The fallout continues after border guards flagged prints of three films destined for a gay film festival in Ottawa Nov 20. Inside Out was able to find screeners of all three movies, although they had to resort to lower-quality watermarked DVDs instead of the celluloid films tied up at the border. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) wouldn’t allow the prints into the country until they watched them and greenlighted the content. The week after the festival was over, they approved the films.

On the eve of pivotal health care meetings between Canada's premiers, with critics calling on provinces to unite against Conservative cuts, B.C. premier Christy Clark and five other provincial leaders toured a new Victoria hospital wing, speaking to reporters of medical innovation and inter-provincial cooperation…Following a roundtable on public health care held yesterday, Libby Davies, Vancouver-East Member of Parliament and the New Democratic Party (NDP) health critic, said Canadians expect more leadership from Ottawa. “The Canada Health Act is a federal act,” Davies told the Vancouver Observer. “There is a key federal role that has to be adhered to.