By Anna Mehler Paperny and Jessie Pang – Reuters
From Sydney to Toronto, mainland Chinese have stepped up protests this week, with demands to end the world’s most stringent COVID-19 restrictions evolving into calls to “free China” and for President Xi Jinping to step down.
By Anna Mehler Paperny and Ismail Shakil – Reuters
A split Canadian Supreme Court on Friday ruled limits on conditional sentences are constitutional, a setback for advocates of indigenous rights who argued the provisions discriminate against indigenous people, who are overrepresented in the country’s
prisons.
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT), whose landmark decisions on discrimination against First Nations children set the stage for a historic C$20 billion compensation agreement, threw the deal into doubt after it said the agreement does not fully satisfy its orders.
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters
Canada’s Supreme Court Justices questioned whether asylum-seekers that Canada sends back to the United States are really automatically detained and if “safety valves” are available, peppering lawyers with questions during a hearing on Thursday over a U.S.-Canada asylum-seeker pact.
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters
A years-long fight over what Canada owes would-be refugees will have its day in the country’s highest court Thursday and the decision could have implications beyond the asylum system, affecting how Canada’s laws are challenged and how people prove their rights have been breached.
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters
The number of asylum-seekers entering Canada between formal border crossings has surged to the highest point since the government started tracking them in 2017, as dropped pandemic restrictions enable more travel and conflict and catastrophe displace people in many parts of the world.
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