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Gabrielle Peters @mssinenomine.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

MUST READ. @cfraz.bsky.social just published a paper documenting her experiences during her 2-yr engagement w the Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors & Providers [CAMAP]. It is damning. Plausible deniability is off-the-table for those at helm of MAID. No paywall cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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ABLEISM ENTRENCHED: Inside the Pedagogical Politics of Canada’s MAiD Curriculum

This article seeks to illuminate the chasm that exists between the promise of a stringent, humane and equitable MAiD regime and the actual realities of MAiD for non-dying persons [known as Track 2, or...

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Gabrielle Peters @mssinenomine.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

It may be St. Patrick's Day but right now today belongs to Scotland! Way to bloody go Scotland! Tears of relief for you all. Raising my glass to toast your victory. And raising my fist. May your glorious victory defeating th3e death zealots be the first of many. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

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Assisted dying rejected by Scotland after landmark bill fails

The Holyrood vote on Liam McArthur’s bill means the terminally ill will not be allowed to end their lives on the NHS

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Catherine Frazee @cfraz.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

If you are in Ontario with access to TVO, don’t miss this outstanding #disability rights film by Reid Davenport. This Sunday on air at 9 PM Eastern.

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Catherine Frazee @cfraz.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Highly recommend Reid Davenport‘s groundbreaking #Disability film if you are in reach of the Vancouver film festival on Saturday, October 4 on Sunday, October 5.

Poster promoting the film Life After at the Vancouver International Film Festival October 4 & 5, 2025

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 18/04/2025

UN disability rights report on Canada deserves a fair hearing canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/04/17/u... by @cfraz.bsky.social 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

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UN disability rights report on Canada deserves a fair hearing

Disability rights defenders in Canada are watching.

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Inclusion Canada @inclusioncanada.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We echo @cfraz.bsky.social op-ed in asking party leaders to clarify their position on the #CRPD committee's concluding observations report. The committee was clear in its rejection of Track 2 #MAiD - our elected officials owe Canadians an answer. Read the full op-ed here: bit.ly/3Ypvx2h

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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Reflexive cynicism aside, this is the kind of political theater I've been wishing Democrats would engage in FOR YEARS. Good. Good. Good. Good. Watch it. Reward it. Let them know you want more of it.

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Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker

YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

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Catherine Frazee @cfraz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This entire thread is excellent. An accurate recounting of the CRPD report and what it reveals about #disability and MAiD in Canada.

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Catherine Frazee @cfraz.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It is not for lack of effort on the part of #disability rights defenders that this watershed report is not being covered in Canadian press. Congrats to Meagan Gillmore for breaking through the wall of newsroom indifference. www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/03/30/e...

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‘Extremely concerned’: UN tells Canada to stop Track 2 MAID UN tells Canada to stop Track 2 MAID

A UN committee has recommended Canada stop offering MAID for people whose deaths are not reasonably foreseeable

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Catherine Frazee @cfraz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

An excellent overview from @readtheorchard.org of this week's landmark CRPD report and the deadly ableism of Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying regime. That report calls for abolition of Track 2 MAiD because it violates the rights of people with #Disabilities open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

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UN committee urges Canada to abolish MAiD for people with disabilities

Plus, Canada continues exporting weapons to Israel through the U.S.

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

"This is huge" is overused on here, but it is huge that the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has called on Canada to repeal Track 2 MAID, assisted dying for disabled people not at the end of their lives.

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Catherine Frazee @cfraz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Canada's #disability rights defenders have struggled for years to resist expansion of #euthanasia beyond end-of-life conditions. Finally today, a breakthrough at the UN. Canada's #MAiD regime violates the #CRPD. See paragraphs 19-20 of downloadable UN report. tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/...

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Martha Albertson Fineman @mlafineman.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

One must continue to imagine Sisyphus happy …

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Martha Albertson Fineman @mlafineman.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

After this weekend, I feel it’s time to post this again.

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Catherine Frazee @cfraz.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Important documentary airing this Tuesday (March 25) on PBS. A timely reminder of the solidarity that #disability rights defenders worldwide share with our American sisters and brothers. The inherent dignity and resilience of #crip lives extends across all boundaries of nation and era.

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Catherine Frazee @cfraz.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

A deeply unsettling perspective here, but one that merits serious discussion. Several of the embedded links are also very sobering and worthy of our attention. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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Opinion: If you want peace, prepare for war – an ancient lesson Canada must remember

President Trump wants to take our land. And the risk of that happening is higher if we pretend it doesn’t exist

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Lawrence Carter-Long @lcarterlong.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

While curb cuts, captions on TV screens, and braille on elevator buttons seem commonplace today, it took the work of dedicated activists and elected officials to get us there. #ChangeNotCharity: THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT premieres Tues, March 25 at 9/8c on PBS. #disability #disabled

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Catherine Frazee @cfraz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

MAiD was a major focus at UN formal review of Canada's CRPD compliance - 6 hours of in-depth questioning by world experts in disability rights. This recording is cued to the pointed interrogation by Australia's Rosemary Kayess, who wasn’t buying Canada's canned responses webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1n...

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768th Meeting, 32nd Session, Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

Consideration of Canada

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Disability Justice Network of Ontario @djno.ca · 10/03/2025

Friends, the UN is taking a look at Canada's record on disability rights internationally & nationally—from Canada's Arms Sales to Israel, seclusion in school, chasms in accessible housing, & MAiD targeting us all. Check out some of the submissions: djno.ca/international-work

On the same blue background, a circular version of the Palestinian flag with the title in white next to it: Canadian International Violations Submission. Below, centered text in white font reads: "This submission illustrates how Canada's persistent shortcomings in this regard negatively impact people with disabilities abroad. Specifically, Canada’s failure to adequately regulate the arms exports that help enable Israel’s atrocities in Gaza contributes to serious violations of the rights of people with disabilities. … Partially discontinuing direct arms exports to Israel, while continuing to allow exports to Israel’s primary arms supplier free of any oversight or control, is inadequate to discharge Canada's obligations under the CRPD. As a group of UN experts, including various Special Rapporteurs, Independent Experts and UN Working Groups, emphasized in a statement of 20 June 2024, the obligation to cease military exports to Israel extends to “indirect transfers through intermediary countries that could ultimately be used by Israeli forces, particularly in the ongoing attacks on Gaza.”

On the same blue background, a circular version of the Palestinian flag with the title in white next to it: National Disability Org. Submission. Below, centered text in white font reads: Our Report provides a response to most articles of the CRPD within the context of the List of Issues for Canada, Canada’s Report, and the 2017 Concluding Observations on the initial report of Canada. Our Report highlights key concerns of disability communities. Through community discussions, the following five areas were identified as prevalent needs shared throughout this Report:
Need to abolish harmful policies and laws that violate the CRPD, including: institutionalization, seclusion, segregation, restraints, forced treatment, and Track 2 MAiD for people with disabilities who are not dying;
Need to increase individualized funding and availability of services and supports to ensure that people with disabilities can live with dignity and independence in communities of their choice;
Need for all levels of government (federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal) to increase and coordinate their measures to implement CRPD rights;
Need for more meaningful involvement and participation of diverse disability communities and organizations of persons with disabilities in the development of disability-related laws, policies, programs and services; and
Need to collect and disaggregate data on a variety of disability rights issues, and make the data publicly available.

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Catherine Frazee @cfraz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

FAIFA’s cogent 32-page UN submission, titled "Women with Disabilities, Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) and Canada's Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Articles 5, 6, 8 & 10", can be downloaded here tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/...

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Catherine Frazee @cfraz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

A watershed week for disability rights in Canada, beginning with a powerful expression of solidarity from the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAIFA). fafia-afai.org/wp-content/u...

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Senator Kim Pate @kpateonthehill.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

🇨🇦 needs to ensure its response to Trump's #tariffs offer resilient, sustainable support to those most impacted and stabilize our economy. #GLBI can do just that, not only in times of crisis, but all of the time. #SenCA #CdnPoli #CdnMedia

A pile of ripped newspaper headings fades into a dark purple background. There is white text that reads “US-CAN Tariffs: Why Canada needs a GUARANTEED LIVABLE BASIC INCOME now more than ever.”

A dark purple background with white headings and light purple text that reads “What is a tariff? A tariff is a tax that one country places on another country’s goods. Here, it means that anyone who wants to bring Canadian products into the USA will have to pay more every time they bring those goods across the border. This will likely result in less Canadian goods being imported, putting Canadian jobs at risk” and “What is a GLBI? A guaranteed livable basic income (GLBI) is a social support that creates an income floor, ensuring that no one is forced into poverty. GLBI would ‘top up’ anyone whose income falls below that threshold. It could take many forms, such as income tax adjustments or GST/HST tax credit expansions, to name a few.”

A dark purple background with white headings and light purple text that reads “What tariffs did the US impose? The USA imposed 25% tariffs on virtually all Canadian imports and 10% tariffs on imported Canadian energy. This is going to hurt Canadians and Americans alike. The last tariff war between Canada and the USA was from June 2018 - May 2019. Since July 2020, the USA and Canada have been trading under the USMCA, which is up for renewal in 2026” and “How is Canada responding? Canada has announced retaliatory tariffs of 25% on $30 billion worth of imported American goods, increasing to $155 billion over the next 21 days. Canada is still considering other non-tariff options. Canada has previously indicated that it would look to support employees impacted by tariffs, such as through adjusting the employment insurance criteria. However, no concrete safety net for employees has yet been put forward.”

A dark purple background with white subheadings and light purple text that reads “How would GLBI help? GLBI would: Offer stability, both to Canadians and our economy as a whole; Ensure people are able to afford the necessities, even if their job is impacted by the tariffs; Stimulate local economies, which would have ripple affects bottom-up; Provide sustainable support to Canadians in this crisis and beyond” and “How can I help promote GLBI? Contact your representatives at all levels and community leaders to urge them to advocate for GLBI; Teach your family and friends about GLBI and how it could help; Join your local basic income advocacy group; Share this post to spread the word and correct mis/disinformation about these new tariffs and how GLBI should be the solution!”

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Catherine Frazee @cfraz.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

“Putin can’t win on the ground, but he can win in his enemies’ heads—if we let him.”

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Abi Stevens MCM Ldn R-12 @abistevensart.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

"Concern about being a burden to others is something that is used as a lever for manipulating some of the most caring and kind among us by some of the most selfish, vile and cruel among us." #DisabilityRights

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

"Tests of AI empathy typically don’t compare a chatbot’s cold comfort with the kind of socially embedded care that truly nourishes us. If they did, the chatbots would lose."

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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

This incredible speech : We will not go back to the margins!” - Carla Antonelli, of the Spanish leftist party Sumar 🏳️‍⚧️ part 1

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Catherine Frazee @cfraz.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

“Trump’s bad ideas must be countered with good ones… This is an extremely difficult kind of resistance to muster because it calls for clear thought & inspired vision just when the onslaught of bad ideas, and the anxiety they engender, make it so difficult to think clearly & envision a future.” YES!

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. @karaswisher.bsky.social discusses Elon Musk's goals in government — and the factors that have led to his radicalization. open.spotify.com/episode/5GXG...

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What Elon Musk Wants

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Lawrence Carter-Long @lcarterlong.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

THRILLED TO DISCOVER #LifeAfter by #ReidDavenport has been awarded the U.S. #Documentary Special Jury Award at #Sundance2025! This powerful doc shines cinematic light on #disability, healthcare, and assumptions about quality of life. It deserves every accolade. 🏆 #Film #DisabilityFilm

An image promoting "Life After," a documentary by Reid Davenport, which received the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The image features a protester holding a handmade sign that reads, "Assisted Suicide: the World's Cheapest Healthcare," at a protest outside a govt building, emphasizing the film's focus on critical "quality of life" assumptions and how they influence healthcare issues.

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Disposable Humanity @disposablehumanity.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Screening times for the World Premiere of Disposable Humanity are as follows: Showings – Fri, Feb 21st, 7:15 PM @ LA Times Theater Sat, Feb 22nd, 5:30 PM @ Summer & David Theater Address: 1011 N Fuller Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90046 slamdance2025.eventive.org/films/6761ae...

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Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

If you're in Ottawa, you'll want to come to this! Organized by @jennifervevans.bsky.social and compatriots!

Poster with black and white image of a shirtless skinny white person with a beard, moustache and balck cap sitting on the lap of a tattooed, shirtless skinny white person with short dark hair who is sitting in an advanced wheelchair. Behind them are photos on a white wall. The text reads: DISBAILITY JUSTICE AND QUEER CRIP ART CURATION With Author and Curator Kenny Fries. 23.01.2025. Begins at 4PM | Dunton Tower 2017, Carleton University. In partnership with the Department of History, Cultural Mediations, and the School for Studies
in Art and Culture, join Kenny Fries for an evening discussing the intersections between queer and disability histories. We will explore depictions of "the perfect body" in queer communities,
and how individuals who identify as both queer and disabled have been integrating these histories through art. MORE INFORMATION: FIONNUALABRAUN@CMAIL.CARLETON.CA

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Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I wrote an open letter to my local MP. Please consider doing this too: #AssistUsToLive www.thecanary.co/opinion/2024...

Image reads: on November 22 to the 29 tag your MP and share why you're against assisted dying! Let's tell them why it's personal! #assistustolive

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