The federal government has presented a new health-care funding offer that would see Ottawa shift $196 billion to the provinces and territories over the next 10 years in exchange for commitments to massively upgrade health-care data collection and digital medical records. About one-quarter of that is money not previously promised through existing health-care transfer formulas and deals. Prime Minister Justin […]
BLACK HISTORY CELEBRATION IN CANADA: Global Forum For Human Rights And he Sustainable Development Applauds Afro-Canadians
Global Forum for Human Rights and Sustainable Development (GFHRSD), a Canadian incorporated, community-based, non-governmental outfit established to address core developmental challenges faced by Canadian citizens especially, the less-privileged members of the Canadian society, wishes to use this medium to join the rest of the global community in celebrating this year’s Black History in Canada. GFRSD’s main thematic areas include poverty […]
COP15 Ends With Landmark Biodiversity Agreement
The United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) ended in Montreal, Canada, on 19 December 2022 with a landmark agreement to guide global action on nature through to 2030. Representatives from 188 governments have been gathered in Montreal for the past two weeks for the important summit. Chaired by China and hosted by Canada, COP 15 resulted in the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global […]
Paris Agreement’ For Nature Imperative At Cop15, Architects of Climate Deal Say
The architects of the Paris agreement have urged world leaders to reach an ambitious sister deal for nature at the Cop15 biodiversity conference this December while warning that limiting global heating to 1.5C is impossible without protecting and restoring ecosystems. On biodiversity day at the Cop27 climate conference in Egypt, Christiana Figueres, Laurence Tubiana, Laurent Fabius and Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, who helped design the […]