Kat Lanteigne’s opinion piece in the Ottawa Citizen: The debate over whether to pay people for their plasma is not a scientific one. It is about whether or not the people of B.C. want to allow private blood brokers to take over the role of Canadian Blood Services (CBS). Paid is private, meaning that the […]
After hearing that a private company plans to set up paid plasma clinics in B.C., we teamed up with the BC Chapter of the Canadian Hemophilia Society and BloodWatch.org to bring the call for a BC ban on pay-for-blood and plasma directly to government and BC communities. We went to the Legislature with families who […]
Advocates for ‘safe blood’ have launched a provincial tour in support of a B.C. ban on pay-for-blood and plasma. The “safe blood advocates” from BloodWatch.org, the B.C. Health Coalition and the B.C. Hemophilia Society kicked off the weeklong tour yesterday. They are calling on the province to follow Ontario and Quebec’s lead and implement the […]
VICTORIA — A group that fought to ban pay-for-plasma clinics in Ontario has taken its fight to British Columbia, joining the New Democrat Opposition in its call against allowing such facilities in the province. Members of BloodWatch.org were in the legislature when health critic Judy Darcy introduced a private member’s bill that would ban companies […]
Members of BloodWatch.org, the BC Health Coalition and the BC Hemophilia Society kick off a week-long tour Sunday, May 8 in Abbotsford to push for a ban in B.C. on paying people for their blood and plasma donations. They will host a meeting in Kelowna on Thursday, May 12. The advocates are calling on the […]
Playwright Kat Lanteigne courted controversy in 1993 when her high school play “If Men Had Periods” was banned from a scholarship competition while she was attending Abbotsford Senior Secondary. Twenty-three years later, she is coming home amidst another national controversy as part of a countrywide protest to stop private plasma clinics from opening in B.C. […]
Is it in you to sell? After B.C. Health Minister Terry Lake wrote an editorial saying the province is open to allowing private blood plasma companies to set up shop, a group representing victims of the tainted blood scandal are urging a rethink. Kat Lanteigne, co-founder of bloodwatch.org, says opening up Canada’s blood system to […]
Getting paid to donate blood may sound like a great way to give something useful and earn a little cash, but advocates against private clinics are urging B.C. civic leaders to ban the practice. Kat Lanteigne, who runs the group BloodWatch, spoke to Burnaby council Monday — urging legal reforms. The origins of many of […]
A Duncan family suffered greatly during the tainted blood scandal in the 1980’s. Darlene Taylor’s two sons received blood tainted with hepatitis and HIV. “So the next few years were kind of like hell because our older son died, quite slowly and painfully,” she said. Thousands of families were affected. Afterwards, one of the recommendations […]
Health Minister Terry Lake is open to allowing a pay-for-plasma clinic in British Columbia, saying the province already gets about 85 per cent of its supply from the United States, where donors are paid for blood products. Read the full article and watch how a debate is growing in BC over whether we should allow paid […]
A group that fought to ban pay-for-plasma clinics in Ontario has taken its fight to British Columbia, joining the NDP Opposition in its call against allowing such facilities in the province. Members of BloodWatch.org were in the legislature Tuesday, when health critic Judy Darcy introduced a private member’s bill in hopes of banning companies from […]
B.C. could soon have a clinic that would pay clients to donate their plasma. Canada is one of the world’s top users of processed plasma products from other countries and Canadian Plasma Resources (CPR), a private company that just opened its doors in Saskatoon, wants to further develop plasma production in this country, even though […]
Health Minister Terry Lake has opened the door for a private company to collect blood plasma in B.C. The firm, Canadian Plasma Resources, has only one outlet so far, in Saskatchewan. After being shown the door in Ontario, it is looking for other locations to expand. Plasma is a straw-coloured liquid in which blood cells […]
Was the closure of the Canadian Blood Services blood donor clinic in Prince George last year premature? That’s the question being asked this week after B.C. Health Minister Terry Lake admitted he is open to allowing a pay-for-plasma clinic in this province. Lake tells 250News that a company (Canadian Plasma Resources) has made some inquiries […]
Lake said the province hasn’t taken an “ideological position” on people selling blood to private companies to help supplement the blood products supply chain. The utilitarian argument is that we already get plasma products from the U.S. where people do sell blood. Pardon me, but is this about ideology — a system of principles which […]
The federal NDP’s health critic is calling on the Liberals to adopt a national ban of for-profit and paid-donor blood clinics in Canada. Vancouver-Kingsway MP Don Davies says a private, for-profit blood donor company has recently been going province to province looking to set up shop. Davies referenced the tainted blood scandal of the 1980s […]