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OTTAWA – By rights, the twin glow of the G8/G20 summits should have been a shining moment on the world stage for Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
But that moment in the spotlight risks being eclipsed by enduring economic woes, bank taxes, a push to discuss climate change and an eye-popping $1-billion...
Contraception not a part of G8 maternal health program—say—the Conservatives. An astonishingly backward notion, indeed, but this is Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s starting-off point going in to the G8 summit, mouthed again as late as last week in the House of Commons, to the utter disgust of the...
OTTAWA - A leading international rights watchdog has told the Harper government to include abortion in its G8 maternal health initiative while adding the caution that Canada's global reputation on human rights has eroded.
A top official with New York-based Human Rights Watch raised the...
An international conference on maternal and child health opens June 7-9 in Washington. The two-day meeting is to explore ways to curb high child and maternal death rates in some countries through political, economic and cultural means. One country with a particularly high rate of maternal and...
OTTAWA — The Harper government is brushing aside accusations it's playing politics by withholding cash to the major umbrella group of Canadian aid agencies.
The Canadian Council for International Co-operation said it would lay off staff and put its offices in downtown Ottawa up for sale because it...
OTTAWA, June 2 /CNW Telbec/ - As the G8 approaches, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) is urging the Canadian government to recognize that a strategy on maternal and child health must focus on preventing deaths during delivery and childbirth as 80% of maternal deaths...
Beware the company you keep; people judge you by your friends. Most children hear some version of that from their parents.
Maybe it's not something Stephen Harper's parents said or perhaps our prime minister simply didn't listen.
I say that because some people with ready access to him and his...
Two weeks after advising aid groups concerned with the government’s opposition to funding abortion abroad to “shut the f–k up,” Sen. Nancy Ruth is on the phone attempting to explain her expletive. “Looking back at it, I made a mistake,” she says. “I should never have said it. In any form of...
Before the world’s most powerful leaders swoop into Toronto for the G20 meeting, young women from around the globe will already have a head start hashing out the issues that matter most to them.
G(irls)20 Summit, a meeting of 21 girls from around the world, will gather June 15 to 18 at the...
Experts say the G8 summit remains an influential pulpit for Canada, despite the fact that the annual meet-and-greet is losing its grip on global economic concerns.
Ottawa has announced that the upcoming G8 summit in Huntsville, Ont., the fifth ever to be hosted on Canadian soil, will focus largely...
Call to Action: Maternal and Child Health at The G8 Summit -- please download the attached the complete official (Hansard) records of the entire debate and vote.
Sign Petition: Include funding for family planning and safe abortion in Canada’s G8 Maternal/Child Health Initiative
