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by Patricia Petit Liang

A new pilot project will make sex education mandatory for all students from kindergarten to grade 11 in the province of Quebec.

According to CBC News, Quebec’s Ministry of Education is going to implement sex education classes in 15 schools for the next two years.

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LOCAL
by Saturn de Los Angeles

Montrealers can finally see the next generation of metro cars during their commute. 

A movement to help bring cancer awareness is about to become stronger. 

A powerful painkiller called fentanyl is being mixed with street drugs like heroin.

According to CTV News, officials warn that the number of deadly overdoses is soaring in Canada, with seven people dead in Montreal from fentanyl-related causes.

Fentanyl is up to 100 times stonger than morphine and 40 times stronger than heroin.

An antidote for fentanyl exists, called Naloxone, and can reverse the drug’s effects and is currently available in easy-to-use kits.

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LOCAL
by Saturn de Los Angeles

Quebec's slow implementation of a bill intended to work in favor of transgender people is leaving the community in limbo. 
 
In a report by CBC News, Bill 35 is supposed to allow transgender-identified people to legally change their gender marker on official documents without going through reassignment surgery. 

However, due to a delay with the legislation review at the National Assembly, Transgender advocate Caroline Trottier-Gascon says that the longer the wait, the more difficult the obstacles transgender Quebeckers will have to face, most notably with discrimination and transphobia.