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On April 3 and 4, 2017, Canada appeared before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the Committee), for the review of its initial report on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The Committee issued its concluding observations for Canada on May 8, 2017.

Response to questions raised by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in the Concluding Observations in follow-up to Canada’s 2016 UN appearance for the review of its Eighth and Ninth Reports on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

Canada’s response to questions raised by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in the Concluding Observations in follow-up to Canada’s 2017 UN appearance for the review of its combined twenty-first to twenty-third periodic report on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

This paper explores the issues that arise in child protection proceedings involving family violence, where there are concurrent family and/or criminal proceedings. A particular focus is on issues in concurrent proceedings in cases involving intimate partner violence, though there is some discussion of child abuse cases, especially those involving emotional and other child abuse issues arising in the context of high-conflict separations. We discuss and compare the social and legal contexts of these different proceedings, offer analysis of both legal and professional practice concerns that concurrent proceedings create, and conclude by offering suggestions about promising practices to improve processes and outcomes for children in these challenging cases. These cases are inevitably complex and difficult for parents, children, professionals and the justice system.

Briefing Package for the hearing on Report 4—Canada Child Benefit, of the 2021 Reports of the Auditor General of Canada before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts on 4 May 2021

A sheet to assist in the calculations of CCTB payment amounts, including the Child Disability Benefit and the National Child Benefit Supplement.

This publication consists of two volumes. This particular asset is volume two of two. It was produced by the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Family Law Committee and the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Task Force on the Implementation of Child Support Reforms. The publication addresses the guidelines that exist across Canada concerning child support and its administration.

The Canadian Child Tax Benefit (and integrated programs) Payment Dates presents the dates on which the benefit payment will be issued. Canada Child Tax Benefits are paid over a 12-month period from July of one year to June of the next year. Generally, payments are made on the 20th of each month.

The purpose of this report is to document, from a family law perspective, best practice options when domestic violence cases are making their way through multiple proceedings (criminal, civil, family, and child protection). The intention is to identify practices that can promote the safety of family members, particularly children, while also ensuring fair, due process.

Child maltreatment is a significant Canadian and global problem that can have serious physical, psychological and emotional impacts lasting long beyond childhood. To prevent and address child maltreatment, the ongoing, systematic collection of data on child abuse and neglect reported to child welfare is essential. The federal, provincial, and territorial governments recognize the importance of surveillance in providing evidence about the contexts, risk factors and types of child maltreatment to inform policy, program, service and awareness interventions. Through their child welfare ministries, the provincial and territorial governments are responsible for assisting children in need of protection; they are also the primary source of administrative data and information related to reported child maltreatment.