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Front Burner With wars on multiple continents and democracy under threat, we’re joined for a wide ranging discussion with a leader in the global humanitarian world: Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Dr. Agnès Callamard. CBC News · Posted: May 06, 2025 8:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago Agnes …
Read More »Quebec judge rules 2 should face U.S. extradition in human smuggling river deaths
A Quebec Superior Court judge ruled two people from Akwesasne should face extradition to the U.S., where they face charges related to a human smuggling run across the St. Lawrence River that ended in the drowning deaths of nine people on March 29, 2023. Justice Gregory Moore said the federal …
Read More »At least 7,000 have died in Congo this year, country’s PM tells UN’s human rights council
Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the prime minister of the DRC told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, with combatants and civilians among the dead. About 3,000 deaths were reported in Goma, Judith …
Read More »Human smugglers sent 2 families to their deaths as RCMP closed in, court records show
After the Chaudhari family landed in Montreal on a flight from Winnipeg they walked out the airport doors to a waiting grey minivan allegedly driven by a key player in a human smuggling network that would eventually lead the four Indian nationals to their deaths, according to court records obtained …
Read More »Whale song shows ‘hallmarks’ of human language
There’s a reason “antidisestablishmentarianism” is more a piece of trivia than vital to the English language. Because a word that long is not what human language favours. According to experts, we tend toward efficiency and brevity — with statistical laws that persist across cultures. Perhaps now, even across species. Two …
Read More »Human smuggling persists along Canada-U.S. border, despite crackdown
Human smuggling networks continue to operate along Quebec’s border with Vermont and New York state despite winter conditions and increased law enforcement, according to U.S. Federal Court records about two incidents over the past weekend. The U.S. Border Patrol disrupted a human smuggling run early Sunday across the Quebec-New York border …
Read More »Alberta human rights tribunal dismisses trans woman’s discrimination complaint against EPS
An Alberta human rights tribunal has dismissed a complaint that the Edmonton Police Service was discriminatory in how officers responded to a safety complaint about a transgender person who hadn’t reported back from a date. However, in a Jan. 10 written decision, human rights commission member Sandra Badejo said two …
Read More »Louisiana reports 1st U.S. human death related to H5N1 avian flu
The Louisiana Department of Health said on Monday that a U.S. patient hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu has died, the country’s first death from an outbreak of the virus that has sickened dozens of people and millions of poultry and cattle. Nearly 70 people in the U.S. have contracted bird flu …
Read More »Lawyers seek acquittal, new trial for human smugglers convicted after family died at Manitoba-U.S. border
Lawyers for two men convicted of human smuggling charges by a Minnesota jury after a family from India froze to death in Manitoba while trying to walk across the Canada-U.S. border in 2022 are asking for their clients to either be acquitted in the case or get a new trial. Harshkumar …
Read More »Former detainee of Syria’s ‘human slaughterhouse’ says Assad regime overthrow ‘worth everything’
Omar Alshogre watches in awe as political detainees at one of Syria’s most notorious prisons are released from an institution that was made to torture and kill anyone accused of speaking out against the Syrian government. “The moment we are living today, freedom of the Assad regime, it’s worth all …
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