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Softening the ‘discriminatory’ ban hasn’t had an impact, and opposition to it is threatening the blood supply. All parties, except for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, support ending the blood ban.

The gay blood ban is unnecessary, ineffective, and poorly targetted, internal documents from Canada’s public health agency suggest.

Documents obtained from Health Canada under the Access to Information Act show that screening is remarkably effective at catching HIV in donated blood, that recent changes to the rules designed to scale-back the blood ban have been largely cosmetic, and that screening based on lifestyle instead of gender and sexuality isn’t seriously being considered.

For nearly 40 years, Canada has banned men who have sex with men, their female partners, and trans people from donating blood, plasma and, often by extension, organs.

Since his electoral win in 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called the ban discriminatory, unacceptable, and has promised to do away with it entirely. But he has not.

Pressure is mounting, within every party in Parliament— and some queer members in Trudeau’s own caucus—that the blood ban has to go now, not later.

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I have these lovely arteries positively jiggling with premium-quality O-positive that I’m willing to just give away, and yet Canadian Blood Services won’t take it because I’m a “man who has sex with men”, in spite of the fact that I’m not a man and I’ve never had sex with men.

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https://twitter.com/GabrielMasi_/status/1341871825840730113

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allthecanadianpolitics

D'Andre Campbell. Ejaz Choudry. Chantel Moore. Those are just some of the names of people killed by police in Canada this year.

Until now, there hasn’t been a national database to keep track of these deaths. The CBC recently made one called “Deadly Force.” It goes back 20 years, and it found what many people have been saying: Black and Indigenous people are disproportionately killed by police.

Today on Front Burner, the CBC’s Mark Kelley on what those numbers tell us and why 2020 is on track to be a particularly deadly year.

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allthecanadianpolitics

A summary in case you don’t have time to listen to the radio broadcast:

catsuggest

Do you bite your thumb at me sir???

chrissongzzz

Guys this is Really Really Important….

Keep your Stick in your Pants….

Not all that Glitters is Gold….

igotthemusic

They exist in Haiti. Thats how my great great great grandfather died.

11-11-1992

Wait hold on someone explain this to me I’m so lost lol

smilephia

The belief is Haiti is that certain women can live under water and will lived there for years… These women are extremely beautiful and men being men can’t stay away from a good looking women are seduce and then dragged under water and are never to be seen again… My great grandmother was one of these women… One day her mother sent her to go get water from the river and she never came back 10 years later they see her come up the road in all white with beautiful jewelry all around her body sing up a storm.. When her family asked her where she was she told them she was under water… thats the story my grandma always use to tell me growing up

smilephia

11-11-1992

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Wow

sharea

Sounds like daughters of Yoruba goddess

lonewolfchick420

I love African and African Diasporan mythology.

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we call them “river mumma” in Jamaica

black-stoners

I NEED MORE MYTHOLOGY INVOLVING BLACK CULTURES IN THE DIASPORA.

everythingwealwayswere

We call the “mammi water” in Nigeria

bcholmes

LaSiren, LaBalenn Chapo’m tonbe nan la me

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Unfriendly reminder that Breonna Taylor was killed three whole months ago, and they're only now deciding to fire one of the three criminals. This is not justice.

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organized-chaotic-disaster

Everyone saying Canada is some perfect place where racism doesn’t exist, that it’s “a nice apartment over a meth lab,” please understand that that’s not the case

We’ve got white supremacy here too, we’re just better at PR