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On October 25, 2016, the House of Commons voted unanimously to provide protection to Yazidi women and girls who are escaping genocide.
Shared Services Canada’s customer departments continue to manage most of their applications. These customer department applications are often aging and require constant maintenance. Shared Services Canada is working with customer departments to identify risks and mitigate service disruptions. Shared Services Canada is driving hosting renewal (with migration to its enterprise data centres and/or to be hosted within the Cloud) while customer departments are responsible for their application modernization plans.
On March 23, 2021, a motion was presented to the House of Commons to recognize that there is systemic and overt racism in the RCMP following a report by the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission that revealed that the RCMP destroyed records of police communications from the night Colton Boushie was murdered, and call on the government to: […] (e) immediately launch a full review of the use of force by the RCMP, including reviewing the tactics and the training that is given to RCMP Regular Members in dealing with Indigenous peoples and communities.
Lebanon has been without a government since August 10, 2020, and government formation efforts have been at a standstill for five months, despite the rapidly deteriorating social/economic conditions.
Canada's position regarding the ICC Prosecutor's investigation into the “situation in Palestine” and updates on recent developments.
The socio-political and security crisis in Haiti exacerbates the difficult living conditions of Haitians.