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Apologize to UN rights expert, Tories urged
Friday, June 1st, 2012
May 31, 2012
… more than 100 organizations, supported by former parliamentarians Flora MacDonald, Ed Broadbent and Warren Allmand, sent an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, calling on him to apologize for the government’s “unprecedented attacks” on Schutter during his 11-day mission to Canada. “Prime Minister, there is no line to be drawn between protecting human rights at home and protecting them in the rest of the world. Human rights are universal and do not only apply to developing countries or countries in which there are military dictatorships,” the letter states.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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We’re ‘not in bed with big tobacco’: federal health minister
Saturday, December 11th, 2010
December 09, 2010
Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq… pledged to unveil an aggressive anti-smoking communica-tions strategy within weeks that may include bigger and more graphic health warnings on cigarette packages… after a rough day of testimony at parliamentary hearings on why the Conservative government has yet to follow through on a long-running plan – first conceived in 2004 and almost unveiled earlier this year – to force tobacco companies to update health warnings.
Tags: Health, ideology
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