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Maximum heat by-law for unlikely rentals in Winnipeg – Winnipeg

  • July 10, 2023
With heat-related illness on the rise amid record-breaking temperatures across the country, some Canadian cities are adopting by-laws that require landlords to keep their buildings below a maximum temperature. In Manitoba, organizations say that kind of regulation would get the cold shoulder. “Conceptually, it’s extremely important, we all want to do what’s best,” Avrom Charach, spokesperson for the Professional Property Manager’s Association, said about keeping tenants cool. “Practically, sometimes it’s difficult.” Shared Health reports 33 people went to hospitals with heat-related illnesses from June 1st to July 4th, up from just 18 last year. However, the city has by-laws to…
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Amid melting glaciers, Switzerland votes on new climate law

  • June 24, 2023
Geneva (AFP) – The Swiss, feeling the impact of global warming on their rapidly melting glaciers, were voting on Sunday on a new climate bill aimed at steering the country towards carbon neutrality. Issued on: 18/06/2023 – 07:20Modified: 18/06/2023 – 07:52 Recent opinion polls indicate strong support for the proposed law, which would require Switzerland to slash its dependence on imported oil and gas, scaling up the development and use of greener and more home-grown alternatives. But the backing slipped in the most recent survey by pollster gfs.bern, although remaining at 63 percent in favor, amid claims by the populist…
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Residential schools: Report on denialism in Canada

  • June 18, 2023
OTTAWA – Canada should give “urgent consideration” to legal mechanisms as a way to combat residential school denialism, says a new report from the independent special interlocutor on unmarked graves. Justice Minister David Lambetti said he was open to such a solution. Kimberly Murray made the call in an interim report released Friday, just over a year after she was appointed to an advisory role focused on how Ottawa can help Indigenous communities search for children who died and disappeared from residential schools. The former executive director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada spent much of the past…
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Groups file court application over whether Canada’s laws allow entry of former Israeli PM

  • June 9, 2023
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is facing a court application aimed at forcing him to determine whether Canada’s war crimes laws prevent former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett from attending a speaking engagement in Toronto later this month. The application — known by its technical term of a mandamus — was filed Friday in Federal Court and asked a judge to compel Mendicino into making a decision on Bennett’s admissibility. It was filed by Khaled Mouammar, a former national president of the Canadian Arab Federation, human rights groups Palestinian and Jewish Unity and Just Peace Advocates, and the think-tank Canadian…
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Calls grow for Quebec laws to fight sexual violence in high schools after new allegations

  • May 25, 2023
More than a dozen parents and students alleging sexual violence at some Quebec high schools came together Friday to call for a law to prevent and fight the issue in secondary schools. At a news conference Friday in Montreal, several young women and parents — some holding signs reading “No means no” and “#sexualassault awareness” — took turns speaking about their experiences, denouncing the way their school administration and boards handled allegations of sexual assault. They, along with several politicians present, implored Education Minister Bernard Drainville to do more to clamp down on the problem. “It’s been a while that…
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Hong Kong amends law to limit foreign lawyers in some cases

  • May 10, 2023
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN World PMN Politics PMN News Author of the article: The Associated Press Kanis Leung Published May 10, 2023 • Last updated 1 hour ago • 3 minute read Article content HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong lawmakers on Wednesday passed an amendment to a law granting the city’s leader the power to bar overseas lawyers from handling national security cases, following a high-profile row sparked by a pro-democracy Hong Kong publisher’s hiring of a British lawyer. The changes will require overseas lawyers who do not generally practice in Hong Kong to obtain permission from the chief…
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BC ‘freeman’ says Canadian law doesn’t apply to him, but the judge rejects his ‘stupid’ arguments

  • April 25, 2023
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Canada Cameron Hardy, who represented himself in court, was charged with ‘contempt in the face of the court’ for refusing to recognize its legitimacy Author of the article: The Canadian Press Darryl Greer Published April 21, 2023 • Last updated 3 days ago • 3 minute read The courthouse in Prince Rupert, BC “The courts of British Columbia are legitimate, or they are not. There is no middle ground,” the judge ruled. Photo by Google StreetView Article content PRINCE RUPERT — A provincial court judge in Prince Rupert, BC, has sentenced a 46-year-old man to a…
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What to expect as Liberals’ online streaming bill nears becoming law

  • April 18, 2023
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Canadian Politics Canada Critics say a government regulator has no business picking and choosing what content Canadians are presented with when they use a digital service Published April 13, 2023 • Last updated 4 days ago • 5 minute read Under Bill C-11 as it stands, the CRTC will have regulatory authority over recommendations — the movies, TV shows, videos and music platforms like Netflix, YouTube or Spotify suggest to their users. Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images Article content It’s taken the Liberal government two tries and more than two years to get Bill C-11 through…