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New Health Canada regulations that ban gay men from donating their organs slipped through unnoticed in December.

The new regulations will ban any men who have been sexually engaged with another man in the previous five years. The rejections are based solely on sexual orientation rather than on unsafe sexual practice.
Health Canada is essentially telling Canadians that unprotected sex is safe as long as you aren't a gay man.

Egale Canada believes that the regulations are discriminatory and should be suspended. Health Canada should be making sure the regulations stop unsafe organ transplants not creating a situation where healthy viable gay organs will be thrown in the garbage.

PETITION: Urge the Province of Ontario to Stop Licensing the Plunder of First Nations Land

The Toronto Ferry Docks is located at the foot of Bay Street and Queens Quay, just West of the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel.

Talk is rising of a ‘clash of civilizations’. But the problem isn’t culture, it’s politics – from 9/11 to Guantanamo, Iraq to Iran. This clash is not inevitable, and we don't want it.

Nearly 400 men are trapped in the prison at Guantanamo without charge or trial. This prison is the symbol and the center of President Bush's assault on international law. But now we have a chance to shut it down -- Bush's own Secretary of Defense is publicly calling for closing Guantanamo. Bush’s advisors are split, and a global outcry could tip the balance. Sign the petition below. We’ll run the petition and number of signers in key US newspapers as soon as we have signatures from every country:

Petition to US President Bush: We call upon US President Bush to close Guantanamo Bay prison forever.

Makeda Silvera / Xtra / Thursday, February 15, 2007

SHERONA HALL. "She made no apology for any of the many strands of her identity, nor for the diverse struggles she engaged in, nor for any seeming contradictions."
Sherona. Sister, mother, friend. Dreadlocked feminist, activist. Fearless and unrelenting warrior. Yes, she was resilient — tough, too — but there was also a vulnerability that surfaced in rare and unexpected moments.

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http://www.thestar.com/article/169133
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