Being BC

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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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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