News by subject: AVO

SOCAN, Society of Composers, Authors & Music Publishers of Canada, along with a coalition of music organizations, today wrote to the Government of Canada concerning the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the music industry. The letter provided...

Approximately 200 Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA) members employed by the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) have been assigned a new contract in an arbitration decision. The decision amounts to a wage cut, in real dollars, even as Ontario patients,...

As the leading voice for independent convenience store owners in Ontario, the Ontario Korean Businessmen's Association (OKBA) applauds the Ontario government on its decision to expand the application for licenses to sell beverage alcohol in over...

OPSEU/SEFPO says the Ford government's plan to scrap the cap on the number of big box grocers who sell alcohol will have spillover consequences for the entire alcohol retail and distribution system in Ontario, with millions of dollars in public...

The Lawfare Project (LP) announced that they filed a complaint yesterday in the Western District of Pennsylvania on behalf of a courageous Jewish student at Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture. The student, who was subjected to alleged pervasive...

The Master Framework Agreement (MFA) with The Beer Store has never been about choice, convenience, or prices for customers. It has always been about serving the interests of the big brewing conglomerates. Retail Council of Canada (RCC) is pleased to...

Green 2.0 said today that its new Transparency Report Card shows that the growth of communities of color in environmental jobs slowed this year, hitting a green ceiling. Green 2.0, a national independent campaign working to increase racial and...

Software expert Dan O'Dowd, Founder of safety advocacy group The Dawn Project, has today commented on NHTSA's recall of over two million Tesla vehicles, saying that the recall does not go far enough to address critical safety issues in Tesla's...

The following is a statement from Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien regarding the recent report from the U.S. House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party on Permanent Normal...

The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) commends Gov. Kathy Hochul for signing S.2163-B into law to protect New York horses from being sold and transported for slaughter. Championed by Assemblymember Deborah Glick...

The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation (ETAF) announced today that LIFEbeat will become a program of The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. LIFEbeat mobilizes the music and entertainment industry to provide sexual health resources, including HIV, at...

December 14, 2023 will be the 11th remembrance since 20 first-graders and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. One month after the shooting that claimed these precious lives, the loved ones of several victims united to launch...

Consumer Watchdog today called on members of the Assembly Insurance Committee to make Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara answer five tough questions about the wildfire insurance deal he cut with the insurance industry, and whether it will benefit...

Consumer Watchdog made a record of oil refiners' profiteering in California and disinformation campaign in official comments before the California Energy Commission as it determines a price gouging penalty on oil refiners. ...

PW Transit Canada is disappointed that the members of Unifor Local 114 have rejected a second tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement which was arrived at on December 5th and was unanimously recommended by the Union bargaining committee. ...

Freedom House is proud to announce the launch of Free Them All: The Fred Hiatt Program to Free Political Prisoners. The initiative is named in honor of pathbreaking American journalist and former Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt, and...

Following is a statement by Eileen O'Reilly, president of the National Press Club, and Gil Klein, president of the National Press Club Journalism Institute, on new charges brought by the Russian government against Alsu Kurmasheva of Radio Free...

Today, Dan Fishbein, M.D., president of Sun Life U.S., released the following statement regarding the ERISA Advisory Council's recommendation that Congress pass legislation to require mental health parity in long-term disability insurance....

Inhance Technologies today announced the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted its motion to stay the one-sided orders issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on December 1, 2023. If allowed to take effect, the orders would have...

Officials with American Pharmacy Cooperative, Inc. (APCI), applauded members of the House of Representatives for passing the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act of 2023 and called for further federal reform of pharmacy benefit managers....

The News/Media Alliance welcomed 16 new member organizations in 2023, including large and small news, magazine, and digital media organizations from across the country and around the world,...

As part of its regional response to the Sudan refugee crisis, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) announced today US$2 million in new grant funding in Egypt. The 12-month grant will be delivered by UNHCR, providing life-saving access to education for...

BitChute, a leading alternative video hosting platform dedicated to free speech, user privacy, and viewpoint neutrality, stands firmly alongside Rumble in the face of recent cyber attacks. These attacks followed the GOP-controlled Committee on House...

Amidst growing attacks on digital advertising in Washington, D.C., nationwide small business coalition Internet for Growth has grown its membership of entrepreneurs, startups, and content creators to nearly 2,000 individuals across all 50 states,...

The Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation (BHOF) is pleased to announce that Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) has been selected to receive the 2023 Congressional Bone Health Champion Award. The national award annually recognizes four Members of...

Today MiningWatch Canada releases a report describing gross violations of human rights at Barrick Gold's North Mara Gold Mine in Tanzania. Thousands of Indigenous Kuria near the mine have been forcibly evicted from their lands to make room for the...

Nobel Laureates, Captains of Industry, Former Heads of State and Civil Society Leaders Unite, Calling for Unconditional Release of Ethnic Armenians Illegally Held in Azerbaijan Failure to release most prominent prisoners demonstrates political...

On Wednesday, JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon told US lawmakers to crack down on cryptocurrency transactions. This will help in preventing the use of cryptos by rogue nations and terrorist organizations. However, Jamie Dimon has a...

Unifor has submitted a 72-hour strike notice to Pacific Western Transportation (PWTransit) after Local 114 transit workers voted to reject a tentative agreement....

The United States Supreme Court today ruled in Feds for Medical Freedom v. Biden that lower courts must vacate the injunction against the vaccine mandate for federal workers put in place by the Biden Administration in September 2021. The government...

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters strongly opposes the sale of any assets of Kroger [NYSE: KR] or Albertsons [NYSE: ACI] to C&S Wholesale Grocers as proposed in the companies' September 2023 divestiture plan submitted to the Federal Trade...

On Monday, December 4, Humanity & Inclusion Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Landmine Foundation and Mines Action Canada, paid tribute to the victims of bombing in populated areas at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa....

Paralyzed Veterans of America Chief Policy Officer Heather Ansley released the following statement in response to a letter sent out last week by the House Administration's Modernization subcommittee to the Capitol Police, the Architect of the...

We, the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN), wish to express our deepest regret, apologizing to the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples of Canada for harms, historical or contemporary, related to nursing education....

Do No Harm, a prominent national nonprofit committed to safeguarding healthcare from radical and divisive ideology, filed a lawsuit against the unlawful and discriminatory leadership program offered by Vituity in which there are leadership incentives...

As the 2024 presidential race unfolds with unprecedented dynamics, the political...

Inhance Technologies today announced it is seeking review by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the one-sided orders issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on December 1. If allowed to take effect, the orders will...

It's no secret that finding a family doctor in Alberta these days is tough, especially if you're not located in a major urban center. In fact, many Albertans don't have a regular doctor, and those in rural locations are often faced with hours of...

Today the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) made an affirmative preliminary determination regarding the antidumping and countervailing duty petitions filed by the American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA) on imports of shrimp...

Further to its news release of November 28, 2023, Symetryx continues to urge its fellow Check-Cap Ltd. ("Check-Cap") shareholders to VOTE AGAINST the Keystone Dental and FOR the Symetryx slate of highly qualified and independent director nominees....

On the 75th Anniversary of Human Rights Day, Canadian public sector leaders will come together to advocate for the return of basic universal human rights for the people of Gaza. This event comes on the heels of the United Nations (UN) Secretary...

L-Strategies Partners Stan Fitzgerald and Jared Craig filed a 1.4 million lawsuit against self-proclaimed Whistleblower Angie Wong for embezzlement and defamation in June 2023....

The York University Staff Association, a union representing over 2000 non-academic staff, calls on the university to rein in out-of-control spending on senior management, as revealed by the Ontario Auditor General's report. It also calls on the...

Today, the Teamsters are applauding the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its proposed rule to mandate that mechanics at aircraft maintenance facilities in foreign countries be subject to the same drug and alcohol screening as...

The following is a statement from Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien on recent actions by UPS to deny collective bargaining rights to members in Louisville, Ky.:...

Retired Brig. Gen. J. Roy Robinson, the NGAUS president, issued the following statement on the House and Senate Conference Report on the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act.    "Once again, those entrusted to reconcile the differences...

In response to yesterday's damning report by the Auditor General and a new report by the Ontario Health Coalition revealing nearly 1,200 Emergency Room and other hospital department shutdowns in 2023, three major hospital unions are demanding the...

Audits of four core areas of Ontario's health-care system ? emergency departments, long-term care (LTC), Northern hospitals and Public Health Ontario ? reveal a system with longstanding problems, according to the auditor general of Ontario's (AG)...

This week, survivors of child sexual abuse met with a bipartisan group of lawmakers to urge them to require Apple to detect and remove child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from iCloud. They also asked lawmakers to call on Tim Cook to testify before...

The packaging on organic food typically conjures feelings of local charm and homegrown goodness. But in an increasingly consolidated marketplace, major corporations are often calling the shots on popular organic brands.  ...