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Safety, whether illusory or real, has been at the heart of recent public debates, both on the local and country-wide scale. Now, with Bill C-31, another blow to the safety of GLBT refugees is about to be dealt by the Conservatives. AGIR has launched a campaign to raise awareness about the bill, which could retract refugee status from successful LGBT claimants, as it threatens to become law later this week.

In an age where our surroundings and our relationship to them are reduced to “Liking” and posting on peoples’ “Walls”, it is a relief to see a photographer taking a path that diverges from the rule of immediate comprehensibility, and strives to express something more poetic. Simmons’ Personae + Trois Battements with José Navas opens January 7th, 2012 at Galerie Dentaire.

A coalition of Montréal organizations is hosting a book launch on Thursday November 24th for the recently released AK Press title Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith. QPIRG Concordia -1500 de Maisonneuve O. suite 204, Thursday November – 24th, 6:30pm

The Omnibus Crime Bill C-10 is poised to set Canada back and undo decades of legislation and social services that truly prevent crime and build safer communities. The Bill will focus on petty crime, and further criminalize and imprison vulnerable people, such as queers, HIV positive people, and First Nations. Forget the Box staff writer Ethan Cox looked at how IT COULD GET WORSE if Bill C-10 is allowed to pass.