The demonstrations have
have clogged the streets of In recent days, the prime Police said a small group the country. Local officials inspired similar convoys in
Ottawa, the capital, railing minister rejected calls to use within the protest was said cited a lack of police man- France, New Zealand and
against vaccine mandates the military but said “all op- to have a “willingness to use power and fears of violence, the Netherlands. U.S. au-
for truckers and other CO- tions are on the table” to end force against the police if while provincial and federal thorities have said that truck
VID-19 precautions and con- the protests, including in- any attempts were made to authorities disagreed over convoys may be in the works
demning Trudeau’s Liberal voking the Emergencies Act, disrupt the blockade.” Au- who had responsibility for in th
government. which gives the government thorities seized 13 long guns, quelling the unrest.
broad powers. handguns, sets of body ar- Invoking the Emergencies

UN to finalize science report on how warming hits home hard

(AP) — Scientists and gov- in their day-to-day lives... ed the U.N. to declare “code
ernments met Monday to they want to know: so what? red, ” outlined the physical
finalize a major U.N. re- What does it mean for their science of climate change
port on how global warm- lives, their aspirations, their while a third report coming
ing disrupts people’s lives, jobs, their families, the places out in March will be more
their natural environment where they live.” about what can be done to
and the Earth itself. Don’t curb and adapt to global
expect a flowery valentine The report features seven re- warming.
to the planet: instead an gional chapters “about how
activist group predicted “a physical changes in the cli- Without getting into specif-
nightmare painted in the mate change people’s lives,” ics, report co-chair Hans-Ot-
dry language of science.” she said. And she said it will to Poertner said the science
have a strong emphasis on is clear that there are limits mate change. Germany’s science minister,
The United Nations’ Inter- cities. — including temperature Bettina Stark-Watzinger, said
governmental Panel on Cli- limits — to what key eco- Poertner warned of “tipping getting governments to sign
mate Change, a collection of Even without seeing the final systems, species and humans points” and a risk of mass ex- off on the summary is key to
hundreds of the world’s top report, activists call it a warn- can withstand. And in some tinction like the one that did concerted political action.
scientists, issues three huge ing sign for the planet. places, warming is near those away with Earth’s dinosaurs.
reports on climate change ev- limits and in a few cases, such “We need to take everyone
ery five to seven years. The Scientists won’t yet say spe- as much of the world’s coral Speaking at the opening of with us,” she told The Asso-
latest update, which won’t cifically what’s in the report reefs, have even passed them. the meeting, which is being ciated Press. “That’s why we
be finished until the end of because its critical summary held largely online with only need to translate the findings
February, will explain how is still subject to intense ne- The report will also address a small physical gathering in and discuss them interna-
climate change already af- gotiation between the authors ways to adapt to an ever Berlin, the head of the U.N. tionally.”
fects humans and the planet, and governments over next warming world, including weather agency said that it
what to expect in the future, two weeks, with consensus how some technological fixes was important to consider Roberts, the panel’s co-chair,
and the risks and benefits of needed for the final version. may have unwanted side ef- the impact that talk of climate made clear that the message
adapting to a warmer world. Drafts that have circulated fects. apocalypse could have on to policymakers is likely to be
publicly will be changed, people’s mental well-being. stark.
“We’re concerned that the sometimes dramatically, be- Environmentalists argue that
physical climate around us fore it is publicly released on the extreme weather already These reports — which “You need not just incre-
is changing,” said panel co- Feb. 28. seen in parts of the world in earned the science panel a mental change,” she said at a
chair Debra Roberts, a South recent years shows how ur- Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 — United Nations Foundation
African environmental sci- Last August, the first of the gent it is for governments to are used when governments briefing last week. “You need
entist. “But for most people three reports, which prompt- address the rising cost of cli- meet every year to negotiate systemic change.”
how to curb climate change.