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Second Monitor Report on Implementation of Disability Remedy Aug 01, 2025

The second report on the government’s progress implementing the human rights remedy was issued today, August 1.

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Emancipation Day Jul 31, 2025

On August 1, we commemorate Emancipation Day, marking the anniversary of the Slavery Abolition Act coming into effect across the British Empire in 1834.

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Independent Human Rights Hearing Resumes July 14. Jul 03, 2025

A virtual independent human rights board of inquiry in the matter of Pascaline Ngweniform vs. Wal-Mart Canada Corp. will resume Monday July 14.

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