Alex Cosh is the news editor of The Maple.
In 2018, the B.C. Supreme Court struck down federal solitary confinement laws as unconstitutional because they discriminated against Indigenous inmates and those with mental illnesses.
The CMHC has granted more than $350 million in low-interest loans to Quebec real estate developers on condition they rent a portion of their units at an 'affordable' rate, La Presse reports.
An ongoing legal case argues that Canadian courts should address Indigenous laws that mandate Indigenous peoples to defend their lands from environmental harm, the Toronto Star reports.
“We need to really think about how the legal system allows this type of behavior to proliferate in Canada, but there are some pretty significant vested interests in these systems and who benefits from them.”
The Pandora Papers are "the tip of the iceberg," says one policy analyst.
Dr. Katherine Smart told an emergency summit Tuesday that provincial governments like Jason Kenney’s Conservative administration in Alberta are “gaslighting” health workers, Global News reports.
“Canada has been a facilitator and has helped create tax havens. For many decades we essentially turned a blind eye to those things.”
Governments in Alberta and Saskatchewan are grappling with a devastating fourth wave of COVID-19, while refusing to introduce additional public health restrictions to curb the deadly spread of the virus.
In a leak involving nearly 12 million financial documents, global elites and world leaders have been exposed as using secretive shell companies to shift trillions of dollars into tax havens, the Toronto Star and CBC report.