Several Liberal MPs publicly lamented the decision’s failure to sentence Hamas.
The non-binding vote signalled a dramatic shift in Canada’s long-standing position of siding with Israel on main resolutions.
Guilbeault hails ‘monumental’ COP28 deal, others warn of ‘dangerous distractions’
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault hailed a “monumental” deal Wednesday to shut out COP28, the primary time the United Nations local weather summit of almost 200 nations agreed to transition away from fossil fuels.
The settlement authorized in Dubai was welcomed by some observers as a historic turning level in world local weather negotiations and stronger than a draft floated earlier within the week.
But many warned of what they noticed as loopholes and distractions within the settlement that might undermine the motion wanted to fulfill the worldwide dedication to maintain temperature rise to 1.5 levels above pre-industrial instances.
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Hierarchical companies want harassment ‘reckoning’
A University of Ottawa legislation professor says fixing sexual harassment points in Canadian policing and the navy will take a deep reckoning to alter long-standing and secretive office cultures.
Sylvia Rich research police violence towards girls and organizational cultures, and says all large organizations cope with harassment points to a point.
Bonnie Robichaud (ROE’-bish-oh) received a job at a Canadian Forces base within the late Seventies, and sexual harassment by a supervisor set off a years-long authorized battle that ultimately made it to the Supreme Court of Canada.
The ruling in her case in 1987 set a precedent for employers to make sure harassment-free workplaces, however the issues persist, and he or she says complainants are sometimes worn down — financially and mentally — after drawn out processes.
CSIS settles rights criticism from Black worker
Canada’s spy service has agreed to rent an impartial human rights specialist to evaluate its variety technique as a part of the settlement of a criticism from a Black girl who labored as an intelligence officer.
The Canadian Human Rights Commission and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service say the intelligence company may even publish an govt abstract of the specialist’s findings and suggestions.
In addition, CSIS has dedicated to sharing its responses to the suggestions with the human rights fee, a federal watchdog with a broad mandate to guard folks from discrimination.
Ontario set to announce modifications to alcohol gross sales
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is predicted to announce right this moment the federal government’s plan to broaden gross sales of beer and wine.
Ford promised within the 2018 election marketing campaign to permit beer and wine to be bought in comfort shops and grocery shops throughout the province.
Ford hinted on social media the province will observe by means of on that pledge.
The province bumped into issues fulfilling that marketing campaign promise as a result of The Beer Store had a 10-year cope with the federal government and its multinational house owners threatened authorized motion if Ford adopted by means of.
Big money for child eels sparks East Coast tensions
Commercial fishers of child eels within the Maritimes say there’s little hope of seeing a discount in 2024 of the poaching and violence that pressured the closure of the profitable fishery final season.
Stanley King, a industrial licence holder from Nova Scotia, says he believes the upcoming season, which begins in late March or early April, may very well be even worse due to the success of poachers final season.
With excessive costs for elvers, King says it’s pretty simple for folks to get into the fishery as a result of all they want is “a net and a bucket.”
King additionally blames lax enforcement by federal authorities.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Dec. 14, 2023.
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