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Quebec to fund in vitro fertility treatments
Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc says the province is going ahead with a plan to fully fund in vitro fertility treatments for women.
[ Arts & Entertainment ] Nicolas Dickner, Canada Reads author
In 2008 the author of
Nikolski
talks about the process of writing his novel.
Lesbian student sues to have prom reinstated
An 18-year-old lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it cancelled rather than let the couple attend.
Indian Act changes tabled in House
The federal government tabled legislation Thursday that could see more than 45,000 Canadians recognized as status Indians under changes to the Indian Act.
[ Lifestyle ] 'Baby toting' in 1963
Mrs. Peterson, a Canadian mother, shares her research on various baby carriers found around the world.
[ Economy & Business ] Pelts, Pups and Protest: The Atlantic Seal Hunt
Those beseeching eyes were impossible to avoid. In the 1970s images of fuzzy white seal pups were everywhere as activists fought to end the seal hunt in Canada. Seals have been harvested for generations on the floes of the Atlantic coast, but concerns about killing methods and conserving the herd virtually ended the practice in the 1980s. The threat of too many cod-eating seals resurrected the hunt, and today anti-cruelty activists monitor an industry that's at its strongest in decades.
Canada 'regrets' Israeli settlements
Canada has voiced muted criticism over the planned expansion of 1,600 new Israeli settlements in disputed East Jerusalem.