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Tories threaten to drop native human-rights bill
TheGlobeandMail.com – national – Tories threaten to drop native human-rights bill: Opposition amendments unsupportable, Indian Affairs Minister says
April 15, 2008 at 4:54 AM EDT
BILL CURRY
OTTAWA — The Conservative government is threatening to walk away from its own native human-rights legislation, saying that recent amendments from the opposition are unsupportable.
Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl said yesterday that new clauses inserted into government legislation could allow chiefs and council to ignore human-rights complaints by citing their community’s collective rights.
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Tories grasp nettle on immigration
TheStar.com – comment – Tories grasp nettle on immigration
April 15, 2008
Rob Mitchell
The holy trinity of issues to be avoided if you are a politician and want to stay in office are privatized health care, religion and immigration. So it is with laudable courage that the Harper government has sought to reform the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.
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Stuck behind bars, with no place to call home
TheStar.com – living – Stuck behind bars, with no place to call home: Intellectually disabled man harassed in jail while agencies seek accommodation that meets his needs
Trish Crawford
April 14, 2008
Leroy Humphrey, who has the mental capacity of a 6-year-old, is in jail and frightened.
He’s had his jumpsuit torn, been kicked and has lost weight because he gives his food away to other prisoners. Mixed in with the general population of the Maplehurst Correctional Centre, the intellectually disabled 38-year-old is being teased and he longs to go back to his group home.
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Immigration bill requires debate
TheStar.com – comment – Immigration bill requires debate
April 14, 2008
Carol Goar
Shortcuts can lead to deep trouble.
That is where the Conservative government has landed with its hastily introduced, poorly explained bill to overhaul Canada’s immigration system.
By short-circuiting parliamentary debate, Immigration Minister Diane Finley has spawned a host of suspicions. By burying her legislation in a budget implementation bill, she has alienated many ethnic groups. By downplaying legitimate concerns, she has raised fears about the government’s motives.
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The right to keep the door closed
TheStar.com – comment – The right to keep the door closed
April 14, 2008
Re:Opposition raises discrimination fears – April 10
The federal government’s amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to remove the government’s obligation to process all visa applications is more than reasonable and long overdue.
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Flaherty’s riding to get another budget boost
Theglobeandmail.com – national – Flaherty’s riding to get another budget boost: Disabled centre aims to draw on new fund
April 11, 2008 at 4:29 AM EDT
DANIEL LEBLANC
OTTAWA — A multimillion-dollar facility for people with disabilities stands to be built in Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s riding under a program launched in his 2007 budget.
Mr. Flaherty has already faced criticism for budget announcements that favoured a train line running through his riding of Whitby-Oshawa and fuel-efficient cars built at the General Motors plant just next door.
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Political messages in census data
TheStar.com – comment – Political messages in census data
April 10, 2008
Haroon Siddiqui
Remember the brouhaha over the rescue of Lebanese Canadians during the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon?
It was said that Canada should not allow dual citizenship, since newer ethnic groups may be misusing the right. The Stephen Harper Tories joined the chorus of protest.
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SOS for health and safety of Canadian children
TheStar.com – comment – SOS for health and safety of Canadian children: More research and government action are needed to deal with high rates of accidental injury and obesity, especially among aboriginal children
April 10, 2008
Michael Kramer
The state of Canada’s children and youth is not good. Canada ranks 22nd out of 29 OECD countries for preventable childhood injuries, 27th in childhood obesity. Overall, Canada ranks only 12th out of 21 wealthy countries in the 2007 United Nations rankings of child well-being.
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PM nixes idea of reopening Constitution
TheGlobeandMail.com – national – PM nixes idea of reopening Constitution
April 9, 2008
GLORIA GALLOWAY
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper threw cold water yesterday on suggestions by his Labour minister that a Conservative majority government might open the Constitution to give more meaning to the recognition of Quebeckers as a nation.
“I don’t sense among the Canadian population, or the population of Quebec for that matter, any desire to engage in constitutional discussions in the near future. And the government has no plans to do that,” he told a news conference.
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Province favours negotiations
TheStar.com – comment/letter – Province favours negotiations
April 09, 2008
Re: B.C. ruling spells trouble for Ontario mining – Ideas, April 5
It is easy to understand Cameron Smith’s concerns with the jailing of the leaders of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and Ardoch, the result of conflicts with mining companies. There should be no doubt that the provincial government opposed jail time and in fact argued for alternatives.
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