PA Media Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said jails “are on the point of collapse” Scrapping short prison terms is among a number of ideas set to be considered by an upcoming government review of sentencing. Ministers are interested in proposals to toughen up community orders as an alternative to jail, to reduce the number…
A federal appeals court on Thursday weighed the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, or DACA, the Obama-era program that currently allows more than half a million undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to live and work in the country without fear of deportation. Enacted in 2012 to protect a…
Las Vegas — Vice President Kamala Harris fielded questions about immigration, the economy and healthcare at a town hall with Univision on Thursday. Polls suggest these issues are critical to the Latino voting bloc, and many of these questions were posed by people who had very personal, emotional stories to tell. Supports “Dreamers,” pins blame on…
Demonstrators, including Humanists UK’s members and supporters, during a protest outside the Houses (Image: PA) The majority of people in England and Wales want assisted dying to be legalised for terminally ill adults, a survey reveals. Some 63 per cent of more than 2,000 adults questioned supported changing the law, while just 20 per cent opposed…
Plaid Cymru’s leader has insisted a Welsh government led by his party after the next Senedd election is “realistic”. The next election to choose members to the Welsh parliament will take place in May 2026. Ahead of the party’s two-day conference at Cardiff‘s Principality Stadium on Friday, Rhun ap Iorwerth told Sky News that a…
By Laura Osman The Canadian Press Posted October 10, 2024 6:25 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The pharmacare bill that was central to a political pact between the Liberals and NDP is now set to become law after the Senate passed the bill without making any changes. The…
Washington — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Thursday urged the federal district judge overseeing his prosecution related to the 2020 election to keep from public view evidence accompanying a key legal brief from special counsel Jack Smith that detailed his case against the former president. Trump’s lawyers argued in their two-page filing that…
Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu and Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak are urging MPs across party lines to support legislation to ensure First Nations have clean drinking water in their communities. The government has put forward a bill that seeks to do just that, and also seeks to protect source-water on…
An update on the federal carbon price’s economic impact that corrected an error in earlier reports largely supports previous conclusions, the parliamentary budget officer said Thursday. Yves Giroux said his office still finds the vast majority of households get back more in rebates than they pay for carbon pricing, but for most, those gains are erased after broader economic…
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he supports children and prisoners who are incapable of making decisions for themselves getting mandatory, involuntary drug and psychiatric treatment. That comes after the parents of a 13-year-old girl from B.C. testified at a parliamentary committee about her mental health struggles before her overdose death in an encampment of homeless people…
