Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was interrupted on a Thunder Bay, Ont. snowboarding trip by pro-Hamas protesters demanding he call for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Plus, as crime spikes in major cities across Canada, a First Nations chief wants Statistics Canada to stop releasing crime severity statistics because she thinks they’re racist and promote discrimination against Indigenous communities.

And the Bank of Canada has held its overnight interest rate at 5% for the fifth consecutive time since July of last year.

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