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British Columbia's NDP government is bringing back the province's human rights commission, which was scuttled by the previous Liberal regime in 2002 in favour of a complaint-driven tribunal.

A May report in the online version of Policy Options magazine estimates just one per cent of Canada's 2,160 judges in the provincial courts are aboriginal, while three per cent are racial minorities.

After months of calls from advocates for a clearer picture of who is contracting COVID-19 and how it affects them, the Public Health Agency of Canada is still looking into the possibility of collecting more demographic data related to the disease.