There has been a great deal of dread and uneasiness in the LGBT community in the days following the US election. Trump and the Republican Party have gained control of all three branches of the USA government for the first time since 2001. Even the majority of State legislatures are now controlled by Republicans. Together, ...

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The Human Rights Council has appointed international human rights expert Vitit Muntarbhorn of Thailand as the first UN independent expert charged with investigating violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. John Fisher, Geneva director of Human Rights Watch, said his appointment on Friday “made history” and “will bring much-needed attention to human ...

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Police are investigating after hate literature was delivered to the front doorsteps of dozens of homes in Mission, Chilliwack and Abbotsford Monday morning. Ken Rothe is still in disbelief after he found a note claiming to be from the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan on his property. The note came in a ...

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A firefighter has won compensation after enduring abuse and equipment tampering at a Halifax naval base because he is gay. The Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal says the unidentified man was subject to “multiple incidents of traumatic events” while a firefighter for the Department of National Defence. The man, now in his 50s, was a military and civilian firefighter ...

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Tasha Brown calls her daughter Kaydance “a sparkling gem, a little miracle.” And then she begins to cry. Brown is frantic with worry, because her two-year-old is missing. Brown began to suspect in early May that her estranged wife had defied a court order and fled Canada with their daughter, who was conceived with the ...

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As part of an hour-long YouTube lecture on political correctness, University of Toronto professor and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson is objecting to the Trudeau government’s Bill C-16, which proposes to outlaw harassment and discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression under the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code. Peterson, a white male ...

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An outbreak of syphilis among California porn performers is perhaps not surprising, given the nature of their business. But the sexually transmitted disease is a threat not only to the adult entertainment industry: There’s a resurgence of syphilis worldwide – and Canada is no exception. Cases of syphilis across the country have risen dramatically over ...

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The outward focus of today’s culture war is what Muslim women should be permitted to wear on their heads or at the beach. In the late 1980s, it was whether a publicly funded museum could show art that some elected officials considered obscene. Robert Mapplethorpe was a key figure in that fracas, which peaked when ...

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