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Last Friday, Justice Paul Rouleau issued his long-awaited final report on the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act last February to deal with trucker convoy protests. The five-volume report found that the federal government’s decision to invoke the act was appropriate. But it also exposed a number of underlying issues about how the crisis was dealt with.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Jocelyn Stacey from the University of British Columbia and Nomi Claire Lazar from the University of Ottawa shed light on how protesters, police and the government all failed to do their part to uphold the law.
They write: “The rule of law in an emergency is everybody’s job and Rouleau found that, in February 2022, nearly everyone fell short.”
Stacey and Lazar close their piece with a call to action for Canadian citizens. With the final report made public, Canadians can use its findings to hold government leaders accountable for upholding the rule of law, even in times of crisis.
Also today:
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Justice Paul Rouleau releases his report on the Liberal government’s use of the Emergencies Act, in Ottawa, on Feb.17, 2023.
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Jocelyn Stacey, University of British Columbia; Nomi Claire Lazar, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
The Emergencies Act inquiry final report found that almost all parties involved fell short of upholding the rule of law during the convoy protests.
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Shark and stingray populations have declined by 71 per cent in the last half-century.
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Samantha Sherman, Simon Fraser University
Over 100 shark and ray species were recently added to an international treaty, known as the CITES list, to protect them from the threat of unsustainable and illegal trade.
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Immigrant women working in the care sector do the essential work many Canadians rely on, but low wages mean many need to work past retirement age.
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Naomi Lightman, Toronto Metropolitan University; Hamid Akbary, University of Calgary
Immigrant care workers are having to work into retirement age to make ends meet. The Canadian government must do more to support them.
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Compassionate listening is the practice of shifting our focus from talking to listening. In so doing, we overcome egocentricity.
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Yang-Yang Cheng, University of Toronto
Compassionate listening is an overlooked practice, but urgently needed in both interpersonal and political communications.
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Les campagnes de vaccination à travers le monde sont dûes à la volonté des dirigeants politiques, qui sont influencés par ce qu'ils savent -ou ne savent pas- des dernières découvertes scientifiques. D'où l'importance de bien les communiquer.
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Christian Dagenais, Université de Montréal; Aurelie Hot, Université de Montréal; Valery Ridde, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
Bien communiquer les dernières recherches scientifiques aide à guider les actions des dirigeants et ultimement, à sauver des vies. Mais communiquer efficacement n’est pas chose facile.
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Education
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Kelly Anne Young, University of South Africa
Seeing grit as a panacea among historically disadvantaged students can be a dangerous distraction from other barriers to student retention.
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Politics
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Nina Srinivasan Rathbun, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Putin’s announcement to Russia will no longer participate in the New START pauses the last remaining nuclear weapons agreement between the U.S. and Russia.
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Science + Tech
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Thanh-Son Pham, Australian National University; Hrvoje Tkalčić, Australian National University
Earth doesn’t just have an inner core. It also has an innermost inner core, a solid ball within the solid ball in the very middle of the planet.
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