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on May 8th to speak to students and provide anti-heterosexism workshops for teachers

The second annual Rainbow Day on the Hill event on April 16th, hosted by Jer’s Vision and MP Dany Morin, allows 12 LGBQ youth to are paired with 6 LGBQ role models in parliament and get an inside look to life on the Hill.

How do you stop bullying? Get 1 in 4 Canadians to wear PiNK!

Canada’s Foreign Affairs and Citizenship Ministers are doing a lot of pro-gay PR these days. While John Baird vaunts his efforts on same-sex decriminalization on the global stage, Jason Kenney touts himself as pro-gay for Iranian refugees to over 10,000 people in an unsolicited e-mail. Queer activists suspect pinkwashing.

Dany Morin, deputy LGBTQ critic for the official opposition, last week presented a motion at the federal level to fight bullying. The NDP Member of Parliament hopes to strike a special parliamentary committee to look at various forms of bullying, including physical, verbal, indirect and cyber-bullying.

After years of lobbying by the NDP, the Canadian Parliament approved the second reading of bill C-279 late Tuesday night (June 5). Unexpectedly for some, the approval included support from 15 Tory MP’s.

The victim of the murder and dismemberment that has caught the attention of the world’s press was revealed today to be Jun Lin, a Concordia student who had been reported missing May 24. Trans actress and writer Nina Arsenault reveals connection to Luka Rocco Magnotta, who is being sought in connection to the murder.

It all started with news of a severed foot arriving by mail at Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa. Within hours, police in Montréal announced they were seeking out porn actor and model Luka Magnotta in connection to the foot and a headless, limbless torso found near a Snowdon apartment.

Heritage Minister James Moore has stepped in and edited Sex: A Tell-All Exhibition, which opened at the Canadian Museum of Science and Technology on May 17. The award-winning exhibition was developed by the Montreal Science Center in 2010 for adolescents 12 and older.

After Australia, the UK, India, and Bangladesh, Canada may allow a third gender category on passports, according to a briefing note from Passport Canada. Québec’s Justice Ministry may also reconsider its requirements for gender designation change on birth certificates.