The US Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by X (formerly Twitter) after a District of Columbia court denied its challenge to a nondisclosure order preventing the company from sharing details with Donald Trump of a Department of Justice warrant against the former president’s activities on the social media platform. In the summary [...]
François Legault, premier of the largely French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec, has called for the implementation of French-style “waiting zones” to address the growing number of asylum seekers entering Canada, according to local media reports. Legault appears to have taken inspiration from asylum waiting zones in France, which function as temporary hotel-style accommodations where asylum [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a report released Wednesday raised concerns over the forcible recruitment of children into a youth group associated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). HRW interviewed multiple families whose children were taken by the Revolutionary Youth Movement of Syria, or Tevgera Ciwanên Şoreşger. The report revealed that in the vast majority [...]
A group of bilingual municipalities within Quebec have sought a temporary suspension against provisions of a law mandating the use of the French language in all municipal proceedings, while proceeding with a larger challenge against Bill 96, Quebec’s controversial new language law. Local media reports that Julius Grey, the attorney representing the municipalities, requested the [...]
Two Ontario First Nations bands — Oneida of the Thames and the Sandy Lake First Nation — have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Ontario provincial government alleging discriminatory underfunding of fire protection services. Per a CBC report, the lack of proper funding is cited by the bands as being responsible for the disproportionately high [...]
Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD), a Canadian advocacy organization, identified a widening gap between the demand for homes within the Greater Toronto Area and housing starts, with a drop from 2,428 housing start applications in 2021 to 1,225 in 2024, in its report issued on Monday. The report reviewed the number of build [...]
Non-profit Indigenous advocacy group First Light has released a report finding that the Newfoundland and Labrador government has made limited progress on many of the calls to action set out by the National Center of Truth and Reconciliation (TRC). The report highlights alleged shortcomings in the province’s efforts to fulfill calls to action related to [...]
Canada’s British Columbia (BC) Ombudsperson welcomed on Tuesday the government’s commitment to compensate survivors of the province’s internment of members of the Doukhobor religious community in the 1950s. However, the office raised concerns about the compensation plan, citing inadequate consultation with survivors and unclear eligibility criteria. BC Ombudsperson Jay Chalke criticized the government’s communications strategy, [...]
The US State Department confirmed in a press conference on Monday that David Lin, an American pastor the US alleges was wrongfully detained since 2009, has been released. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller stated that Lin returned to the US for the first time in almost 20 years upon his release from prison in China. [...]
The Canadian Federal Court of Appeal found that social media platform Facebook violated statutory obligations for data protection and meaningful consent created by Canada’s primary legislation on the use of personal information by corporations, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). Following an investigation into Facebook’s personal data-sharing practices, the Privacy Commissioner of [...]
