The Canadian Government is responsible for protecting the rights of 7 million children and youth. How is it doing its job?

Find out by streaming a special live event between the Government and the UN.

The Canadian Government will discuss its efforts to advance the well-being of children and youth at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on September 26-27.

For additional information on the stream as well as activity on children's rights, visit UNICEF Canada's "Turn Up The Volume", the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children, and the UN Treaty Body Webcast sites.

from Lethbridge News by Kim Siever

One of Canada’s leading demographic experts is reinforcing a report by Statistics Canada (StatsCan) that recommends reintroducing in 2016 the long-form census.

from The First Perspective

Paul Christopher Webster

CMAJ

The federal government is deliberately undermining capacity to generate accurate Aboriginal health data and circulating discredited health data so as to downplay the severity of the Aboriginal health crisis in Canada, critics charge.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) would like to invite you to participate in an online consultation on immigration levels planning.

The purpose of this consultation is to seek your feedback on immigration to Canada, specifically on the total number of new permanent residents Canada should welcome and how this overall total should be distributed among immigration categories.

By Simon Lewchuk | Thursday, July 19th, 2012

On July 25-27, the Council of the Federation (the council of the premiers of Canada’s thirteen provinces and territories) will hold their semi-annual meeting in Halifax, NS.

In advance of the gathering, Dignity for All has sent a letter to the Council's incoming-Chair, NS Premier Darrell Dexter, urging him to put poverty on the agenda. The letter highlights the negative impact of unilateral federal decisions, namely the recent Employment Insurance reforms, on provincial interests & residents' socio-economic well-being and calls for a national, multilateral poverty strategy.

Ottawa, June 08, 2012 -

Today, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance launched its annual pre-budget consultation process, which will result in a report to be tabled in the House of Commons prior to the December 2012 parliamentary break.

BY KATHRYN MAY, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN

OTTAWA — Federal public servants head into summer vacation with about 23,400 of them having been given notice that they could lose their jobs and Canadians still in the dark about what the Conservative government is cutting to reach its $5.2-billion reduction target.

About 5,150 public servants were sent notices in a dozen departments Wednesday, warning them their jobs are affected by the spending cuts and could disappear. This was the fourth round of notices to be issued since Jim Flaherty unveiled his budget three months ago.