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Articles by Layla Cameron
This Vancouver Coffee Shop Just Made the List of Best Cafés in the World
It strikes me the moment I settle into a booth at Revolver: the other patrons are actually talking to each other. Unlike most coffee shops these days, where everyone is focused on their phones or their laptops, in the friendly ambience of this sophisticated Gastown coffee shop, people are engaging—with each other, with staff, with the scene around them. No surprise that Revolver was recently named one of the best cafés in the world by Café Culture: For Lovers of Coffee and Good Design.
Cynara Geissler, Layla Cameron, Katrina Molson, Calla Evans: BMI modifier for surgeons nothing more than a ‘fat tax’
Dr. Kathleen Ross, president of Doctors of B.C. Custom Photography / PNG While the introduction of a “BMI modifier” for surgeons seemingly does not create any additional costs for taxpayers, there are costs for fat people. Public health researchers have argued that providing health care using a weight-based paradigm violates the human rights of patients. Under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all people are entitled to the right to health.
Why weight loss isn't on my New Year's resolution list anymore
Opinion In a culture that stigmatizes fatness, it is not surprising that every Jan. 1, many of us locate the problem within our bodies and vow to lose weight. Resolutions out of a place of guilt or shame are not the nicest way to start off new year Layla Cameron · for CBC News · Posted: Jan 07, 2019 7:00 AM PT | Last Updated: January 7 When we treat our bodies as a weight-loss project, we are doing a disservice to ourselves, writes Layla Cameron.
Students at Trinity Western University don’t have to sign its covenant anymore - now what?
Students at Trinity Western University (TWU) will no longer have to sign a document that bans sex outside of heterosexual marriage. But current and former students at the evangelical Christian university in BC say they’re waiting to see the impact that decision will have on LGBT students at the school. Earlier this month, the university said that as of fall 2018, students won’t be asked to sign the community covenant, which also forbids porn, drug use and drinking on campus.
BC’s human rights commission is finally coming back and these LGBT experts are looking forward to it
Of the many human rights hearings she attended over the years, Mary-Woo Sims remembers one powerful testimony in particular from a woman who stood up and identified herself as trans at a hearing in Surrey two decades ago. “She lost her job, she lost her family, and she basically had to start all over again as the person she knew she always was but wasn’t really accepted,” says Sims, who was chief commissioner of the BC Human Rights Commission at the time.
The painful truth about being gay at Canada’s largest Christian university
By the time he enrolled in BC’s Christian evangelical university, Jacob was already deeply in the closet. Reluctantly, he’d admitted the truth to himself when he was 14. He liked boys. But he didn’t dare tell anyone in high school. How could he? His peers had threatened to kill him on the mere suspicion that he might be gay. “We hate everything about you and you better watch your back because we’re going to kill you on your way to school,” a fellow student messaged him online.
Universities Canada’s new policy could be bad news for Trinity Western
Some queer Trinity Western University (TWU) alumni hope Universities Canada’s new commitment to non-discrimination will have consequences for their alma mater. Universities Canada, an association representing 97 Canadian public and private not-for-profit universities, including TWU, has voted to adopt new non-discrimination requirements for membership.
Meet two queer women in the Indian music industry
“I think every DJ starts by being at a party and thinking, ‘I could do better than this DJ,’” Los Angeles-based producer Maieli says with a laugh. “It’s always been a way to express myself and express my duality, because I mix all those things together. I mix Indian music and Latin music and hip hop, and things that are American, because that’s who I am.” For her part, musician MTooray, who also calls Los Angeles home, feels powerful when she plays the dhol.
Gay man assaulted on way to vigil for Orlando
Dallas Groot was working through a mixture of emotions as he made his way towards the Vancouver vigil for the Orlando shooting victims on June 12, 2016. He was angry and heartbroken about the attack at Pulse nightclub but uplifted by the community’s outpouring of support and solidarity in response to a crisis, uplifted by how quickly the community organizes in times of struggle.
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