Nigeria’s House of Representatives has approved a proposal that would make the real-time electronic transmission of election results mandatory.

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The Protecting Victims Act would also create a new criminal offence of coercive control, upgrade all femicides to first-degree murder charges, and make it illegal to distribute explicit deepfake ...

The Liberal government has tabled sweeping new legislation that it says will protect victims and survivors of sexual and ...

The preceding chapter showed how sentences can be streamlined by reducing their adjective clauses to adjective phrases — a simple process that omits the relative pronouns “that,” “which,” “who,” “whom ...

Hundreds of languages around the world—from the Himalayas to the Amazon, New Guinea to Ethiopia, and Australia to the Caucasus—involve complex sentences that flaunt the traditional syntactic division ...

OTTAWA — Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser has ruled out using the notwithstanding clause to reverse a recent Supreme Court ruling throwing out mandatory minimum sentences for crimes involving ...

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Leader of the Conservative Party Pierre Poilievre rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby Pierre ...