Organ donation is ugly business.

© Bruce MacKinnon / Artizans.com I have been following the whole gay organ donation thing for awhile now and been in correspondence with Health Canada, particularily around the donation rules.  I recently wrote them concerning the donation rules and the prison population.  The rule is that anyone incarcerated for more …

Why Canada needs more common sense

The topic is one I have written about several times; the entrenched homophobic blood and organ policies in Canada.  There was a link sent to me from a friend via twitter, on the Global and Mail website entitled Smitherman blasts donor rules for gays.  I didn’t particularly like the reporting …

If you talk the talk…

Then don’t be surprised if it bites you in the ass.  The Canadian Blood services has a link posted on their homepage entitled Patient safety is the overriding principle as Canadian Blood Services researches MSM policy. In which they state that,  “Quite simply, we’re not making value judgements – the …

You have got to be kidding me.

This is from the CBC article Students want screening of blood donors changed. Dr. Margaret Fearon, executive director of medical microbiology at the blood agency. She said students are mistaken to see the policy as a gay rights issue. “People who receive blood have a right to safe blood. People …

Letting the fox in the henhouse

The Toronto Police Services Board is having a special meeting where Tom Smith, a rep for Taser international will be presenting his arguement on why Toronto should equip it’s officers with tasers. I wonder if they will invite Robert Dziekanski’s mother Zofia Cisowski to the meeting to talk about how …