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Qualtrough leads off fall sitting with landmark poverty reduction bill for ‘largest minority’

A 2021 poll found 88 per cent of Canadians support the idea of a Canada Disability Benefit, but it will have to contend with an uneven patchwork of existing disability programs at the federal, provincial, and territorial levels.

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Review of solitary confinement law a year late as report finds prisoners’ rights still violated

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