Thoughts on the world and the things in it.
The Star put up a post today about the ethics of selling body parts, which I had already posted on. What stunned me about their post was they asked Moira McQueen, director of the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute to contribute. Now obviously Dr. McQueen has a right to an opinion, …
Robert Zurrer, the man mentioned in an earlier post recently commented on my organ donation is ugly business post. First off I would like to thank Mr. Zurrer for responding, obviously he has a very special view of the issue. Here was Mr. Zurrer’s response: You are looking into the …
“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.“William S. Burroughs The Canadian government, with the help of the B.C. and Ontario governments is pilot testing “enhanced” drivers licenses. They are being touted as an alternative to having a passport when crossing the US border, and some …
In following this “Dr. Horror” organ story, I came across the story of Robert Zurrer a guy in his 30s in Victoria whose kidneys were failing. His sister Carol gave him a kidney but 20 years later he needed a new kidney so he bought one. He paid $38,600 for …
© 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …