Sue Johanson (1930 to 2023) was a Canadian registered nurse who became one of North America's best known sex educators. After graduating from nursing school in Winnipeg she raised a family in North York, then in 1970 opened a birth control clinic at Don Mills Collegiate Institute in Toronto, the first of its kind in Canada, and coordinated it for eighteen years. She went on to study counselling, family planning and human sexuality and hosted a call-in radio programme and then the television series Sunday Night Sex Show, later broadcast to American audiences as Talk Sex with Sue Johanson. She wrote three books and a weekly health column for the Toronto Star. Her work on birth control and sexual health earned her appointment to the Order of Canada in 2001, and a 2022 documentary, Sex with Sue, told her life story.
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was a Canadian registered nurse and sex educator
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was a Canadian registered nurse and sex educator
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In 1970, Johanson opened a birth control clinic in Don Mills CI high school, the first of its kind in Canada.
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