All people who live and work in Canada should have access to health care
A program to expand permanent residency for undocumented migrants (or regularization) and permanent resident status for those on temporary authorizations would effectively improve their health.
If sex workers are as âvulnerableâ as the law suggests, whereâs their pandemic support?
A year ago, governments across Canada declared a state of emergency and encouraged people to shelter in place. Many workers, supported by the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), ceased work to abide by public health guidelines for physical distancing. Sex workers, as workers, were expected to follow suit. Instead, what happened was just an extension of sex workersâ normal: exclusion from labour rights and protections.
We need to ensure universal health care includes migrant workers during and beyond COVID-19
Migrants in front-line jobs face higher chances of COVID-19 exposure and transmission yet face immense barriers to critical services and supports.
To end conversion therapy, we must understand what it actually means: Dr. Travis Salway
This op-ed by Dr. Travis Salway first appeared in the The Globe & Mail on May 26, 2020. On Monday, Calgary City Council voted, nearly unanimously, to pass a municipal ban of advertising around conversion therapy, which the city defined as “practice, treatment, or service designed to change, repress, or discourage a personâs sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, or to repress or reduce non-heterosexual attraction or sexual behaviour.â In doing so, Calgary joined cities such as Vancouver, Edmonton and Fort McMurray, along with provinces including Ontario and Nova Scotia, in passing legislation banning conversion therapies. The discourse at the publicly-broadcast citizen debate before the council vote was polarizing, however, with hundreds of speakers passionately arguing on either side of the issue over two days. Those opposed to the ban argued that they do not want to see their fellow…