News by subject: AVO

Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed legislation ending single-family home zoning -- a direct attack on single-family zoned neighborhoods and middle-class homeowners in California. The new laws, including SB 9, seriously alter and undermine...

As Ontario's leading voice for independent convenience store owners, the OKBA launched their 2022 Save Our Stores Campaign, in advance of the June 2nd Ontario Provincial Election. Independent convenience store owners aim to inform both government...

Family Research Council today released an updated map and research showing the status of abortion laws in the states across the nation. The Mississippi abortion case before the Supreme Court could lead to an overturning of Roe v. Wade which would...

The Official Opposition at Montreal City Hall wants to offer more transparency and opportunities for participation to the citizens within the Commission de la sécurité publique. To achieve this goal, the elected officials of Ensemble Montréal are...

The National Institute for Reproductive Health (NIRH) and NIRH Action Fund is proud to announce the honorees for its annual Champions of Choice awards luncheon to be held Wednesday, April 27, 2022, from 12:00pm ? 2:00pm...

The following is a statement from Teamsters General President Sean O'Brien on the full Senate's consideration of D.C. Circuit Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court as the newest associate justice beginning this fall....

A plane filled with Ukrainian Jewish refugees ? sponsored by American Jewish Committee (AJC) and organized by Jewish Agency for Israel ? has arrived in Israel from Budapest, Hungary. "For Jews facing uncertain safety in their homes, Israel is a...

Electric powered vehicles are currently a big point of interest. Electric cars are on the verge of replacing Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicle and currently, there isn't a single car manufacturer that hasn't made a vehicle with at least one...

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Quebecor welcomes the tabling of the bill entitled An Act respecting online communications platforms that make news content available to persons in Canada by the Minister of Canadian Heritage. The bill is the outcome of numerous representations made...

Nearly 300 Unifor activists from across the Prairies will march to Union Station demanding the federal government reverse its plan to privatize the VIA Rail Windsor to Quebec City corridor....

The union representing thousands of Canadian journalists and media workers, welcomes the Online News Act which will ensure tech giants compensate Canada's newsrooms for reusing their reporting and production work. The Canadian Media Guild (CMG) says...

Today, CBD and personal wellness brand House of Wise and Last Prisoner Project, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing criminal justice reform for the cannabis community, announce their new campaign, Justice For All....

City Attorney Mike Feuer should resign following a bombshell KNBC-TV report revealing Feuer was calendared for a meeting in which his office okayed an extortion scheme to keep the DWP billing debacle from becoming public....

More middle-class Californians and the businesses that employ them cite a lack of homeownership opportunity as the primary reason for moving out of state. This creates a growing and troubling income and wealth inequality gap within the state. To help...

American Jewish Committee's (AJC) Transatlantic Friends of Israel (TFI) inter-parliamentary group convened a virtual roundtable discussion on transatlantic responses to Iran's nuclear ambition. Introduced by new American TFI co-chairs Reps. Brad...

Ahead of the provincial election, Children's Mental Health Ontario (CMHO) has launched the next phase of its #KidsCantWait campaign, calling on Ontario party leaders and candidates to sign the pledge to make Ontario the top jurisdiction in Canada to...

In recent weeks, provinces and territories in Canada have dropped many if not most public health protections meant to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. As anticipated, we're seeing COVID-19 indicators rising once again. This is deeply concerning. The...

The family of Carmelo Cruz-Marcos, an unarmed migrant who was shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on February 19, 2022, outside Douglas, Arizona, has retained Karns & Karns, LLP as legal counsel and is calling for an independent...

Today the American Conservative Values ETF (ACVF) is celebrating its decision to boycott investing in The Walt Disney Company because the company's bankrupt values are damaging its brand and harming shareholder value.  "Disney's efforts to circumvent...

The Foundation for Climate Restoration (F4CR) today launched its Solution Series to educate, inspire, and ignite advocacy for the implementation of the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions that can restore our climate. The Solution Series will...

Attorneys for Bob Baffert today questioned the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (KHRC) for secretly recording telephone conversations with Bob Baffert, his veterinarian Dr. Vince Baker, Medina Spirit owner Amr Zedan, and Baffert attorney Craig...

On March 30th, 2022, DFO announced the closure of the commercial fishery for herring and Atlantic mackerel to rebuild key forage fish stocks for a healthier East Coast fishery. The Coalition of Atlantic and Québec fishing organizations questions the...

In response to the tragic shootings in Sacramento over the weekend, resulting in six deaths and 12 injuries, InVest USA CEO, Michael Letts, announced his organization will make available active shooter vests and riot gear to protect police in what...

CGTN America releases "Xi Jinping: China & EU should build more global stability" Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed confidence that China and the European Union can bring more stability to a world disrupted by the fighting in Ukraine, COVID-19...

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) is pleased the federal government is making positive changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program to help many small businesses deal with steep labour shortages. Today's announcement...

Unifor welcomes today's announcement that federal and provincial investments for General Motors have been finalized and will help secure a third shift at the Oshawa plant and Canada's first full assembly line retool to build electric commercial...

54 years ago, the Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered as he begged this nation to address poverty, racism, and militarism. It is shameful that today we have 140 million poor and low-wealth people in this nation....

KixCare, a pediatric virtual care platform, has launched the SaveVirtualCare.ca campaign to protect Ontario families from losing access to convenient and effective virtual care that have been vital throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. "Publicly funded...

The Directors Guild of Canada, B.C. District Council (DGC BC), has called a vote for a strike mandate. The call comes as year-long negotiations with the bargaining representatives of the producers, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television...

This week, nine Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives sitting on seven different committees sent a letter to the Biden administration raising concerns about the Executive Order on Promoting Access to...

Today, the Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP) is launching a campaign to raise awareness of the critical issues facing the province's healthcare system. The campaign entitled "Life Without a Doctor" highlights the growing shortage of family...

U.S. President Biden invokes the Defense Production Act to secure domestic critical minerals for large-capacity storage batteries. Through partnership agreement with Ambri, antimony from Perpetua Resources is poised to power American-based...

Christian media company Good Fight Ministries has released the first installment of its seven-part Marvel and DC's War on God series. Entitled The Anti-Christ Agenda and narrated by Pastor Joe Schimmel, the company says the 150-minute film "documents...

Today, Casey House launched outpatient supervised consumption services (SCS), providing a second safe space for clients to use their own drugs while being monitored by trained staff who can provide emergency medical care in case of overdose....

This annual general meeting season Canada's banks will face shareholder proposals aimed at moving their climate pledges off paper and into reality. The results from these votes will not only influence the banks but will serve as an indicator of how...

In the final week of Women's History Month, Democrats in the Illinois House took a stand for women across the state with the passage of House Bill 1464? codifying the state's unwavering support for access to reproductive health and a woman's right to...

Following is a statement by Jen Judson, President of the National Press Club and Gil Klein, President of the National Press Club Journalism Institute on the death of photojournalist Max Levin on Friday, April 1. ...

Today Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia McCullough ordered 12th Congressional District Candidate Mike Doyle's name to remain on the ballot and awarded him costs and attorney's fees to be assessed to the individuals who filed the objection.  The...

On March 28, President Biden released his budget proposal for the upcoming 2023 fiscal year. Though it has little chance of being enacted in its entirety, the plan will shape the contours of the final spending and revenue policies that Congress...

The following statement was issued by Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) in response to the Biden administration's announcement that Title 42 will officially end on May 23:...

Toronto's Christian faith leaders will be taking part in a service for peace and unity in Ukraine at St. James Anglican Cathedral, 106 King Street East, Toronto on Sunday, April 3, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. EST. All are welcome to this important service,...

Le Devoir recently published an article announcing that the Government of Quebec would not be honoring its commitment to include the notion of cultural safety in its Health and Social Services Act, thus feeding the insecurities experienced by First...

MAPS Canada is pleased to announce its new partnership with the groundbreaking, non-profit healthcare organization Roots To Thrive, based in Nanaimo, BC in collaboration with the Snuneymuxw First Nation and Vancouver Island University. Founded in...

The Reporter Newsletter is a service of Access Ready Inc. which is an independent, non-profit, cross-disability education and advocacy organization promoting a policy of inclusion and accessibility of information and communications technology (ICT)....

Graphite One Inc. ("Graphite One" or the "Company") offers the following comments on President Joe Biden's announcement today that graphite and other critical battery materials are designated as "essential to national defense" under the Defense...

In a stunning turn of world opinion, the nations of the world have united to call for ending dental amalgam use in children and women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. Dental amalgam is a controversial filling material that is approximately 50%...

The Indian government's decision to impose 30% taxation on cryptocurrencies has been met with a mixed reception. PayBito CEO Raj Chowdhury believes that the steep taxation policy, despite all its negatives, is beneficial not only for India but also...

Chicago Coalition for the Homeless and Heartland Alliance: House Bill 4423 passed unanimously out of the Illinois House of Representatives last week and now moves to the Illinois Senate, where legislators have the opportunity to pass it and ensure...

"I applaud the Alberta government's commitment to supporting innovators and businesses in financial services and fintech with its proposed Financial Innovation Act. With so much regulatory uncertainty making it difficult to create and launch cutting...