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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is raising the idea of creating a use-it-or-lose-it, funded leave for new dads, doing so days before he unveils a spending blueprint that has been the focus of lobbying efforts for further changes to national parental leave policies.

A prominent Nova Scotia mayor who came out as gay this week after someone allegedly threatened to out him has declared his intention to lead the provincial Tories.

When it comes to politics, Justin Trudeau has demonstrated repeatedly that he's not his father's son — and he'll do it again today when he offers an official apology for members of the military and federal public servants whose careers were destroyed due to their sexual orientation.

Martine Roy was just 20-years-old and less than a year into her chosen career as a medical assistant with the Canadian Armed Forces at CFB Borden when military police suddenly showed up at her workplace to arrest her.

While working as a sexual health educator in Calgary several years ago, artist and activist Mikiki would often gently correct clients who said they had never met a gay person. Actually, you probably have but just didn't know it, Mikiki would explain. Today, living and working in Toronto, Mikiki says similar conversations happen frequently about HIV.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will back up his promised apology for state-sanctioned discrimination against members of the LGBTQ community with reparations for the harm they suffered over the decades, says the Liberal MP handling the file.

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.

Canada's top soldier expressed solidarity with the LGBTQ community on Sunday, August 27, 2017, by walking in Ottawa's annual Pride parade.

A study in Canada is drawing a link between youth homelessness levels and a foster care system that researchers say could be playing a more active role in keeping young people off the streets.

Uniformed police officers will not be marching in Calgary's annual Pride parade in September.

The Defence Department says a painstaking review of old personnel files in the national archives may be done to determine how many were forced out of the military for being gay or lesbian.

The Pride committee in St. John's, N.L., has reversed course and invited uniformed police officers to march in the city's Pride parade this July.

Ojibwa-Cree elder Ma-Nee Chacaby says coming out nearly 30 years ago was like unzipping her skin so she could reveal her true self.

Alberta's two conservative parties, working on a deal to join forces, are at odds when it comes to social clubs for gay students in schools.