3 d. ago Olympic champion Caster Semenya ends landmark legal fight against sex eligibility rules

Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya is ending a seven-year legal challenge against sex eligibility rules in track and field, her lawyers said Thursday, despite winning a ruling at the European Court of Human Rights in July that appeared to have reignited one of sports’ most contentious cases. Patrick Bracher, a lawyer for Semenya, said in […]

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4 d. ago FIRST READING: Canadian bill would strip internet access from ‘specified persons’

Not too long ago, Liberals were defending internet access as akin to a human right

Technology

5 d. ago Teachers against antisemitism ask B.C. court to order human rights case sped up

Their multi-faceted complaint alleges the BCTF tolerates antisemitic teachings in the classroom as well as union involvement with Samidoun, a group recently labelled a terrorist group by Ottawa

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1 week ago Lawmakers and activists call for action after AP reveals US tech role in China’s surveillance state

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers and activists across the political spectrum called on American tech firms to stop selling surveillance equipment to Chinese police and for Congress to examine the issue after The Associated Press reported that U.S. technology had played a far greater role than previously known in enabling human rights abuses by Beijing. Republican […]

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1 week ago LILLEY: Former CBC host Travis Dhanraj pulls back curtain on fake diversity

CBC loves diversity but not when it comes to a diversity of thought or political ideas.

Events

2 w. ago Two people arrested after Ottawa protest against Carney government

The "Draw the Line" protesters called on the Liberal government to prioritize human rights and climate change and to reverse planned cuts to the public service.

Politics

2 w. ago Tory bill would extend sanctions to target relatives of human rights abusers

OTTAWA — Conservative MP James Bezan is calling on Ottawa to reform its sanctions regime to target immediate family members of human rights abusers and tackle transnational repression. The Manitoba MP has tabled a private member’s bill that would direct law enforcement to help the government draft sanctions and require that ministers respond to parliamentary […]

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2 w. ago UN report cites huge government corruption in South Sudan as its food crisis worsens

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Billions of dollars in public funds in South Sudan have been stolen over the past decade in massive government corruption while the vast majority of the country suffers food insecurity, a U.N. commission said Tuesday. The report by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan details several schemes allegedly […]

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3 w. ago Former host Travis Dhanraj launches human rights complaint against CBC, accusing it of ‘performative diversity’

'Dhanraj quickly realized he had been chosen to host Canada Tonight because the CBC expected him to be the ‘token’ brown man,' his complaint alleges

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3 w. ago Howard Levitt: Employers who tell an employee to ‘retire’ should be prepared to pay

When employers talk of employee 'retirement,' it screams age discrimination and violates an employee's human rights

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3 w. ago Detailed findings from AP investigation into how US tech firms enabled China’s digital police state

BEIJING (AP) — American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, an Associated Press investigation found. They sold billions of dollars of technology to the Chinese police, government and surveillance companies, despite repeated warningsfrom the U.S. Congress […]

Economics

4 w. ago CHAUDHRI: Employer avoids legal liability in human rights case

A retired judge once told me a legal claim is like a house – the foundation of that house is the written complaint that sets out the facts to support it. Sometimes there are cracks in the foundation. Where a written complaint fails to articulate every element of every possible cause of action, the house […]

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