Policy and Rights

The UN agency for Palestinians has fired 12 employees and ordered an investigation into allegations of staff involvement in the 7 October Hamas attacks. https://www.spreaker.com/episode/evidence-emerges-of-unrwa-support-for-hamas--58525984 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support .

Chrystia Freeland, the deputy prime minister and minister of finance, provides an update on the federal government’s economic plan. She is joined at the news conference in Ottawa by federal ministers Sean Fraser (housing), François-Philippe Champagne (industry), Anita Anand (Treasury Board) and Marc Miller (immigration). Fraser announces a plan to reform the Apartment Construction Loan Program in...

UN Security Council debate and make statements about burtality that is happening in the Middle East and Especially Gaza Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support .

Panel of experts including Dr Tedro talk about the furture of medicine and to prevent widespread disease and pandemics from happening Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support .

With a stated goal of targeting institutional "bad actors" — and amid concern about the impact growing numbers of international students are having on the housing market — Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced Monday that the federal government will cap the number of student permits over the next two years. The government says it will approve approximately 360,000 undergraduate study permits...

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland takes part in a panel discussion entitled “No Recovery without Trade and Investment” while attending a meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. Also participating are Valdis Dombrovskis (European commissioner for trade), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (director-general of the World Trade Organization), Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak (Emirati govern...

Responding to questions from reporters, the prime minister comments on the federal government’s decision to not further extend the repayment deadline for businesses who received Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA) loans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Trudeau also faces questions on parental rights in New Brunswick and on the carbon price exemption for Atlantic Canadians. Energy and Natural Res...

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland addresses the media in Toronto to highlight the federal government’s work in addressing the ongoing housing crisis. She is joined by Marci Ien, the MP for Toronto Centre, and Andrew Joyner, managing director at Tricon Residential. The deputy prime minister faces questions about internal documents warning about the potential impact of high immigration to hous...

South Africa told judges at the World Court in the Hague on Thursday that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and pleaded with the court to issue an interim order for an immediate halt to Israel's military actions Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support .

GAZA The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that the intensifying offensive in Deir al Balah, in central Gaza, and Khan Younis, in the south, is driving up civilian casualties and having devastating consequences for tens of thousands of people, many of whom had fled to Deir al Balah for safety from Gaza city and the north. As a result of increased attacks – inclu...

Global economic growth is projected to slow from an estimated 2.7 percent in 2023 to 2.4 per cent in 2024, trending below the pre-pandemic growth rate of 3.0 per cent, according to the United Nations World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) 2024 report. At the launch of the report today (04 Jan), Hantanu Mukherjee, Director of the Economic Analysis and Policy Division and Hamid Rashid, Chief...

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland makes an announcement in Ottawa. She is joined at the news conference by ministers Sean Fraser (housing), Jenna Sudds (social development) and Rechie Valdez (small business). (December 5, 2023) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support .

As we know several issues are happening around the world. Let’s focus on two of the biggest ones that have the biggest effect on what is happening in the world today. One is war and the other is climate change. In the three segments that we have today, we're going to have a secretary-general, as he is leading into COP about climate change and his trip to Antarctica. He was saying that scientists h...

Jeff began working in their family business 51 years ago. He is a fifth-generation family member in the company business and a descendant of Edward O’Keefe, Irish immigrant who came to America on the heels of the great potato famine in the mid 1800’s. Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Home will celebrate 160 years since the beginning of their origins in 2025. Jeff has served two Gubernatorial appoints and...

Press conference by Mr. Michael Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme (briefing virtually from Geneva) and Mr. Rob Holden, WHO Senior Emergency Officer (briefing from Gaza). They addressed the situation of the health sector in Gaza, including the recent evacuation of patients from Al-Shifa Hospital. The World Health Organization (WHO) senior...

Defence Minister Bill Blair delivers opening remarks as the 15th annual Halifax International Security Forum gets underway. The three-day conference brings together defence experts, political leaders, military officials, and academics from around the world to discuss pressing security challenges At a news conference in Ottawa, Environment Minister Stephen Guilbeault announces a ban on the domestic...

Steven Guilbeault, Canada’s minister of environment and climate change, and Jennifer Morgan, Germany’s state secretary and special envoy for international climate action, provide a virtual update on the climate finance goal to help developing countries adapt to and tackle climate change. The update comes ahead of the United Nations climate change conference (COP28) that is taking place in Dubai fr...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre holds a news conference during a visit to Vancouver. He comments on recent antisemitic incidents in Canada amid the war between Israel and Hamas, including gunfire at two Jewish schools in Montreal. The Conservative leader announces his party is launching a campaign pushing for senators to support a private member's bill (C-234) that calls for carbon-price reli...

on the heeld situation in Gaza let me be clear from the outset that I fully understand the anger grief and fear of the Israeli people following the horrific barbaric and unjustifiable attacks by Hamas and other armed groups on Israeli civilians on the 7th of October the killing of 1,400 people and injuries to more than 7,200 others is incomprehensible for the survivors and families of victims the...

Press conference by Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), on her findings on her recent mission to Chad where she met with gender-based violence and fistula survivors, as well as women leaders. The Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Natalia Kanem, today (7 Nov) said, “despite being one of the poorest countries in the wor...

Dr Tedros: Since Hamas’s horrific attacks on Israel on the 7th of October, more than 10 thousand people have been killed, including more than 8,500 in Gaza and 1,400 in Israel. In both Israel and Gaza, 70% of those killed are women and children. More than 21 thousand are injured and more than 1.4 million people in Gaza have been displaced. The situation on the ground is indescribable. Hospitals cr...

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Hate Can Kill is an award-winning documentary by Imtiaz Popat that looks at the community response to the 1998 murder of Nirmal Singh Gill, a caretaker at the Guru Nanak Gurudwara in Surrey, by five white supremacist skinheads. An updated film looks at this event and others that have happened since: events where people have been killed because of hate. This version has won over 50 film festival aw...

General Assembly Tenth emergency special session (resumed) 44th plenary meeting Illegal Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support .

Security Council briefing by Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. WHO has been working to support the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population in planning and establishing a comprehensive triage, stabilization, and medical evac...