"The state orchestrated a culture of stigma and fear around LGBTQ2 communities, and in doing so, destroyed people’s lives," said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday of Canada's harrowing "gay purge."
A "hellish" week of hard-fought negotiations sealed a deal to financially compensate members of the military and other federal agencies who were investigated and sanctioned because of their sexual orientation, says the lawyer representing them.
In the wake of a court challenge against a controversial Quebec law banning people from wearing face coverings while giving or receiving public services, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is actively studying ways in which it might also weigh in.
A new report says just five per cent of Canadian technology companies have a female founder and a similar fraction have a woman as CEO, figures which suggest the industry's gender diversity is lagging other sectors.
Canada's spy agency is asking the Federal Court to dismiss a lawsuit from five Toronto employees, saying it never engaged in or tolerated religious bigotry, used derogatory nicknames or subjected the staffers to reprisals.
A political science professor says a racist heckler that interrupted a campaign rally for NDP leadership hopeful Jagmeet Singh is an example of the discrimination that deters minorities from politics.
The organization that delivers health programs for the Alberta government has fired two employees over a racial slur made against an Indigenous educator.
Shachar Erez recalls the day when, as an 18-year-old female Israeli soldier, the time had come to tell his commanding officer that he believed he was a man.
Servers clad in short skirts and stilettos could soon be a thing of the past, as British Columbia and Ontario take steps to ditch sexualized dress codes.