54 posts
June 10, 2026
Canada is right to reject the fiction that online harms are just the price of participation in modern life. The test is protecting young people without surveillance or censorship.
June 4, 2026
British Columbia needs clarity on title, property rights, consent, jurisdiction, land use, and the public interest. Repealing DRIPA would deepen the uncertainty we inherited.
May 17, 2026
The expansion of anti-trans policies in the United States creates growing risks of forced detransition, conversion-oriented treatment, and coercive institutional placement for transgender youth.
May 13, 2026
AI Governance, Data Protection, and Democratic Accountability in Vancouver's Mayor's Office
April 6, 2026
Wes Streeting your recent article pinkwashing the harm the UK government causes trans youth was an unseemly farce. Except that transphobic oppression on TERF Island is just is not funny.
February 22, 2026
For five years, school trustee Barry Neufeld used social media and public meetings to hammer away at LGBTQ-inclusive education, calling it propaganda and equating gender identity with abuse. What he framed as policy debate became a campaign that the Tribunal found poisoned the workplace for LGBTQ teachers and crossed into unlawful discrimination.
January 12, 2026
The recurring trans washroom moral panic isn’t about safety. it’s about fear and politics.
January 6, 2026
(I first published this as a post on LinkedIn) We keep hearing bold AI predictions: one-person unicorns, zero-employee companies, the end of middle management, search dying, intelligence becoming free, and most knowledge work disappearing. I’ve led large data platforms, AI deployments in regulated enterprises, and board-level change. I've navigated tough, public conversations where accountability never […]
December 11, 2025
LGBTQ people in Iran and Egypt live under laws that treat their existence as a crime. In Iran, same-sex intimacy can mean prison, flogging, or even execution. In Egypt, “morality” and “debauchery” laws are used to jail people for who they are, how they dress, or what they post online. This is not “cultural difference.” It is state-sanctioned persecution that must be named for what it is.
September 20, 2025
More than a million Canadian families include transgender loved ones. So why are Canadian conservatives such as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and OneBC’s chief of staff and leader pushing anti-trans rhetoric? Imported fear campaigns endanger rights and care. They put us all at risk.
August 5, 2025
Should JK Rowling be admissible in Canada? I worry she's here to cause trouble.
June 17, 2025
Israel’s deepening control over Gaza risks trapping both peoples in permanent conflict unless dignity, equality, and humanity are visibly centered.
May 25, 2025
When we act like a parody of activism, we feed the far-right narrative that discounts us. Here's how to get your views heard.
May 10, 2025
Since 1679 Habeas Corpus protects against unlawful detention. Suspending it risks authoritarian rule.
May 5, 2025
The U.S. promotes coercive ‘gender exploratory therapy'. Luckily Canada is a refuge where conversion therapy is a crime.
April 26, 2025
UK ruling narrows “sex” definition, risking trans rights. Yet human rights law demands inclusion, not exclusion. read how this matters…
April 23, 2025
By Morgane Oger | April 2025 Across the globe, an old lie is resurfacing: that inclusion threatens society. This fear feeds "replacement theory"—the baseless notion that elevating marginalized people harms the majority. It frames progress as a zero-sum loss for culture and identity. The far-right fuels fears trying to win votes using this narrative to […]
April 18, 2025
the April 2025 UK Supreme Court Decision Defining Women Exclusively Through Biology Is Refressive And Dangerous. Read why…
April 17, 2025
Dean M Thomson's 2022 article on Scorland's Gender Recognition Reform earns a D+ grade from AI fact checkers. Check the facts before you share disinformation
March 9, 2025
Salt Spring Island, part of the Islands Trust in British Columbia, has long sought to regulate activities in its waters, particularly concerning liveaboard vessels and long-term anchoring. So far, the proposed regulations have not been widely supported. Saltspring Island's regulatory powers are constrained by federal authority over navigation and shipping, and by the Provincial legislation […]
March 8, 2025
IWD Recap: in the last 48 hours US President Trump has gone after transgender women, trangender children, and women's access to reproductive care.
March 7, 2025
On February 28 2025, AP News reported that Iowa became the first U.S. state to remove gender identity protections from its civil rights code when Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill that opponents say will expose transgender people and other Iowans to discrimination in all aspects of daily life. When U.S. laws targeting people because […]
March 4, 2025
CASHI’s Push to Restrict Liveaboards The Clean and Safe Harbours Initiative (CASHI) is pressuring Salt Spring Island’s officials and the Islands Trust to impose restrictions on at-anchor liveaboard boaters in the waters surrounding the island. Armed with a slide deck rich with polling data responding to leading questions that imply some Salt Spring residents are […]
February 23, 2025
Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a group of people. Stages of genocide were outlined by Gregory H. Stanton, the founder of Genocide Watch, in his model of the 10 Stages of Genocide (originally 8 stages, the concept was later expanded to […]
February 22, 2025
The situation for transgender and nonbinary people in the U.S. seems to be worsening and quickly. If history has taught us anything, it’s that when a marginalized group is targeted, escape routes can close quickly. For those paying attention, the writing is on the wall: a combination of restrictive laws, court decisions, and rising hostility […]
February 5, 2025
British Columbia is in the throes of a housing crisis. Could making it easier for people to live on boats be part of the solution?
January 23, 2025
This is episode one of a multi-piece review of alternative housing concepts for BC and Canadian households – centering eventually on suggesting suggesting liveaboard households among other innovative approaches to housing offers significant advantages in addressing the housing crisis in coastal British Columbia. Innovative Living Solutions: Adapting to Canada's Housing Affordability Crisis In recent years, […]
December 22, 2024
We are now at more than two years since the October 2022 municipal elections, a couple months before an expected early 2025 by-election for one or two Vancouver City Council seats, and 22 months before the next province-wide municipal elections in Oct 2026. Today also marks a special anniversary. On this day a year ago […]
May 4, 2024
An anti-Trans bill targeting Trans women and girls failed spectacularly in the BC Legislature in May 2024. Ironically called "Fairness in Women’s and Girls’ Sports Act", it was voted down 51-27 at first reading in the BC Legislature, a fate that’s a rarity in BC politics and quite the insult. The immediate rejection of the BC […]
February 1, 2024
Alberta Premier Marlaina “Danielle” Smith announced a series of proposed policy changes targeting the treatment and recognition of transgender individuals, particularly minors. How do these compare to policy in BC, and will they withstand scrutiny and the courts?
January 2, 2024
In recent years, Canada has made significant strides in recognizing and supporting the rights of transgender and gender-diverse individuals. However, there is still much work to be done before Trans people are able to live their lives free of oppression and bias's harms. To further this cause, it's essential for governmental bodies at all levels—municipal, […]
September 20, 2023
Gender identity or expression was finally added to Canada’s human rights law in 2017 after decades of legal battles and advocacy. We find ourselves once again facing a growing anti-trans campaign in Canada this week. It's time for everyone to please lend a hand…again. I am a transgender mom raising two teenagers in Vancouver while […]
October 11, 2022
I'm a passionate BC New Democrat, and one lesson I learned from Jack Layton's story is that when working towards the greater good it’s best to have a diversity of viewpoints on your side.
July 21, 2022
Vancouver needs people to want to stay here but over the last 12 years three municipal governments have struggled to bring results to make our Vancouver affordable. The situation is so serious that there are 12,561 fewer under-18s in Vancouver than there were in 2010. That's why I'm seeking the nomination with Progress Vancouver for City Council: for a thriving Vancouver where people can actually afford to live. Find out more about why I think this really matters.
July 8, 2022
Over 27% of Vancouver kids born in 2010 have left the city. Our city needs to do better on livability and affordability so families choose to live here.
February 1, 2022
Instead of making things even worse and giving hatred room to express itself, protesting Canadian truckers should have helped their unvaccinated colleagues find solutions when the US closed its doors to them.
July 15, 2020
Without safe, governed spaces with basic services in which campers can stay for extended periods of time, without ensuring the safety of everyone in or near our parks, and without addressing dangerous behaviour, the proposed Vancouver Parks Board bylaws intended to govern temporary shelters offers little that is new that we can believe Parks Board staff are in a position to enforce and imposes undue hardship on those whose conduct they are being deployed to address.
June 15, 2020
Do you really propose a purity test for qualifying as woman enough, or middle class enough, or white enough, or safe enough?
February 26, 2020
I am mindful Vancouver City Council members must be facing quite a bit of push-back from Vancouver Rape Relief (VRR) and their supporters as a result of today's finance committee vote on the staff recommendation to cancel funding of their outreach and education program. On February 26, the City of Vancouver's Standing Committee on City […]
October 18, 2019
Can emerging hard-right populist parties find a meaningful place in Canada’s political ecology without legislation to address discriminatory publications online?
August 11, 2019
The federal ban barring monogamous gay men and transgender women from giving desperately-needed blood when others engaged in the same activities freely donate blood is a galling example of what could have been, but for Justin Trudeau and Hedy Fry's lacking the will to do the right thing.
July 11, 2019
The inaction of elected officials such as Liberals Hedy Fry and Sam Sullivan is responsible for the pain Yaletown or Olympic Village parents will feel every day taking their kids to Coal Harbour accross the downtown core.
June 27, 2019
Is Canada's unregulated online hate propaganda targeting transgender people contributing to the 81% rise in crimes targeting transgender people in the UK? Equal rights charity Stonewall estimated that two in five trans people had experienced a hate crime or incident in the past year.
May 18, 2019
Hate propaganda acts by creating anger or disgust towards a person or group because of their identity. It often specifically targets people over their gender identity or sexual orientation.
May 14, 2019
BC Liberals are discovering a problem with building their political movement's coalition around the demands of deeply social-conservative groups is that they can be intransigent and unrepresentative of the values the party really stands for. Count on them to make more messes.
May 10, 2019
On May 2 2019, conservative faith-based group Canadian Christian Lobby, the CCL, held a public talk entitled "The erosion of freedom: How transgender politics in school and society is undermining our freedom and harming women and children". This was the fourth in a series on Vancouver Island that also advertises dates in Metro Vancouver in may. […]
May 4, 2019
No matter who they are or what they believe, people who incite discrimination on prohibited grounds are inciting others to break the law. This be stopped from doing it in a rented space.
April 25, 2019
On April 24 2019, I asked VSB Trustees that the Vancouver Public Library Library follow the example of the Toronto Public Library and reserve the right to deny or cancel a booking as follows when it reasonably believes use by any individual or group will be for a purpose that is likely to promote, or would have the effect of promoting discrimination, contempt or hatred for any group or person on the basis of prohibited grounds.
April 6, 2019
A handy email from R. Franklin Carter compiled a list of coverage of the Oger BC Human Rights Tribunal decision finding Bill Whatcott guilty of violating section 7 of the BC Human Rights Code. R. Franklin Carter is Editor and Researcher of the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council, in Toronto, […]
April 2, 2019
Anti-transgender propaganda a modern version of a ‘whites only’ sign
March 27, 2019
BC tribunal rules that publishing flyers indicating an intention to discriminate on the basis of gender identity and likely to expose an individual and other transgender persons to hatred or contempt violates human rights law.
February 25, 2019
We should accept everyone's declared sex and gender for two reasons. The ideal idea that anyone's biology is defined at conception is deeply flawed and in Canada's legal system the recognition of the sex or gender of others as different than at conception causes no negative consequence on anyone.
December 4, 2018
All that TERF rhetoric makes you think about how almost all crimes are committed by cisgender people. [a mediocre parody of hatred]
October 27, 2018
People are asking me why I am so adamantly in support of proportional representation. Chilliwack MLA Laurie Throness was elected thanks to his anti-LGBT+ support, and kept human rights at bay for years because of the current system.