NDP MP calls for more changes to criminal code so that sexual assault survivors can tell their own stories

OTTAWA – On Wednesday, NDP MP Laurel Collins  urged the government to ensure sexual assault survivors have the choice to tell their own stories by making further changes to the publication ban regulations the Justice Minister announced last week. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

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New Democrats call for real action on forced and child labour in Canadian supply chains

OTTAWA – On Wednesday, New Democrats will vote against a private member’s bill that does nothing to fight forced labour and child labour in Canadian supply chains—S-211. Instead, the NDP will keep fighting for bills introduced by NDP MPs in this Parliament, C-262 and C-263, which would require businesses to establish processes to identify, prevent…

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NDP motion calling on Liberals to recognize MMIWG2S crisis as a Canada-wide emergency adopted

OTTAWA – On Tuesday, an NDP motion calling on Liberals to recognize the ongoing genocide of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two spirit people (MMIWG2S) crisis as a Canada-wide emergency was adopted unanimously by all parties in the House of Commons. The motion was tabled by NDP critic for Women and Gender Equality Leah Gazan (Winnipeg…

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NDP calls on Liberals to recognize the MMIWG2S crisis as a Canada-wide emergency

OTTAWA — On Tuesday, ahead of Red Dress Day, NDP Critic for Women and Gender Equality Leah Gazan will introduce a motion calling on the Liberal government to declare the ongoing genocide of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people (MMIWG2S) a Canada-wide emergency. From 2016 to 2021, 247 Indigenous women were identified…

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NDP MP Randall Garrison announces he will not seek re-election after a long political career 

OTTAWA— NDP MP for Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke, Randall Garrison, announced today that he will not seek re-election in the next federal election after over a decade in federal politics. As an MP Garrison successfully led initiatives to add transgender rights to the Canadian Human Rights Code and the hate crimes section of the Criminal Code, to ban conversion…

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Jagmeet Singh joins transit workers’ union to call for actions to make transit safer for everyone 

TORONTO – On Thursday morning, after participating in a roundtable on transit safety with the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU Canada), Canada’s NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was joined by transit workers and union leaders to call for urgent action to make transit safer. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

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