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New human rights commissioner resigns before starting role

Politics Canada’s human rights commissioner Birju Dattani has resigned before ever officially starting the job, according to a post on…

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Canada

New human rights commissioner on leave after review, minister says

Justice Minister Arif Virani says he has received the review of online comments made by incoming human rights commissioner Birju…

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Tech

When India’s vulture population collapsed, half a million human deaths followed: study

As It Happens6:42When India’s vulture population collapsed, half a million human deaths followed: study Vultures may not be the most…

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Health

Human H5N1 cases in the U.S. are rising. That’s bad timing with flu season, bird migrations just months away

The sheer scale of the U.S. bird flu outbreak is hard to fathom.  More than 100 million farmed birds have…

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Canada

Grassy Narrows First Nation appeals to international human rights commission over mercury contamination

In its efforts to press the Ontario and federal governments to do more to address mercury contamination of its river,…

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Politics

PCO says it didn’t search new human rights chief’s online aliases, blames ‘administrative oversight’

The Privy Council Office (PCO) says it did not search the aliases Birju Dattani, the new head of the Canadian…

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Nova Scotia

Alberta man accused in historical N.S. human trafficking facing additional charges

Nova Scotia Darren Robert William Fisher, who was arrested in March in relation to historical human trafficking cases, is facing…

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Business

Human error caused 2022 Rogers outage, system ‘deficiencies’ made it worse: report

The 2022 Rogers outage that left 12 million people without wireless and hard-wired services was caused by human error and…

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Canada

Government now says new human rights chief did disclose key information about controversial social media posts

The federal government now says Birju Dattani, the new head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, did disclose the alias…

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Entertainment

Tatiana Maslany expresses human rights concerns while being honoured at event in Regina

Marvel actress Tatiana Maslany criticized the Saskatchewan government’s school pronoun law and called attention to the Israel-Hamas conflict during an event…

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