75 posts
July 23, 2026
This month we taught Vector Weather to draw the Arctic ice edge. Building it says something about data as a public good, and about how the North sits at the centre of Canadian self-identity.
July 11, 2026
Creators have legitimate rights and interests, but the public, learners, builders, and the commons have rights in culture too.
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.
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
January 12, 2026
The recurring trans washroom moral panic isn’t about safety. it’s about fear and politics.
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.
May 22, 2025
The D.C. murder of two Israeli Embassy staff shows how stochastic terrorism leverages online hate to cause real-world violence. Canada must revive the Online Harms Act to address this growing threat.
May 5, 2025
The U.S. promotes coercive ‘gender exploratory therapy'. Luckily Canada is a refuge where conversion therapy is a crime.
April 24, 2025
As organizers and activists speaking out about injustice, we can not afford to forget what the seeds of genocide are. Because never again means never again for everyone.
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 […]
March 20, 2025
As law-abiding Canadian, UK, Indian, and German citizens are being arbitrarily detained and mistreated on Republican President Trump Executive Orders, is it dangerous to be a foreigner in the U.S. today?
February 9, 2025
This info sheet may be of particular interest to US passport holders who are transgender or nonbinary and face passport confiscation when leaving the US at a port of entry. A person can enter Canada at a port of entry even if they did not leave another country through an official port of entry. However, […]
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, […]
August 27, 2024
August 27, 2024 Dear Members of the Community, I am saddened to share that I have decided to resign from the Board of Directors of Atira Women’s Resource Society. Atira provides 3,000 units of low-barrier housing for women and their children fleeing violence. I was proud to contribute to its governance during a challenging time […]
April 20, 2024
Dear Vancouver Port Authority, I am writing as a Vancouver resident and the owner of a licensed Canadian fishing vessel to address the significant challenges related to mooring and anchoring within the Port of Vancouver. Your website states: "The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is an arm’s-length federal agency responsible for the shared stewardship of the […]
April 10, 2024
Some boaters who anchor in False Creek have been complaining about unjustified actions by the City and excessively muscular enforcement that has put people at risk. I did a deep dive on the question and what I learned is that the City of Vancouver has not enacted the bylaw needed to enforce its preferences on […]
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 […]
September 15, 2023
Canadian families are grappling with the significant impact of inflation, which has notably diminished the purchasing power of both renters and homeowners. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), a crucial indicator of living costs, has surged by 14.3% from June 2020 to June 2023. This is hitting hard.
September 11, 2023
For LGBT and other marginalized groups, understanding the rules of self-defense in Canada can be vital. That's why I looked into it.
August 5, 2022
There are many who face persecution or violence because of their gender identity or expression, or due to their sexual orientation. Here are four legal ways people can get to safety in Canada.
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.
January 13, 2022
I’ve asked for three measures that I think will help everyone withstand COVID as the next waves come in my Jan 13, 2022 Vancouver Is Awesome op-ed "3 things that should happen to better protect B.C.'s most vulnerable against COVID-19" and in my January 17 news piece in the Georgia Straight "Morgane Oger: In the […]
November 18, 2021
On the eve of Trans Day of Remembrance, I asked UBC leadership to meet with me for a conversation on whether their policy on platforming hate propaganda has changed since they held space for transphobia in 2018. #TDOR
July 19, 2021
Here are historic cases that upheld Transgender rights in BC and Canada. These rights matter because they encompass the fundamental human right to live authentically and without discrimination.
March 13, 2021
The UN Commission on the Status of Women continues to ignore over 135 million Lesbian or Bisexual women and over 24 million transgender women and nonbinary persons with female sex characteristics. I call on the UN CSW recognizing the diversity of gender and sexuality at CSW65.
March 8, 2021
Today is International Women's Day and there are so many things I'd like to talk about. I’d love to talk about how our equality system is framed in Canada. It's such a good system that benefits from a ground-up rewrite in the late 20th century. When I contrast it with what other countries have I […]
October 12, 2020
Today is Coming Out Day. On this day some of those of us who came out as who we are today and have the privilege of being able to speak about it publicly do so. I started telling people I might be transgender in 2011 after years of secrecy and shame over who I was. […]
September 7, 2020
Canada's labour movement trains up future activists to continue the hard work that their elders have started to make Canada more just for us all. Labour has consistently shown up at our side in the advocacy work we've done. They can be counted on to stand up for individual workers and the oppressed in the face of unfairness. Each win they help bring ensures all our children, their children have better lives. On Labour Day, I celebrate this.
August 6, 2020
Threats from men with guns: Morgane Oger speaks to IntraVenus about running for public office and the consequences it brought, her foray into acting, and how she sees legislation going to protect us all from hatred in Canada – on CJSF 90.1 Simon Fraser University
May 31, 2020
The people governing the U.S. law-enforcement system allowed it to train and employ potentially lethal methods on defensess, handcuffed persons. The officers used these methods and killed George Floyd when they applied excessive and lethal force during his arrest, and there are strong indications his being a Black man was a factor in how he was treated.
May 16, 2020
When I was invited by the nice folks at Day Of Pink to be featured in the 3rd edition of their colouring book "Colouring With Pride" to mark International Day of Pink 2020 on 8 April 2020, I was thrilled. But then COVID-19 happened. it's finally out.
February 20, 2020
In 2019, the City renewed their funding with the warning that the organization's practices did not comply with eligibility criteria for program funding by the City of Vancouver. The city informed Vancouver Rape Relief that unless the organization took measures to meet the city's inclusion criteria for funding, 2020 funding would be denied. Next week, […]
February 4, 2020
The email below illustrates why we need to clamp down on groups accessing public funds through their charity status to incite discrimination and exclusion. Churches and groups named in this email are violating the terms of their charitable status. It was sent to people in Metro Vancouver inviting them to an event intended to help […]
December 17, 2019
"… I hate [racist slur]. I hope all [racist slur] die. … I just want to line them all up and just chuck an explosive in there and go ka-boom! " Vancouver, B.C. student rant in an online video targeting Black students Too many Canadians are touched by hatred, and it feels awful. Acts of […]
October 31, 2019
On September 29, 2019, Self-identified feminist journalist Meghan Murphy gave a talk about her feelings regarding transgender women and feminism. It drew strong criticism across Canada and head-scratching abroad. Murphy's thesis is that transgender women are men because being transgender is "in fact" an impossibility and that transgender people put cisgender people at risk, with […]
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?
October 3, 2019
"Your all spare parts and when the PPC gets in you retards won’t have jobs and that would be of great benifit to the real Canadians." – Steve
August 19, 2019
Sometimes, you just have to answer a reader comment.
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.
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.
June 12, 2019
On June 12 2016, Orlando's Pulse Nightclub was the scene of a massacre targeting the LGBTQ community. We must stand together to fight off the cultivation of hateful impuses before they become murderous action.
June 3, 2019
Canada’s indigenous women and girls are “under siege,” and their deaths and disappearances amount to “a race-based genocide.": June 2019 MMIWG report
May 29, 2019
Parents: "Jenn Smith has taken it upon himself…to organize public speaking events, where he goes from one community to the next, sharing his presentation to the public. The content of his presentation is misinformation, debunked pseudo-science, conspiracy theories, and a few of his own personal life experiences. Those of us who have LGBTQ2+ children and families consider his presentation dangerous because it incites hate, targeted at our kids and our families."
May 20, 2019
This is a message to the social conservative fringe of Canada. We all have the same rights, the same hopes, and the same fears. We are, in facts so much alike.
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 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
I made some recommendations to Corrections Services Canada about improving transparency on human rights grievances and about more supports for transgender inmates.
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 23, 2019
When you claim denying a publicly-available service for women to trans women is justified or even legal in Canada you are lying.
April 17, 2019
It's not the name calling that gets anti-transgender activists in trouble, it's the harassment. It's the incitement of hatred. It's the acts of prohibited discrimination.
April 10, 2019
During the BC Human Rights Tribunal hearing, I gave hours of testimony under oath including 4 1/2 hours under cross-examination. These are the excerpts from the ruling. This is my voice.
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
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.
February 21, 2019
New-christian-white-supremacist-entity-on-the-block Resurrection Europa has Very Deep Concerns Indeed about anyone who they do not recognize as cisgender, heterosexual, Caucasian, and Christian.
February 9, 2019
Even if Transgender themselves, a person who oppresses Trans people should not in my eyes be called a trans activist but a TERF or anti-trans activist.
January 31, 2019
Despite her debilitating "condition", Supreme-Court-Certified-Bigot Kari Simpson still needs to pee.
January 12, 2019
I was there, and I hold the Vancouver Public Library and the City of Vancouver responsible for knowingly taking part in Feminist Current and Meghan Murphy publishing hatred to the internet from their facilities.
October 30, 2018
People are asking me about the advocacy that led to being honoured with the being awarded the Meritorious Service Medal by the Governor General in the name of the Queen and all Canadians. These two short docs by award-winning filmmaker Christine Lord tell the story of the events between 2014 and 2016 that led to […]
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.
October 10, 2018
A man has been wandering the streets of Vancouver since 6 October distributing flyers. There's no place for what he is writing and no excuse for him to be putting such homophobic and transphobic rants to paper and imposing them on innocent victims. First, I'd like to start by taking a moment to thank everybody […]
September 11, 2018
I was "disappointed" to come across a position today by Glenn Schaeffer of the Lutheran Church of Canada in support of conversion therapy, sometimes called reparative therapy. This is the practice of trying to change the sexuality or gender identity of people. In a recent CBC article, I learned that the Lutheran Church of Canada […]
August 29, 2018
Inclusion is for everyone – except those who oppress others. If faith needs its own pride flag, let's ask for design ideas from people of faith that have not oppressed others.
August 28, 2018
Jordan Peterson and Jared Brown's alarmist assertions [1] someone could face jail for using the wrong pronouns for somebody has a far simpler answer thanks to Ockham's razor and our laws: Just let the employee go. William of Ockham was a 14th century philosopher whose central principle was simplicity. Now known as “Ockham’s Razor”, it urges us to […]
January 19, 2018
The Chilliwack School Board has officially asked Barry Neufeld to resign, finally. The trustees voted to act in-camera under mounting pressure after Neufeld initiated a bully campaign against President of the District Parent Advisory Council of Chilliwack Justine Hodge that resulted in the parent volunteer to be bombarded by hateful and threatening messages from […]
December 17, 2017
Ken Zucker's Gender Identity Clinic was found to be out of step with modern practices, to listen too much to the desires of the parents over the needs of the child, to be inconsistent in the treatments of clients, to use criteria that raised alarm with the investigators, and to not seek the required consent of clients it used in its research. It was closed.
December 7, 2017
We were sitting at a large drafting table in the naval architecture lab in the Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering building at UBC when someone came in and said it had happened. My own initial emotion was of incredulous shock. It took some time for the horrible reality of what had happened to trickle in: […]
November 29, 2017
Tonight I was at the Chilliwack Board of Education's trustee meeting to ask a question seeking clarification about the individual personal commitment of each trustee to uphold the law of British Columbia. I came to Chilliwack and asked this question because in BC the curriculum is decided by the teachers and the Ministry of Education […]
November 25, 2017
The only province without one since the BC Liberal Government disbanded it in 2002, BC is preparing to re-instate its Human Rights Commission. Here is what Morgane Oger, a BC human rights activist, would like to see.
November 13, 2017
Jordan Peterson is burdened by the impossible oppression of actually having a job. It turns out that this is a cautionary tale. When his employer requested that he address all students in class with the requisite courtesy customary of students, even if some prefer the singular they, Peterson took profound exception and flipped a proverbial […]