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Ottawa poised to defend rights record on aboriginals, terrorism at UN committee
The Canadian Human Rights Commission has told a United Nations panel that the plight of Canada’s aboriginal people is one of the country’s most urgent civil rights issues, The Canadian Press reports.
There was broad criticism of the Harper government’s policies on murdered or missing aboriginal women as well as Canada’s approach to terrorism, including the recent passage of the anti-terrorism act.
It’s the first time Canada has been examined by the UN Human Rights Committee since 2005, which makes this the first such examination of the Conservatives’ rights record.
Britons mark 10th anniversary of London bombings
Prime Minister David Cameron led somber tributes on Tuesday as Britain commemorated the 10th anniversary of attacks that killed 56 people in London, the first suicide bombings by Islamist militants in western Europe, Reuters reports.
Relatives of the victims, survivors, and senior politicians gathered to remember those killed in the July 7 2005 bombings with emotions still raw after a massacre in Tunisia last month, Britain’s worst loss of life in a militant assault since London.
Explosives stolen from army base in France
A pile of explosives, 180 detonators and around 40 grenades were stolen from an army base in the southern French town of Miramas, Reuters reports.
The theft came despite France having raised security after a suspected Islamist beheaded his boss and tried to blow up an industrial gases site near Lyon on June 26, six months after gunmen killed 17 people at the offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish foodstore in January.
Government abruptly drops Supreme Court appeal on overseas CSIS spying
The federal government has abandoned its high-profile appeal to the Supreme Court on overseas spying by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, The Canadian Press reports.
The court agreed last February to take the case after federal lawyers argued for guidance on whether CSIS needed a warrant to seek allied help in spying on Canadians abroad.
World’s oldest man dies at 112
The world’s oldest man, a retired educator from Japan, has died at the age of 112, The Associated Press reports.
Sakari Momoi died from kidney failure Sunday at a nursing home in Tokyo, a city official said. Momoi was born Feb. 5, 1903, in northern Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, where he became a teacher.