International Women's Day

Joly says Iranian women and girls face an increasingly repressive environment where they risk injury or death for expressing themselves or demanding basic rights.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe apologized on Monday, October 31, 2022, after a notorious killer attended the government's tough-on-crime throne speech last week — and went a step further by stripping caucus duties from the member who invited Colin Thatcher.

Justin Trudeau joined NATO allies on Tuesday, March 8, 2022, in staging a theatrical rebuke of Russia's war on Ukraine from a heavily armoured war-games field and in a floodlit news conference from one of the alliance's eastern European bases.

The spotlight in the SNC-Lavalin affair has shifted to rookie Justice Minister David Lametti now that a court has rejected the company's bid to force the public prosecutor to pursue an alternative to criminal proceedings.

The Canadian government is directly investing in women-owned businesses as part of its $2 billion Women Entrepreneurship Strategy. Introduced in the 2018 federal budget, the strategy aims to support women in entrepreneurship and double the number of women who own businesses in Canada by 2025.

The Trudeau government has enacted genuinely feminist policies but needs to back them up with more money if it wants to make a lasting difference, Oxfam Canada says.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that I really welcome the day when half the population will consider the grievances of the other half as something they should seriously be interested in; not just something they get to react to or debate when they feel like it.

Even though more women than ever are pursuing careers in science, a new survey shows that a significant portion of women professionals and scientists in the Canadian public service believe gender bias is blocking their career advancement.

A move by the British Columbia government to ban mandatory high heels in the workplace is being lauded as a step towards ending discriminatory dress codes.

A Montreal-area weekly newspaper has removed an editorial cartoon from its website depicting Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard stoning a former Muslim colleague.

The federal Conservatives criticized a Liberal plan to invest $650 million in sexual and reproductive health projects around the world on Wednesday, International Women's Day.

The federal government plans to spend $650 million over three years for international sexual and reproductive health projects.

Statistics Canada released the seventh edition of its report, Women in Canada, on Tuesday.