Zoe Daniel (born 28 November 1972) is an Australian politician and former journalist. She was elected as the first independent member of parliament for the Division of Goldstein at the 2022 Australian federal election . Daniel was one of a number of community independents, dubbed " Teal independents " by the media, who were elected in 2022. Prior to entering Parliament, Daniel was a journalist for the ABC from 1993 until 2020. She was an ABC foreign correspondent in three different postings, inc...
Feb 11, 2025•1 hr 7 min
At a news conference in Ottawa, Liberal leadership candidate Frank Baylis announces a new proposal regarding Canada’s role in the Gaza strip. At a news conference in Toronto, Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie addresses challenges concerning affordability and access to healthcare in the province. Following her remarks, she faces questions from reporters about a number of topics, including U.S. President Donald Trump's continued tariff threats against Canada and emergency room closures in Onta...
Feb 11, 2025•1 hr 1 min
The Ontario PC plan to protect workers and businesses includes: $10 billion in cash-flow support for Ontario employers through a six-month deferral of provincially administered taxes on Ontario businesses. $3 billion in payroll tax and premium relief for small businesses. $120 million to support approximately 18,000 bars and restaurants by increasing the LCBO wholesale discount from 10 per cent to 15 per cent. $40 million for a new Trade-Impacted Communities Program to support municipalities and...
Feb 06, 2025•58 min
British Columbia Premier David Eby holds a news conference in Vancouver to react to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to place 25% tariffs on Canadian products entering the United States. In an initial retaliatory measure, Eby announces a directive to the B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch to immediately cease the purchase of America liquor from Republican-led states and to remove top-selling U.S. brands from public liquor store shelves. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau outlines Canada's response...
Feb 06, 2025•1 hr 1 min
At a news conference on Parliament Hill, NDP MP Charlie Angus calls on Canadians to sign his “pledge for Canada” to defend what he calls Canadian values. The event comes as U.S. President Donald Trump’s Feb. 1 tariff deadline approaches. Angus is joined by John Cartwright, chair of the Council of Canadians, Esi Edugyan, a novelist, and Jean Teillet, an Indigenous rights lawyer. In Halifax, federal Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney releases his plan to replace the consumer carbon tax, prop...
Feb 02, 2025•1 hr 1 min
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Jan 30, 2025•1 hr 19 min
Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix said the situation on the ground in DRC “remains volatile and dangerous.” During a press briefing at the United Nations headquarters today (27 Jan) Lacroix said, “The civilian population in a region that is already massively affected, and where the humanitarian challenges are daunting, certainly the risks of a broader humanitarian disaster are very high. And of course, we also want to avoid the risk of a broader war.” To ensure the...
Jan 29, 2025•1 hr
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, Green MP Mike Morrice and Jonathan Pedneault speak to reporters on Parliament Hill to announce Pedneault’s return as co-leader, pending a vote by party members. They are joined by members of the Green Party shadow cabinet. Pedneault stepped down from co-leadership of the party in July 2024 for health reasons. Canada-U.S. relations, Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly and Public Safety Minister David McGuinty comment on the federal response to U.S. President Donald Trum...
Jan 28, 2025•49 min
Liberal MPs speak with reporters on Parliament Hill as a two-day meeting of the party’s national caucus continues. Speaking on the state of the party as Liberals prepare to choose their next leader are Ministers Patty Hadju (Indigenous services), Jean-Yves Duclos (public services), François-Philippe Champagne (innovation), Harjit Sajjan (emergency preparedness), Marc Miller (immigration), Nathaniel Erskine-Smith (housing) as well as MPs Jaime Battiste, Joël Lightbound, John McKay, Patrick Weiler...
Jan 28, 2025•1 hr 23 min
Liberal MPs andLiberal MPs and ministers speak with reporters on Parliament Hill as a two-day meeting of the party’s national caucus gets underway. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and ministers David McGuinty (public safety), Anita Anand (transport and internal trade), Melanie Joly (foreign affairs), François-Philippe Champagne (innovation), and Soraya Martinez Ferrada (tourism) comment on the federal government's response to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threats. Chrystia Freeland (former ...
Jan 25, 2025•54 min
The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher today (23 Jan) told the Security Council that “the children of Gaza are not collateral damage” and are “as deserving as children everywhere of security, education and hope.” Before today’s meeting on the situation of children in the occupied Palestinian territory began, Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya asked for the floor. Nebenzya said, “the refusal” of UNICEF's Head Catherine Russell to brief ...
Jan 25, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Donald Trump speaking at the world economic forum and making comments about lowering the United States deficit to cancer and other places in the world and also talking about ending the war between Ukraine and Russia. Mr. Trump also makes comments about wanting to end nuclear arms around the world in starting with Russia and China Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support ....
Jan 23, 2025•54 min
The topic is Jelena Dokic, Former World Number 4 Tennis Player, TEDx Presenter & Speaker, Commentator & 2-Time Bestselling Author, Addresses the National Press Club of Australia in partnership with Women in Media on "Unbreakable". Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support .
Jan 23, 2025•1 hr 16 min
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a press conference in Montebello, Que., where he responds to U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed tariff threat against Canada. Trump has been threatening to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all imports from Canada since winning the presidential race, and last night signalled Canada and Mexico could face tariffs beginning February 1. The prime minister is in Montebello for his cabinet’s annual winter retreat, which will be his last before he steps down as Liber...
Jan 23, 2025•38 min
President-elect Donald Trump will soon be sworn into the White House on Inauguration Day for his second term as president of the United States. The victory parade is also scheduled to begin indoors soon. President-elect Donald Trump is set to be sworn into the White House again. The Swearing-In Ceremony is slated to start at 12 p.m. The Trump Vance Inaugural Committee released the timeline of key events related to Trump’s inauguration. The 60th Presidential Inauguration is scheduled for Monday, ...
Jan 22, 2025•1 hr
The following statement by UN Secretary-General António Guterres was issued today: I welcome the announcement of a deal to secure a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza. I commend the mediators — Egypt, Qatar and the United States of America — for their dedicated efforts in brokering this deal. Their unwavering commitment to finding a diplomatic solution has been critical in achieving this breakthrough. I call on all relevant parties to uphold their commitments and ensure that this deal is full...
Jan 16, 2025•58 min
President Joe Biden strode into the White House four years ago with a foreign policy agenda that put repairing alliances strained by four years of Republican Donald Trump’s “America First” worldview front and center. The one-term Democrat took office in the throes of the worst global pandemic in a century and his plans were quickly stress-tested by a series of complicated international crises: the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and Hamas’ brutal 2023...
Jan 14, 2025•1 hr 15 min
Press conference by Mr. Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Mr. Shantanu Mukherjee, Director, Economic Analysis and Policy Division at UN DESA and Mr. Hamid Rashid, Chief, Global Economic Monitoring Branch, Economic Analysis and Policy Division at UN DESA, on the launch of the World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) report 2025. The WESP report will also be launched regionally in Bangkok, Beirut, Geneva, Mexico, Moscow and New Delhi in early January. --- Acc...
Jan 10, 2025•58 min
Ministers and Liberal MPs speak with reporters ahead of a caucus meeting on Parliament Hill. This is the Liberals' first caucus meeting since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his intention to step down as prime minister and Liberal leader once his party has chosen a new leader. Minister Dominic LeBlanc (finance, intergovernmental affairs) discusses his decision to not run for Liberal party leader, while Mélanie Joly (foreign affairs) and Jonathan Wilkinson (natural resources) reveal that ...
Jan 09, 2025•58 min
Andrew Scheer and deputy House leader Luc Berthold comment on Justin Trudeau’s intention to resign as Liberal leader and prime minister, as well as the prorogation of Parliament until March 24. Scheer faces questions from reporters on concerns around potential foreign interference in the Liberal leadership race and on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all imports from Canada and Mexico. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podca...
Jan 08, 2025•55 min
Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, Najat Rochdi, briefed Security Council members Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support .
Nov 23, 2024•1 hr 6 min
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini today (13 Nov) said the objective of the campaign to delegitimize the agency “is to strip the Palestinian from the refugee statue,” and “to undermine and to bury once for all the two-state solution.” Talking to journalists in New York after briefing the General Assembly’s Fourth Committee, Lazzarini said, “we are experiencing the darkest moment for the agency in 75 years,” stressing that UNRWA staff, premises, and operation, have been under “attack.”...
Nov 22, 2024•1 hr 32 min
Online forum on the War and occupation of Lebanon on remembrance day to end wars on these traditional, occupied, ancestral, and unceded national homelands of the Coast Salish peoples – specifically the sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations. Moderator: Imtiaz Popat: Activist, journalist, filmmaker, founder of Coalition Against Bigotry-Pacific. Guests: Ghinwa Yassine: Labanese Canadian anti-disciplinary artist, based on the unceded Territories...
Nov 15, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Occupied Palestinian Territory In Gaza city the UN along with our partners, are providing services to tens of thousands of people, including those displaced over the past four weeks from besieged North Gaza. Yesterday, one of the UN’s local partners was able to collect solid waste that has piled up along Tareq Bin Zeyad street. In multiple locations, partners are providing mental health and psychosocial support sessions, including for people newly displaced from North Gaza Governorate. However, ...
Nov 09, 2024•1 hr 7 min
MPs speak with reporters on Parliament Hill as they convene for the daily question period in the House of Commons. Ministers Steven Guilbeault (environment), Marci Ien (women and gender equality) and Sean Fraser (housing) as well as Liberal MPs Rob Oliphant, Ben Carr, Adam van Koeverden, Salma Zahid, Sean Casey, Chris Bittle and Yvan Baker comment on the election of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States and the impact it may have on Canada-U.S. relations Become a supporter of t...
Nov 08, 2024•1 hr 20 min
Vice President Kamala Harris said her heart is "full of resolve" after losing the presidential election to former President Donald Trump. "My heart is full today -- full of gratitude for the trust you have placed in me, full of love for our country, and full of resolve," Harris said Wednesday at her alma mater, Howard University, in Washington, D.C. "The outcome of this election is not what we wanted, not what we fought for, not what we voted for. But ... the light of America’s promise will alwa...
Nov 07, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Torture & Inhuman Treatment - Special Rapporteur | Press Conference | United Nations Hybrid briefing by Alice Jill Edwards, Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Sudan & South Sudan - UN Chief's Briefing | United Nations "Madam President, Excellencies, I thank the Council for the opportunity to discuss the utter humanitarian catastrophe engulfing Sudan. Eighteen months have passed since brutal fighting erupted between the Sudanese Ar...
Nov 01, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon speech & UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, addresses reporters ahead of the critical Security Council meeting on the Middle East, focusing on the Palestinian issue. Watch as Danon outlines Israel’s stance and key topics expected to be discussed in this high-stakes session. Stay tuned for the Security Council meeting that follows, covering the region. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://...
Oct 19, 2024•1 hr 40 min
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Oct 18, 2024•33 min
Violence against Women and Girls - Press conference by Special rapporteur Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls Reem Alsalem said, “Violence against women and girls in sport is a serious, systemic and systematic human rights issue that demands immediate attention at all levels.” Addressing reporters today (8 Oct) on Violence against Women and Girls in sport, Alsalem explored the forms, causes and consequences of violence against women and girls in sports, including sexual violen...
Oct 11, 2024•1 hr 5 min
