Two witnesses stormed out of a parliamentary committee meeting Wednesday, after Liberals tried to steer a planned discussion about violence against women towards the topic of abortion rights.
Cait Alexander, an advocate for sex assault survivors is photographed at Queen's Park in Toronto, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
"I'm supposed to be dead," she said, showing MPs graphic photos of abuse she suffered at the hands of her ex-boyfriend three years ago.Before long, MPs were answering to Alexander's family for a partisan display that descended into procedural chaos. Her mother, frustrated, told the Liberal instigator that she was "disappointed," and the whole thing amounted to another instance of abuse.
"I think it's cruel to have people relive the trauma that they've endured just to be able to have a meeting that if it's not agreed to, then there's all kinds of social media that Liberals or others don't care about this issue, which, as we all know, we do very deeply." "The fact that my voice is being silenced in the committee after not having an opportunity to put in witnesses is deeply offensive, deeply violent and deeply troubling," Gazan said.
Conservative candidate Don Stewart winning the closely-watched Toronto-St. Paul's federal byelection, and delivering a stunning upset to Justin Trudeau's candidate Leslie Church in the long-time Liberal riding, has sent political shockwaves through both parties.
Canadian organizations embroiled in data breaches wind up paying an average $6.32 million to resolve the incidents, a new study from IBM says.A global Microsoft Azure outage that impacted a range of services for consumers Tuesday — from reports of stalling Outlook emails to trouble ordering on Starbucks’ mobile app — was triggered by distributed denial of service cyberattack, according to the tech giant.
A local First Nations elder and veteran is helping to bring the Ojibwe language to a well-known film for the first time.Landslide along B.C.'s Chilcotin River leads to evacuation orders, warnings of 'unpredictable water flow' A local rescue for small animals is calling on the city to ban the sale of rabbits, guinea pigs and other small creatures in Winnipeg pet stores.Two people are dead after a motorcycle collided with a cow on Highway 35 near Hendon, Sask. Tuesday night, RCMP say.The provincial government has secured a group rate on hotel rooms for social assistance clients with a one-year $1.25 million commitment.
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