Day of Mourning, April 28, 2009 “Twenty-fifth Anniversary” This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the National Day of Mourning as proclaimed by the Canadian Labour Congress in 1984. That date coincided with the seventieth anniversary of the first Ontario Worker’s Compensation Act approved by the government. On February 1, 1991, April 28th was subsequently enshrined by Royal Statute as, a ‘Day of Mourning for Person’s Killed or Injured in
Déclaration des d d REJET DE L’ACCORD DE LIBRE-ÉCHANGE CANADA-COLOMBIE À tous les réseaux des Canadiennes et Canadiens engagés, Le gouvernement Harper estime normal que les paramilitaires colombiens assassinent sans vergogne des syndicalistes, des paysans et des militants. Le dossier du gouvernement Uribe en matière de droits de la personne est sans doute un des pires au monde; le gouvernement Harper fonce à pleine vapeur, avec l’appui de Michael Ignatieff,
Peter Julian’s statement on the Canada-Columbia Free Trade Agreement Today in the House ~ Peter’s Member’s Statement Mr. Peter Julian (Burnaby—New Westminster, NDP): “Mr. Speaker, just last week Amnesty International condemned the Colombia authorities for abusing the country’s judicial system, “to undermine the legitimate work of human rights defenders”. More than a dozen human rights defenders and 46 trade unionists were killed by paramilitaries in 2008 alone. Double 2007. According
