Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence
Mel Woods
Senior editor Mel Woods is an English-speaking Vancouver-based writer, editor and audio producer and a former associate editor with HuffPost Canada. A proud prairie queer and ranch dressing expert, their work has also appeared in Vice, Slate, the Tyee, the CBC, the Globe and Mail and the Walrus.
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The Alberta government has mandated that school libraries remove titles with “inappropriate” content
Close vote on conversion therapy ban shows divided Conservative Party
While Pierre Poilievre decisively won his leadership review, his party remains muddled on where to go next
Advocates mount new challenge to Alberta anti-trans law
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Publishers are acquiring fewer queer books due to U.S. book bans: Report
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