>Kelly O’Connor, an immigration lawyer in Toronto, said she gasped out loud when she saw the text. Any medical worker who denies care to someone hurt in a war zone is committing a “serious breach of the Geneva Convention,” she said in an interview. > >“It’s completely outrageous that the government would ask these kinds of questions because it’s trying to promote that someone would violate the Geneva Conventions in wartime, which is really not something that the Canadian military stands for,” O’Connor said.
>Vancouver-based immigration lawyer Randall Cohn said the questions in the letter are “patently illegal and absolutely egregious.” He has seen two such letters asking about medical treatment of Hamas members — sent to a doctor and a nurse — and he is aware of two more, he said in an interview. > >The people who received these letters and brought them to lawyers were afraid to do it, Cohn said, because they worried they would be penalized by Canadian immigration officials. He wonders how many other people have received similar letters but haven’t shown them to anyone out of fear.
>The federal Immigration Department said that an interview with its minister, Marc Miller, was not possible.
Working for five years as a producer at the public broadcaster, I witnessed the double standards and discrimination in its coverage of Palestine—and experienced directly how CBC disciplines those who speak out
University of Alberta President Bill Flanagan’s departure is now clearly on the protest movement’s list of objectives.
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Phoebe Plummer, Chiara Sarti and Daniel Hall took part in protest march last year in Just Stop Oil campaign
A Quebec judge has rejected McGill University's request for an injunction to remove the pro-Palestinian encampment on the university's campus in downtown Montreal.
University faculty members in Alberta are roasting decisions by their respective institutions to have police forcibly remove student protesters from campus, with one professor quitting a leadership role over the matter.
IPS report says replacement fuels well off track to replace kerosene within timeframe needed to avert climate disaster
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A UK Ministry of Defence spokesperson said, "It is the long-standing policy of successive governments not to comment on UK Special Forces."
Graham argued Israel would be justified in obliterating Gaza because America did it to Japan 80 years ago.
Enthusiasts are customising their favourite works and being rewarded with wide social media following
>In January 2023, Canada spent $400 million to send an American air-defence system to Ukraine, which Blair says is still being manufactured.
Dozens of op-eds opposing pharmacare from think tank analysts did not reveal their authors’ conflicts of interest
Families and CEOs behind Loblaw, Empire, Metro have donated $150,000 to two main parties
Local chiefs claim Kawartha Lakes First Nation is part of a wave of cases in which people falsely claim Indigenous identity
Santiago Paredes says he regularly found defects on fuselages being shipped by Spirit AeroSystems to Boeing
The opposition party has called for independent investigations to examine suspicions surrounding the death of a solider who drowned during a search operation, and other scandals involving first lady's luxury gifts and allegations of stock price manipulation.
Are there any problems with this particular story? I found it to be mostly collating current thought about BCI and its applications.
National Defence is continuing to ignore requests to release government records as required under law and in the process is undermining a watchdog agency that reports to parliament, members of Parliament have heard.
The House of Commons Committee on National Defence is conducting hearings into the lack of openness and transparency within the department and the Canadian military. So far it has heard that National Defence violates the law in almost 40 per cent of the requests it receives to produce records under the Access to Information Act.
In an increasing number of cases, the department is claiming that records don’t exist, the committee heard.
At times such responses strain credibility. For instance, National Defence claimed not a single document or any information whatsoever was sent to Anita Anand, then the defence minister, throughout the four-month period covering the selection and announcement of the F-35 fighter jet in a $19-billion procurement deal.
Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvyULepxgw4
This article is literally quoting the official press release of the committee's chairman:
Dr. Fauci claimed that the “6 feet apart” social distancing recommendation promoted by federal health officials was likely not based on any data. He characterized the development of the guidance by stating “it sort of just appeared.”
Dr. Fauci acknowledged that the lab leak hypothesis is not a conspiracy theory.
Dr. Fauci admitted that America’s vaccine mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic could increase vaccine hesitancy in the future.
