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Canadian Teens Are Suing the Government Over Climate Change
“We’re doing what we have to do, because if we don’t, all future generations will be at risk.”
Why Trudeau Should Stop the Deportation of Abdoul Kadir Abdi
Abdi’s story is a Canadian one, shaped by compounding government failures.
Criminalization Makes It Harder to Study Ayahuasca, Scientists Say
It's an impediment to medical research on ayahuasca's potential to treat mental health disorders.
If Trump Does Deport ‘Dreamers,’ a Move to Canada Won’t Be Easy for Them
While a Canadian senator proposes this country should take in 30,000 DREAMers, the reality is a lot murkier.
Homeowners Can't Expect the Federal Government to Cover Disaster Relief Forever
Who will pay for the floods?
The Canadian Government Is Funding Rehab for Pedophiles
The program offers support groups for convicted sex offenders.
Former Guantanamo Prisoner Omar Khadr Wants His Bail Conditions Eased
After 13 years in custody, an Alberta judge released Khadr on $5,000 bail this May pending the appeal of his widely condemned war crimes convictions by an American military tribunal.
Canada’s Aboriginal Minister Shrugs Off Responsibility for Youth Suicides on Reserves, Says It’s Parents’ Problem
Bernard Valcourt has talked himself into political controversy once again.
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...
Conservatives Won’t Listen to Their Own Privacy Expert on Surveillance Bill
The Harper government's new choice for Privacy Commissioner has privacy advocates concerned for a number of reasons, chief among them the government actually ignoring its own selection committee's recommendation and the new commish's inexperience with...
The Canadian Government Has Forbidden Meteorologists to Discuss Climate Change
Weather forecasters fear that speaking about climate change could even limit their careers.