Unpublished Newswire

On May 26, Alberta announced that it was entering the book-banning business. “Multiple books found in some school libraries show extremely graphic and age-inappropriate content,” warned a government press release. To save Alberta’s children from this material, the government promised to act: first, by inviting Albertans to provide feedback on what is “acceptable for school library collections,” and second, by setting province-wide standards that every school board will be required to implement before classes resume in the fall. When The Tyee pointed out that three of the four targeted...

An office created by the Trudeau government to crack down on abuses by Canadian corporations abroad has been without a permanent head for more than a year, with the position now vacant and the future of the watchdog under review. The federal government launched the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) in 2019, calling the office the first of its kind in the world. It is tasked with probing allegations of human-rights abuses and environmental harms by Canadian companies operating overseas in the mining, oil and garment sectors.