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Remember when new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, met with the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) in November? After a decade of hostility under Stephen Harper, the Ottawa meet offered a bit of hope for a beleaguered labour movement.
But, nearly a year later, things aren't that much better. Teuila Fuatai reviews the Liberals' time in office.
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The Trudeau government announced in late June it would begin the process of legalizing marijuana for recreational use, which should be finished by spring 2017.
A nine-member task force has been assembled with former deputy prime minister under Paul Martin Anne McLellan serving as chair. Details of the upcoming process are scarce, but it's probably a given that possessing, selling and growing marijuana will be strictly regulated.
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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne unveiled a midterm cabinet shuffle last month that boosted the percentage of women in her executive council to 40 per cent, the highest in Ontario's history.
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Let's be clear: questioning the "appropriateness" of Black Lives Matter Toronto's action at pride, weighing in on their "strategy" or claiming they "hijacked" Pride is racist. The notion that Black Lives Matter Toronto (BLMTO) is self-serving is also racist. More than that, it's just plain wrong.
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Canada has an international reputation for tolerance and free universal health care. However, these provisions don't hold up as well for its trans citizens, whose access to health care is often impinged by systemic transphobia and provincial differences in surgery options.
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If last month's attack on the Centre Métropolitain de Chirurgie in Montreal revealed anything, it's the dire lack of surgery resources for trans people in Canada.
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One of the byproducts of the "Elbowgate" scandal beyond the media coverage was the delaying of essential votes on Bill C-14 -- the Liberal government's assisted dying legislation.
After hearing the Carter v. Canada case, the Supreme Court ruled that prohibiting Canadians from accessing assisted dying services was a denial of their charter rights. The Court gave the Canadian government until June 6 to legislate the practice.
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Everyone on the left is bound to welcome Sadiq Khan's clear victory over Tory Zac Goldsmith to become London's new mayor in succession to Boris Johnson. Khan took 44 per cent of the vote to Goldsmith's 35 per cent, ending eight years of Tory rule at city hall.
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