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Ontario Liberal MPs want Justin Trudeau to step down: sources
At a virtual meeting of the Ontario Liberal caucus on Saturday morning, more than 50 Liberal MPs came to a consensus that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to step down as party leader, multiple sources told CBC News.
MPs call for crackdown on student protest encampments, ban on display of terror symbols
In two reports on antisemitism and Islamophobia in Canada, Liberal and NDP MPs on the House of Commons justice committee said Ottawa should take steps to keep student protest encampments off university grounds, criminally ban the display of terrorist emblems and recognize anti-Palestinian discrimination as a unique form of hate.
Courts warn of 'critical' budget pressures as immigration cases delayed in Canada's 3 largest cities
Federal Justice Minister Arif Virani is set to meet with the chief justices of Canada's four federal courts on Friday, after they warned of a budgetary shortfall creating "critical" pressure on their operations, including efforts to clear a backlog of immigration filings in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.
Antiwar protesters calling for Israeli embargo ousted from Ottawa building housing MPs' offices
Dozens of antiwar protesters who occupied the lobby of the Confederation Building in Ottawa to call for an arms embargo on Israel have now been ejected.
Liberals, NDP pass bill to enact 2-month GST holiday in House of Commons
The House of Commons has passed legislation that will remove the federal sale tax for two months from a range of items, including childrens' toys, books, restaurant meals and takeout, as well as beer and wine.
Canadian MPs join international push for recognition of Palestinian state
Some 30 Canadian MPs, including NDP and Green leaders Jagmeet Singh and Elizabeth May, as well as four members of the governing Liberal caucus, have joined forces with counterparts in New Zealand and Australia in support of recognizing a Palestinian state.
Nineteen failed refugee claimants were sent back to Afghanistan last year, CBSA says
Canada's border guards sent 19 Afghans who failed their refugee claims back to Afghanistan in 2023 — even as the federal government continued to denounce the human rights record of the Taliban regime that took power three years ago.
Canadian government speaking with allies about Palestinian statehood recognition, official tells MPs
Ottawa has been speaking with like-minded countries about recognizing a Palestinian state, a government official told a committee of parliamentarians studying the quickest path toward such a declaration Thursday afternoon.
Most opposition parties ditch UN climate change conference in Azerbaijan, citing human rights concerns
Most of the opposition parties on Parliament Hill are ditching the high-profile annual United Nations conference on climate change this year, citing human rights concerns in the host country Azerbaijan little more than a year after the mass exodus of nearly 120,000 ethnic Armenians from their homes in the once-disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Canada condemns latest rollback of women's rights by Taliban regime in Afghanistan
Canada's Special Representative to Afghanistan David Sproule is condemning the Taliban's latest curtailment of women's rights. The regime moved earlier this week to prevent women from hearing each other pray or reciting the Qu'ran.