“For me, identifying as bisexual, it’s more of me wanting to stand as an ally with the rest of the LGBT community,” said a research participant during an interview about Canadian Blood Service’s donor screening questionnaire.   I listened from the other side of the computer screen as the participant described her views on the blood donation rules. Currently, males are not allowed to donate blood if they have had sex with a man in the last three months. A similar rule also applies to females who have had sex with a man who has had sex with a man. I took notes as the research participant then

The constant whirring and buzz of a research lab is jarring at first, but it eventually becomes a comforting white noise. The machines making the noise are, after all, the same machines that provide many of the intriguing results and unique observations in scientific experiments. “These are our centrifuges, this is the spectrophotometer, that's the LORCA, the hemox analyzer sits over there…”. At first, I hardly knew what the words in the names of these seemingly complicated technologies meant. What I did know about those machines though, was that they would be crucial tools that I would

Until May 16, 2022, there is an open call for nominations for Canadian Blood Services Lifetime Achievement Award 2022. The award will be presented later in the year at Canadian Blood Services’ Honouring Canada’s Lifeline event, an annual event during which the organization honours individuals and groups for their outstanding achievements or dedication to Canada’s Lifeline. Who can be nominated? To be nominated for the Canadian Blood Services Lifetime Achievement Award, an individual must have contributed significantly to improving the safety and/or quality of blood, blood products, stem cells