British Columbia

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 […]

BC’s Health Minister is rebuffing a call for the province to ban the use of paying people for donating blood. “We have no plan to legislate against the use of paid donors for plasma products in B.C.” Terry Lake says some people seem to think the practice is immoral but they don’t understand that the […]

A protest calling for a ban on paid blood and plasma donations in B.C. took place on the steps of the B.C. Legislature this afternoon. Survivors of the tainted blood tragedy were in Victoria with the BC Health Coalition to meet with provincial leaders. They want to make sure the B.C. government doesn’t allow a […]

Sure, we have a law that prohibits organ sales, but in truth, selling blood and selling body parts are at the same end of that economic ideological spectrum. After the supply was found contaminated in the 1980s and ’90s, the Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada opposed people selling their blood. […]

En Colombie-Britannique, la porte-parole néo-démocrate en matière de santé, Judy Darcy, veut interdire l’installation de cliniques privées qui payent pour des dons de plasma sanguin, comme il en existe en Saskatchewan. Elle a déposé un projet de loi privé en ce sens, mardi matin, à l’instar du Québec et de l’Ontario. Un texte de Julie […]

VICTORIA — 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 […]