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Israel pushed tanks deeper into Gaza City and detonated explosives-laden vehicles in one suburb as airstrikes killed at least 19 people on Monday, Palestinian officials and witnesses said. The reports came as the president of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association said it had passed a resolution saying the legal …
Read More »Amnesty report finds Israel committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
A new report from Amnesty International found that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in its nearly 14-month-long campaign in Gaza that has killed more than 44,000 people and displaced most of the enclave’s population. The report, published Wednesday, said the ongoing assault on Gaza met the legal threshold for …
Read More »Ottawa not committing when to introduce First Nations policing bill – National
The federal government is backing away from setting a timeline to introduce legislation that would declare First Nations policing an essential service, but at least one regional chief hopes to see it this spring. Ghislain Picard, a member of the Assembly of First Nations executive, says it has been fighting …
Read More »Prolific offenders are committing an outsized amount of crime in B.C. What can be done to solve the problem?
In a Port Coquitlam, B.C., courtroom two decades ago, a defendant named Roy Gene Hopkins stood before a judge and predicted the future with a surprising degree of accuracy. In February 2002, Hopkins was 36 and already had a lengthy criminal record fuelled by addiction to heroin and cocaine. He begged the judge …
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