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A bill to protect same-sex marriage rights secured enough votes to pass in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, garnering some bipartisan support.

Former nurse Lorraine M. Wright, researcher Parminder Raina and elders Reg and Rosemary Crowshoe are among 85 Canadians honoured with this year's Order of Canada. They've made contributions in the field of health care, the science of aging and truth and reconciliation.

Russian forces withdrew from a strategic island in the Black Sea Thursday, potentially easing the threat to the vital Ukrainian port city of Odesa, but kept up their push to encircle the last stronghold of resistance in the eastern province of Luhansk.

Gordon Korman has been writing books since he was 12 years old. This month, he celebrated his 100th published book when his latest work, The Fort, hit store shelves on June 28.

There's a crisis in Canada's emergency rooms: long wait times, overworked staff, and patients afraid to even go to the hospital. We hear from some of those patients, and Nahlah Ayed talks to some of the doctors and nurses trying to find solutions.

A Russian soldier has been sentenced to life in prison for committing war crimes in Ukraine. But what are the rules of a war crime and how can they be enforced? IDEAS speaks to three experts to examine how international law deals with war crimes.

In ancient Greece, hospitality (or xenia) was seen as a sacred moral imperative. Today, the word xenia has largely fallen out of use, but its opposite, xenophobia, has been a driving factor in contemporary politics for years. IDEAS explores ancient traditions of hospitality in this second episode of our five-part series, The Idea of Home.

As part of its report into last summer's heat dome, the B.C. coroner called for updates to the building code to require cooling systems in homes. But with most buildings having a lifespan of anywhere from 50 to 100 years, experts say it would take decades to "future-proof" existing dwellings.

June is Pride Month. Celebrate by checking out these Canadian books.

Each year seems worse than the one preceding. For Andrew Potter, author of On Decline, these events indicate that our entire civilization is in decline. And he argues we're left without the social cohesion, economic growth and political leadership that we'd need to turn things around.