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Gay fired Canadian public servants want more than pardons

We Demand an Apology: group seeks more action from federal government

Opinion

Message to Trudeau: A pardon just isn’t enough

Canada won’t reconcile its homophobic past until it strikes all of its anti-gay laws

Baby making and the law

The ins and outs of BC’s revised Family Law Act

Created for Barbara Findlay Law

Power

The history of gross indecency in Canada

The vague, and often homophobic, law that is being used to charge Reverend Brent Hawkes

Power

Law society appeals BC Supreme Court Trinity Western decision

Court ruled BC law society must reconsider accrediting Christian law school

By Jeremy Hainsworth

Power

BC judge tells law society to reinstate TWU approval

Law society directors wrong to be swayed by members’ referendum, court rules

By Jeremy Hainsworth

Power

Toronto couple wants equality for parenting rights

Cy and Ruby’s Act would give queer parents same rights as heterosexual couples

Power

Odyssey owner releases report, says coverage not his fault

‘We gave [The Province] the full report and you know how journalists work,’ says Ahmadian

By Nathaniel Christopher

Opinion

EXCLUSIVE: Complaint an attack on artist-run queer space, says VAL

Everyone benefits from creative cultural expression, says Vancouver’s Art and Leisure Society

Power

BC law society could see new directors in wake of TWU vote

Two lawyers running for election say the benchers need new blood

By Jeremy Hainsworth

Power

Bullying or homophobia: school trustees debate in Richmond

Richmond one of just two school boards without anti-homophobia policy in BC’s Lower Mainland

Opinion

Drugs and sex work: prohibition policies alive in Canada

The Conservative government’s crackdown on consenting adults

The Daily Package

A good judge, a bad judge and an ugly law

Your Daily Package of newsy and naughty bits from around the world

Opinion

The Rentboy raid was different

Money laundering, not human trafficking, said to be the reason

Power

TWU can discriminate but law society can’t, BC court hears

‘The state cannot be indifferent to the basic rights of individuals,’ says law society

By Jeremy Hainsworth

Power

Egale puts gala on hold

Annual event will be pushed back to 2016

Power

Regulate academics not morals, Trinity Western tells BC law society

Law society shouldn’t rule on belief system of Christian university, says TWU

By Jeremy Hainsworth

Opinion

Vancouver Queer Film Festival wise to resist Israeli boycott

A closer look at the festival’s open letter and a snapshot of Israeli opinions

By Robin Perelle

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