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The federal government has lost its attempt to block a Canadian Human Rights Commission inquiry into Health Canada s role in a policy that prohibits sexually active gay men as well as some other folks in the LGBTQ2S+ community from donating blood.
The federal government has lost its attempt to block a Canadian Human Rights Commission inquiry into Health Canada s role in a policy that prohibits sexually active gay men as well as some other folks in the LGBTQ2S+ community from donating blood.
By Mark Wegierski web posted June 7, 2021
In regard to immigration, Canada has received about a quarter-million immigrants a year – about 75% - 80% of them from non-European sources since 1988. The mass, dissimilar immigration began in the mid-1960s, but the total immigration since that time had been about 100,000 persons a year. Indeed, it had reached a mere 54,000 in Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s last year in office (1983-1984). It was Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney who had raised it precipitously, where it has basically remained ever since. The population of Canada is now close to 38 million. Unlike the U.S., where there is some degree of criticism of mass, dissimilar immigration permitted, this is virtually a closed issue in Canada. Indeed, Justin Trudeau has raised immigration to the unprecedented levels of over 400,000 a year, in the next three years.
June was already a politically significant month for Indigenous Peoples.
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National Indigenous People’s Day is this month. So is the sixth anniversary of the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s executive summary and 94 Calls to Action.
It’s also the month when Shannen Koostachin the Attawapiskat teenager who advocated for safe and equitable schools for First Nations kids died tragically in a car crash 11 years ago. Shannen’s Dream, a campaign by the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society to achieve “safe and comfy schools” for Indigenous children in Canada, is named in her honour.