Tag: #inclusion

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FIFA Cannot Keep Treating Inclusion as Optional

FIFA Cannot Keep Treating Inclusion as Optional

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.

I’m Seeking the Progress Vancouver nomination for Vancouver Council. Here’s why…

I'm Seeking the Progress Vancouver nomination for Vancouver Council. Here's why…

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.

Vancouver Rape Relief failure to meet Vancouver criteria for program funding shows pressing need to update approach

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, […]

Parents Letter: “Anti-SOGI Disinformation Incites Hatred Against Our Kids”

Parents Letter: "Anti-SOGI Disinformation Incites Hatred Against Our Kids"

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."

Municipal institutions need to add an anti-discrimination clause to facility rental policies

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.

“Each For All” with Rubin Puga

October 11, 2018

Morgane speaks about her campaign on “Each For All” with Rubin Puga [Note: This is a re-post of an update from my 2018 Vancouver School Trustee campaign] Too many parents are telling me their child is not getting the education they deserve. You expect more, and I’m here to help. Listen to this segment of […]

BOF: Anti-SOGI and Anti-Choice coelacanths converge

September 29, 2018

Birds of a feather are meeting up in Victoria rallies this weekend to oppose women having a right to access abortion and to force LGBTQ2+ kids back into the closet. If it was another month, I would be in Victoria addressing this hot mess from the 1950s that has no place in our inclusive and […]

Morgane Oger running for Vancouver Board of Education Trustee

September 14, 2018

For immediate release September 14th, 2018 Morgane Oger running for Vancouver Board of Education Trustee http://votemorganeoger.ca Education and human rights advocate Morgane Oger submitted her Nomination papers for Trustee in the 2018 Vancouver School Board election. “Vancouver parents have been asking me to step forward as an independent candidate in this election for some time,” […]