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January 16, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Changes To 'Profoundly Flawed' AG Process More than a week after criticism over the non-renewal of the outspoken B.C. auditor general, the premier announced that legislation will be introduced to change the selection process. Continue reading... 'I'm Not Going To Let Her Go' Enbridge Needs PR Lesson: Garneau Oregon Bus Crash Lawsuit: BC Survivors Sue Tour Company, Driver BC Flu Outbreak Hazardous: Fraser Health Deer Living In B.C. Home Has To Go, Officials Demand Cory Monteith Waldorf Hotel Tweets Ask Fans For Hometown Help Surrey Shootings 2013: Public Safety Reassured By RCMP Manjinder Manny Hairan Dead: Surrey Gang Shooting City's 3rd In 2 Days Deer Living In B.C. Home Has To Go, Officials Demand Kitten Torture Photos Posted To Vancouver Website TheDirty.com (GRAPHIC DETAILS) Vancouver's LunaPads Breaks Period Taboos, Seeks Oprah's Attention GYASI ROSS Still Don't Know What #IdleNoMore Is About? Here's a Cheat-Sheet The #IdleNoMore Movement is not a new movement. Instead, it is the latest incarnation of the sustained Indigenous resistance to the rape, pillage and exploitation of this continent and its women that has existed since 1492. For those transfixed on race, you're missing the point. Please consider this a fairly exhaustive explanation of the #IdleNoMore movement, what it is not and what it is. Continue reading... CRAIG AND MARC KIELBURGER Behind the Headlines: Should Armstrong's Charity Suffer For His Sins? The trouble with Lance Armstrong's fall from grace is that he wasn't just a sports hero; he was a self-styled symbol of hope. Which is why we're all left wondering: does his doping confession negate his charitable work? Candidly, we're conflicted. Some of the onus for Armstrong's fall lies on our cultural tendency to elevate celebrities and sports idols to too-good-to-be-true status, then crucify them in the court of public opinion at their every transgression. Continue reading... JOHN F. GRAY Vancouver's LunaPads Breaks Period Taboos, Seeks Oprah's Attention With Oprah Winfrey speaking in Vancouver on Jan. 24, B.C.-based Lunapads is donating 400 reusable menstrual products to girls in Africa. Using the #Pads4Oprah hashtag, they hope to get Oprah's attention about how providing feminine hygiene products help keep African girls in school. Continue reading... MARNI SOUPCOFF Should Gay Men Be Allowed to Donate Blood? I would respect Canadian Blood Services more if it took a stronger position on gay blood donations. Either stick with the lifelong ban and admit that it's a super-cautious approach to try to mitigate against potential infections we don't yet understand, based on the deadly mistakes made in the past with HIV. Or focus on the bloodborne diseases we do know about, and adjust the ban accordingly to six-months or one-year, as would be consistent with the current science of detection. Either one of these approaches would be a more defensible posture than the arbitrary five-year ban Canadian Blood Services has chosen to champion. Continue reading... HEATHER MAGEE Ditch Your Online Dating Profile So f*$k online dating. Don't spend another second milling about your flat, fiddling with your profile picture. Instead, get out of your comfort zone and meet some new people. This could mean sitting at a bar on your own or travelling across town to a new watering hole. Ditch your regular routine, smile at strangers and make eye contact. Engage with living and breathing human beings! Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here Unsubscribe here.