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LGBTQ Ugandans live in fear as new law looms

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KAMPALA (Reuters) – At a shelter for lesbian women in Uganda’s capital Kampala, gone are the days when the residents, having fled abuse and stigma at home, can breathe easy and be themselves. That came to an end a month ago when parliament passed some of the world’s strictest anti-LGBTQ legislation, which would criminalize the “promotion” of homosexuality and impose the death penalty for certain crimes involving gay sex. President Yoweri Museveni said on Thursday that he supports the legislation but has requested some modifications from parliament, including provisions to “rehabilitate” gay people, before he signs it. Staff at the…
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The Senate gave final reading to new law protecting workers’ pensions

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Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News Published April 24, 2023 • 3 minute read The former General Chemical plant in Amherstburg on Wednesday, January 4, 2012. Windsor Star File photo Photo by Tyler Brownbridge /jpg Article content After contributing 43 years to a company pension plan and setting himself up to retire at 62, the one thing Pete Reid hadn’t budgeted for was his main income stream being significantly slashed with General Chemical’s bankruptcy in 2005. Advertisements 2 This advertisement has not been loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to…
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Liberals table legislation to overhaul passenger rights charter

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MONTREAL – The Liberals have put forward legislation that aims to make good on their pledge to tighten passenger rights rules after a year marked by travel chaos and a backlog of ballooning complaints. Tabled in the House of Commons as part of a broader budget bill, the new provisions ratchet up penalties on airlines, shore up the complaint process and target luggage and flight disruption loopholes that have allowed airlines to avoid customer compensation. The proposed $250,000 maximum fine for airline violations — a tenfold increase from the existing regulations — encourages compliance, said Sylvie De Bellefeuille, a lawyer…
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‘Keira’s Law’ set to educate judges on domestic violence, coercive control

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Keira’s Law has officially been passed by the Senate. Bill C-233, more commonly known as ‘Keira’s Law,’ is meant to expand the training of judges to accept on cases surrounding domestic violence, coercive control and the ability to consider risk factors when issuing decisions. Read more: Canada’s Senate passes Keira’s Law aimed at educating decision-makers on domestic violence The bill was named after Keira Kagan, a four-year-old girl who was found dead with her father at the bottom of a cliff outside of Toronto in 2022, believed to be the case of a murder-suicide. Jennifer Kagan-Viater, Keira’s mother, describes her…
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Emergencies Act: Convoy in ‘full swing’ by invocation, feds say

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OTTAWA – The “Freedom Convoy” movement was still in “full swing” the day the Liberal government invoked the Emergencies Act early last year, justifying the extraordinary measures, a federal lawyer said Wednesday during a judicial review of the government’s historic decision. The notion of the protests and blockades across Canada were being brought under control by that point is “little short of revisionist history, or at the very least an interpretation of the state of affairs that benefits from insight bias,” government lawyer John Provart told the Federal court. “The situation was dynamic, continuously unfolding in the days leading up…
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Province should pay legal fees from fatality inquiries into Indigenous teen suicides: judge

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The Alberta government should pay the legal fees for a small First Nations children’s services agency that appeared at the fatality inquiries into the suicides of four Indigenous teenagers, a judge ruled in a strongly-worded 15-page decision. Fatality inquiries took place last year into the suicides of four Maskwacis teenagers — between the ages of 15 and 19 — each of whom had recent contact with child protection services. Reports have not yet been released into the deaths, which took place between 2017 and 2020. The Akamihk Child and Family Services Society made a court application in hopes the judge…
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Legal Centers Supporting Families Struggle to Keep Lawyers

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Lawyers representing some of BC’s most vulnerable people say they’re chronically underpaid, leading to high turnover and positions they struggle to fill. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners Share The Tyee’s Newsletter, Get Rewarded A new way to spread the word about good journalism. Legal Aid BC and a union representing 28 of its full-time staff wrote to the Ministry of Justice in January asking the government to increase pay for those lawyers, who mostly represent Indigenous parents whose children have been apprehended by the government. Jeremy Orrego, a Legal Aid BC lawyer, and Scott McCannell, the…
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Harvard Law Review Elects Apsara Iyer as 137th President | News

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Apsara A. Iyer, a second-year law student at Harvard Law School, was elected the 137th president of the Harvard Law Review, becoming the first Indian American woman to hold the position. The Law Review, founded in 1887, is among the oldest student-run legal scholarship publications. Previous editors of the organization include Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer, Ketanji Brown Jackson ’92, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as well as former President Barack Obama, who served as the review’s 104th leader. In the Law School’s Jan. 30 press release, Priscila E. Coronado, Iyer’s predecessor, said the publication was “extremely lucky” to have Iyer…