{"id":2631,"date":"2017-08-21T10:50:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T10:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2017-08-21T10:50:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T10:50:28","slug":"pm-trudeau-joined-at-montreal-pride-by-irish-counterpart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pm-trudeau-joined-at-montreal-pride-by-irish-counterpart\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Trudeau joined at Montreal Pride by Irish counterpart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal,<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marched in Montreal\u2019s Gay Pride parade, joined by Ireland\u2019s first openly gay leader Leo Varadkar.<\/p>\n<p>Sporting white jeans and a casual light blue button-up, Trudeau waved a rainbow flag with Indian-origin Varadkar at his side as they participated in the annual event where several thousand people had gathered.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day at a joint press conference Trudeau vowed \u201cstrength through diversity\u201d in the face of recent attacks in Spain and Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese recent acts of terror are despicable,\u201d the Canadian leader said. \u201cThey seek to divide the global community, aiming to pit neighbour against neighbour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut these cowards will not win,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe will continue to do as we have done, standing united and stronger in the face of hatred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be emboldened in our values, values of love, acceptance, and strength through diversity.\u201d Prime Minister Varadkar, who took office in June, is the first foreign head of government to join a Canadian pride celebration.<\/p>\n<p>He said Canada and Ireland must work in tandem to advance equal rights, particularly in places where they are threatened.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marched in Montreal\u2019s Gay Pride parade, joined by Ireland\u2019s first openly gay leader Leo Varadkar. Sporting white jeans and a casual light blue button-up, Trudeau waved a rainbow flag with Indian-origin Varadkar at his side as they participated in the annual event where several thousand people had gathered. Earlier [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2633,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions\/2633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}