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LISTEN | Full interview with Sylvie Merchant of Lakshya Trust: As It Happens6:38India’s transgender community vows to fight new bill that strips right to self-identify Seven years after India adopted legislation to protect transgender people, it has passed new amendments to scale back those rights. A new bill, passed in …
Read More »‘MAID is not death on demand’: Physicians decry proposed Alberta assistance in dying bill
Some health-care workers who either directly provide medical assistance in dying or work in that field say they are strongly opposed to Bill 18 — which, if passed, would prevent doctors or nurse practitioners from administering MAID to patients if they are unlikely to die within the next 12 months. …
Read More »Jury finds Bill Cosby sexually assaulted woman in 1972, awards her nearly $60M US
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A civil jury in California found Bill Cosby liable for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman …
Read More »Ahead of budget bill vote, veterans plead with Ottawa to change course
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Veterans and their advocates are urging the Carney Liberals to change course and amend a bill …
Read More »Owner of St. Catharines, Ont., café fought Enbridge over $56K gas bill error — and won
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. It took 10 years of hard work for Ritesh Kumar to save enough money to buy …
Read More »Daycares slam Quebec’s new secularism bill, say it will have direct impact on services
Groups representing publicly funded daycares (known as CPEs) and daycare workers in Quebec say the province’s new enhanced secularism law would create numerous challenges for the daycare network and likely weaken services to young children. “We’re concerned that the problem raised and the means adopted by Bill 9 are not …
Read More »Carney poaches Ontario NDP’s Doly Begum to run for seat vacated by Bill Blair
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The deputy leader of the Ontario New Democrats is launching her bid to enter federal politics …
Read More »Hamilton woman to pay a fraction of $101K bill after province rescued 55 miniature poodles from her home
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A Hamilton woman who had nearly 60 dogs removed from her home by the province last …
Read More »Bill before Senate would recognize First Nations jurisdiction over gaming
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Some First Nations leaders in Saskatchewan say a bill before the Senate that would give them …
Read More »Townhome owners stuck footing $2M bill after stormwater system at new-build complex collapses
Dozens of townhome owners in Vaughan, Ont., are facing massive bills — now up to about $2 million collectively — to replace major damage to their recently built complex. The condominium corporation says the collapse of a community playground in 2024 was caused by installation errors during construction. But at …
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