Policy and Rights

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 Ou...

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 micr...

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 resp...

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 physic...

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...

Recently, CSIS produced a report that showed that MP Michael Chong was the target of possible attacks from China over allegations of genocide in China. He put a motion to the floor and 2021 about the allegations of genocide in China and it took until 2023 for a report to surface that MP Michael Chong and his family could have been targeted by China. As a result of this report, a number of things h...

More than 85 structures have been lost to wildfire in Little Red River Cree Nation in northern Alberta, including the RCMP detachment, general store and water treatment plant. About 90 per cent of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is without power, natural gas has been shut off, and 40 structures 'damaged substantially' from the wildfires. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podca...

The benchmark index of international food commodity prices rose in April for the first time in a year, amid increases in world quotations for sugar, meat and rice, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported today. The number of infections of Covid-19 is steadily declining and the world may be leaving the dangers of the pandemic. There is still an ongoing analysis of...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, told the Security Council that “full compliance with human rights is the best antidote to the inequalities, unaddressed grievances and exclusion which are often at the root of instability and conflict.” Press conference by Guilherme Canela De Souza Godoi, Chief of the section of Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists for the United N...

Liberal MP Jenica Atwin, filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal, and others holds a news conference on Parliament Hill to call for the ban of glyphosate, a widely used herbicide for killing weeds. Atwin’s private member’s bill (C-287) to enact the ban completed first reading in the House of Commons in June 2022. Author Margaret Atwood, who supports the ban, provides a recorded statement. Become a supporter o...

The Province’s new StrongerBC: Future Ready Action Plan will help thousands of people get the skills they need to succeed in the changing economy and help close the skills gap many businesses are facing. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support .

The new UN Security Council president is the representative from Switzerland. Switzerland is known as a nation of peace. How they maintain peace is by mainly maintaining neutrality and they would allow talks to happen among those who were in conflict, that they would try to step back away from the conflict and allow dialogues to happen. Switzerland was always quite successful with that. And during...

If our justice system truly does what it says it does, it helps people rehabilitate, and it doesn't just stick them in jail and punish them. It finds a way to help that person heal and be a better person helps them find their way back to society in a way that they feel welcomed, productive and truly healed. If all that is true and the person is truly healed, and they've changed your life and death...

Minister of Defense, as she talks in a press conference about upgrades to helicopters and equipment for the US military and how the Canadian military is doing more than what is truly expected of them and how the military is achieving the things that they want and, and as in need of equipment for peacekeeping operations. So we're going to hear from her she's in Nova Scotia, and she is talking about...

We have a recorded press conference from the United Nations with the Russian representative to the United Nations. And I always remember this, from growing up that Russia or then what was the Soviet Union and the United States always being at odds that we were taught how Russia was the evil one and how communism is just so hateful and hurtful to the Western way of life or, as it were, the American...

Canada public services workers have gone on strike. The union members voted to go on strike and came into the sixth day of striking they were going after the highest impact on the economy and Canadian ports and borders are on the list. So there will be decreased traffic through the port and border which will have effects on inflation and available products. After all, if Canada can't move goods in...

We've been still hearing a lot about the Sudan and the fighting that is going on they're different factions when they can take control of the government. And at one point we heard about the chemical weapons that were used there and now they're trying to discover where these chemical weapons are so they can be sought out destroyed and placing sanctions against those who would actually use things. F...

We're going to hear is about Indigenous Rights recorded from a United Nations press conference. I want to point out something very interesting about this particular press conference because a lot of the press conferences that happen there that they get a bunch of the national press and reporters from those outlets show up to ask questions. While we were able to grab in from First Nations Channel t...

Integrity and transparency, there's nothing more than we will want out of our government and at times it seems like that is the last thing that we get. Arguments about how to tax the billionaire CEOs of Canada that are making excessive salaries and receiving bonuses and benefits that put there more than 400 times what the average employee makes with them. Now, it can be argued that the government...

Education is one of the cornerstones of living an extraordinary and fantastic life. Learning what is around us and what not only is on our planet, but what is out in the cosmos is been a cornerstone of my life and I couldn’t have done it without some of the basic skills that we need, reading, writing, and of course math https://depictions.media/ontario-invest-into-education/ #education #learning #...

Autism Awareness and some of what it actually means about the wiring of the brain how to educate, and how to work with perspectives on efficacy. And a number of different things around people that have different abilities, and a different type of wiring to their brain so that they see things maybe a little bit differently, experienced things a little bit differently and one of the things that we'r...

How people with Autism need advocacy and how they advocate for themselves. The policies that have equality should be put in place so that we are all seen equally that we're all seeing with the capability to reach the newest heights and achieve greatness within ourselves. That we don't have to be seen as that person that need to be looked down upon. We don't have to feel less of ourselves because w...