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How does Ontario respond to people in crisis — and how should it?
Friday, June 26th, 2020
… a big part of this new model has to be better mental-health care in general, so fewer people end up getting to that crisis point in the first place. The current model produces tragic outcomes, yes, but it also doesn’t work for a lot of people who never have a tragic outcome, per se, but need help they don’t get. And this is especially true with racialized or otherwise marginalized communities.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, mental Health, multiculturalism
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Police shouldn’t be answering mental-health calls
Thursday, June 25th, 2020
At this point… there’s no excuse for politicians to refuse to act… there are models elsewhere that could usefully provide direction. One that’s receiving lots of attention… involves teams of medical professionals and crisis workers responding directly to calls involving people in mental crisis, and rarely has to resort to police backup.
Tags: mental Health, multiculturalism
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We need to take Canada’s approach to drug addiction and burn it to the ground
Friday, June 19th, 2020
… as policies go, prohibition and jail time have been utter failures as deterrents. Mr. Perrin, the author of Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada’s Opioid Crisis, released this year, says politics – fear of a backlash from the electorate – have made our leaders afraid to do the right thing… this has allowed “an unregulated criminal underworld to dictate what is in the drugs that people are taking, forcing those people to play Russian roulette”
Tags: crime prevention, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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Clawing back pandemic pay for grocery workers is a grotesque, predictable outcome
Wednesday, June 17th, 2020
In normal times, callous, profit-centric corporate behaviour is not particularly remarkable. But one effect of the COVID-19 pandemic has been to amplify our society’s ugliest tendencies in a way that’s difficult to ignore. Clawing back an extra couple of dollars from grocery staff during a pandemic, while spuriously implying the risk is no longer there, transcends conventional ugliness to become distinctly grotesque.
Tags: economy, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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One year after a landmark report on violence against Indigenous women, we’re still waiting for action
Saturday, June 6th, 2020
The police remain a primary tool of enforcing colonial violence against Indigenous peoples, and government departments have been and continue to be agents for the colonization, assimilation and attempted erasure of Indigenous peoples… it is imperative that affected MMIWGT2S+ families and supportive grassroots organizations led by Indigenous women play a leading role in developing a plan to end that violence… They have the answers to what is required…
Tags: budget, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, women
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Ontario court throws out law barring self-induced intoxication as defence for sexual assault
Thursday, June 4th, 2020
… the higher court said the provision violated a bedrock principle that an accused must voluntarily break the law to be convicted. Deciding to get intoxicated doesn’t meet the threshold… “What must be voluntary is the conduct that constitutes the criminal offence charged”… The legislation failed, the Appeal Court said, because it was unlikely someone could know beforehand that, if they got drunk, they would lapse into a state of automatism and involuntarily commit violence.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, rights
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Pandemic proves value of guaranteed incomes
Saturday, May 9th, 2020
We know that we will emerge from this crisis with higher levels of unemployment than we have seen in two generations. We should be prepared for a winter ahead into which millions of Canadians will be headed broke, unemployed and close to despair… It might lead to the most transformational changes in today’s rich but increasingly divided and unequal economies since Bismarck invented the public pension system, nearly 140 years ago.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Mike Harris expanded the privatization of long-term care. Doug Ford is discovering that wasn’t a magic cure
Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
There is a contradiction in the criticisms of long-term care: We want to have it all for nothing — better beds but more of them; more quantity and more quality; single rooms with private bathrooms but without the wait lists; more for less… Today, in a pandemic cycle, beware the panaceas.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, privatization, standard of living
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Completing the promise of Medicare
Sunday, May 3rd, 2020
Because of COVID-19, millions more have now lost their jobs thereby losing access to private drug insurance programmes. If Canada already had universal Pharmacare, Canadians would be far better off in this current crisis… This begs the question of who is advocating for a national universal Pharmacare program within the current Liberal government… A coalition of the willing in Parliament, followed by a coalition of the willing among the provinces and territories that will eventually come to include them all.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Virtual care is booming amid COVID-19
Thursday, April 30th, 2020
… digital healthcare had been on the rise for a while. Infoway’s 2019 survey showed that “50 per cent of Canadians now report they can access at least one digital health service online, such as viewing their health information, making an appointment, or consulting with a health care provider.”“The way we’ve been practicing medicine for the last 100 years is changing,” says Tytus. “The days of brick and mortar physical medicine are going to be less and less important.”
Tags: budget, Health, mental Health, standard of living
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