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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.
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The federal government is being called on to send aid to Cuba in the wake of tightening restrictions against the Caribbean island nation by the United States.
Mexico sent
two naval vessels 800 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Cuba last week. The shipments included essential food items as well as personal hygiene products.
The federal New Democrats say Canada should follow suit. Last week in the House of Commons, NDP interim leader Don...
February 19, 2026 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
February 19, 2026 - 06:40 | | The Globe and Mail
Until mid-afternoon on February 10, Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, was a place known for mining and bears, for its geopark and dinosaur fossils and mountain vistas.
But most Canadians had likely never even heard of this town, with its approximately 2,700 residents. Set in the foothills of the Hart Ranges, a subrange of the Rocky Mountains, Tumbler Ridge is close enough to the famed mountain parks of Alberta and BC to share a bit of their epic scenery but far enough to go mostly unnoticed by the outside world.
Everything is different now, and in the worst way. Eighteen-year-old...
February 19, 2026 - 06:30 | Christina Frangou | Walrus
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