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Queen Elizabeth II made history on Sunday.

According to the Daily Mail, the Queen backed a pledge to promote gay rights and gender equality on Sunday.

Her highness signed a new charter in the Commonwealth’s constitution. This charter is meant to stamp out discrimination against homosexuals, promote the empowerment of women and to boost living standards and human rights records in the Commonwealth.

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March 8th, is International Women's Day and the globe and mail is asking, where's the best place to be a woman in the world.

Scandanavian countries topped the study commissioned by the World Economic Forum.

Iceland is number one, while Canada dropped three spots to 21st out of 135 countries.

In other stats; Rwanda is the best country to be a female politician and Egypt is the country to work if you're a woman with a small wage gap between sexes.

Finally, Estonia was determined to be the safest country to have a baby.

Full results of the study can be seen at globeandmail.com

A new report is advising the Quebec government to toughen up if it wants to make French the number one language in the province.

According to the Montreal Gazette, the report suggests the government should crack down on English in the work place.

It also encouraged promoting French amoung immigrants and in schools, and rejected the idea that bilingualism should be a job requirement in Quebec.

The report was written by the Conseil supérieur de la langue française.

The president of the organization presented the report to the Parti Quebecois government on Wednesday.

The United Nations Refugee Agency is warning that resources for helping Syrian refugees are quickly diminishing.

The New York Times reports the number of Syrian refugees passed the one million mark on Wednesday.

Almost three years after the Syrian conflict began, over 7,000 Syrians flee the country daily.

More than half are children, many under the age of eleven.

Venezuela announced an official seven day mourning period, in honoured of their fallen president, Hugo Chavez.

In a report by BBC News, the Venezuelan strongman passed away on Tuesday from cancer. He had battled the illness for just over a year and it prevented him from taking oath after winning another term following elections last October.

Most people in Quebec don’t know anything about it. Yet, the province is Canada’s hotbed for uranium mining.

Recently, the debate over expanding Quebec’s uranium exploration has intensified. 

According to the Gazette, a poll of 1000 Quebecers in all regions of the province revealed 78 per cent believed an independent study into the economic, environmental and social impacts of uranium should be done before mining begins.

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Israel’s decision to create bus lines designated only for Palestinians is being described as racist and revolting by Israeli rights groups. 

Monday saw the launch of the two bus lines, which are to be used by Palestinian workers who need to get between the West Bank and Israel. 

According to Al Jezeera, the separate bus lines were created after Jewish settlers voiced concerns about sharing buses with Palestinians due to security risks. 

The provincial government has launched an anti-homophobia campaign asking Quebecers how open they  really are when it comes to sexual diversity.

According to CBC News, the campaign is meant to fully recognize the rights of individuals who are part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

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