ARPA Canada

On International Women’s Day, the BC government decided to celebrate women by introducing legislation that would wipe out more than 2300 references to women’s pronouns in the province’s legislation. Bill 14, the Miscellaneous Statutes (Modernization) Amendment Act, contains 1200 clauses, each one striking out phrases such as “his or her,” “he or she,” and “brother or sister” and replacing them with gender-neutral language. A couple of days later, the government introduced Bill 15, the Vital

The original deadline for the expansion of euthanasia to those with mental illness was March 17, 2023. However, at the beginning of February, in response to pressure from the public, the media, and medical professionals, the government introduced Bill C-39 to extend that deadline by one year, to March 17, 2024. Thankfully, that bill received royal assent on March 9, just eight days before the planned expansion.

On March 7, the provincial government introduced the Intimate Images Protection Act which provides new ways to deal with the non-consensual sharing of intimate images.

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