Although “the change in rules will automatically give workers in federally regulated workplaces like banks, transport companies, the public service, and telecoms, the option of taking time off,” the Star reports that the remaining 92 percent of Canadian workers may have to wait a bit longer, while their employers sort out how to update their existing leave policies and collective agreements.

“None of the parental leave changes will impact residents of Quebec,” the Huffington Post notes, “where the province runs its own parental leave program.”

The nonprofit Canada Without Poverty said that even with the new rules, “Canada lags badly behind many countries” when it comes to parental leave programs, pointing to a Star editorial that called on Canada to “follow the lead of Quebec and European countries when it comes to enriching parental leave programs.”

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Detailing three major critiques of the new policies, the Star‘s editorial board acknowledges:

• Although parents can now remain with their child an additional six months, because the actual amount of money they receive will not change, “that means most families won’t be able to afford it,” according to a Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives researcher. As the board writes, “It’s difficult enough to sustain a household for 12 months under the current rules; doing without a full income for even longer will be a struggle for many.”
• Additionally, “it’s still extraordinarily difficult for parents who are working part-time or in other precarious work to access” the government’s parental leave benefits because “individuals are required to work 600 insurable hours of work in the 52 weeks preceding their claim.”
• Finally, because the new rules only immediately apply to the eight percent of workers in federally regulated positions, they will have to rely on provinces and businesses to update their practices to match the new policy—and, as the Star notes, a recent “survey found that almost 70 percent of small businesses oppose an 18-month leave option.”

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In the U.S. protests were also planned in at least four cities by the Filipino-American group BAYAN-USA. Demonstrators planned to congregate from Sunday until Tuesday to voice opposition to Trump’s pro-war agenda as well as his economic agenda in Asia.

Trump will attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit while in the Philippines, where the White House says he will address “the importance of fair and reciprocal economic ties with America’s trade partners.” On Friday, Trump delivered a speech at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit consistent with his “America First” agenda, in which he asserted that the U.S. has suffered from multi-national trade agreements.

Protests in the U.S. will also focus on Trump’s relationship with Duterte. Trump has complimented the Filipino president on the war he’s waged against citizens who have drug addictions, saying the government was doing a “great job” earlier this year in its efforts to rid the country of illegal drugs. According to Human Rights Watch, more than 2,500 Filipinos have been killed by the country’s police force since 2016, and a total of 12,000 people have died as a result of the war on drugs.

“These two are infamously known as fascist presidents who openly attack the poor, whether through Duterte’s Dirty Drug War that has killed more than 13,000 people, or Trump’s authoritarian racist and sexist policies, such as the Muslim ban and multiple cuts to education, women’s reproductive rights, rescission of DACA impacting the whole country,” said Jessica Antonio, secretary-general of BAYAN-USA. “History has shown that people will rise up against fascism and will not be complacent. We will continue to rise up against fascism until this same old system crumbles, so we can build a society that truly reflects the majority of people.”

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Guevara-Rosas urged the Honduran government to “start undoing some of the many wrongs documented in recent days” by “halting all use of illegitimate or excessive force against protesters by security forces, ending arbitrary detentions, and investigating all instances of human rights violations.”

In an exclusive interview with Democracy Now!, Manuel Zelaya—who was ousted by a U.S.-backed coup in 2009—urged protesters to maintain their presence in the streets, and called on Hernández and the Honduran government to count the votes. The former president says the protesters “know that [leftist coalition leader] Salvador Nasralla won the election,” but Hernández, a “reliable” U.S. ally, has remained in power because of U.S. influence over Honduran institutions.

“Since the coup d’état, the United States has done what it wants with this country,” Zelaya said. “They changed all the laws. This is a military state, with laws like Plan Colombia, like the laws in Iraq and Afghanistan. That is what’s happening in Honduras. And they’ve done away with guarantees and with respect. What’s being done in this country is unjust.”

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The General Assembly’s overwhelming rebuke of the Trump administration came just a day after Haley warned in a Facebook post that “yes, the U.S. will be taking names” during the vote.

In a statement following Thursday’s vote, Rebecca Vilkomerson, executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace, applauded the 128 nations that “stood up to U.S. pressure, which could not obscure the urgency of speaking out against the recklessness and injustice of declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel.”

“Despite threats from the Trump administration, the U.N. General Assembly vote today showed once again that the U.S. and Israel are increasingly isolated from the global consensus regarding Israel’s appalling disregard for Palestinian rights,” Vilkomerson concluded.

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“Perhaps the only surprising aspect of the Department of Justice response is their rich blend of arrogance and contempt for the rule of law,” he wrote, calling its decision “unthinkable, unconscionable, and un-American.”

“The actions taken by the administration going forward will have an immense impact on every American voter—and they plan on doing that under cover of darkness, without interference from a free people who deserve the fruits of liberty that the checks and balances of government promise them; a promise the Department of Justice is now denying,” he added.

In a tweet Saturday afternoon, his office added: “DOJ has denied request for access to documents but we will continue to pursue access despite dissolution of the elections commission to ensure that the commission’s work is transparent to the American people.”

Dunlap wasn’t along in his criticisms. Among those also raising alarms was fellow Democratic commission Alan King, a probate judge in Jefferson County, Ala.. He told the Montgomery Advertiser, “My belief when I started is it would be transparent, that there would be an exchange of information, that everybody would be in the loop and that’s not how it worked out.”

As journalist Jessica Huseman told PBS Saturday, Trump killed the panel as it “was facing eight federal lawsuits and those were going pretty well for the people who were suing the commission.”

Indeed, as watchdog group American Oversight, which represented Dunlap in his suit, said in a statement last week, it was “no coincidence that the president dissolved the commission once it became clear it wouldn’t be permitted to operate in the shadows. Secretary Dunlap deserves our gratitude for stepping into the breach to take on adversaries of democracy.”

“We intend to continue to fight for his right to access to the commission’s secret communications. President Trump can dissolve the commission, but the law doesn’t allow him or the commission to slink away from view and avoid accountability,” the group added.

Concerns about the data collected by the commission simmered last week when former commission vice chair and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach indicated it would be handed over to DHS—a potential move condemned by civil right advocates. Whether that will happen, though, is unclear, as Joseph Borson, a DOJ attorney, said Friday that the commission would not be turning over the data to another body.

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Advocates for immigrant rights, politicians, and experts decried the visa decision on Twitter:

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