[Image-1] If they’re not careful, the Liberals’ election promise to end Canada’s discriminatory gay blood ban could end up slipping through the bureaucratic cracks. The newly-elected Liberal government promised to end the restrictions Canadian Blood Services has in place preventing the donation of blood by men who have been sexually active with other men, but […]
Leah Gerber
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Gottingen’s still Got A Voice
Seth Glasgow will never forget the day Got A Voice, the official radio station of the Gottingen 250 festival, started broadcasting. He was an intern helping to run the show when the fire alarms were triggered in the North Memorial Public Library, where they had set up. Everyone evacuated, and once they were back inside […]
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Birth behind bars
Jean Catherine Steinberg says her day job is profound and humbling. She is a doula, a non-medical birth worker, privately and as a volunteer with the Chebucto Family Centre. Two years ago, she heard a gruesome story. Julie Bilotta, pregnant and in custody at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre, gave birth alone in solitary confinement. The […]