PKR sedang merangka langkah untuk menjadi "gergasi" dalam politik di negara ini.
Presiden PKR Anwar Ibrahim berkata untuk mencapai matlamat itu semua ahli objective - bermula dari peringkat akar umbi - perlu melaksanakan gerak kerja yang lebih jitu untuk meningkatkan kekuatan objective berkenaan.
Pada masa sama, Anwar berkata, mereka juga perlu bertindak lebih agresif menjelaskan dasar serta program objective kepada orang ramai.
"Pertama, keanggotaan mesti ramai, ranting mesti hidup dan cabang-cabang mesti segar.
"MPN (majlis pimpinan negeri) harus lebih aktif dan jentera jawatankuasa mesti lebih hebat berbanding dulu.
"Parti perlu agresif menerangkan sikap dan pendirian serta bersungguh-sungguh perkuat jentera kita supaya Keadilan (PKR) muncul sebagai gergasi dalam sistem politik negara kita," katanya.
Anwar yang juga perdana menteri berkata demikian dalam ucapannya pada konvensyen khas PKR sempena sambutan 25 tahun objective itu di Shah Alam, hari ini.
Anwar juga sempat mengingatkan para ahli bahawa strategi kemenangan perlu disusun dengan rapi jika mahu menewaskan lawan yang menggunakan naratif perkauman dan agama.
"Hebat seperti mana pun laungan kita, benar bagaimanapun perjuangan kita tetapi kalau tidak disusun rapi dengan jentera yang kemas kita akan tewas dengan orang yang melaungkan slogan 'hidup Melayu' atau 'laksanakan Islam' walaupun kita tahu rekod mereka itu hambar belaka," katanya lagi.
Dia berkata proses ini akan turut dibantu oleh Sekretariat Pejabat Presiden untuk memberi maklumat lebih terperinci dan akan memantau secara dekat.
“Saya telah minta beberapa teman untuk membantu saya, untuk bantu jentera yang ada supaya memberi maklumat dan memantau secara dekat pelaksanaan baik di peringkat negeri, cabang dan ranting,” katanya lagi.
Disability assist won’t lift Canadians in need above poverty line: advocates - National
Pam Bristol from Regina is the caretaker for her 18-year-old son, David Rheault, who was born with a severe case of cerebral palsy. The term is used to describe a group of brain disorders that grab a person’s ability to move and maintain balance.
Rheault can say some terms but mostly communicates with assisted technology, Bristol says.
She says she isn’t terrified about being able to support her son while he lives at home, but “as an adult trying to live independently, $200 a month is a pittance.”
Despite being touted by the Liberals as the budget’s largest line item, adjudicators say Ottawa’s investment in disability benefits announced this week doesn’t do enough to help the 1.4 million disabled country living in poverty across the country.
The federal government’s 2024 cost, tabled Tuesday, includes more details on the implementation of reforms to the Canadian Disability Benefits Act, which received royal assent last June. The initial grant envelope for the program is $6.1 billion over the suitable five years, and $1.4 billion annually afterwards.
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The goal of this program is to provided financial support for low-income, working-age people living with disabilities. The maximum benefit is set at $2,400 annually and is estimated to go to more than 600,000 low-income country with disabilities aged 18 to 64.
The plan to funds 600,000 people with the benefit works out to $200 per month, which is about six dollars per day.
Bristol says persons like her son need better support to live a quality life.
“David would at some display, as most adult children, would like to move out from his parents’ home. And when the time comes we will assist him in that. But there needs to be good quality options. Those options are pretty scarce right now,” she told Global News.
Rabia Khedr, the director of advocacy group Disability Without Poverty (DWP), has been vocal about the limitations of the proposed benefits.
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“In many cases, you can’t even pay for a fake trip on public transit with that,” Khedr told Global News, referring to the allotted $200 a month.
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Ottawa says the payment is aimed to be a supplement to existing provincial and territorial programs pretty than a replacement, but advocates were more hopeful when Ottawa committed to bright forward with a federal benefit in September 2020.
“We had our expectations changeable. We were not expecting it to be ideal out of the gate, but we were hoping that the government would honour at least the minimum model proposed by the Parliamentary Cheap Office,” Khedr told Global News.
The PBO’s November portray explored the cost of three hypothetical implementations of the assist, ranging from around two billion dollars to $20.5 billion this year. The lowest cost option was an income annual benefit of $7,600 for 275,000 applicants.
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Maytree, an organization aimed at looking for solutions to end absence, releases a report each year showcasing social assistance programs in Canada. Its 2022 report suggests a single adult with a disability would be in absence after receiving funding from provincial programs. An additional $200 a month wouldn’t be enough to bring them over the poverty line.
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Kamal Khera, the minister responsible for the assist, said Tuesday that she recognizes the fund doesn’t go far enough but she also said it lays the groundwork for change.
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“This is a starting display. This is a keystone in creating a key assist that our government has put forward. And we’re moving to continue to work with provinces and territories to make sure that they get the supports that they need,” said Khera, who is the Minister of Diversity, Inclusion & Persons with Disabilities.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland addressed anxieties about the benefit’s limitations in a press conference Friday. She said the government recognizes the challenges that country with disabilities face in Canada everyday.
“That’s why we were so glad that that’s part of this cost which invests so energetically in Canada and Canadians. We were able to make a historic investment in Canadians living with a disability. We have done more than any federal government in Canadian history and I’m glad that we’ve been able to do that,” Freeland told reporters.
Still, she says the government aspires to do more.
“This is a big step. Better is always possible in Canada. We need to keep working hard,” Freeland said.
NDP Front-runner Jagmeet Singh echoed critics after the tabling of the cost Tuesday, saying the benefit does not go far enough in supporting low-income country with disabilities. He said he wants to hear more from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on his party’s anxieties before supporting the budget.
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“What’s the plan to address the fact that $200 a month for country with living with disabilities is insufficient. What is the plan to address those concerns? I want to hear that from the prime minister,” Singh said.
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According to DWP, 41 per cent of Canadians living with disabilities are low-income, with 16.5 per cent living below the poverty line. They adjudicators this accounts for 1.5 million people.
The budget also proposes expanding the disability tax credit so country can deduct costs of things like having a service animal, purchasing specialized computer equipment and ergonomic chairs. This tax credit is predictable to cost $1 million annually.
Canada Disability Benefit payments are slated to twitch reaching people who need them by July 2025.
Khedr says she is heartbroken for the Canadians who are unsuccessful by the federal budget, and for those who were waiting in anticipation “of this assist lifting them out of poverty so they don’t have to noteworthy medical assistance in dying.”
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“The government did not look into any creative ways to fund an adequate benefit,” Khedr told Global News.
— with files from Global News’ Kyle Benning, David Baxter and Moosa Imran
KUALA LUMPUR – Tiada sebarang perbincangan dilakukan oleh pihak protokol dengan keluarga Allahyarham Tun Mohamed Haniff Omar berhubung pengebumian bekas Ketua Polis Negara pada Sabtu lalu.
Anak Allahyarham, Kapt (B) Abdul Rahmat Omar Mohamed Haniff berkata, beliau telah dimaklumkan oleh pihak polis supaya mempertimbangkan agar jenazah dibawa terus ke Masjid Negara untuk semua urusan sehingga pengebumian di Makam Pahlawan.
“Setelah berbincang dengan ibu saya, kami bersetuju.
“Ini merupakan maklumat dan komunikasi terakhir mengenai pengurusan pengebumian jenazah Allahyarham sehinggalah pengumuman dibuat oleh Imam Masjid Negara memaklumkan jenazah akan dikebumikan di Bukit Kiara,” katanya dalam kenyataan, hari ini.
Sebelum ini MalaysiaGazette melaporkan, lokasi pengebumian Allahyarham Tun Mohammed Hanif diubah ke Tanah Perkuburan Islam Bukit Kiara, di Damansara.
Pertukaran lokasi itu difahamkan dilakukan atas permintaan ahli keluarga Allahyarham.
Bagaimanapun, keluarga Allahyarham menafikan perkara itu.
“Kenyataan ini dibuat kerana terdapat khabar bahawa kami sekeluarga yang membuat permohonan pertukaran dan juga terdapat pihak-pihak yang sudah mula membuat andaian berbaur politik yang tidak sihat,” katanya dalam kenyataan kepada MalaysiaGazette.
Abdul Rahmat Omar turut menyertakan kronologi berhubung urusan pengebumian jenazah ayahnya.
Menurut beliau, kenyataan pertama memaklumkan pemergian Allahyarham dibuat pada pukul 3.16 pagi.
Pada pukul 6.22 pagi, beliau memaklumkan jenazah akan berada di rumah sehingga pukul 10 pagi untuk membenarkan sanak-saudara dan rakan taulan menziarah.
Beliau kemudiannya memberitahu, jenazah akan dibawa ke Masjid Al-Ikhlas, Seksyen 13, Shah Alam untuk urusan mandi, kafan dan solat jenazah.
“Tiada maklumat pengebumian dapat diputuskan sehingga mendapat maklum balas Sekretariat PDRM dan Bahagian Kebajikan PDRM,” ujarnya.
Dalam pada itu beliau berkata, maklumat terakhir berhubung pengurusan jenazah Allahyarham pada pukul 8.40 pagi iaitu setelah jenazah disembahyangkan di Masjid Al-Ikhlas dan kemudian dibawa ke Masjid PDRM Bukit Aman untuk penghormatan terakhir serta disembahyangkan sekali lagi sebelum dibawa ke Bukit Kiara.
“Lebih kurang jam 9.45 pagi, saya dimaklumkan oleh PDRM supaya mempertimbangkan untuk jenazah dibawa terus ke Masjid Negara untuk semua urusan sehingga pengebumian di Makam Pahlawan,” katanya. – MalaysiaGazette
Lokasi pengebumian Allahyarham Tun Hanif Omar diubah ke Bukit Kiara
A Toronto police officer with 25 ages of service has been suspended with pay after allegedly assaulting two women.
On Saturday, Toronto Police Service launched an assault investigation after a man allegedly attended an address and assaulted two women.
That day, 51-year-old Construction. Nickolas Kalatzopoulos was arrested and charged with two funds of assault and one count of unlawfully in a Place house
He has a May 24 court a date.
Kalatzopoulos is assigned to the Primary Report Intake, Management and Entry unit.
Presiden PAS Abdul Hadi Awang mengkritik negara-negara yang memudahkan rakyat Palestin yang mahu melarikan diri dari Gaza.
Dalam catatan Minda Presidennya semalam, Abdul Hadi tidak menamakan secara khusus negara tersebut namun menyifatkan mereka sebagai "mengikut agenda Israel dan Barat".
Dia turut menyifatkan rakyat Palestin yang meninggalkan negara itu dan Gaza sebagai tidak berprinsip.
"Rakyat Palestin yang menyokong kumpulan Islam Hamas terus bertahan di Gaza walaupun mereka dibelasah habis-habisan sehingga ramai yang telah gugur syahid.
"Mereka tetap bertahan tidak mahu keluar dari Palestin dan Gaza yang dikepung, walaupun telah disediakan kemudahan keluar untuk menyelamatkan diri oleh beberapa pihak.
"Hanya kalangan yang tidak berprinsip sahaja akan keluar meninggalkan Palestin dan Gaza," katanya yang juga ahli parlimen Marang.
Selain itu, Abdul Hadi turut mengkritik negara-negara yang menyokong penyelesaian dua negara untuk Palestin dan Israel, termasuk kerajaan Malaysia.
"Pendirian PAS bersama kerajaan, parti dan NGO menyokong perjuangan Palestin menentang kezaliman Zionis dengan istiqamah.
"Namun, PAS berbeza dengan pihak yang lain kerana PAS menolak penyelesaian dua negara yang disokong oleh kerajaan PH kini yang bersama Barat mendukung penyelesaian dua negara tersebut dan menyokong Palestin secara ‘dibelah-bahagi’," katanya lagi.
Untuk rekod, pentadbiran-pentadbiran Malaysia yang terdahulu turut menyokong penyelesaian dua negara bagi menamatkan konflik yang berpanjangan tersebut.
Ini termasuklah pada 2021 ketika pentadbiran negara dipimpin PN, di mana PAS menjadi sebahagian daripada kerajaan persekutuan.
‘Wanita, kanak-kanak dibolehkan keluar’
Perdana Menteri Anwar Ibrahim sebelum ini dilaporkan membantu membawa keluarga CEO Cinta Gaza Malaysia Muhammad Nadir Al-Nuri Kamaruzaman untuk meninggalkan Gaza dan pulang ke Malaysia.
Menurut laporan Sinar Harian pada 13 April lalu, isteri Nadir - seorang warga Palestin - dan anak-anak mereka berada di Gaza selama enam bulan sejak konflik antara Israel dan Palestin tercetus pada Oktober lalu.
Nadir berkata keluarganya pada mulanya bertahan di sana namun memutuskan untuk meninggalkan Gaza selepas anak bongsunya mula mengalami komplikasi pernafasan.
Menurut laporan itu lagi, Nadir berkata dia menghubungi beberapa ulama di Palestin dan Malaysia bagi mendapatkan pandangan berkenaan hukum meninggalkan medan perang di Gaza.
Katanya, dia menerima jawapan yang sama iaitu wanita dan kanak-kanak dibolehkan keluar selagi ada niat untuk kembali di sana apabila keadaan mengizinkan.
“Kami beristikharah dan bertawakal, perjuangan tidak akan berakhir tetapi tetap diteruskan walaupun tidak berada di sana,” katanya lagi, seperti dipetik.
