The same parliamentary sub-committee that killed Mark Warawa’s motion against “gendercide” has given the Conservative MP the thumbs-up for a private member’s bill on a completely different issue.
Warawa’s bill to prevent sexual abusers of children from serving house arrest within two kilometres of their victims’ homes got the go-ahead to proceed Tuesday after Conservative, NDP and Liberal MPs deemed it votable.
Master Cpl. Chris Downey and Cpl. Alexandre Beaudin D’Anjou will represent Canada at the South Pole Allied Challenge – a 320 km race to the South Pole that involves and raises money for ill and injured military personnel.
Downey and D’Anjou will be on a Commonwealth team alongside two Australian colleagues in November.
They’ll compete against a British team led by Prince Harry, a military helicopter pilot, and an American team in the challenge expected to last up to a month. Read more…
Conservative MP Mark Warawa’s effort to raise the issue of “gendercide” in the House of Commons is over.
A parliamentary committee unanimously shoved aside expert advice in late March to declare his motion to condemn sex-selective abortion non-votable, and now Warawa says he won’t appeal that decision to the speaker.
“I’ve decided to continue working on the sex-selection, gendercide issue by speaking at universities, giving lectures and engaging in debates,” the British Columbia politician said Wednesday.
It’s widely rumoured that Prime Minster Stephen Harper orchestrated the committee decision to kill Warawa’s motion because it mentioned abortion. Read more…
Canada’s operational submarine fleet will soon be two U-boats stronger, Defence Minister Peter MacKay confirmed.
“We’ll have three by next fall that will be in operation,” MacKay said Monday.
By fall, HMCS Windsor will be fully operational in Halifax, while HMCS Chicoutimi will return from deep maintenance to take on her duties.
HMCS Victoria is already in full operation on the West Coast. Read more…
Despite two days of controversy around a Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) newsletter that said Canada “plays a key part in perpetuating war crimes” by Israel, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair refuses to utter a peep about the union.
“Those are not statements anybody that’s associated with our party has ever made, so I’m not going to start commenting on things that have nothing whatsoever to do with our party,” he said Thursday.
That’s in line with Mulcair’s refusal to criticize CUPW last year for sending a delegation to a “Free Palestine” conference in Brazil, featuring talks on boycotting Israel.
Mulcair hasn’t always been so reluctant to speak out on statements by people not directly tied to the NDP. Read more…
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