Peter Carlyle-Gordge
Sponsor a GBLT refugee and save a life
It didn’t make national headlines, but last March Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced a rare partnership with Canada’s queer community: a pilot project to help refugees persecuted for their sexual orientation find safe haven here. Through the project, Citizenship and Immigration Canada is to work with the Rainbow Refugee Committee to share the cost of sponsoring gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual refugees come to Canada.
The law and HIV transmission
World AIDS Day is often a time of reflection on the many lives lost to the disease that has been challenging researchers and scientists for three decades. Much progress has been made in treatments and more is being made but there is no cure on the horizon. What can be said is that it is no longer a death sentence. It’s a treatable, manageable disease.
