Archive for category Human Rights
Stephen Harper missing women’s health summit
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Women's Rights on June 7, 2010
By Olivia Ward, Foreign Affairs Reporter, The Toronto Star, June 6, 2010
WASHINGTON—The cavernous halls of the Washington Convention Center are awash in colourful djellabas, shalwar kameez, saris and African print cottons as the world’s biggest maternal health conference opens Monday with a speech by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
But missing in action is Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who, as host of the G20 conference in Toronto later this month, has made saving the lives of the half-million women who die each year din pregnancy and childbirth his core theme. Read on »
Our local Liberal candidate on maternal health
Posted by sitemaster in Foreign Policy, Health Care, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Liberals, Women's Rights on May 19, 2010
For the Harper Conservatives, it seems possible to talk about maternal health care without mentioning the word abortion. Read on »
Planned Parenthood gets silent treatment from Ottawa
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Health & Safety, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Women's Rights on May 14, 2010
By Olivia Ward, Foreign Affairs Reporter, The Toronto Star, May 13, 2010
One of the world’s biggest health-care providers for vulnerable women appears to have fallen victim to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s zero tolerance policy on abortion.
In London, International Planned Parenthood Federation is waiting for a call from Canada that will preserve life-saving programs that help 31 million women and children. Read on »
Lancet medical journal slams Canada, Stephen Harper on abortion
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Health & Safety, Health Care, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Women's Rights on May 7, 2010
By Mary Vallis, The National Post, May 7, 2010
One of the world’s leading medical journals is slamming Stephen Harper’s Conservative government’s “conscious decision” not to support groups that undertake abortions in developing countries. Read on »
Liberals circulate ‘interesting’ government funding list
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Human Rights, Liberals, Women's Rights on May 6, 2010
By Karina Roman, CBC News, May 5, 2010
So there’s been lots of talk in the past few days about women’s groups that have been de-funded by the Conservative government and debate about why they are losing their funding. Last night on CBC’s Power and Politics, Conservative MP Candace Hoeppner said the government was simply being more “focused” in their approach to funding groups.
The Liberals, not surprisingly, don’t see it that way and have been working on a list of groups they say are losing their money because they don’t share the government’s ideology (not all the groups themselves agree with this characterization). But along with handing out that list, they have also added a list of groups and programs that are getting government grants. Let’s be clear, this list is not complete in any way. In fact, it could be said to be quite selective. But the Liberals point out it still offers an “interesting” contrast. Read on »
Tory senator drops F-bomb on abortion debate
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Health & Safety, Health Care, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Women's Rights on May 4, 2010
By Tobi Cohen, Canwest News Service, as published in The Ottawa Citizen, May 4, 2010
OTTAWA — The Liberals are seeking an apology from the government after a Conservative senator told international development advocates Monday to “shut the f— up” on the issue of making abortion part of Canada’s foreign maternal-health strategy. Read on »
Contraception motion defeated
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Health & Safety, Human Rights, Liberals, Women's Rights on March 23, 2010
CBC News, March 23, 2010
A Liberal motion to include a broader range of family planning programs, including contraception, in a maternal health initiative for developing countries, was defeated 144-138 in the House of Commons Tuesday.
The motion tabled by Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae said Canada’s maternal health proposal to G8 nations must be based on “scientific evidence, which proves that education and family planning can prevent as many as one in every three maternal deaths” and refrain from the “failed right-wing ideologies” of former U.S. president George W. Bush. Read on »
Immigration Minister pulled gay rights from citizenship guide, documents show
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Human Rights on March 2, 2010
Dean Beeby, Ottawa — The Canadian Press, Published by The Globe and Mail, March 2, 2010.
Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney blocked any reference to gay rights in a new study guide for immigrants applying for Canadian citizenship, The Canadian Press has learned. Read on »
Harper: “Obscene” and “Monstrous” pension
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Human Rights, The Deficit on February 28, 2010
by Richard Cléroux, The West Island Chronicle, February 28, 2010
The budget is coming up this week. It’s a budget so important that Stephen Harper decided that Parliament had to be closed down for two months to prepare it. Read on »
MPs pile on `train wreck’ agency
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Democracy, Foreign Policy, Human Rights on February 18, 2010
By Bruce Campion-Smith, Ottawa Bureau chief, The Toronto Star, February 18, 2010
OTTAWA–Opposition MPs are calling on Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon to rein in the Rights and Democracy agency that they say has gone “rogue” and is “out of control.”
They’re vowing to hold a parliamentary probe of the government-funded agency’s woes when the House of Commons resumes sitting in less than two weeks. Read on »
Rights agency needs new head
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Democracy, Foreign Policy, Human Rights on February 17, 2010
From the Toronto Star, February 16, 2010
After trying for weeks to distance himself from the mess at Rights and Democracy, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon is finally taking responsibility for it. Read on »
Ignatieff outlines Liberal priorities in open letter to Harper
Posted by sitemaster in Aboriginals, Accountability, Canadian Armed Forces, Crime & Safety, Democracy, Employment, Energy, Environment, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Human Rights, Justice, Pensions, The Economy on February 17, 2010
Please click here to read Michael Ignatieff’s open letter to Stephen Harper, dated February 15, 2010.
Khadr case proof Canada has strayed from ideals: Dallaire
Posted by sitemaster in Human Rights on February 16, 2010
BY SARAH MCGINNIS, CALGARY HERALD, FEBRUARY 12, 2010
Canada’s treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr reflects this country’s move away from its traditional role in advancing human rights internationally, retired general Romeo Dallaire said this week. Read on »
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