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CBSA has updated their policy concerning trans* and intersex people pulled aside for strip searches. Maybe everyone else knows about this already, but it was news to me.

From http://www.lfpress.com/news/canada/2011/12/07/19090066.html

Canada Border Services Agency issued a directive in August telling officers that transsexual and intersexed individuals can choose whether a man or a woman will search them. Or they can opt for a "split search," notes the directive, which involves two sets of border services officers - one all male, the other all female.

"The first set completes the search of the upper body while leaving the lower body clothed," says the directive. "The individual is then permitted to fully dress, and is turned over to a second set of BSOs of the opposite sex to conduct the search of the lower body, while the upper body remains clothed."

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Rainbow Health Ontario (RHO) is recruiting 1 Community Outreach Worker 
(Part-time -10 hours per month)     
                

Deadline 5pm, Monday, August 1^st 2011

Rainbow Health Ontario (RHO) is a program committed to improving access to services and promoting the health and wellbeing of our lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) communities.

We are currently recruiting an Outreach Worker in: 

LHIN 11          Champlain, which includes Renfrew County, the City of Ottawa, Prescott                                     & Russell, and Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry.

To identify which LHIN you are in and to find out more about the new structure of health care in Ontario, please refer to, www.lhins.on.ca

To get more information and an application package, please go to http://www.RainbowHealthOntario.ca/home/whatsnew.cfm