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Ontario Is Re-examining the Law that Allows Doctors to Practice After Sexually Assaulting Their Patients
The regulations concerning Ontario doctors and sexual misconduct are vague and have allowed many doctors accused of wrongdoing to continue seeing patients. Finally, something might be done about that.
The UN Told Canada to Stop Detaining Migrants Indefinitely and Without Charge
A commissioner on the UN's Human Rights Working Group on Arbitrary Detention recently took Canada to task for jailing an immigrant for eight years without charge, and called on the country to set a maximum time limit for this type of detainment.
The Supreme Court Just Made it Harder to Undermine Rape Victims
The Supreme Court of Canada decided unanimously last week that people accused of sexual assault will not get automatic access to their victims' personal records, ending a practice that made coming forward about sexual violence even more difficult.
Stephen Harper’s Plan to Spend Billions of Dollars on Fighter Jets Is In Disarray
Four years after the government announced it would buy 65 F-35 fighter jets for $85 million a piece, they announced they would postpone the decision until the indefinite future. The move marks another hiccup in Harper's long-gestating procurement plan.
In Canada’s Healthcare System, Being Female Can Have Deadly Consequences
A new study suggests that Canada's medical wait times have doubled in the last 20 years, and are becoming increasingly gendered. Emma Paling looks at the relationship between gendered wait times and the female mortality rate.
Tuberculosis Is Still a Major Concern for Canada’s Inuit
Most Canadians think of tuberculosis as a disease of the past—something eradicated in the earlier half of the last century. But for Canada's Inuit population, the rate of incidence is currently almost 200 times greater, and it’s getting worse.
How Canada’s Poor Record-Keeping Broke Up 4,000 Families
It took years for an Innuit girl to be returned to her family, because no records were kept of where she came from or who her family was.
How the Canadian Government's Poor Record-Keeping Broke Up 4,000 Inuit Families
In the 50s, the Canadian government shipped thousands of Inuit people infected with tuberculosis from their homes in the Arctic to sanitariums in southern Canada without explaining their whereabouts to their families. We interviewed members of the...
A New UN Report Urges An Inquiry Into the Cases of Over 1,200 Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women
“We pride ourselves on our human rights agenda and if that’s not a violation of human rights when women are treated differently or victimized more often, I don’t know what is.”