@emmabern.bsky.social
Prof, droit/law, uOttawa, Chaire de recherche du Canada/Canada research chair, approche critique du droit et de la justice/critical approach to law and justice, recherche-action et engagée. I focus on coercive psychiatric practices.
Excellent article from Rob Wipond on the rate of psychiatric detention in Canada.
« Canada holds people against their will at a rate that’s 40 per cent higher than Australia, 80 per cent higher than Germany, twice the rate in Finland and the Netherlands, and triple the rate in England. »
who owns the oil and gas industry in Canada?
the American oil and gas industry
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Some of the most chilling 2 minutes you've ever seen. Look at what's being said, openly, on one of the most popular TV channels in Israel.
History is happening in front of our eyes. Don't look away.
Please help share this widely.
Read the full story here: zeteo.com/p/inside-the...
Laughs out loudly in Norwegian- yeah right 😆
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Over 450 homeless people died in B.C. in 2023, according to coroner; 1,940 have died on the streets since 2016. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca #homelessness #ToxicDrugCrisis
08.03.2025 03:48 — 👍 24 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 3Hey @royalsociety.org what are Elon Musk's qualifications for being a member of United Kingdom's national academy of sciences? 🤔🤔
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Also this w/ @zoedodd.bsky.social discussing how propaganda helped us arrive at this moment.
There were opportunities to slow it down but national newspapers have played their role. 12/
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Lots of historical info for anyone not yet familiar with it.
06.02.2025 11:08 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Thanks! It is awful.
24.01.2025 01:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The court systematically ignores people's experiences and preferences, and issues ECT orders that leave a lot of power to psychiatrists. The next step is to document people experiences.
24.01.2025 00:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Practices are different from province to province, but forced ECT seems to be possible everywhere. What our Quebec study shows is that the information documents are incomplete, and that the Guidelines for physicians are ambiguous about the requirement to obtain consent for each ECT session.
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After Donald Trump suggested he might take over Greenland by force, the consensus among Greenlanders appears to be bewilderment and anxiety: “This is all getting scary.”
08.01.2025 17:12 — 👍 479 🔁 73 💬 82 📌 24Happy to share this new publication!
To Consent and to Refuse Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Study of Consent Documents and Court Orders in the Province of Quebec, Canada
With Audrey Ferron Parayre & Delphine Gauthier-Boiteau
ProPublica has released a series of remarkable reports on the horrors of homelessness, illuminating more evidence of how we inflict deep, exceptionally cruel, and systemic violence against already vulnerable people. It doesn't have to be this way.
projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...
![Image of excerpts from news article:
The Globe and Mail
Immigration department received intelligence about huge rise in clandestine US-Canada border crossings last year
[…] The CBSA briefing says that since the border crossing at Roxham Road in Quebec was closed in 2023, stopping people immediately claiming asylum with a change to the Safe Third Country Agreement with the U.S., there has been a big increase in people clandestinely crossing the border into Canada.
“Clandestine entry into Canada has grown exponentially since the implementation of the Additional Protocol (AP) to the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA),” says the report entitled “Illicit Between the Ports (BTP) movements: April to September 2023.”
[…] The CBSA intelligence report sheds light on how foreign nationals from particular countries are crossing the border clandestinely from the U.S. into Canada.
It says “human smuggling services are extensive for clandestine entries” and that payments “for end to end services” range from $3,200 to $45,000. People crossing illegally use smuggling networks which vary in sophistication, it says, and the migrants using them are placed in vulnerable situations and often exploited. The routes used to smuggle people are “often very dangerous” and can result in “bodily harm and or death.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7v5ioahjpvxy2mojphfxxtij/bafkreieqv53zr7yenrjyexs4hyalcu7wacxsju6hgseixl5espjca55oba@jpeg)
Image of excerpts from news article: The Globe and Mail Immigration department received intelligence about huge rise in clandestine US-Canada border crossings last year […] The CBSA briefing says that since the border crossing at Roxham Road in Quebec was closed in 2023, stopping people immediately claiming asylum with a change to the Safe Third Country Agreement with the U.S., there has been a big increase in people clandestinely crossing the border into Canada. “Clandestine entry into Canada has grown exponentially since the implementation of the Additional Protocol (AP) to the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA),” says the report entitled “Illicit Between the Ports (BTP) movements: April to September 2023.” […] The CBSA intelligence report sheds light on how foreign nationals from particular countries are crossing the border clandestinely from the U.S. into Canada. It says “human smuggling services are extensive for clandestine entries” and that payments “for end to end services” range from $3,200 to $45,000. People crossing illegally use smuggling networks which vary in sophistication, it says, and the migrants using them are placed in vulnerable situations and often exploited. The routes used to smuggle people are “often very dangerous” and can result in “bodily harm and or death.”
Oh, look: The thing that Canadian immigration law experts said would happen, happened
Closing safe routes for asylum seekers doesn't reduce the number of asylum seekers. It increases irregular movement, enriches smugglers & puts lives at risk
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
