Pro-Palestinian protest cancels Trudeau’s reception for Italian PM

Pro-Palestine protests continue around the world, including here in Canada.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with his Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, in Toronto this weekend, where the pair said they agreed to establish the Canada-Italy roadmap for enhanced cooperation.

But ahead of a reception at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the doors for the building were locked when pro-Palestinian protesters arrived and called for an end to what they called the “siege in Palestine.”

This, as the United Nations says a quarter of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are facing starvation, and the number of Palestinians killed in the strip soared above 30,000.

The U.N. also reporting today that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe Hamas committed rape during its surprise attack in southern Israel on October 7th.