Spoiler alert: If past elections are any indication, expect broken promises
Dale Smith
Dale Smith is a freelance journalist in the Parliamentary Press Gallery and author of The Unbroken Machine: Canada's Democracy in Action.
All parties get to wear the failure to ban conversion therapy in Canada
Bill C-6, which would have prohibited the harmful practice on a national level, did not pass through the Senate—and there’s plenty of blame to share across party lines
This Canadian senator wants your porn habits tracked
An Independent senator’s proposed legislation would use facial recognition to keep kids away from sexually explicit content—privacy be damned
Meet the unlikely senator sponsoring Canada’s bill to end conversion therapy
New Brunswick’s René Cormier never expected to be an LGBTQ2S+ advocate in the Senate. But now, he’s the senator ushering Bill C-6 to the finish line
Conservatives plan to spend Pride Month pressing for blood ban changes
The opposition party tabled a draft order to end the discriminatory practice for queer men and trans people
Bardish Chagger, our voice at the Cabinet table
Xtra asks Canada’s Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth about the millions of dollars set aside for LGBTQ2S+ policy and funding in last month’s federal budget
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