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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 »Province installs rumble strips at site of fatal Manitoba highway crash – Winnipeg
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Manitoba government is hoping to avoid a repeat of a tragic June crash that led to the deaths of 17 seniors. Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure says workers completed the installation Thursday of rumble strips at the intersection of the Trans-Canada Highway …
Read More »University of Regina strips Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond of honorary degree
A major Canadian university has stripped former B.C. representative for children and youth Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond of an honorary degree. In a Monday statement, the University of Regina said it had rescinded an honorary doctor of laws degree it bestowed on Turpel-Lafond in 2003. The school said the decision came …
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