Amanda Brown

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly has launched a United Nations declaration that calls for action to protect what it calls "information integrity" and to tackle "disinformation."

Ms. Joly launched the Global Declaration on Information Integrity Online jointly with Dutch Foreign Affairs Minister Hanke Bruins Slot during the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 20.

“Information integrity is essential to help ensure the strength of democratic processes and to protect fundamental rights...

Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson is collaborating on an initiative to develop "alternative" global policies and bring together a wider spectrum of viewpoints on humanity's greatest threats.

Dubbed "The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship" (ARC), the project aims to foster a collective global dialogue on the topics of social and national prosperity.

“ARC is being established as a new movement of hopeful vision, local, national and international in its aim and scope, aimed at the collecti...

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Increasing household costs are putting Canadians on the financial brink and making feeding their families a significant challenge, according to an Angus Reid Institute report.

A British Columbia man who murdered his three children 14 years ago and was found not criminally responsible due to mental illness has been granted unsupervised leave from a psychiatric hospital for extended periods of up to 28 days.

In April 2008, Allan Schoenborn, now 54, suffocated and fatally stabbed his three children: Cordon, aged 5, Max, aged 8, and Kaitlynne, aged 10.

Following a hearing by the British Columbia Review Board, his psychiatric hospital’s director on Aug. 8 granted Mr. Sc...

School students’ education in Quebec is taking a hit because incompetent teachers are not being weeded out, according to a note published Aug. 24 by the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) public policy think tank.

Data from the MEI reveals that within the last five years, four teachers out of 111,000 were fired due to incompetence within Quebec school boards. This accounts for a minuscule 0.0036 percent of the province's teaching workforce.

“The harmful effect of a bad teacher on the developme...

Lightyear, Disney/Pixar's latest Toy Story movie for children was banned in 14 countries throughout Asia and the Middle East as a result of its homosexual content.

Amanda Brown is a Calgary-based Reporter for the Western Standard. She has been a professional copy editor and features writer for regional and local media in Alberta for almost 10 years.
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