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Overseas Chinese step up protests as calls mount for change

November 30, 2022February 8, 2023amp Leave a comment

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.

Canada’s Trudeau defends use of emergency powers in ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests

November 25, 2022February 7, 2023amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday defended invoking emergency powers to end anti-government protests that paralyzed the capital earlier this year, citing the threat of violence and lack of a credible plan by police.

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Canadian hospitals, strapped for staff, strain with sick children

November 18, 2022February 7, 2023amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Canadian hospitals are straining to care for an influx of sick children, many with respiratory illnesses, in the midst of staffing constraints and as a shortage of children’s over-the-counter medication sends more kids to hospital.

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Canadian Supreme Court sides against First Nations woman in sentencing case

November 4, 2022February 7, 2023amp Leave a comment

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.

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A nation of immigrants: Newcomers’ share of Canadian population hits record

October 26, 2022amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Immigrants’ share of Canada’s population has hit its highest point in the country’s 150-year history and the biggest share among G7 countries, new data released by Statistics Canada showed on Wednesday.

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Canadian tribunal seeks revamp of C$20 billion deal for First Nations children

October 25, 2022October 26, 2022amp Leave a comment

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.

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Canada-U.S. asylum-seeker pact fight goes to Canada’s Supreme Court

October 6, 2022October 26, 2022amp Leave a comment

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.

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Analysis: Canada top court ruling on asylum-seeker pact with U.S. may have ripple effects, lawyers say

October 4, 2022October 26, 2022amp Leave a comment

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.

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Border-crossing asylum-seekers hit six-year high in Canada

September 27, 2022October 26, 2022amp Leave a comment

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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Waking to screams: How stabbings shattered tiny Canadian communities

September 8, 2022September 15, 2022amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Mark Arcand’s nephews woke to screams Sunday morning.

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