A bill designed to include gender identity in the Canadian Human Rights Act has received a major setback. Conservative Senator Donald Plett proposed on Feb. 27 an amendment to Bill C-279 to exclude federal “sex-specific” […]
Financial news and data company Bloomberg LP will launch a Canadian television channel by mid-2015. The new network, which will be launched in partnership with Channel Zero, will be called Bloomberg TV Canada. At launch, […]
Seventeen years have passed since Ontario’s sex education curriculum was last updated. Within that time, same-sex marriage became legal in Canada in 2005, the rules around consent were further defined, and children as young as […]
Qatar has recalled its ambassador to Egypt following a row over Cairo’s air strikes on ISIS targets in Libya. Egypt bombed ISIS strongholds in the Libyan city of Derna, just hours after the militant group […]
Missing three-year-old toddler Elijah Marsh has died at North York General Hospital. Despite several hours spent in an attempt to save Elijah after he was found with no vital signs in the frigid snow, doctors […]
Ontario will move forward with an updated, progressive sexual education curriculum to be rolled out in Ontario schools starting in September 2015, Premiere Kathleen Wynne announced Feb. 19. Wynne and Education Minister Liz Sandals say parents should […]
Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change is planning to launch a $15 million project to clean up and safeguard the Great Lakes. The recent move by the government is aimed at reviving the […]
Ousted Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra is facing criminal charges over her alleged dereliction in overseeing a rice subsidy scheme. Thailand’s attorney-general has pressed criminal charges against the deposed prime minister over her negligence in […]
As the number of measles cases in Ontario doubled over the Family Day long weekend, Ottawa Public Health officials announced that they have not monitored immunization records at local schools for the last two years. […]
With numerous performers already announced including, Lights, deadmau5, Alanis Morissette and the Sam Roberts Band, the Juno Awards of 2015 will connect with music fans of all ages. On Mar. 15, the Juno Awards will be […]
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