Vic Parsons (writer)
Vic Parsons (born 1942) is a retired Canadian journalist and author based in Victoria, British Columbia. His latest book is ''Bad Blood: The Unspeakable Truth (2019)'', which is about the infection of the Canadian blood supply with HIV and Hepatitis C in the 1980s and 1990s. This is a revised and updated edition of his first book on the subject, ''Bad Blood: The Tragedy of the Canadian Tainted Blood Scandal (1995)'', which formed the basis for the 8-part CBC docudrama, ''Unspeakable (TV series), Unspeakable'' (2019). Series writer and creator Robert C. Cooper called Parsons’ book a “detailed, compassionate and personal account of the tainted blood tragedy.” Bad Blood was shortlisted for the Gordon Montador Award for Canadian social policy in 1995 and for the Ottawa-Carleton Non-fiction award in 1996. Parsons is also the author of ''Ken Thomson: Canada's Enigmatic Billionaire'' (1996) and a piece of historical fiction based on the life of Francis Dickens entitled ''Lesser Ex ...
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Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Greater Victoria area has a population of 397,237. The city of Victoria is the 7th most densely populated city in Canada with . Victoria is the southernmost major city in Western Canada and is about southwest from British Columbia's largest city of Vancouver on the mainland. The city is about from Seattle by airplane, seaplane, ferry, or the Victoria Clipper passenger-only ferry, and from Port Angeles, Washington, by ferry across the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Named for Queen Victoria, the city is one of the oldest in the Pacific Northwest, with British settlement beginning in 1843. The city has retained a large number of its historic buildings, in particular its two most famous landmarks, the Parliament Buildings (finished in 1897 and home of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia ...
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