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Canada Meets 25,000 Refugee Resettlement Target
Canada's Immigration Minister said the country has reached a significant milestone. Canada has reached its target of resettling 25,000 Syrian refugees, the country’s Immigration Minister John McCallum said Monday. McCallum was at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on Monday to receive the last two flights of refugees arriving under the Canadian government’s $500 million resettlement program, reports the Associated Press.
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Liberals to close Office of Religious Freedom, Dion says
The government will not renew the mandate of the controversial Office of Religious Freedom, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion
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Trudeau calls for global co-operation to crack down on offshore tax evasion in wake of Panama Papers scandal
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the international community has to work together to make global finance more transparent to prevent the sort of inequality highlighted by the so-called Panama Papers scandal. Trudeau says otherwise, rich investors will simply “hop” around to favourable jurisdictions where they can avoid paying tax. He says the federal government knew tax avoidance was a problem long before the controversy put offshore havens in the headlines.
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Don't sign Trans-Pacific trade deal, Nobel winning economist tells Ottawa
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says the Trans-Pacific Partnership may well be the worst trade agreement ever negotiated, and he recommends Canada insist on reworking it. "I think what Canada should do is use its influence to begin a renegotiation of TPP to make it an agreement that advances the interests of Canadian citizens and not just the large corporations," he said in an interview with CBC's The Exchange on Thursday.
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Canadian Prime Minister Seeks to Legalize Physician-Assisted Suicide
The government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced legislation on Thursday to legalize physician-assisted suicide for Canadians with serious medical conditions.
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Canada Will Begin Marijuana Legalization In Spring 2017
The announcement comes on the most sacred day for potheads across the world.
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Victoria police officer can advocate for drug legalization, tribunal rules
A Victoria police officer who won a human-rights complaint against the force says “on the ground” experience led him to support drug legalization – and he says he doesn’t think he’s alone on the force. Constable David Bratzer was awarded $20,000 last week after the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruled the Victoria Police Department violated his rights by preventing him from advocating for legalization. A civil-liberties group describes the ruling as precedent-setting.
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After Nine Years Of Censorship, Canada Finally Unmuzzles Its Scientists
Here's something we don't see enough of here on Techdirt: a long and dispiriting saga with a happy ending. Over the years, we've reported on how Canada's previous prime minister, Stephen Harper, tried to stifle dissenting voices among government scientists and librarians, all of whom were expected to self-censor, even outside their work. But as most people know by now, the new Canadian administration under Justin Trudeau has a rather different style...
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Trudeau's pot legalization plan breaks UN drug treaties
The federal government's plan to legalize marijuana contravenes Canada's pledge to adhere to existing drug-control conventions set forth by the UN, according to a commentary published Monday in the CMAJ medical journal. Canada is legally obligated to follow three international treaties that control or prohibit the access to drugs like marijuana, says the commentary's authors...
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Justin Trudeau may have made the best case for legal pot ever
The first one is, young people have easier access to cannabis now, in Canada, than they do in just about any other countries in the world. [Of] 29 different countries studied by the U.N., Canada was number one in terms of underage access to marijuana. And whatever you might think or studies seen about cannabis being less harmful than alcohol or even cigarettes, the fact is it is bad for the developing brain and we need to make sure that it’s harder for underage Canadians to access marijuana. And that will happen under a controlled and regulated regime.
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Trudeau says Canada will explore gender-neutral ID cards as he joins gay pride
Justin Trudeau makes announcement as he becomes first Canadian prime minister to march in gay pride parade
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L'impasse souverainiste
J’ai voté OUI aux deux référendums. Le dernier, celui de 1995, m’a conduit à remettre en question ma quête éperdue de l’indépendance.
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Kevin O'Leary to run for Conservative leadership in Canada
Canada is getting its own reality show politician. "Shark Tank" cast member Kevin O'Leary announced Wednesday that he is running for the leadership of Canada's opposition Conservative Party. O'Leary is a businessman and television commentator who has drawn comparisons to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. He said the party needs a candidate who can beat Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and bring jobs back to Canada.
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Kevin O’Leary joins race for Conservative leadership: 'I'm in'
Kevin O’Leary is entering the Conservative leadership race, but he doesn’t plan on spending too much time working in Ottawa if he wins. The businessman-turned-reality-TV-star said he won’t seek a seat in Parliament right away and, even if he wins the leadership on May 27, he may even continue filming his American reality TV show.
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Frustrated widow wants Liberals to expand assisted dying rules
Two years after a landmark ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada on doctor-assisted death, the widow of a man who travelled to Switzerland to end his life wants the government to ease the rules.
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Immigration Detention | Caged by Canada, Part 1
While Canada is celebrated globally as a safe haven for refugees, hundreds of unwanted immigrants are jailed across the country. Part 1 in a Star series.
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Almost half of Canadians want refugees illegally crossing into Canada deported: Poll
A similar number disapprove of how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is handling the influx, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Monday.
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Trudeau Unveils Bill Legalizing Recreational Marijuana in Canada
The bill, which is expected to pass, would make Canada the second nation to completely legalize marijuana as a consumer product.
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B.C. Premier responds to U.S. softwood duties by seeking a ban on U.S. coal transport through B.C.
In the wake of the U.S. imposing new penalties on Canadian softwood lumber imports, Christy Clark is asking Ottawa to ban the shipment of all thermal coal — including U.S. thermal coal — through British Columbia.
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‘It would have saved my son’: Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act becomes law in Canada
It’s a monumental step towards saving lives as the death toll from drug overdoses in our country continues to climb. On Thursday, the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act became law – protecting those afraid of calling 911 in the event of an overdose from facing drug charges of their own. Marie Agioritis, of Saskatoon, has advocated for the change after a life-altering loss in 2015.
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