Canada

The Right Honorable Jack Layton, a member of the Canadian Parliament, and a charismatic politician who guided the New Democrat Party (NDP) into the position of being the dominant opposition party in Parliament, has died. He was 61. [ Read more → ]

North Sea Texas, a Belgian film about two teenage boys falling in love, has captivated audiences and critics alike at this year's Montreal World Film Festival. [ Read more → ]

As the annual Toronto Pride parade worked its way through the city's LGBTQ community on Sunday, an Islamic religious scholar addressing a 9,000-strong crowd at the annual Journey of Faith Islamic conference said that, in countries governed by Islamic law, homosexuals caught in the act should be executed. [ Read more → ]

Critics of a new promotional video for Toronto Pride 2011 say that its focus on gay stereotypes "sets the movement back" by doing more harm than good. [ Read more → ]

A Toronto comedian and a Vancouver restaurant to pay $22,000 in compensation for the comedian's anti-gay, profanity-laced verbal attack on two lesbian audience members. The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal said the comments were discriminatory. [ Read more → ]

A Canadian florist has refused to provide wedding flowers to a same-sex couple, according to the event's planner, a violation of the New Brunswick Human Rights Act. [ Read more → ]

Canadian police are searching for a suspect in an apparent gay bashing of a 48-year-old U.S. citizen who was beaten unconscious and left nearly naked in the snow after telling another man about his sexual orientation. [ Read more → ]

Vancouver police announced Thursday they have made four arrests in connection to two separate attacks on gay men recently, both incidents of which are being investigated as possible hate crimes. [ Read more → ]

Two Vancouver men say they were punched repeatedly by two assailants who shouted anti-gay slurs at them on the doorstep of their downtown condo building Saturday night. [caption id="attachment_8285" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Regier (left) and Holtzman."][/caption] Peter Regier and his partner David Holtzman were returning home... [ Read more → ]

A psychiatrist known as Dr. Shock for his notorious attempts to "cure" gay military recruits through electroshock therapy has been charged with sexually assaulting a male patient. [caption id="attachment_7481" align="alignleft" width="320" caption="Levin"][/caption] Dr. Aubrey Levin, who was arrested in Calgary, Alberta, after he was secretly... [ Read more → ]

[caption id="attachment_6373" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="(Image: NBC)"][/caption] A gay Vancouver man wants to know what the Olympic organizing committee is going to do about the 20-minute verbal and physical homophobic onslaught he endured at the Feb 8 opening ceremonies rehearsal. Tyler Sheppard says a woman who... [ Read more → ]

A gay Canadian Member of Parliament who sent out a Christmas card featuring himself and his husband has been attacked by homophobes on the internet, reports Pink News. Nova Scotia Liberal MP Scott Brison's personalized card (above) shows him and husband Maxime St Pierre with... [ Read more → ]

Britain and Canada today led Commonwealth protests against a law proposed by the Ugandan parliament which would introduce the death penalty by hanging for "aggravated homosexuality". Gordon Brown, Britain's Prime Minister, expressed his country's concerns about the parliamentary bill when he met Yoweri Museveni, the... [ Read more → ]