Month: September 2020

One of the Green Party leadership race’s most outspoken leftist candidates is facing expulsion from the race mere days before voting was set to begin — and is now appealing the ruling in hopes of getting back on the ballot.  Meryam Haddad, a lawyer from Montreal, was expelled from the race Tuesday for “intentionally undertaking…

Click:Anti-aging Home Beauty Device Brand The office of Canada’s privacy commissioner says Shopify Inc. has yet to notify it of a recent data breach the company says was carried out by two “rogue” employees. “We have not received a breach report about this incident,” Vito Pilieci, a senior communications adviser for the Office of the…

PENINSULAR, Malaysia — An invisible workforce of millions of labourers from some of the poorest corners of Asia toil in the palm oil industry, many of them enduring various forms of exploitation, with the most serious abuses including child labour, outright slavery and allegations of rape, an Associated Press investigation has found. In Malaysia and Indonesia,…

As Hurricane Teddy approached Nova Scotia Tuesday morning, Mi’kmaq fishermen tied up their boats and hunkered down at their campsite, prepared to wait out the storm.  The approaching Category 2 hurricane was a welcome distraction for Sipekne’katik First Nation after facing days of pushback from non-Indigenous, commercial fishermen against a new, self-regulated lobster fishery in…

More than 200 members of the disability rights group ADAPT forced lawmakers to delay their hearing on the latest Republican attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act on Monday. Protesters started lining up outside the hearing room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building at 6:00am; the hearing was not scheduled to begin until 2:00pm. Organizers…

“These aren’t principles. This is red meat for xenophobic extremists.” So stated the National Immigration Law Center (NLIC) on Sunday evening after the White House issued a list of hardline policies it wants in exchange for making the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program—known legislatively as the Dream Act—permanent. “When you make an offer…

One person in Washington, D.C. took a stand against President Donald Trump on Thursday night by bending over. Because “we all have a role to play.” According to accounts from the White House press pool, the “moon” incident happened as Trump’s motorcade passed through the neighborhood of Cleveland Park on its way to the Kuwaiti…

“If the FCC passes Pai’s plan in December, it will face enormous challenges in court—and in the streets as well.” —Craig Aaron, Free Press Defenders of the open internet are issuing urgent calls to action as news reports indicate that Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Ajit Pai has set his sights on a December 14…

Democratic National Committee (DNC) deputy chairman Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) waded into the growing outrage over the party organ’s “rigging” of the 2016 primary in a statement on Friday, arguing that Donna Brazile’s explosive account of the committee’s moves to stack the deck against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and in favor of Hillary Clinton “cannot…

As Republicans’ refusal to include protections for immigrants in a spending proposal has Congress heading toward a likely government shutdown, President Donald Trump was forced on Friday to delay his plans to travel to Mar-a-Lago for a gala celebrating his first year in office. After originally planning to leave by 4:30pm on Friday for the…