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Janelle Brennand Armstrong
@janelleba.bsky.social
She/her🏳️‍🌈. Policy wonk🍁🇨🇦. Feminist. Settler. Treaty person. Anti-racist. Abortion & reproductive rights advocate. Striving to be an ally 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿. Views my own. https://www.thehonesttalk.ca/honest-thoughts/my-recurrent-miscarriages-made-me-even-more-pro-choice/
Reposted by Janelle Brennand Armstrong
This superb, insightful documentary tells Gaetan's story.
It's a must see if you wish to know more about the "Patient Zero" story that so unjustly vilified him.
I was young gay man living in Vancouver's West End, so moved to remember so many friends we had in common.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Gg...
Killing Patient Zero | Full Film | TVO Documentary
YouTube video by TVO Docs
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March 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Thank you so much for sharing this. I am watching it now, and just got to the part where it explains that “Patient O (which stood for “Out of California”) was misinterpreted as “Patient 0 (“zero”). It’s so incredibly painful to watch. I can’t believe I am only hearing of this story today. Thank you!
March 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Thank you for sharing this story. I had never heard of Gaëtan Dugas, or how he was the victim of such stigma and misinformation. His contribution to the fight against HIV/AIDS is a wonderful legacy that deserves to be shared widely.
March 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I am so sorry 💔
March 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
FYI, for clarity — while Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) does fund pay equity projects (e.g., WAGE has funded the New Brunswick Coalition for Pay Equity), pay equity within the core public administration, RCMP and CAF is being led by Treasury Board Secretariat, not WAGE. Here is more info:
Pay Equity - Canada.ca
Ongoing updates on the implementation of the Public Sector Equitable Compensation Act and Regulations will be posted on this website.
www.canada.ca
March 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
March 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I’m glad I’m not alone! I agree with everything he said, but the fact that he felt the need to leave us with a final message of “rising to every occasion”, “always having each other’s backs” and “always being Canadian” - gah. Definitely felt like a “trust me, I know how bad this really is” moment 😳
March 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM