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Iran's rights official takes swipe at Canada over indigenous children killings
Jan 27, 2022 11:27A senior Iranian rights official has denounced Canada for its “hypocritical” double-standard approach to the issue of human rights, after shocking reports emerged of the discovery of new graves near a former school for indigenous children there.
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Iran's official calls on annulment of Canada’s anti-hijab law in defense of Muslim teacher
Dec 17, 2021 12:39A senior Iranian rights official has called on the Canadian government to revoke a discriminatory law that removed a citizen from her teaching post for wearing a hijab in classroom in the eastern Province of Quebec.
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Iran says all aspects of 2020 Ukrainian plane crash ‘adequately’ investigated
Dec 01, 2021 07:10Over a week into the launch of a hearing process over the accidental downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane near Tehran, Iran has defended its investigations into the case and said it has provided “adequate” attention to all aspects of the deadly tragedy that happened early last year.
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Canada floods: 18,000 people still stranded in ‘terrible, terrible disaster’
Nov 22, 2021 16:18Emergency crews in western Canada were still trying to reach some 18,000 people stranded by landslides and struggling to find food among bare grocery store shelves after devastating flooding.
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Iran: Canada-drafted UN rights resolution lacks legal credibility
Nov 18, 2021 14:16Iran has condemned a United Nations resolution on the human rights situation in the country, urging Canada, which is among the co-sponsors of the motion, to end its genocide of indigenous people and complicity in the Israeli regime’s crimes against the Palestinians instead of focusing on human rights in other countries.
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Canada floods cut railway to Vancouver Port
Nov 17, 2021 08:07Floods and landslides that have killed at least one person have cut all rail access to Canada's largest port in the city of Vancouver, a spokesperson for the port said on Tuesday.
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Canadian imperialism: Back to the future
Nov 02, 2021 23:03Canada’s creation out of mostly British imperial interests carried all the factors of imperialism internally as it developed across the North American continent. Currently, it still acts within the imperial prerogative, both domestically with its indigenous population and overseas with various other countries, frequently under the aegis of the US, but often enough acting on its own accord.
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Burning ship carrying chemicals spews toxic gas off Canada's Pacific coast
Oct 24, 2021 15:38A container ship carrying mining chemicals has caught fire off Canada's Pacific coast near British Columbia posing a major environmental threat to the surrounding area.
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US, Canadian warships sail through Taiwan Strait ‘to provoke’ China
Oct 18, 2021 08:13The US military has announced that two American and Canadian warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait last week in what China called an attempt “to provoke and stir up trouble” in the strait.
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Canada court upholds Indigenous child compensation order
Sep 30, 2021 10:28A Canadian federal court has upheld a human rights tribunal compensation ruling that ordered Ottawa to pay $40,000 to First Nations children who suffered discrimination in the welfare system.