Montreal teacher challenges policy for trans students to hide identity from parents

A Jamaican woman ordered deported from Canada more than five years ago after she was convicted of killing her stepson has won a reprieve. Nichelle Nikiss Rowe, who was stripped of the permanent residence status she obtained here in 2005 due to her second-degree murder conviction, applied to Federal Court for a stay of removal from Canada, which was scheduled for March 27. Rowe argued successfully that the immigration officer who refused to stay her removal last November didn’t properly consider an expert report on how deportees are treated in Jamaica when he turned down her pre-...