Warm summer temperatures combined with drought conditions throughout the province are increasing the potential for wildfires. People should follow all fire bans and restrictions and be prepared for wildfires by having an emergency plan and staying informed as conditions change. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support ....
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is joining its partners to warn about the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Burkina Faso’s central and northern regions where each day the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilian are being disrupted by insecurity and violence. Some 486,000 have been forced to flee within the country, 267,000 of whom in the past 3 months alone. A further 16,000 are refugees in neighbouring countries UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is joining its partners to warn about the unfolding h...
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh holds a news conference in St. John’s as he continues his tour of the Atlantic provinces. He takes aim at the cost of food in Newfoundland and Labrador and outlines his party’s plan to lower grocery bills across the country. Singh is joined by Mary Shortall, the NDP candidate for St. John’s East. Coming off a tour of the country, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre holds a news conference in Ottawa to discuss the high cost of living. He faces questions from reporters on...
Press briefing by Achim Steiner, Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and David Gressly, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen, on the FSO Safer tanker. The United Nations has started pumping oil off the decaying vessel FSO Safer, moored off Yemen’s Red Sea coast, averting a potential spill and environmental disaster, Steiner and Gressly informed. Briefing journalists in New York on Tuesday (25 July) via video, Steiner and Gressly marked the milestone but warned it’s...
“Global food systems are broken - and billions of people are paying the price.” According to UN estimates, over 780 million people experience hunger, almost one-third of all food produced globally is lost or wasted and nearly three billion people cannot afford healthy diets. Developing countries face additional challenges, as limited resources and debt burdens prevent them from investing fully in food systems which can produce to nutritious food across the social spectrum. Unsustainable food pro...
Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday rebuked the Florida Board of Education’s new standards for how Black history will be taught in schools, calling it an effort by extremist leaders to spread propaganda. Speaking in Jacksonville, Harris said the recently approved curriculum, which suggests some slaves reaped benefits from the skills they acquired during forced labor, was based on a policy intent on misleading children. "They want to replace history with lies," Harris said. "These extremist, s...
Media Stakeout by Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, on the Black Sea Grain Initiative. Speaking to journalists outside the General Assembly, Ukraine’s Minister for Foreign Affairs said, “Yesterday, when I had a meeting with the Secretary-General, ahead of his phone conversation with President Zelenskyy, we literally discussed all possible options with him.” He continued, “And he instructed relevant departments of the Secretariat to consider possible viable options.” Kuleba c...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre delivers remarks about the rising cost of living and takes questions from reporters in Vancouver. He responds to questions about the end of the province's port strike, the death of a B.C. wildfire fighter, the impact of the federal carbon-pricing plan on inflation, and the ongoing negotiations between federal parties for a public inquiry into foreign interference. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mayor Mike Savage comment briefly ahead of their meeting in Ha...
A school is a place of learning and discovery. As a child, I remember running home and resetting what I learned that day in the classroom. A school is a place of excitement, showing how the universe works and how beautiful life is. A school is a place of learning, and this should stimulate the mind and show diversity to educate show should open minds and doors. To educate should mean to open doors to the mind. Here is the question should parents have a say in what children are being taught? Shou...
In this UN Security Council briefing, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, emphasizes the crucial role of diplomacy in effectively resolving the Iranian nuclear issue. She calls upon all parties to renew dialogue and highlights the need for the United States to lift or waive its sanctions as outlined in the plan, extending waivers for trade in oil with the Islamic Republic of Iran. DiCarlo expresses concern over the stockpile of enriched uranium in I...
William O'Neill, the UN Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in Haiti. In this informative video, O'Neill provides a comprehensive analysis of the challenges faced by Haiti and presents key recommendations to alleviate the crisis. O'Neill begins by acknowledging the instability that Haiti endures, including violence, misery, fear, and suffering. However, he firmly asserts that hope persists and that Haiti can break free from its downward spiral with determined efforts and external...
What if a law was created in Ottawa that blocks our ability to get information? What if it worked subtly and was put into terms that we may not understand until the law or act takes effect? What if I then told you it is happening while you are sitting there reading this blog post? If you read the news you may have seen headlines about how Google and Facebook are going to block Canadian News Media from their websites. Many of us think it is simply because Google and Facebook do not want to share ...
Provincial and territorial leaders speak with reporters at the conclusion of the annual conference of western premiers. British Columbia Premier David Eby hosted this year’s conference in Whistler. He is joined by Danielle Smith (Alberta), Scott Moe (Saskatchewan), Heather Stefanson (Manitoba), Ranj Pillai (Yukon), Caroline Cochrane (Northwest Territories), and P.J. Akeeagok (Nunavut). Key issues such as strengthening infrastructure and trade corridors, addressing energy security both domestical...
Children should not be a part of War and in the United Nations report on children affected by armed conflict, these same children they've had their childhoods stolen because of what they've seen or been through. They've experienced shootings they experienced bombings. Here in North America, we get all upset over mass shootings and their effect on children. Let's look at other armed conflicts around the world and how can we protect children from seeing violence so that they can grow up only exper...
Bill C-18, the Online News Act, is less than 48 hours old, but the more you examine the bill, the worse it gets. My previous posts unpacked why the general policy is bad for press independence and competition as well as why the bill features a misguided attempt to require payments for links. Yet the bill requires an even deeper look since it goes far beyond “compensating journalists when they use their content” (as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday in the House of Commons) or even lin...
Press conference by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg with the Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, Berlin, 19 June 2023. 🗣 | NATO Secretary General: Chancellor Scholz, dear Olaf, Thank you so much for hosting me here in Berlin, and also thank you so much for your leadership and for your personal commitment to NATO, to the transatlantic Alliance. We face the most challenging security environment in a generation. Last year, President Putin sent hundreds of thousands of troops into Ukraine, ...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford announces a $2.7-million investment into a free skills upgrade program for electricians. The program will be led by Ottawa-based company KE Electrical. The premier is joined at the news conference in Kanata by Monte McNaughton (provincial labour minister), Goldie Ghamari (MPP for Carleton), Jesse Lowe (CFO for KE Electrical) and Mark Sutcliffe (mayor of Ottawa). Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support ....
States around the world have been devoting increased resources to the critical task of managing violent extremist prisoners (VEPs) to preventing further radicalisation to violence while also supporting disengagement, rehabilitation and reintegration. As an emerging field of practice, there is a need for policymakers, practitioners, as well as experts in civil society, academia and others, to share good practices and lessons learned. Drawing from recent national and international initiatives and ...
‘Catastrophe’ looms He said limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius is still possible but will require a 45 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030. However, current policies will lead to a 2.8°C temperature rise by the end of the century, which “spells catastrophe”. He called for immediate global action toward net-zero emissions, which “must start with the polluted heart of the climate crisis: the fossil fuel industry. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.sprea...
The Secretary-General warned that hatred is a catalyst for polarization and radicalization and a conduit for atrocity crimes. Around the world, he said, we are witnessing a groundswell of xenophobia, racism and intolerance, violent misogyny, anti-Muslim hatred, virulent antisemitism, and attacks on minority Christian communities. Mr. [Antônio] Guterres said that we must rein in the hate and that is spreading online, noting that he had launched a policy brief earlier this week to promote informat...
Ukraine, where the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam has caused widespread devastation and human suffering, leading to severe flooding, displacement of communities and significant infrastructure and environmental damage. The impact on the region’s water supply, sanitation systems and public health services cannot be underestimated. WHO has rushed in to support the authorities and health care workers in preventive measures against waterborne diseases and to improve disease surveillance. Our team is...
The war in Ukraine has become more dangerous than ever. Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric power station was damaged in an attack. Kyiv and Moscow are trading blames and the people in the region are sitting in the middle of a disaster that may change their lives forever. Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric power station is a critical civilian site that supplies power to farmland and supplies cool water to a nearby nuclear power plant. Attacking like this is a severe act and may be seen as a type of war c...
Chrystia Freeland, the deputy prime minister and minister of finance, speaks with reporters at the Red River College Polytech research centre in Winnipeg. She is introduced by college president Fred Meier. The minister faces questions about unemployment and labour shortages in Canada COMMON AGENDA The Secretary-General, Anotion Guterres, briefed Member States on three of his policy briefs under Our Common Agenda. The three briefs deal with the topics of: reform of the international financial arc...
Over the past two weeks, health leaders from around the world gathered in Geneva for the annual World Health Assembly. There were many significant resolutions and decisions taken on the vast array of issues on which WHO works. This includes behavioural sciences; best buys for noncommunicable diseases; diagnostics; disabilities; drowning prevention; emergency, critical and operative care; food micronutrients; indigenous health; infection prevention and control; maternal and child health; medical ...
ELECTION OF NEW PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY This morning, the Secretary-General congratulated Dennis Francis of Trinidad and Tobago on being elected to lead the next session of the General Assembly. He said that President-elect Francis brings a wide range of skills, experience and knowledge, adding that, in addition to his years working closely with multilateral agencies, he also is a respected negotiator and long-serving diplomat BLACK SEA INITIATIVE We are concerned about the continuous ...
Jagmeet Singh has been pushing for a public inquiry into the Asian interference in Canada's election process and into the Chinese tracking of Canadian MP's why are these problem not our in the public so we the people can see the investigation Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support .
Should Canada have a Safe Supply for Opioid addicts that is Federally Funded? Which Drugs should be decrimimalized? Changes to a Bill that will offer better support to people with disabilities. Elecection interference by China Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support .
Iceland and Canada sign and agreement The UN give trubute to the work of the peacekeeper and more funding toward endingthe violence against Indigenous people in Canada Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support .
The Bank of Canada wants to know what Canadians think about the possibility of a digital loonie. Consultations on what Canadians would like to have included in a digital currency are open online from May 8 until June 19, the Bank of Canada said Monday. The central bank notes, however, that the decision to launch a digital version of the Canadian dollar remains in the hands of Parliament and physical coins and banknotes aren’t going anywhere. Compared to private cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, whi...
Officials from Alberta Emergency Management Agency and Alberta Wildfire will provide an update on Monday regarding the Alberta wildfire situation. As of Monday morning, Alberta Wildfire had 95 wildfires burning across the province, 23 of which were listed as out of control. Officials continue to thank Albertans for being safe and requested people continue to take all measures to avoid human-caused fires, including abiding by the fire ban in effect, so that firefighters can continue to focus on t...
