Arianne Lacanilao

The new Grocery Code of Conduct should benefit both Canadians and the food industry

The cost of filling your grocery cart in Canada increased by 10.3 per cent in 2022 and is projected to increase by an additional five to...

Focusing on consent ignores better ways of preventing sexual violence

In early May, a New York jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing the writer E. Jean Carroll in 1996. The jury did not find...

Bills to address climate change threats gain traction in House

MANILA – The House of Representatives has approved two measures that will address the ill effects of climate change through the rehabilitation and conservation of key...

Last phase of oil spill cleanup in Oriental Mindoro begins

MANILA – The last phase of siphoning operations for the remaining oil off the waters of Naujan town in Oriental Mindoro began Sunday, three months after...

NCRPO to remove TV sets in Metro police stations

MANILA – National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) chief, Maj. Gen. Edgar Alan Okubo, has ordered the removal of television sets in open areas of their headquarters...

In B.C., Alberta and around the world, forcing drug users into treatment is a violent policy

Intervention without human rights goes by many names — involuntary institutionalization, compulsory drug treatment, “coerced care,” forced abstinence or a combination of all of those terms....

Anti-government protesters are reclaiming the Israeli flag from the far-right

Thousands of people recently took to the streets of the Old City in Jerusalem for the annual far-right Flag March. Every year, on Jerusalem Day, marchers...

Wildfires in Alberta spark urgent school discussions about terrors of global climate futures

In the wake of wildfire outbreaks tearing through Alberta, which have destroyed infrastructure, homes and razed an estimated one million or more hectares of forest, the...

Lula’s diplomatic dance is nothing new for Brazil or its leader – what has changed is the world around him

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is a man currently very much in demand in international circles. In April, the leftist leader was being courted...

2023 hurricane forecast: Get ready for a busy Pacific storm season, quieter Atlantic than recent years thanks to El Niño