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Under the new rules, donor screening questions will no longer focus on gender and sexuality, but rather high risk activities, such as engaging with new partners ...

“I feel like I don’t even have to wear my cloak and creepy white masquerade mask to these things any more!” Under the new rules, donor screening questions will no longer focus on gender and sexuality, but rather high risk activities, such as engaging with new partners over the last three months. “A discriminatory, unjust, outdated and unscientific rule been finally stricken from the books.

Health Canada has approved the lifting of the blood donation ban for gay and bisexual men as well as others in the LGBTQ2S+ community. The federal reg...

“Today’s authorization is a significant milestone toward a more inclusive blood donation system nationwide, and builds on progress in scientific evidence made in recent years,” the news release says. “Over the past decade, Health Canada has authorized several changes to the donor deferral period for men who have sex with men, from a lifetime restriction to five years in 2013, to one year in 2016 and to three months in 2019.” Health Canada says it’s greenlighting a submission from the Canadian Blood Services to remove the current ban on donations from men who have had sex with men in the last three months.

A policy change years in the making, on Thursday Health Canada approved Canadian Blood Services' submission to eliminate the three-month donor deferral ...

After a nearly four-month investigation, heavy fines are being slapped on some of the infamous Sunwing 'party flight' passengers in late December, including for not being vaccinated. After a nearly four-month investigation, heavy fines are being slapped on some of the infamous Sunwing 'party flight' passengers in late December, including for not being vaccinated. With Sept. 10 picked as the date for when the Conservative Party of Canada will have a new leader, time is ticking for prospective candidates and their teams to get into place. Trudeau announced Tuesday morning that the confidence-and-supply agreement has been brokered, and is effective immediately. CBS has said this evidence, risk modelling based on Public Health Agency of Canada data, and also international research informed their 2021 submission. The federal government has been under fire for years, including from LGBTQ2S+ opposition MPs, for failing to follow through on their 2015 promise to lift the ban. It also undermined Canada’s blood supply, which can run precariously low,” said CBRC’s Acting Executive Director Michael Kwag in a statement. Canadian Blood Services has been consulting with stakeholders including the LGBTQ2S+ community and patient groups throughout this process. We are committed to engaging with many, many stakeholders and groups of individuals. In 2016, the five-year deferral period was reduced to one year, and then in June 2019, the current three-month deferral period came into effect. That meant, rather than outright refusing donations from men who had sex with men, or the “MSM” community as some have coined it, donations would be accepted only if the donor had not been sexually active for five years. The policy started in 1992 as an outright lifetime ban following the tainted blood scandal that played out between the 1980s and 1990s and saw thousands of Canadians infected with HIV after receiving donor blood.