Ont. bans smoking in cars with kids
TORONTO - Ontario on Monday became the third province to ban smoking in vehicles carrying children under the age of 16.
(Canwest News Service | June 16, 2008)
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A Landmark Day in California as Same-Sex Marriages Begin
SAN FRANCISCO - With a series of simple “I dos,” gay couples across inaugurated the state’s court-approved and potentially short-lived legalization of on Monday, the first of what is expected to be a crush of such unions in coming weeks.
(The New York Times | June 17, 2008)
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MPs seek end to gender-based tax inequities
Tories on panel balk as report calls for new law; gender equality commissioner
Canadian women will draw the short straw until federal taxing and spending decisions are made to advance women's equality, a parliamentary committee concludes in a report.
(The Ottawa Citizen | June 16, 2008)
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Aboriginal Children's Graves Identified in Canada
Location of Mass Graves of Residential School Children Revealed for the First Time; Independent Tribunal Established Squamish Nation Territory ("Vancouver, Canada")
At a public ceremony and press conference held today outside the colonial "Indian Affairs" building in downtown Vancouver, the Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD) released a list of twenty eight mass graves across Canada holding the remains of untold numbers of aboriginal children who died in Indian Residential Schools.
(The Mohawk Nation News | April 10, 2008)
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Tribunal reveals locations of mass graves of residential school children at sites across Canada
At a public ceremony and press conference held today in Vancouver, the Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD) released a list of twenty eight mass graves across Canada holding the remains of aboriginal children who died in Indian Residential Schools.
(The Dominion| April 10, 2008)
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Woman fired after shaving head for cancer charity
OWEN SOUND, Ont. - When she took part in a local fundraiser for cancer research, all Stacey Fearnall thought she had to lose was a full head of hair.
(The Canadian Press| June 5, 2008)
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Kandahar attacks feared
ANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN—Taliban fighters swarmed the doorstep of Afghanistan’s second-largest city today, bombing small bridges and scattering landmines to keep Canadian and international troops at bay.
(The Canadian Press| June 16, 2008)
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