Feds should not be allowed to hide behind NDAs

Canada ought to be the first jurisdiction not only to ban non-disclosure agreements outright, but also to release victims from any existing NDA restrictions.
Ottawa must officially recognize Black Excellence Day

Black Excellence Day, created in 2021, lands on Jan. 15. It recognizes that Black excellence is Canadian excellence and would be a meaningful way for Canada to close the UN’s International Decade for People of African Descent.
Canada’s feminist international assistance policy should be a catalyst for very important questions

The bodies in charge of international development do not focus on making structural changes to the global economic system and instead put the responsibility on Global South women to make the current system work for them.
International oversight needed into ‘consistently inadequate’ police response to MMIWG, says MP Gazan

‘This needs to be a wake-up call,’ and addressing missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls must include recognition of the rise in white supremacy and gender-based violence, says NDP MP Niki Ashton.
Senate Human Rights Committee exposes systemic Islamophobia in the CRA

It is becoming increasingly clear the federal government needs to show strong leadership to tackle systemic Islamophobia to rebuild the public trust in the government and its agencies.
‘Stay the course’: reporters, editors discuss strategies for combating online hate with Mendicino

Catherine Tait of CBC said a survey by Reporters Without Borders had found three quarters of journalists had experience harassment.
Significant policy shifts have been made, but government still leaving surrogacy families behind

It is time the government and all Parliamentarians look to include a 15-week benefit for parents via surrogacy in this much-needed EI modernization. Because it’s 2022.
Diversity and inclusion promises ring hollow if racialized voices are shut out

OTTAWA—“They invite you then mistreat you.” Those are the words of the tweet thread by Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, the acting director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who was allegedly mistreated by German border control at the Frankfurt airport while on his way to the World Health Summit, a global […]
Global North’s whitelash brings fascism back in fashion

Neoliberalism has destroyed our communities, and the marriage of the Christian right and the far-right offers that to people.
Indigenous Reconciliation
