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non-Canadians the political background (no social conversatives in either the government or opposition) that could have resulted in this fact pattern. A fact pattern that could likely never occur in the U.S., for example. I think the newspapers referred to how unique in the world this is, so why aren't we also acknowledging that? They have been identified as
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I have again reverted a change of all instances of "gay" and "LGBT" in the article to "male homosexual". The
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I'd guess that you're more or less right, but the larger context is changing. When I was young, all school textbooks presented police as male and nurses as female, and part of what happened in the 70s and 80s was police women and male nurses began appearing in a variety of contexts. Part of what
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Yes, I think you're right, especially since they were at the forefront of the issue of fosterage/adoption by same-sex couples. I'm digging around for some references. I think it should probably be moved from the first sentence ('they are a same-sex couple') to the second ('among the first couples
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Bear, you've softened it too far now. The current article suggests that Health issues is the main story. It's the curricula. Also, I don't see what was wrong with highlighting the secretive nature of the way the BC government had handled this. Also, I don't see what was wrong with explaining to
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I'm done for the night. I think that the details of the agreement need clarifying. Much of what is now in 'reaction' and 'religious freedom' should be pruned: this is, strictly speaking, an article about the
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