Accessing HIV post-exposure drugs
Gay men in Vancouver will soon have expanded access to a drug therapy that can prevent them from becoming HIV-positive after exposure to the virus. Next month the Ministry of Health and the BC Centre ...
Author: Nathaniel Christopher
I am a resident of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, who has been blogging here for nearly 25 years. I enjoy sharing my thoughts and feelings on my own online platform. From 1998 until 2017, I worked as a journalist, and I have posted most of my articles in the 'News' section of this website.
Khan
A drug addict’s dream come true!
For those of you who don’t know my cat is diabetic. I have to supply him with diabetic cat food, blood-glucose tests, insulin and insulin needles. After I inject him with his insulin I deposit the ne...
Culture and Politics
Satanic beverages‽
In case you don’t know Housemate and I drink a LOT of beverages which is his euphuism for pop. It’s hard to say how much we drink – I try not to count. But whenever I start to run out of space to stor...
16th school district passes anti-homophobia policy
On March 27 Gold Trail became the 16th school district in British Columbia to implement an anti-homophobia policy. “We didn’t have any specific incident that was of deep and dire concern that was the ...
Former student seeks apology from school
When Gary Allen was a teenager he prayed that morning would never come so he wouldn’t have go to school. Allen was a student at Vancouver’s Killarney Secondary from 1979 to 1981 where, he says, he was...
Culture and Politics
I saw my dinner plate on Hoarders!
This post is lovingly dedicated to my friend Yvonne in honour of her recent dish-shopping excursion. When I was watching Hoarders a few weeks ago I noticed something quite familiar: My dinner plate! I...
Prince George trustees reject anti-homophobia policy
Prince George school trustees have decided against adopting a stand-alone anti-homophobia policy similar to those adopted in 15 other British Columbia school districts. Instead, the Prince George scho...
Khan
My cat is an extreme couponer!
Whenever I’m eating something like fish, chicken, ice cream, or a pastry I can be sure that Khan will plonk himself as close to me as he can get to let me know that he wants what I’m eatin...
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows trustees support anti-homophobia policy
The Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows school board chamber was a sea of pink on Feb 29 as trustees responded positively to presentations from district teachers and students seeking a stand-alone anti-homop...
Parents’ Voice a no-show
Administrators at Burnaby’s Confederation Park Elementary School are relieved that a rumoured protest by Parents’ Voice failed to materialize on Pink Shirt Day. Word of the protest first surfaced on F...