#eugenics in canada

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Need Satisfactory Conditions to Grow," Kingston Whig-Standard. May 15, 1933. Page 9. ---- Mental Disorders Constitute One of the Great Social Problems ---- MONTREAL - Prevention of mental disorder and. delinquent and criminal behavior lies not in finding a new drug or growth but in providing satisfactory conditions for healthy mental growth and development -in recognizing and dealing with significant behavior deviations as they occur in the development period, and in the recognition and correct approach to adult individuals who are showing slight or serious personality or mental disturbances That this is a fundamental society problem was emphasized by Dr. W. T. B. Mitchell, director of the Mental Hygiene Institute, Inc., at the annual meeting here.

"Probably there is today no social problem which rivals it for seriousness and importance. Any organized medical or social work effort which is failing to provide satisfactory leadership or guidance in the sphere of mental health is seriously inadequate" Dr. Mitchell said. "Some degree of mental health is one of the most frequent causes of individual social failure. "Attempts to rehabilitate such individual social failures, except through an intelligent plan for treating the underlying conditions, are bound to be costly. wasteful and disappointing" he said. Nearly 900 cases were treated at the Montreal Mental Hygiene. Institute during past year. These included a wide scope of various new types such as suspected mental disease, mental depression, attempted, suicide. nervousness and fears, seclusiveness, sensitiveness. peculiar behavior, epilepsy and fainting spells, physical complaints enuresia, speech defect. suspected mental defect, school failure. unmarried mothers, social failure and martial maladjustment; stealing, temper tantrums, sex problems, truancy. disobedient, uncontrollable. mental health study, vocational guidance, and psychotic parents.

#montreal #mental hygiene #mental health #history of mental illness in canada #history of mental health #construction of mental illness #madness #eugenics in canada #great depression in canada #mental disease

[niconebula]

I need you guys to listen so bad, but I’m at least glad people on Twitter are starting to talk about this. The government of Canada is expanding Medically Assisted Death to cull the poor and disabled, and now suicidal and mentally ill (these are usually interchangeable of course here). It is EUGENICS and every single disabled rights organization is against it.

Disability payments are $1,200 a month. The average one bedroom apartment rent in the Greater Toronto Area (greatest pop. area by far here) is $2,000 a month. People with mental illnesses are on months long waitlists to get even a single publicly funded session. Weeks to get privately funded care which costs at least $200 a session. There is no housing here for disabled people. We are in one of the worst housing crises in the world right now.

Doctors are now offering MAiD unprompted to young suicidal people. This woman is 21, a health practitioner literally suggested she kill herself.

This is one of the worst Disability Rights Violations we’ve ever seen in Canada. The government is killing us because it is cheaper than funding healthcare, cheaper than giving people housing and food and basic human rights.

#canada #disability rights #eugenics #mental health #mental illness #maid canada #assisted death

[liminalweirdo]

In today's update of Canada Loves Eugenics, 10,064 people died in 2021 through medically assisted death in Canada, and while MAID supposedly exists to allow people with severe, incurable illnesses to die with dignity on their own terms, MAID is generally used because disabled and mentally ill people cannot access governmental assistance and are living in poverty.

The Canadian government is actively pushing poor, disabled people to death.

oh and by the way, Canada performs more organ transplants from MAID donors than any other country in the world.

"Six disability rights and religious advocates told Reuters that the pace of the planned changes to the assisted death framework in Canada brings additional risks of people opting for MAID because they are unable to access social services - the lack of which could exacerbate their suffering." - source

Anyway, it's basically like this: the USA has the Americans with Disabilities Act and Canada has MAID

#disability #ableism #canada loves eugenics #canpol #canada #maid #medical assistance in dying #human rights #disability rights #disability community #class war #eugenics

[anarchotahdigism]

So interesting how Canada has provided arms, training, military intelligence, and funding to the IOF for decades and during this latest wave of occupation atrocities and genocide, but people still are believing that Canada is somehow better than the US. Canadian military intelligence was key in developing the census data used to target as many Palestinans in Gaza as possible per strike. It was used to train their murderous "assassination factory" algorithm which is used to maximize kills per bomb. Canada's literally doing the same things and it's even doing the same propaganda of materially contributing to genocide while claiming to be working "behind the scenes" to stop it SO many of the so-called western governments are doing literally the exact same thing yet y'all think begging genociders to please stop by sending letters and calls is working if you think asking mass murderers to stop their actions can or will work, it's because you are willing to buy genocidal propaganda instead of rejecting it in favor of supporting militant action against genocide. It's telling that those voices most loudly and consistently urging & organizing all these petitions are white & unmasked in public. They're genociders who believe they're better because they don't like (some) war but they still like genocidal governments and committing genocide for personal pleasure.

Wear a mask and riot for Palestine.

#death to canada #death to america #death to israel #death to the west #death to settler colonialism #covid #wear a mask #eugenics #ableism #genocide

[oldshowbiz]

1972.

A member of the Sugar Shoppe lands the lead in Godspell with supporting players Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, and Martin Short.

#Eugene Levy #Gilda Radner #Martin Short #history of canadian comedy #toronto #canada #canadian #godspell

[enbycrip]

Another enormous and ongoing factor in “Canada is not a human rights paradise”; MAiD.

Canada legalised “medically assisted death” and what literally every disability rights group said would happen immediately proceeded to happen; they started offering it instead of care to disabled people.

Far from being limited to terminally ill people in intense pain, which is what they spoke about when pushing the policy, it’s now routinely offered to disabled and chronically ill people who are suffering *because they are living in poverty* and *unable to access the pretty basic care and assistance that would be needed for a decent quality of life.” They are currently expanding the programme to include mentally ill people because of course they are.

I know disabled and chronically ill Canadians who are living in tremendous poverty - like, crowdfunding food and heating in *Canadian winters* poverty - who speak continuously about the fact that every time they seek any form of government or public assistance, all they get is offered “assisted suicide.”

There is literally no way this is anything other than eugenicist genocide of disabled people. And no one seems to give a shit other than disabled people, because abled people *continuously* seem to believe that death is preferable to disability. They continuously and massively overestimate the suffering involved in, say, incontinence.

#eugenics #Canadian eugenics #medically assisted death #disabled #disableism #chronic illness #disability #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #because fucking Trudeau is pretty and tweets nice things #people keep saying Canada is woke and ignoring fucking this and ongoing indigenous genocide #disability isn’t death ffs and it hurts actual disabled people when it’s presented this way #disabled people are human #disabled people deserve to fucking live and that shouldn’t be fucking controversial

[newsfromstolenland]

the government might not be willing to give me enough disability support to move out of my parents' house, but at least they'll euthanize me

note: this is phrased to make you uncomfortable because it should. when the only options are poverty and death, you should be uncomfortable. when half my disability money goes to paying for medications, and the alternative is euthanasia, that's eugenics. I'm not planning on choosing death, but it shouldn't be my only way out of a life of poverty due to being disabled

#mine #disability #disabled #ableism #eugenics #medical assistance in dying #ableism tw #eugenics tw #canada

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Madeline was eight when her body started to rebel against the things she wanted it to do. She remembers being struck with blinding pain in her legs. She crumpled to the floor in the hallway of her family home and sobbed. Her parents took her to a doctor, who delivered a possible diagnosis: Her right leg was shorter than her left, and her spine curved from scoliosis. She never received treatment or therapy, and she does not know why. Madeline, who wanted to be an actress when she grew up, got used to dancing on sore legs.

Just before she started grade 5, she got mononucleosis. After that, she kept getting sick—colds, ear infections and coughs that dragged on. In her mid-teens, Madeline began to struggle with fatigue and weight gain. After high school, she moved to Quebec to study theatre. There, a new symptom arrived: chronic diarrhea, which sent her running to a toilet up to a dozen times a day.

Once she graduated from university, Madeline felt like her career as an actress was beginning to take off. She met with an agent and got her first professional headshots—black and white images showing off her impeccably straight teeth and dark eyes. She moved to British Columbia and starred in community theatre. That’s when she got mono again. Her health spiralled downward: body aches, an endless series of bladder and ear infections, exhaustion.

A doctor suggested a diagnosis: chronic fatigue syndrome, or myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). It’s a poorly understood condition that some researchers believe arrives in the wake of a virus like Epstein-Barr, which can cause mono. It’s unclear why ME only occurs in some people and what, if any, genetic factors contribute. With ME, the body never seems to recharge to full strength, leaving a person struggling with debilitating exhaustion; postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), which causes light-headedness; a racing heart; and other symptoms. With no cure or treatment, ME leaves many people confined to their homes; one study found that a quarter of people with ME are home-bound and, of those, about 15 percent are also bedridden.

In the two decades since her diagnosis, Madeline has not set foot on stage. Unable to work, she receives provincial government assistance for people with disabilities. But the money falls short of what she needs. Each year, she has fallen thousands of dollars further into debt.

Today, she is among the more than 1.4 million Canadians with disabilities who live in poverty. Many, like Madeline, receive some government support; despite that, 40 percent of Canadians with disabilities live below the poverty line. And people with disabilities often need more basic goods and services just to survive—things like mobility aids, home care, accessible housing and transportation, prescription drugs and health care services, not all of which are fully covered by Canada’s publicly funded health programs.

There is, however, one government-funded service available to some people living with disabilities: medical assistance in dying (MAID). Last year, the Canadian government voted to expand MAID laws to include people suffering with illness whose death is not imminent, like Madeline. This has put her in a quandary: She has government funding to die in comfort, but not enough to live at the same standard.

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#MAID #Disabled #Eugenics #Ableism #cdnpoli #canada #canadian news #canadian politics #canadian #chronic fatigue syndrome #myalgic encephalomyelitis #Health #Healthcare #Poverty #death tw

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Off topic for this blog but. . .

Medically assisted suicide is about giving terminally ill patients the choice to have a dignified death on their own terms when the only alternative is a long and painful death with countless complications that worsen the patient's suffering, with no conceivable chance of recovery.

It's not something that's meant to be used as an alternative to disability or poverty or any other social issue. Medically assisted suicide is a choice between one death vs another death, not between death vs actually looking at social issues and figuring out solutions to them.

#yes this is absolutely about canada's policies and use of medically assisted death as a form of eugenics #suicide tw #medically assisted suicide #medically assisted death

[northern-punk-lad]

Canada would rather kill off it’s own citizens than invest in its own healthcare

Like Canada has done so much damage to assisted dying campaigns around the world like they are having to explain they don’t want the Canadian system

#canada politics #geo politics #eugenics

[wanderingmind867]

Favorite SCTV Character? (I'll include as many as I can and see what comes from this):

#sctv #john candy #joe flaherty #eugene levy #andrea martin #martin short #comedy #tv #harold ramis #Apologies to all the cast members I missed #polls #tumblr polls #my polls #canada

[dissociatingdumbass]

Fuck Canada

#canada #healthcare #eugenics #assisted death #MAID #wtf?

[osmanthusoolong]

It’s pretty fucked up how many people are already acting like poor disabled people are just hysterical whiners when it comes to MAiD in Canada, like it’s just people being offended (those cripples! So touchy!) when their doctor brings it up to them that wouldn’t you rather just die? I mean, they were only asking, and it’s not like they have any kind of power over those whiners anyway. And besides, it’s not like MAiD is being used to substitute for actual social assistance or accessibility programs, those don’t exist. So it’s basically stupid to be angry that the state is enthusiastically happy to kill you, but definitely won’t help you live. Again, I’m gonna say: there have been multiple public cases of people emphatically saying they want to live, but are feeling coerced by their doctors, or outright dying because they can’t afford to live. Already. This isn’t those hysterical disabled people crying slippery slope, it is happening.

The other one that I’m seeing is so, so disgustingly insidious, and I’m seeing it from people who call themselves leftists often enough: the smear campaign claiming that the disabled people who are rightly, justifiably wary of the situation are just all Christian anti-choice conservatives. That it’s just evangelical pro-lifers saying that maybe disabled lives are worth saving. Well, I’ve never seen a single antichoicer say that under any circumstances, but I’ve definitely seen an awful lot of committed, active disabled leftists talking about how this is eugenics in action, and not a single one was any kind of Christian. And fucking yet. It’s always been depressing as hell to see how little most people give a shit about disabled people, but there’s always ways to keep disappointing, I guess.

#ableism #eugenics #Canada

[oldshowbiz]

August 1974.

Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, and Eugene Levy perform in Chicago for the very first time.

#Dan Aykroyd #Gilda Radner #Eugene Levy #Second City #history of canadian comedy #canada #chicago #before they were stars

[survivingcapitalism]

And yet stories describing just this — a system that does encourage the vulnerable to seek medical death — are coming fast and hard lately. A number of recent news articles have reported on Canadians who, driven by poverty and a lack of access to adequate health care, housing, and social services, have turned to the country’s euthanasia system. In multiple cases, veterans requesting help from Veterans Affairs Canada — at least one asked for PTSD treatment, another for a ramp for her wheelchair — were asked by case workers if they would like to apply for euthanasia.

[...]

As this article will show, in internal meetings, those close to the system have long talked openly about red flags that many people are choosing euthanasia because they’re not getting the “supports and cares” they need. The physicians in charge of the process not only know that this is happening, but they have discussed it in seminars, collected evidence, and then kept it quiet in public.

The safeguards promised by Trudeau and others to prevent vulnerable people from heading down the road to euthanasia turn out to be vague, pro forma, and easy to get around by doctor-shopping. And interviews with patients and their loved ones show that some of them, perhaps many, are making it to the end.

One of the greatest reasons for concern is the sheer scale of Canada’s euthanasia regime. California provides a useful point of comparison: It legalized medically assisted death the same year as Canada, 2016, and it has about the same population, just under forty million. In 2021 in California, 486 people died using the state’s assisted suicide program. In Canada in the same year, 10,064 people used MAID to die.

[...]

In fact, the evidence of abuse is there if advocates want to find it. The Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers, the leading organization of Canadian euthanasia providers, has sat on credible evidence by its own members that people are being driven to euthanasia by credit card debt, poor housing, and difficulties getting medical care. These are people who do have some sort of medical condition but in many cases are using them to check a box in the approval process, when the relief they are mainly seeking is from other forms of suffering. And the system is doing much more to help them down the path toward death than to protect them as the public was promised.

[...]

Justin Trudeau made a clear promise to the public: that nobody would receive MAID “because you’re not getting the supports and cares that you actually need.” But the CAMAP recordings plainly suggest that exactly this is happening, that euthanasia workers know it, and that they are acting with no urgency to stop it.

During the Q&A, no one in the seminar doubts that the stories are true. Nobody suggests strengthening the safeguards, alerting the public, or halting the system while the problem is worked out. Less than a decade into Canada’s experiment in medicalized death, with over 31,500 people dead, the speakers feebly propose to start collecting data.

The presenters clearly understand that what they are describing is a terrible moral problem. “Our silence is our complicity,” Gibb-Carsley writes on her last slide in a large font. But Gibb-Carsley and Kevin Reel do not present euthanasia driven by poverty as a problem for MAID. Actually, they suggest, it presents an opportunity to highlight the real problem: the inadequacy of the welfare state.

It’s as if the situation offers a silver lining. Reel excitedly talks about the problem as an “extraordinary lever” to lobby for improved welfare. Gibb-Carsley’s slideshow concludes, “trust in the evolution of this field of practice,” meaning the practice of euthanasia. “Your Assessments provide a rare opportunity to hear from the typically disenfranchised patients about their experiences.” The subtext of this sunny euphemism is that giving a voice to the voiceless will, for many, ultimately mean killing them.

[...]

According to an internal study of MAID assessments, presented to CAMAP in 2022, of 54 patients who were not terminally ill, two-thirds had concurrent mental illness. A fifth of the patients had difficulty finding “appropriate” treatment. And, most disturbingly, over a third of patients were “not offered appropriate / available treatments.”

[...]

From Rosina, Les, Mary, Nancy, Greg, Lucy, and so many others across Canada, what we hear are the cries of people in despair asking for help. Just a few years ago they would have been textbook candidates for what a just society would say: Your life has value. In Canada today they hear something else: Your death will be beautiful.

#Cdnpoli #MAiD #Eugenics #Canada

[auressea]

#ShowMeTheMoney 

#BudgetTheBenefit

Why the Canada Disability Benefit Matters:

People with disabilities in Canada are twice as likely to live in poverty than those without a disability.

Persons with a disability make up 41 per cent of the low‑income population in Canada.

People with disabilities are three times more likely to experience food insecurity

Our Demands

Bill C-22 for a Canada Disability Benefit needs to be passed into law this Spring 2023.

People with disabilities must be engaged in designing the benefit and implementing it in their province.

The Canada Disability Benefit must be Budgeted in 2023 and be adequate enough to lift people with disabilities out of poverty.

@allthecanadianpolitics

#living with chronic conditions #disability rights #social model of disability #Canada!FAIL #poverty #so called 'canada' #nothing about us without us #Bill C-22 #eugenics is bad actually #current events #canadian news #please help #direct action #budgetthebenefit