abortion

Federal party leaders have scattered across the country as the election campaign starts to ramp up in earnest.

Jane Philpott is standing by the pledge she made as a Liberal candidate to support access to abortion despite her beliefs, but accuses her former party of playing politics with a deeply personal issue.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer sought on Thursday, August 29, 2019, to put a pin in the question of whether his party would reopen debates on abortion or same-sex marriage, blaming the Liberals for trying to aggravate ancient divisions to distract from their own failures.

Two family doctors and an orthopedic surgeon told a British Columbia coroner's inquest on Thursday, June 20, 2019, about the dilemmas they faced treating a 16-year-old patient who denied he was abusing drugs but showed signs of a growing opioid addiction.

Gender equality is under attack and, in the age of social media, it's never been easier to taunt and spread abhorrent views, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a global conference on the issue on Monday, June 3, 2019.

The United States will link the liberation of the two Canadians imprisoned by China to its free-trade talks with the People's Republic, U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence pledged on Thursday, May 30, 2019.

The ratification of the new North American trade agreement will dominate a packed agenda when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence meet today, May 30, 2019, in Ottawa.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged Thursday that his government “will always be unequivocal” about defending a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion and criticized 'backsliding' among conservative politicians.

Alberta Opposition Leader Jason Kenney finally gets his title shot.

Morningstar Mercredi says she woke up from surgery at 14 and immediately broke down when she discovered the baby she had felt inside her was gone.

When she was 17 years old, Liz was coerced by a Children's Aid worker into having an abortion and being sterilized at a northwestern Ontario hospital, she says — an experience she's carried for 40 years.

Canada will continue to encourage other countries to offer more family planning services including contraception and abortion because they're key to fighting poverty, the country's international development minister said on Sunday, November 11, 2018.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he spoke to his MP, Ted Falk, but did not say whether he was reprimanded for saying that abortion was "not a right."

Federal New Democrat MPs closed ranks around embattled leader Jagmeet Singh on Wednesday, March 28, 2018, as they blamed a steep learning curve for many of the trials and tribulations that he has experienced since taking over the party last fall.

No one is violating anyone’s right to protest. People who oppose abortion on moral grounds are still perfectly free to say so. They are simply no longer free to do it while wearing sandwich boards plastered with gruesome pictures of what they claim are aborted fetuses while yelling in a woman’s face while she’s about to undergo a very private, personal, and perfectly legal procedure.