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Thousands of people gathered in cities across Canada on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, for competing protests, yelling and chanting at each other about the way schools instruct sexuality and gender identity and how teachers refer to transgender youth.

The Catholic school board in Halton rejected an effort to get its schools to fly the Pride flag this June and to display signs confirming its classrooms are safe spaces for LGBTQ+ students and staff year-round, a move the student who started the push called “an act of cowardice.”

Several hundred protesters gathered on Tuesday, October 29, 2019, evening outside a Toronto library hosting an event that featured a speaker opposed to transgender rights.

The world has a lesson to learn from Canada in the release of findings from a federally funded commission on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday, June 6, 2019.

The final report of a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is calling for broad and widespread changes to the way the justice system handles cases, including standardized response times, better communication with family members and strict protocols to ensure investigations are thorough and complete.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized for past state-sanctioned discrimination against LGBTQ people in Canada, but advocates argue his Liberal government could be doing more to stop it from happening now.

Social Development Minister Jean−Yves Duclos said in this week his department will only collect the information if needed to receive a benefit or for legitimate purposes, such as policy development.

In a world with more than its share of injustice and intolerance, Canada has been a land of opportunity for those fleeing oppression for generations. But our work isn’t done yet.