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Strengthening Human Rights
Why British Columbia Needs a Human Rights Commission Download 1.36 MB73 pages The absence of a human rights commission has resulted in a gaping hole in BC’s system of human rights protection.
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Testing the human right to water in Detroit
In March, the beleaguered—some would say besieged—city of Detroit, Michigan announced it would begin shutting off water services to between 1,500 and 3,000 households every week. It seemed impossible at the time but officials quickly made good on the promise. Detroit, the former industrial powerhouse of one of the world’s…
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BC First Nation logs almost all of its treaty lands, leaving behind lots of stumps and questions
In just three years, much of the McLeod Lake Indian Band’s treaty lands were stripped of their bountiful and exceedingly valuable trees in a surge of logging that included one massive clear-cut that is almost 3,000 hectares in size, or 7.5 times larger than Vancouver’s Stanley Park. The extensive…
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The international spotlight is about to shine on Canada’s track record on women’s human rights and BC may get caught in the glare. Provincial and federal compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women is set to be reviewed on October 25th by the…
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Human rights plunge into the past
Human rights in British Columbia may be about to plunge backwards by twenty years. In 1983 Bill Bennett abolished the Human Rights Commission, fired all the Commissioners and staff, and narrowed human rights legislation in one sweeping assault. Though a little slower off the mark, the current government seems poised…
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How the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples can be implemented in BC law, policy and practices — new report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Coast Salish Territories/ Vancouver) A report released today outlines for the first time what implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples could and should look like in BC law, policy and practices; the BC government has explicitly committed…
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Saskatchewan’s “Parents’ Bill of Rights” is going to hurt queer youth
The prairie province has a litany of problems—allowing young people to change their pronouns is not one of them
In October 2023, the government of Saskatchewan passed a “Parents’ Bill of Rights.” The main focus of the legislation (which amends The Education Act, 1995) is to prevent trans children from using different names or pronouns and changing their gender identity without their parents being notified. This aspect of the legislation…
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BC needs a Human Rights Commission – now
Human rights are everyone’s business. The social climate we live in affects us all. When people are subjected to prejudice and discrimination because they are aboriginal or because of their gender or because of their sexual orientation or for some other reason, it creates a society that is more ugly,…
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The Nova Scotia government must commit to housing as a human right
One of the critical causes of homelessness and the lack of affordable housing is government’s lack of commitment to protecting and advancing housing as a human right.
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Fast Facts: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
The cost of doing nothing to prevent tragedy As the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) continues, a new study looks at the problems of reactive government policy on MMIWG in Manitoba. The complex impacts on family members of MMIWG are examined in Cost of Doing…
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Bots, trolls, deception and the hacking of the human brain
None of us are immune from efforts to deceive us. It’s important that we learn how to recognize those efforts.
None of us are immune from efforts to deceive us. It’s important that we learn how to recognize those efforts.
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July 2004: Enbridge Spreads Disaster in Columbia
In the December 2000/January 2001 Monitor, I reported that Enbridge Inc., one of Canada’s leading energy corporations, was linked to death squads in Colombia according to information provided by Amnesty International. Below, I examine the impact of this revelation in Canada as well as detail the further damage caused in…
Kate Bunker
