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1/5 #COVID19 key concerns in 🇨🇦: Today, in lieu of a daily in-person update to the media, I have issued a Sunday statement you can read in full here: canada.ca/en/public-heal…
2/5 June is Pride Month #Pride2020 – a time for LGBTQ2+ communities and their allies to come together to celebrate our diversity from a place of inclusion, empathy and love. #FreeTobeMe #Pride #Canada #LGBTQ2 #VirtualPride
3/5 With #COVID19 still active in 🇨🇦, the risk of the virus spreading remains, and large-scale in-person celebrations ↑↑ this risk. I applaud the actions of #Pride Festival organizers in #Canada in quickly organizing virtual festivities. #StayProudStaySafe
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Fort McMurray City Council is now discussing second reading of their conversion therapy bylaw. @RMWoodBuffalo

Watch LIVE now: rmwb.ca/Municipal-Gove…
@RMWoodBuffalo Now speaking is Pastor Brian Caldwell makes a surprise appearance in Fort McMurray. He's not a resident.

He's now speaking of a global multi-million dollar LGBTQ conspiracy behind conversion therapy bylaws.
Remember, Pastor Caldwell is the same person who actively opposed GSAs and LGBTQ-inclusive policy.
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1/3 #CDNpoli #Elxn43

Why Scheer's confessions RE anti #Indigenous & anti #abortion positions matter & how these apparently disparate issues are one in the same, with further implications for #LGBTQ2, #ClimateChange & #HumanRights (answer in post #3)

cbc.ca/news/politics/…
2/3 #CDNpoli #Elxn43

Why Scheer's confessions RE anti #Indigenous & anti #abortion positions matter & how these apparently disparate issues are one in the same, with further implications for #LGBTQ2, #ClimateChange & #HumanRights (answer in post #3)

cbc.ca/news/politics/…
3/3 #CDNpoli #Elxn43 The Answer

Scheer's confession RE anti #Indigenous & anti #abortion positions represent a confirmation of loyalty to a powerful lobby behind the CPC

Goals include destruction of #LGBTQ2, #ClimateChange, #PressFreedom & #HumanRights

freethepresscanada.org/2014/05/19/the…
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Modern conversion therapy is happening in many places in society, including in churches and schools with a "welcoming, but not affirming" approach to LGBTQ2 individuals. #LGBTQ2
This approach says, we welcome you into our faith or school, but membership is conditional on remaining silent, closeted, and invisible with a requirement to live "chaste or celibate" lives.
As one religious leader stated, "It's almost like with one hand you're shaking LGBTQ people by the hand, and with the other you're slapping them in the face."
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THREAD 1/9 : In light of recent events, it is important to restate that conversion therapy is a heinous and inhumane practice with no basis in science. We are working hard with partners to stamp out this vile practice.
2/9 Following are the Criminal Code offences that criminalize the behavior associated with conversation therapy.
3/9 Depending on the circumstances of a particular case, Criminal Code offences such as: kidnapping (subsection 279(1)), forcible confinement (subsection 279(2)) and assault (sections 266 to 268) may apply where a person is forcibly compelled to undergo conversion therapy.
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City of Vancouver grants 2019 funding to Vancouver Rape Relief as termination funding. VRR is no longer eligible for funding until it makes changes to become aligned with the grant criteria.

#VanPoli
#Transgender #LGBTQ2+
Those among us who are not transgender may not understand the enormous symbolic value of this decision. VRR's ongoing and very public refusal to treat transgender women equally has finally been refuted by a public agency as unacceptable.
The audio from the speakers that convinced the city to act...

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