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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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Trans sports ban fails in U.S. Senate
In a welcome win amidst Trump’s anti-trans onslaught, a national ban on trans women and girls from women’s sports died on the Senate floor this week
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Three large corporate sponsors, including Nissan Canada, have walked back support of this year’s festival
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