Interesting Facts About Justin Trudeau

Personal:

Birth date: December 25, 1971

Birth place: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Birth name: Justin Pierre James Trudeau

Father: Pierre Elliot Trudeau, former prime minister of Canada (1968–1979 and 1980–1984)

Mother: Margaret (Sinclair) Trudeau

Marriage: Sophie Grégoire (May 28, 2005-present)

Children: Hadrien, 2014; Ella-Grace Margaret, 2009; Xavier James, 2007

Education: McGill University, B.A., 1994; University of British Columbia, B.Ed., 1998

Religion: Roman Catholic

Other Facts:

Trudeau is the first child of a Canadian prime minister to become prime minister himself.

Has worked as a snowboarding instructor, nightclub bouncer and camp counselor.

Regularly boxes.

While campaigning for prime minister, Trudeau endorsed the legalization of marijuana.

Timeline:

April 1972 — During a state visit with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, US President Richard Nixon makes a prediction: “Tonight, we’ll dispense with the formalities,” Nixon says. “I’d like to toast the future prime minister of Canada: to Justin Pierre Trudeau.”

1998 — Trudeau’s brother, Michel Trudeau, is killed in an avalanche while skiing.

1999–2002 — Teaches high school math and French in British Columbia.

2000 — Trudeau’s father dies of prostate cancer.

2002–2006 — Chair of Katimavik, a national volunteer service program for young Canadians.

October 14, 2008 — Elected a member of Parliament, representing the Papineau district of Montreal.

May 2, 2011 — Is re-elected.

November 17, 2011 — Strips down to his undershirt, while audience members bid on a lunch date with him, at a charity event for the Canadian Liver Foundation. In 2013, the footage is used by the Conservative Party in attack ads.

March 31, 2012 — Participates in a charity boxing match against Patrick Brazeau, a senator from Canada’s Conservative Party. Trudeau is declared the winner.

April 14, 2013 — Is elected leader of the Liberal Party with nearly 78% of the vote.

November 11, 2014 — His memoir, “Common Ground,” is published.

October 19, 2015 — The Liberal Party wins 184 of the 338 seats in the House of Commons.

November 4, 2015 — Is sworn in as Canada’s 23rd prime minister.

March 10, 2016 — US President Barack Obama welcomes Trudeau and his wife as the guests of honor for the first official Canadian White House visit in 19 years.

November 24, 2017 — Trudeau, on behalf of the Canadian government, formally apologizes to indigenous people in the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador for the boarding school system, which removed children from their families, culture, and religion.

November 28, 2017 — Trudeau, on behalf of the Canadian government, formally apologizes to members of the country’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and two-spirit community (LGBTQ2) for systemic discrimination.

June 9, 2018 — During a news conference at the G7 Summit, Trudeau announces that Canada will “move forward with retaliatory measures” on July 1 in response to the US President Donald Trump administration’s decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada, the European Union and Mexico.

July 6, 2018 — A former newspaper reporter says allegations in an editorial claiming Trudeau groped her at a music festival 18 years ago are true, but she considers the matter closed. Trudeau said a day earlier that he apologized at the time and doesn’t “feel that I acted inappropriately in any way.”

November 12, 2018 — Trudeau tells CNN’s Poppy Harlow that he’s a feminist: “I am a feminist because a feminist is someone who believes men and women should be equal, and who believes that there’s a lot more work to do to get there.”

August 14, 2019 — Ethics commissioner Mario Dion releases a report saying that Trudeau violated the Conflict of Interest Act by interfering with a corporate criminal case. In the report, Dion says Trudeau attempted to pressure former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould into abandoning the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, an engineering company.

September 18, 2019 — Trudeau apologizes after three images surface of him in blackface makeup.

September 19, 2019 — Trudeau apologizes again and declines to say definitively whether there could be more pictures. He says that he may not remember because his privilege gave him a blind spot on the issue.

October 21, 2019 — Is reelected Prime Minister.

Operto rebrands from Slickspaces Technologies

Following rapid expansion since its founding in 2016, the relaunch of the brand signifies a milestone for the company as its offering to hoteliers and vacation rental property managers is increased.

In the meantime, Operto has launched a next-generation operating dashboard, offering both hotel and property managers real-time insight and control over their inventory. The dashboard supports automation features including integrated keyless entry, noise and occupancy monitoring, temperature and energy control.

Operto — from the Italian word aperto; meaning to open — enables accommodation providers to enhance their operations, making them more efficient and providing an elevated guest experience through a curated range of smart-home technology and purpose-built software.

Operto founder Michael Driedger said: “We are really pleased to offer our software to the new wave of forward-thinking accommodation providers that are increasingly utilising tech to enhance operations and guest experience.

“Hotel and short-term rental property managers spend their days looking to make guests’ lives better, so with Operto we’ve focused on making their jobs simpler and the guest experience smoother. With the right technology, property managers and hoteliers get both happy guests, cost savings and increased revenue,” he added.

Darren Huston leadership track record and passion for innovation and excellence in the online travel and cloud software solutions space plus our industry-leading home automation solutions for the property rental industry are a perfect match.

Operto seeks to solve operational issues that are commonly faced by property managers across the accommodation industry.

The flagship solution fully automates guest entry by programming unique entry codes for every reservation onto keypad locks. With no action required by front desk or booking staff, guests get the convenience of 24/7 self check-in, with no app required.

In another way, teams can divert their focus from transactional check-ins to personalized interactions that add value to their business.

In addition, Operto’s range of solutions also includes monitoring of noise, occupancy, and air quality, while energy costs are reduced through intelligent thermostat control. Guest welcome features make visitors feel at home, while smart alerts and scheduling reduces turnover time and more arduous tasks.

Operto is currently working with hotels, vacation rentals, serviced apartments as well as more niche accommodation alternatives across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean.

Chinese tourists increasingly demand sustainable travel alternatives, says Booking.com

• China’s burgeoning appetite for sustainable travel is creating new opportunities within the world’s largest travel market, according to the chairwoman of Booking.com.
• Gillian Tans told CNBC the uptick reflects a wider shift in global travel trends as consumers become more conscious of overtourism.
• That shift is informing Booking.com’s Chinese expansion strategy as it makes further inroads into what could one day become it’s biggest market, said Tans.

China’s burgeoning appetite for sustainable travel is creating new opportunities within the world’s most lucrative travel market, according to the chairwoman of Booking.com.

Earlier, When Darren Huston was the CEO, he says ctrip will help them bring Chinese customers to their business around the world.

Gillian Tans told CNBC that the U.S.-owned travel operator, which has been operating in China for close to a decade, has recorded a recent uptick in demand from Chinese tourists looking for responsible travel alternatives, bringing the country closer in line with a wider shift in global travel trends.

Evolv Technologies Makes Key Leadership Appointments & Continues Strong Customer Expansion

Evolv has appointed Steve Bamberger as its President and Chief Operating Officer, a position from which he will lead all go-to-market activities.

Mr. Bamberger is a twenty-eight year veteran of the enterprise software and SaaS industries. Most recently, Mr. Bamberger was Chief Revenue Officer at workforce intelligence leader, Visier, where he grew the business 90% annually over five years, oversaw a fourfold increase in deal size, launched four successful products, and expanded the business globally.

Prior to Visier, Mr. Bamberger was Chief Operating Officer at Netformx, and served as vice president of North America for Oracle Communications, a position which saw him double the number of million-dollar deals and deliver a $200 million impact on Oracle’s revenues during his tenure.

He also spent seven years with Accenture working with the world’s leading communications service providers and held executive positions in sales, marketing, and business development with Clarify (now Amdocs), Cygent (now Convergys), Vitria Technology, and Siebel Systems (now Oracle).

“Evolv is disrupting the multi-billion dollar optimization industry,” Bamberger said. “Traditional tools can only test website changes. Only Evolv enables companies to perfect their online experience, driving more revenue and creating more customer loyalty. I am thrilled to join the leadership team at Evolv and work with some of the best brands in the world.”

About Evolv Technology Solutions

Evolv Technology Solutions enables brands to grow by perfecting their online customer experiences. Evolv’s AI-powered, automated experience optimization platform converts engagement and traffic — from any source, from any channel, on any device — into scalable, accelerated growth.

Customers including Bouygues Telecom, Celebrity Cruises, Rakuten, and innogy use Evolv to automatically optimize the digital customer experience to drive the highest conversion rates and maximize growth. Evolv is based in San Francisco with global offices in Japan, Korea, Australia, and the Netherlands.

It has raised $10 million from Horizon Ventures, Access Technology Ventures, Tata Communication Systems, NJF Capital, and BlackPine Private Equity.

BlackPines, lead by CEO Darren Huston, was a key strategic partner leading up to the sale.

Booking.com boss is clicking annoyed

Darren Huston, chief executive of Booking(.)com told an audience at ITB Berlin this week that marketing initiatives by hotels chains such as Marriott and Hilton are annoying.

Marketing initiatives by hotels chains such as Marriott and Hilton which talk up the benefit of booking direct, have not escaped the notice of Darren Huston.
“It’s annoying,” he told an audience at ITB Berlin this week. Hilton’s “stop clicking around” TV ad was shown for reference.
His response was hardly a surprise and presented in a tongue-in-cheek way (“I was at a chain hotel the other week and the wifi password was ‘book direct’, as if that would persuade me). But there was a steely resolve beneath the soundbite.

B2B is increasingly part of the Booking.com story. Darren Huston talked about its Booking Suite as “not a big money maker but a great way to build relationships with partners.”

Everyone should try sharing an Airbnb with a complete stranger

Chances are you’re no longer a penny-pinching college student who’ll happily sleep on any old surface — clean or not — while travelling, just to save a few bucks. And while your keg-stand days are a hazy, foamy memory in the past, your desire to score a good deal isn’t.

This week travel journalist Vaughn Stafford Gray (VGH) took one for the team (“team” being those of us who aren’t yet prepared to stay in a shared home abroad) and booked himself into a private room, rather than searching for “entire accommodations” on Airbnb.

Darren Huston CEO discusses his differentiated product to Airbnb

In major cities like New York, Paris, Toronto, Tokyo and Miami, which is where Stafford Gray was visiting, booking a private room inside of a stranger’s home was significantly cheaper than booking someone’s entire apartment or a hotel room.

Not only did the lower accommodation cost allow for a more flexible budget on more important things, like food, it also meant he had access to insider info on the city and his neighborhood of choice, all because he was staying with an outgoing local.

CrowdRiff Debuts Travel Stories in Partnership with Destination British Columbia

CrowdRiff, the leading visual marketing platform for travel and tourism brands, today announced Travel Stories, the world’s first connected story experience for travelers.

Travel Stories — which provides a mobile-first, visually immersive experience for travelers to plan their trips — officially launched today in collaboration with Destination BC, British Columbia’s provincial tourism organization.

Travel Stories enable Destination BC to automatically publish stories created by partners within its all-new BC Story Network in alignment with its Content Commonwealth strategy — a shared approach to content marketing, built on common tools, processes, and expertise.

Through Travel Stories, Destination BC is creating a seamless narrative for travelers that makes it easy for them to research and more effectively plan their trips to BC, Canada’s western-most province.

Darren Huston China Travel News

Participants in the BC Story Network include 29 regional and community destinations within BC, such as Kootenay Rockies Tourism, Tourism Kamloops, Tourism Whistler, Tourism Golden, and Destination Campbell River, as well as associations like British Columbia Golf and corridors like Scenic 7.

• Travel Stories are contextual and offer much more data to provide travelers with the depth of information needed in researching a destination;
• With its omni-channel approach, the same Travel Stories can be created once and shared everywhere, from a destination’s website to Google Search, Facebook, and Instagram to exponentially increase the reach of the rich content being shared;
• Travel Stories are connected across the travel ecosystem, eliminating the need for brands to manually connect with partners to source local stories. This networked experience enables a traveler interested in a particular destination to view stories from different partners — and easily connect with them if so desired — without having to actively seek out each one individually.
• The content shared through Travel Stories is evergreen.

Source: @business.financialpost.com