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Alberta Conservative House Leader Fired Single Mother After She Complained of Sexual Harassment:

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A company owned by United Conservative Party house leader Jason Nixon was fined by British Columbia’s Human Rights Tribunal for firing a woman after she complained she was being sexually harassed at work.

First reported by the Edmonton Journal, the revelation is surfacing at the same time as Jason Kenney’s Conservatives are fighting new provincial legislation aimed at protecting women from workplace harassment.

According to a 2008 BC Human Rights Tribunal ruling, the UCP house leader fired a single mother of three after she confided to him that a co-worker in a position of  authority was “touching and propositioning her.”

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Ontario enshrines Trans Day of Remembrance in law as November 20:

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Ontario is now the first jurisdiction in the world to enshrine Trans Day of Remembrance into law.