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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.

One year ago, a Democratic hangout across the river from Washington, D.C., cleared out early as dejected partisans suffered one of the most devastating, demoralizing nights in the history of their party.

Activists lobbying for gender-neutral options on government documents say Ottawa has sent an important message.

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.

Something strange has been happening lately in Washington when the most powerful man in town, the president of the United States, makes a headline-grabbing declaration on some new policy. Nothing.

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

The Canadian Forces says it is pressing ahead with improvements to its transgender policy, even as US President Donald Trump looks to bar transgender people from military service south of the border.

A transgender inmate in British Columbia has won a years-long battle to serve the remainder of her sentence for first-degree murder at a women's prison.

A parent's request to exclude their child's sex on government-issued identification is pushing past the boundaries of gender stereotyping, experts say.

An Aboriginal group is calling on organizers of the National Inquiry into MMIWG to be more transparent about how the process move forward with the resignation of its executive director.

A lawyer for a transgender woman who was forced to stay in a men's jail says his client hopes her human rights case against the British Columbia government will change policies for other inmates.

Jennifer McCreath takes issue with a federal regulation that prohibits airlines from transporting anyone who "does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification presented."

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.

Canada and U.S. joined forces last month to promote female participation in the workforce, but the contrast between how their governments approach other gender issues is now on display at the UN meet.