With the Supreme Court challenge to assisted suicide laws heading to the Supreme Court tomorrow, here’s a look at some of the other countries’ laws in that regard. Carissima Mathen gives us a primer on the assisted suicide case going before the Supreme Court this week.
Public Safety minister Stephen Blaney has signalled that the government intends to table new legislation to tackle homegrown terrorists who go abroad, which could mean making it easier for security agencies to cooperate and share information.
The advance team for our fight against ISIS leaves for Kuwait next week. The deployment brings up memories of the first Gulf War.
The Canadian-made Ebola vaccine has begun human trials, and could be deployed to West Africa within months.
Documents show that CBSA was considering putting immigration and refugee detainees in federal prisons when their holding facilities became too full – which is scary, because you’d have vulnerable and very stressed people in with potentially violent offenders – people serving sentences of more than two years. They never did end up going with the plan, but it’s fairly unsettling that it was even being considered.
There are calls for better water treatment systems after research has shown that hormones in the water system as a result of birth control pills are having devastating effects on freshwater fish populations.
The Bank of Canada is being criticised for not committing to having images of more women on the next round of banknotes, as they begin consultations on them.
Speaking of the Bank of Canada, Governor Stephen Poloz and other policy makers are trying to determine what the impact of falling oil prices are going to have on the Canadian economy.
The trans rights bill will almost certainly see amendments at Senate committee, as Senator Nancy Ruth wants to ensure that “sex” also becomes a protected class, as it remains such under the Criminal Code. That may happen anyway as it is one of the clauses tucked into C-13, the “cyberbullying” aka lawful access bill.
By-elections have been called in Whitby–Oshawa and Yellowhead for November 17th. Even though Gerry Byrne has committed to running provincially in Newfoundland and Patrick Brown is currently running to win the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, neither has vacated their federal seat yet. And hey, these two seats aren’t being painted with the “test for Trudeau” narrative.
Stephen Harper had his first meeting with Jim Prentice in his new capacity as Alberta Premier while in Calgary over the weekend. Topics of discussion apparently included labour policy and temporary foreign workers as part of that, along with the need to strengthen relations with Aboriginals, especially if they want to get pipelines through their territories.
The Director General of the World Trade Organization says that the world is watching as Canada and the EU finalize our trade agreement, if only because it’s a pre-show for the much larger US-EU deal.
And on CBC Radio’s The 180, Matthew Lazin-Ryder has a piece about the move to restore knights and dames here in Canada.