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01.06.2023 / 11:37

Each cigarette in Canada will soon have a health warning. Here’s how it looks

cigarettes will look like and when they will come into effect.Federal officials say Canada is set to be the first country in the world to apply labels to individual cigarettes.The messaging will rotate and be written in English and French. The wording will range from warnings about harming children and damaging organs to causing impotence and leukemia.

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Canada poised to become 1st country to add warnings on individual cigarettes

cigarette.Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett says the measure is meant to reach more people, including youth who often share cigarettes and don’t encounter the packaging.A 75-day consultation period is to begin tomorrow.

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B.C. becomes first province to remove criminal penalties for possession of some hard drugs

British Columbia has become the first province to be granted an exemption under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to remove criminal penalties for possession of some hard drugs.

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Crown-Indigenous Minister Bennett apologizes for ‘racist’ text to Wilson-Raybould

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett is apologizing for a text she sent to Vancouver Granville MP Jody Wilson-Raybould, who calls the message “racist” and “misogynist.” Mike Le Couteur explains what was in the one-word message and why it was so loaded.

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Bennett faces call to resign after linking JWR residential school tweet with pension eligibility

Carolyn Bennett to resign following a text she sent to Jody Wilson-Raybould, which Bennett has acknowledged was “inappropriate.”Wilson-Raybould, Independent MP for Vancouver-Granville, is a member of the We Wai Kai Nation in B.C.

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TRC requested $1.5M to find mass graves at residential schools. The feds denied the money in 2009

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), asked the federal government to help fund a series of projects that would identify burial site locations of children at Canadian residential schools.The funding for this, around $1.5 million, was denied by the feds, which was led by former prime minister Stephen Harper at the time.

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Systemic discrimination against Indigenous women magnified during COVID-19, Bennett says

COVID-19 has magnified the effects of systemic discrimination against Indigenous women in Canada, said Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett at a virtual summit the federal government organized to discuss a feminist response to the pandemic.Bennett said Canada’s colonial legacy has played a role in worse outcomes for Indigenous women.She said that includes more layoffs, a lack of child care and a spike in family violence. Systemic racism in Canada’s health care and how it affects vaccine rollout “We know that equality cannot be achieved by simply ensuring everyone has the same opportunities,” she said.“We speak of income gaps between men and women, but those gaps exist between different demographics of women as well.

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MMIWG action plan delayed due to coronavirus pandemic, minister says

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett says a national action plan to make life safer for Indigenous women and girls is not going to be ready next month as planned.

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Feds under pressure to prevent COVID-19 spread in First Nations, Inuit communities

The federal government will be under pressure today to explain what it’s doing to prevent COVID-19 from spreading like wildfire through First Nations reserves and remote Inuit communities in the North.

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