Canada bans conversion therapy

Canada has moved to ban conversion therapy – a controversial and debunked practice of trying to "convert" homosexuals to heterosexual." 

This week, the country's senate voted unanimously to fast-track the bill to royal assent, the last step before becoming law. On Wednesday, newly-installed Governor General Mary Simon granted Royal Assent for the first time to Bill C-4, officially banning the practice of conversion therapy in Canada.

The law criminalizes causing a person to undergo conversion therapy, removing a child from Canada with the purpose of making them undergo the practice in another country and promoting or advertising the practice. It also criminalizes receiving money or benefit from conversion therapy and requires all advertisements for the practice be removed.