Unpublished Newswire
Montreal’s English school board will seek leave to appeal Quebec’s controversial Bill 21 to the Supreme Court, hoping to overturn a law that prevents some public employees from wearing religious symbols such as hijabs.Joe Ortona, chair of the English Montreal School Board (EMSB), announced on Thursday that his organization would continue its legal challenge of Bill 21 to Canada’s highest court on the grounds that it violates minority language and gender-equality rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
April 11, 2024 - 19:10 | Eric Andrew-Gee, Frédérik-Xavier Duhamel | The Globe and Mail
A transitional housing project and safe drug consumption site will open near a school in the Saint-Henri borough. While officials welcome the project, residents are resisting it.
April 11, 2024 - 18:53 | Matilda Cerone | Global News - Canada
Ontario’s publicly funded health insurance plan must pay for a special procedure in Texas for a non-binary person seeking gender-affirming care, the province’s Divisional Court has ruled.The procedure, not available in Ontario, involves receiving a vagina while still keeping a penis.The 3-0 ruling by Ontario’s Divisional Court this week is the first from a court in that province on gender-affirming care, and in particular, on treatment for non-binary people, said lawyer John McIntyre, who was involved in the case. He said he was not aware of a similar ruling elsewhere in Canada.
April 11, 2024 - 18:52 | Sean Fine | The Globe and Mail
Charges have been laid in connection to an operation that allegedly saw drones used to supply inmates at Alberta's Drumheller Institution with phones and drugs.
April 11, 2024 - 18:52 | Melissa Gilligan | CTV News - Canada
In the past six months, hundreds of dollars worth of pizza have been ordered in Justin Rybicki's name – and he's not sure why.
April 11, 2024 - 18:47 | Brittany Ekelund | CTV News - Canada
In the early days of her medical reporting career, in the late 1950s, Joan Hollobon was sent to interview a prominent physician at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. The doctor was reluctant but felt obligated because the hospital was launching a fundraising campaign.The eminent surgeon, like many of his generation, believed it was beneath him to speak to a lowly journalist, especially a woman. So he simply handed her a page of “facts” he felt should be printed in the paper and walked away.
April 11, 2024 - 18:34 | André Picard | The Globe and Mail
