NDP plans humanitarian exemption amendment for bill easing aid restrictions
While Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says Bill C-41 strikes the right balance between security and humanitarian access, NDP MP Heather McPherson says it does not.
Canada’s backtrack on foreign aid in Budget 2023 signifies its shrinking role as a global health and development leader
The lack of new funding for international development assistance in Budget 2023 is especially notable when it comes to foreign aid supporting vulnerable women and girls.
MPs blame Tory Genuis for stalling House Foreign Affairs Committee reproductive health study
MPs say the work on the 12-member Foreign Affairs Committee has slowed to a crawl due to the filibustering of one lone member: Garnett Genuis.
Don’t let earthquake shake hopes for peace in war-weary Syria
The international community must conquer donor fatigue and provide a full-scale humanitarian response in Syria.
Is Canada ready to hear from a new wave of water leaders?
While Canada has had a Feminist International Assistance Policy since 2017, little attention has been paid to elevating the voices of women and girls in global water dialogues.
Turkish diaspora calls on immigration minister to fast-track visas, family reunification for earthquake survivors
Yusuf Celik, a New Brunswick resident on a two-week compassionate leave in his native Turkey, said that non-governmental relief workers he has spoken with on the ground believe the death toll from recent back-to-back earthquakes there ‘will be at least 100,000 people.’
More humanitarian assistance, immigration eyed with Canada’s limited options to address quake disaster
With geopolitical difficulties in the areas affected by the devastating Feb. 6 earthquake, Canada has limited options to address the crisis.
Canada has a role helping overcome information poverty
Information poverty is when people don’t have access to reliable, trustworthy, and accurate information that can help them make informed decisions about their everyday lives.
Progressive Afghan women in dangerous limbo, while we wring our hands uselessly
Can Canada not, at least, rescue individual women, especially those who worked with Canadians on various women’s ’empowerment programs’ during the war? You would think so, but it isn’t happening quickly enough for a group of six MPs, from all parties, who have been lobbying government since October to get eight especially vulnerable Afghan women to safety.
Canada’s feminist international assistance policy should be a catalyst for very important questions
The bodies in charge of international development do not focus on making structural changes to the global economic system and instead put the responsibility on Global South women to make the current system work for them.
