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Silent suffering

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The Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women is preparing a report on the country's battered women, including domestic violence in native communities and within lesbian relationships. The report is expected to call for measures aimed at increasing awareness of domestic violence.

Analysis, Women, Crimes against, Behavior, Abused women, Family violence, Domestic violence, Women's shelters

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Going for broke

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The NAFTA of the US, Canada and Mexico is close to being completed. The Conservative government in Canada has pushed the measure, which is feared by many Canadians who blame the country's economic problems on the 1989 US-Canada Free Trade Agreement.

Economic aspects, Economic policy, Commercial treaties, Trade agreements, Free trade, Conservative Party of Canada

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Beefing up the border

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Canada's Employment and Immigration Minister Bernard Valcourt revised 1976 immigration laws to allow Canada to more strictly manage immigration of refugees. The new restrictive laws are examined.

Interpretation and construction, Laws, regulations and rules, Social policy, Emigration and immigration, Refugees, Emigration and immigration law, Immigration law, Valcourt, Bernard

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