a business of misfits

Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me
  • picture this.
  • what?

Global News

The public health case for tough-to-buy booze

September 25, 2015December 12, 2015amp Leave a comment

September 25, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Ontario’s announcement this week that it plans to sell certain kinds of beer in select grocery stores starting three months from now came as good news to some, but it also raised public health alarm bells.

Continue reading →

‘Life has no taste now’: Refugees’ torturous wait for family a world away

September 11, 2015April 22, 2018amp Leave a comment

September 11, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

On bad days Lina Sallat wishes she’d never left – never fled Syria as the country tore itself to shreds; never sought safety with her toddler on the other side of the world, leaving her husband and oldest son behind.

Continue reading →

Is Canada ready for physician-assisted death?

September 10, 2015April 22, 2018amp Leave a comment

September 10, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Whoever becomes Canada’s next prime minister will have to figure out how health practitioners help suffering people die.

Continue reading →

Reality Check: Canada’s record on refugees

September 4, 2015December 12, 2015amp Leave a comment

September 4, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny and James Armstrong, Global News

As the image of a dead toddler on the shores of a Turkish beach reverberated this week, Conservative leader Stephen Harper defended Canada’s record when it comes to aiding displaced persons.

Continue reading →

What do students really ask in sex ed? (And how do you answer them?)

September 3, 2015December 12, 2015amp Leave a comment

Sept. 3, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Sex, sexuality and sexual health can be fraught topics to broach in the classroom. But much trickier than any curricular updates is answering students’ questions — the anonymous, curious, often awkwardly written queries young people submit over the course of their sex ed lessons.

Continue reading →

Mentally ill, found guilty of terrorism: What happens to Chiheb Esseghaier?

September 1, 2015October 25, 2015amp Leave a comment

Sept. 1, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

A courtroom debate on the fate of a mentally ill man found guilty of terrorism was interrupted by saliva projectiles Wednesday.

Continue reading →

‘C-51 is a tragedy’: New book slams Canada’s anti-terror law

September 1, 2015October 25, 2015amp Leave a comment

Sept. 1, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Canada is “getting it wrong” in its war on terror, enacting laws that are both unconstitutional and fail to keep the country safer, an upcoming book charges.

Continue reading →

Red Cross signs deal to visit detainees in Ontario jails months after Global News investigation

August 20, 2015August 28, 2015amp Leave a comment

August 20, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny and Patrick Cain, Global News

Canada’s Red Cross has formally signed a letter of understanding allowing its inspectors to visit immigration detainees being held in Ontario jails, after years of fruitlessly demanding access.

 

Continue reading →

On terror rhetoric, Public Safety Minister ignores RCMP and his own advisors

July 29, 2015August 28, 2015amp Leave a comment

July 29, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney’s office ignored edits that would have toned down a counter-terror statement issued in January, according to a document obtained by Global News.

Continue reading →

Tory policy discriminates against refugee applicants from so-called ‘safe’ countries, court finds

July 23, 2015April 22, 2018amp Leave a comment

July 23, 2013 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

The federal government’s refugee policy is discriminatory and violates the Charter rights of refugee applicants from certain countries, a federal court ruled Thursday.

Continue reading →

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

@amp6

Tweets by amp6

recently

  • Canada turns back more asylum-seekers to US despite third-country deportation risk
  • Canada working with US to deal with countries slow to accept deportees, document shows
  • Canada struggled to advise travelers on Trump trans policies, documents show
  • Some migrants in Canada lose work status while applications languish
  • Despite Trudeau promises, more Indigenous people being jailed in Canada

previously

categories

etc

  • Create account
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • a business of misfits
    • Join 35 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • a business of misfits
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...