Manitoba chiefs want the provincial government to scrutinise the CBC because allegedly racist comments have been posted at CBC News online.
Media organizations are creating a forum for online racism by allowing readers and bloggers to comment on stories on news websites, Manitoba First Nations leaders said Wednesday.
So, allowing readers and bloggers to comment is necessarily [...]

Many Australians are angrily accusing government of contributing to deadly wildfires through policies that impede removing trees and clearing away brush.
During question time at a packed community meeting in Arthurs Creek on Melbourne’s northern fringe, Warwick Spooner — whose mother Marilyn and brother Damien perished along with their home in the Strathewen blaze — criticised [...]

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today released a global assessment of the fight against human trafficking. A few signs of progress are reported in a small number of countries but , overall, trafficking of human beings seems to be growing. Most countries are still ignoring or denying the modern-day [...]

Six newly built rooms at Atlantic Canada’s largest children’s hospital, the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, are being renovated for use as office space.  The rooms being transformed into offices are, moreover, the most desirable spaces on the unit—with views overlooking a large tree-filled green space in Halifax’s south end.  (Map here.)
Several patients’ families wrote [...]

You can tell that Edward Keenan is a leftist because he lists Noam Chomsky as a “great thinker”, but he nevertheless agrees with Mark Steyn that the right of free speech is essential for democracy.
[T]he point of Steyn’s testimony to the hearing — echoing the sentiments of great thinkers throughout history including Voltaire, George Orwell, [...]

The Halifax Chronicle-Herald interviews Saint Mary’s University philosophy professor Mark Mercer about last week’s disruption of a pro-life presentation.  In Dr Mercer’s view, the shouters who prevented Jojo Ruba from speaking should have been removed from the hall.
“I don’t want to defend what he said as non-hate speech because I think that’s irrelevant,” Mark Mercer [...]