Vic Parsons (born 1942) is a retired Canadian journalist and author based in

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. Th ...

. 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'' (2019). Series writer and creator

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called Parsons’ book a “detailed, compassionate and personal account of the tainted blood tragedy.” Bad Blood was shortlisted for the

Gordon Montador Award The Gordon Montador Award was a Canadian literary award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to honour non-fiction writing on social issues. Created in 1991 in memory of book editor and publisher Gordon Montador,"Award announced". ''The Globe ...

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 Expectations: Charles Dickens' Son in North America'' (2014). As a journalist, Parsons worked for about three decades with news wire services in Canada and also freelanced for

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, and the

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, among others. He served as National Business Editor for the

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in Toronto from 1981 to 1983 and Deputy Bureau Chief at CP Ottawa from 1983 to 1988. He is the author of some prize-winning short stories, including '' Fabricio’s Bridge'', awarded first prize for short story fiction by The Victoria Writers’ Society in 2014. He wrote travel stories from Spain and South Africa for the Canadian Press and filed several stories from the world AIDS conference at Durban, South Africa in 2000.

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