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MPs call for House study after UN report slams Canada’s efforts to combat contemporary slavery, forced labour

‘Canada has a labour shortage … but we simply cannot be a nation that exploits other human beings in labour conditions that are such as the rapporteur has described,’ says Liberal MP John McKay.

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT
September 20, 2023

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Poilievre takes aim at Housing Accelerator Fund despite representing a city that’s already received $44-million from it

NewsBY SOPHALL DUCH

‘This is an emergency’: Canadian politicos react to Trump’s election, upcoming cabinet appointments

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

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

NewsBY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

Many provinces say no details from feds on striking pharmacare deals over a month after law passes

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL | UPDATED November 16, 2024

Public service job cuts loom as Ottawa misses spending and deficit targets

NewsBY KATHRYN MAY

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House adjourned, Commons scheduled to return Jan. 29, 2024