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MEXICO CITY (AP) - For years, transgender activist Roshell Terranova protested in the streets and knocked on the doors of Mexico's Congress to make the demands of the country's LGBTQ community known. ...

OTTAWA - Status of Women Minister Maryam Monsef is calling out Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole for allowing a bill on abortion from one of his members to move ahead. Parliamentarians are expected to ...

Quebec's ethics commissioner is recommending that Economy Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon be suspended from the provincial legislature over an ongoing conflict of interest. Ariane Mignolet says in a report...

Parkland Airshed Management Zone (PAMZ) will be recognizing Blue Skies Award winners in an online ceremony on Clean Air Day, June 2. Officials say the Blue Skies Awards recognize organizations or indi...

OTTAWA - Canada's veterans ombudsman says a recent investigation by her office has found victims of military sexual misconduct are being referred away from existing peer-support programs for service m...

Long-time Lacombe County Reeve Paula Law has announced she will not be seeking re-election in 2021. Reeve Law has represented Division 4 of Lacombe County for 11 years and, during that time, has acted...

OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says the Pope needs to issue an apology for the role the Catholic Church played in Canada's residential school system. A papal apology was one of the ...

TROIS-RIVIRES, Que. - The inquest into the death of Joyce Echaquan has begun its last day of hearings, with lawyers making their final pleas to coroner Ghane Kamel. Echaquan, a 37-year-old Atikamekw m...

OTTAWA - An Alberta city has become the first in the country to have ended chronic homelessness, just as municipal leaders push the federal government to help do the same countrywide. Medicine Hat fir...

The United Nations Human Rights Office is calling on all levels of Canadian governments to investigate the deaths of Indigenous children at residential schools and to intensity efforts to find those w...