TORONTO – York Catholic District School Board: total chaos, one week before schools are scheduled to open. One needed to be there to appreciate the confusion at the first Board meeting of the 2022-2023.
TORONTO – Said and done. Ontario’s Conservative government today used its majority to pass Bill 7, the controversial legislation that allows elderly patients to be transferred from the hospital to long-term care homes not of their choice on a temporary basis.
TORONTO – The Canadian economy grew at an annual rate of 3.3% in the second quarter (in the first quarter it had grown by 3.1%), below the estimate of an annualized growth of 4.6%: this is what emerges from the latest monthly and quarterly real gross domestic product reports, released today by Statistics Canada, which show how the economy expanded for the fourth consecutive quarter, driven by rising business and household spending, but below the expectations. (more…)
এক অনুসন্ধানে জাতিসংঘ মানবাধিকার কমিশনারের মুখপাত্র রাভিনা শামদাসানি নিশ্চিত করে বলেন, সদ্য বিদায়ী মানবাধিকার হাই কমিশনার মিশেল ব্যাশেলেটের বাংলাদেশ সফর শেষে দেয়া বক্তব্যে অধিকার লংঘনের কোনো কিছু বলেননি, তা নিয়ে তথ্য বিভ্রান্তি ঘটেছে। মুখপাত্র পরিস্কার ভাষায় জানিয়েছেন, ‘আমরা ওই বিভ্রান্তির জন্য দুঃখিত’।
In a media inquiry, Ravina Shamdasani, the spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has confirmed the misinformation circulating in Bangladesh over the end-of-mission statement of its outgoing Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet in which she did not cite rights abuses in Bangladesh.
