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'This is truly my dream': Canadian health agency manager who blogged about trip to Caribbean resigns to become social media influencer Tyler Dawson © Provided by National Post Dominique Baker reflects on her trip to Jamaica last fall. Baker urged anyone thinking of traveling this winter to wait until the pandemic is over. A federal public servant who was caught up in the international travel controversy that swept through Canadian politics following Christmas has given up her career with the government to pursue her career as a social media “influencer,” saying that af...

Article content A federal public servant who was caught up in the international travel controversy that swept through Canadian politics following Christmas has given up her career with the government to pursue her career as a social media “influencer,” saying that after she resigned, it felt like “a thousand pounds have been lifted off my shoulders.” Dominique Baker, who was a manager with the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Centre for Biosecurity, Office of the Border and Travel Health, posted an announcement to her Instagram account on Saturday, saying she’d been thinking about...

February 6, 2021 TORONTO, Canada Thirteen lawmakers from Canada’s five federal parties asked the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Beijing Winter Games to another country because of China’s human rights violations against the Turkic Uighur minority. “We have a unique opportunity to come together with all the world’s humanitarians and democrats and take action by refusing to participate in this global sports festival,” read a letter that was initiated by Bloc Quebecois lawmaker Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe, vice-chair of the parliamentary subcommittee. It said participating...

  MONTREAL -- On October 21, 2020, the House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights released the following statement: “The Subcommittee unequivocally condemns the persecution of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang by the Government of China. Based on the evidence put forward during the Subcommittee hearings, both in 2018 and 2020, the subcommittee is persuaded that the actions of the Chinese Communist Party constitute genocide as laid out in the Genocide Convention.” We realize that in these difficult times, when the entire planet is facing the worst public hea...

MPs call to relocate 2022 Beijing Games over China's reported abuses of Uighur minority Raisa Patel © Ng Han Guan/The Associated Press Visitors to Chongli, one of the venues for the 2022 Beijing Games, pass by the Olympics logo. MPs from Canada's major political parties have added their names to a letter calling for the International Olympic Committee to relocate the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Games, set to be hosted by Beijing next February. Thirteen MPs from all five major federal parties in Canada have signed a letter urging the International Olympic Committee to move ...