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Discrimination

Can a doctor refuse to treat patients because of their sexual orientation or identity?

posted Sunday, May 3, 2015

by: in Law

In February it was reported that a U.S. pediatrician refused to treat a child because her mothers were lesbians. The same thing happened to a Winnipeg couple in 2009, annd over the years many others have likely experienced similar discrimination, though the stories are often not shared publicly. The first paper I ever published was […]

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Religious Exclusion

posted Wednesday, April 8, 2015

by: in Law

Should a law school be allowed to exclude gay students on religious grounds? That is the question surrounding B.C’s Trinity Western University, which is set to open a law school in 2016. The school is a private Christian university that requires students to sign a “community covenant” that, among other things, prohibits premarital sex, where […]

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Do tax laws discriminate against gay male couples pursuing surrogacy?

posted Friday, November 28, 2014

by: in Law

Clients of mine who are “intended parents”, people having a child through third party assisted reproduction, often ask me about tax write-offs. After all, paying for medical expenses involved with third party assisted reproductive technologies (ART) is very expensive. For example, a gay male couple having a child through ART must pay for fertility medications, […]

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Victory for Trans Rights

posted Thursday, November 6, 2014

by: in Law

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) recently released a ground-breaking decision that made a clear statement about the rights of transgendered individuals and also, in a somewhat surprising development, their allies. Here is what happened… A cisgendered woman named Karen rented a retail booth and sold candles at a market in London, Ontario. One […]

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