Politics

REGINA — Former Saskatchewan human rights commissioner Heather Kuttai says she spoke with her son before she decided to resign on Monday over the province’s proposed pronoun legislation. Her son, who’s transgender, told her not to go quietly.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina on Monday praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for showing what he called “restraint” after Hamas attacked Israel over a week ago.

VICTORIA — British Columbia Solicitor General Mike Farnworth has introduced legislation that will require the City of Surrey to provide policing with a municipal force in the latest jurisdictional salvo over the RCMP and the Surrey Police Service.

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada's dueling contests of presidential nominees have split the field of Republican contenders, with Florida Gov.

Some legal experts say a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that found much of Ottawa's environmental assessment law unconstitutional will have no impact on other federal moves such as clean electricity regulations or oilsands emissions caps.

WINNIPEG — A Manitoba judge has upheld the province's ban on homegrown non-medical cannabis. Justice Shauna McCarthy, of the Court of King's Bench, has rejected a claim that the ban was unconstitutional and an infringement on federal jurisdiction.

OTTAWA — A federal tribunal is asking senators to divulge emails that it believes are relevant to determining whether an employee was fired on the basis of racial discrimination in a case that pits claims of inequity against the rules governing Parli

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government has appointed former ambassador Deborah Lyons as Canada's Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Tony Wakeham spent his day in the Newfoundland and Labrador house of assembly sitting across from Liberal Premier Andrew Furey as the newly elected Opposition leader.

OTTAWA — The woman who went to court to get an injunction against the "Freedom Convoy" last year faced the protest organizers in criminal court Monday in some of the most combative lines of questioning the trial has seen so far.