Ottawa police constable demoted for 14 months over impaired driving conviction

A non-binary Ontario resident’s years-long battle for a publicly funded, out-of-country surgery to have a vagina surgically created while maintaining a penis is over. The Ontario government says it won’t ask the Supreme Court of Canada to review a lower court’s ruling in April declaring that the novel phallus-preserving surgery qualifies as an insured service under the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) — the latest win for the patient, identified only as K.S. The province had until June 23 to seek leave to appeal the April court ruling to the country’s highest court. In an email...