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Author: David Ebner
Publication Date: January 26, 2026 - 06:00
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Advocacy groups to argue Alberta transgender legislation amounts to criminal prohibition
January 26, 2026
Advocacy groups are attempting a new legal strategy to combat an Alberta law that prohibits doctors from providing gender-affirming health care to transgender youth – legislation the provincial government has shielded with the Charter’s notwithstanding clause,
Last June, Egale Canada, Skipping Stone Foundation and five youth and their parents won a court injunction to put a pause on the law as they pursued a legal challenge under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Unpublished Newswire
OTTAWA — Surrounded by global elites and influencers, Mark Carney stepped on the global stage and crystallized what many had been thinking: it’s time to accept that the world order of the last 80 years has dramatically and permanently changed.
It’s a “rupture,” Carney told the World Economic Forum audience at Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 20, “not a transition.” The “rules-based international order” is gone and not returning any time soon, the Canadian prime minister said in a speech that attracted global attention.
Without naming names, the Canadian prime minister told the...
January 27, 2026 - 04:00 | Simon Tuck | National Post
The national child-care program that promised to reduce fees to about $10 a day by this spring is expected to be approximately 90,000 spaces short of its target, and most of the licensed spots that have opened are in the for-profit sector, according to a Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives report. The federal government announced the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care program in the 2021 budget. By March, 2022, the provinces and territories had all agreed to create more than 284,000 spaces by March 31, 2026.
January 27, 2026 - 00:01 | Dave McGinn | The Globe and Mail
Mounties in Alberta say a paraglider died after crashing into the side of a mountain just over a week ago.
January 26, 2026 - 23:19 | | CBC News - Canada
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