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‘Harmful’: Human rights commissioner resigns over Saskatchewan’s pronoun bill
By The Canadian Press on October 16th, 2023
REGINA – A commissioner with the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission has resigned over the provincial government’s proposed pronoun legislation. Heather Kuttai said in a letter Monday that the bill requiring parental consent if children under 16 want to change their names and pronouns at school is an attack on the rights of transgender and gender-diverse ... Read More »
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By The Canadian Press on October 16th, 2023
REGINA – A commissioner with the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission has resigned over the provincial government’s proposed pronoun legislation. Heather Kuttai says in a letter that the bill requiring parental consent if children under 16 want to change their names and pronouns at school is an attack on the rights of transgender and gender-diverse children. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada’s new antisemitism envoy Deborah Lyons eyes hate speech on campuses and online
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on October 16th, 2023
OTTAWA – The Trudeau government has appointed former ambassador Deborah Lyons as Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism. Lyons is Canada’s former ambassador to Israel and to Afghanistan, and she replaces former attorney general Irwin Cotler, who held the role for three years. The role involves collecting data and speaking out ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Winnipeg court hears man was in psychosis when he killed parents, attacked nurse
By Brittany Hobson, The Canadian Press on October 16th, 2023
WINNIPEG – Court has heard a man was experiencing psychosis and thought higher powers were telling him his relatives and a colleague were “contaminated by evil” the day he killed his parents and attacked a hospital nursing supervisor. Trevor Farley believed he was directed by the Angel Gabrielto save his victims from a “demonic evil,” ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Human rights commissioner resigns over Saskatchewan’s pronoun bill
By The Canadian Press on October 16th, 2023
REGINA – Heather Kuttai, a commissioner with the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission, says in a letter that she is resigning immediately because of the province’s proposed legislation requiring parental permission if a child wants to use a different name or pronoun at school. More coming... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Complainant in Nygard trial says mogul said he wanted to help with fashion career
By Tyler Griffin, The Canadian Press on October 16th, 2023
TORONTO – Note: This story contains graphic content. A woman who has accused Peter Nygard of sexual assault told his trial Monday that the former fashion mogul flew her to Toronto under the guise of helping with her designer aspirations, but what she thought would be a business meeting turned into an attack. Nygard, the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Zexi Li, ‘Freedom Convoy’ lawyers spar at organizers’ criminal trial
By Laura Osman, The Canadian Press on October 16th, 2023
OTTAWA – The woman who went to court to get an injunction against the “Freedom Convoy” last year faced the protest organizers in criminal court Monday in some of the most combative lines of questioning the trial has seen so far. Zexi Li took the stand against Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, who are accused ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. to bring in law forcing Surrey to go with municipal police force
By The Canadian Press on October 16th, 2023
VICTORIA – British Columbia Solicitor General Mike Farnworth has introduced legislation that will require the City of Surrey to provide policing with a municipal force. The update in the Police Act also gives the province the authority to cancel the RCMP contract it has with the city. Farnworth introduced the Police Amendment Act in the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: B.C. to bring in law forcing Surrey to go with municipal police force
By The Canadian Press on October 16th, 2023
VICTORIA – British Columbia Solicitor General Mike Farnworth has introduced legislation that will force the City of Surrey to provide policing with a municipal force. The update in the Police Act also gives the province the authority to cancel the current RCMP contract it has with the city. The proposed legislation comes just days after ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Feds, Atlantic premiers meeting in Ottawa as Atlantic Loop project teeters
By The Canadian Press on October 16th, 2023
OTTAWA – Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is meeting in Ottawa today with the premiers of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, seeking an agreement to help the two provinces get off coal power by the end of the decade. Wilkinson invited Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston and New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs to Ottawa in August ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Two community newspapers publish their last editions in B.C. this week
By The Canadian Press on October 16th, 2023
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – Two newspapers in British Columbia are publishing their last editions this week, eliminating coverage by community newspapers for a large swath of the province’s northeast. Glacier Media announced it is shutting down both the Dawson Creek Mirror and the Alaska Highway News out of Fort St. John. A letter published ... Read More »
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