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Several federal and state agencies in the United States are investigating how racist mass texts were sent to Black people across the country in the wake of the presidential election this week. The text messages invoking slavery were sent to Black men, women and children, prompting inquiries by the FBI …

राजस्थान सरकार अगले विधानसभा सत्र में धर्म परिवर्तन विरोधी कानून लेकर आएगी. राज्य में लालच देकर या जबरन धर्म परिवर्तन के खिलाफ सरकार सख़्त कानून बनाने की तैयारी कर रही है. कानून मंत्री जोगाराम पटेल ने कहा है कि किसी भी परिस्थिति में धर्म परिवर्तन बर्दाश्त नहीं किया जाएगा. अगले …

Italy’s parliament made it illegal on Wednesday for couples to go abroad to have a baby via surrogacy — a pet project of Prime Minister’s Giorgia Meloni party that activists say is meant to target same-sex partners. Since taking office in 2022, Meloni has pursued a highly conservative social agenda, looking to promote …

Investigators urgently sought to “track and intercept” packages – believed to contain suicide kits – shipped around the world by a Toronto-area man in the days before his May 2023 arrest, according to a police affidavit obtained by CBC News. The document provides a glimpse into the frantic, early efforts …

Draft Israeli legislation that would stop the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) working in the Gaza Strip and West Bank would be a “catastrophe” if enacted, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday. Guterres said he raised his concerns with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Such a measure would …

McGill University and the union representing law professors have struck a deal, allowing law students to return to class — for now. The school and the union have agreed to suspend the strike, a day after the university threatened to cancel the semester for its law faculty. On Monday, McGill’s administration sent an …

A new charter challenge set to get underway on Monday will test the constitutionality of a controversial Ontario law that allows hospitals to place discharged patients into long-term care homes not of their choosing or face a $400-per-day charge if they refuse. The Advocacy Centre for the Elderly and the Ontario Health Coalition argues …

Law groups across Canada are denouncing the Manitoba NDP’s ouster of a backbencher over his ties to the lawyer representing convicted sex offender Peter Nygard, while more caucus members are speaking out in support of the move. National and provincial legal organizations are calling on Premier Wab Kinew to reverse …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Police in Mississauga, Ont., are searching for a suspect after a shooting early on Tuesday morning that left a woman in life-threatening condition and forced production of Law and Order Toronto, which was set to film in the same area, to pause …

In the fall of 2021, the world of Ontario municipal politics was abuzz with excitement, expecting the provincial government to finally unveil a law that would tackle the growing issue of harassment on local councils. “I had heard it was days away from being tabled,” John Mascarin, a partner with …