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Canadian doctor shot in Gaza CANADIAN PRESS
GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territory — A Canadian doctor says he is recovering after being shot while helping tend to wounded protesters in Gaza on Monday. Tarek Loubani is an emergency physician at the London Health Sciences Centre in Ontario and at Shifa Hospital in Gaza, and is also a member of a team testing 3D-printed tourni-
quets in Gaza. Loubani says in a blog post that most paramedics in his team wore fluorescent high visibility jackets and he was wearing a hospital green top and bottom so he could be identified as medical staff. He says several members of the medical team were wounded and he suffered a moderate injury to his left leg and a minor one to his right leg. Loubani says he
was taken to hospital, stabilized and discharged after X-rays showed no bone injury. Israeli soldiers shot and killed 59 Palestinians and wounded hundreds during the mass protests on the Gaza border on Monday. “I was shot toward the end of the morning,’’ Loubani said in his blog. “There were no protesters in our immediate vicinity,’’ he said.
“I heard a loud bang and found myself on the ground.’’ Loubani said his team’s 3D-printed tourniquet could be manufactured in Gaza at a cost of about US$7 to help reduce deaths due to blood loss. Previously Loubani created a low-cost stethoscope using a 3D printer, the first in a series of inventions he hopes will help alleviate medical supply shortages on the Gaza Strip.
TRUDEAU TELLS TRUMP: WE CAN HAVE A NAFTA DEAL RIGHT NOW, IF YOU WANT IT ALEXANDER PANETTA
CANADIAN PRESS
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reportedly told President Donald Trump that a NAFTA agreement is imminently within reach as long as some controversial demands are set aside. That high-level conversation occurred in the midst of what many insiders view as a lastditch push for a renegotiated agreement before impending political events pause the process until next year. The characterization of Trudeau’s message to Trump came in a television interview in Mexico: the economy minister in that country revealed some details of the leaders’ chat earlier this week. When asked about his
conversation with the U.S. president, Trudeau confirmed he views a renegotiated pact as promptly attainable and publicly repeated a similar message. “There is very much an imminently achievable outcome that will be good for the United States, good for Canada, good for Mexico — and we’re very close,’’ Trudeau told a Calgary news conference. “We will continue in the coming days to work hard to try and get there. We know that a deal is not done until it’s done. And we’re going to continue to remain optimistic and hard-working on trying to get this settled.’’ Asked whether he asked the president to pare down his wish-list, Trudeau said: “We’re pushing defence of our own
interests, but highlighting that it’s very possible to have a winwin-win.’’ The countries are attempting to set up one more ministerial round this week, after which it may become too late to meet the U.S. procedural deadlines required for a vote before the midterm elections bring in a new Congress. All three countries have some interest in wrapping up a quick deal: Canada to calm jittery business investors, Mexico to close the file before its presidential election and the U.S. to provide stability for struggling agricultural exporters. They are swimming against a tide of unresolved issues and even competing agendas; insiders say there are mixed opinions within the U.S. administration on the value of additional rounds this week.
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