I felt both compelled and reluctant to email my friend Tracy Isaacs to express my dismay that she is on the program for the upcoming October conference of the Public Philosophy Network (PPN). The conference will take place in the epicenter of downtown Hamilton at a satellite campus of McMaster University that is located in […]
This Settler State Is Not the 51st State of America
Resources for National Truth and Reconciliation Day/Orange Shirt Day, September 30th
GENERAL National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Creating a Climate for Change (First Nations Health Alliance booklet) Lee Maracle on the Impact of Austerity on Indigenous Populations (video) First Nations Child and Family Caring Society Aboriginal People’s Television Network (APTN) Moving to Action: Activating UNDRIP in Canadian Museums (Canadian […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): On MAiD
This post is the first in a series that I am calling “Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday)”. For on many Thursdays henceforth, I will post a variously provocative, memorable, unforgettable, edgy, etc. passage or sentence (or maybe just a word) that I read somewhere–whether in an article or book, on social media […]
MAiD for Addicts and Mad People (Guest post)
MAiD for Addicts and Mad People by T. Virgil Murthy Months ago, I wrote an article for the Addict Collective blog titled “Does the 2024 MAiD Expansion Apply to Addicts?” I never published it—I reasoned it was probably unwise to remind the MAiD architects about our existence—but my confusion and worry steadily mounted. Press releases […]
Against Bioethics, Medically Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia
This post comprises a collection of (most of) my past posts about medically assisted suicide, the eugenic impetus of bioethics, and Bill C-7 in Canada. The posts are arranged chronologically in descending order beginning with the most recent relevant post from May 1.
The Disability Filibuster is Live!
The Disability Filibuster that I posted about on Sunday is now live. We were Zoom bombed twice shortly after we got started Monday evening and shut down temporarily. However, we were determined to resume as soon as the main organizers and media people at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), which has provided […]
The Carceral Character of Nursing Homes and How Eugenics in Canada is MAiD
This post comprises an excerpt from my article “Philosophy of Disability, Conceptual Engineering, and the Nursing Home-Industrial-Complex in Canada,” which is forthcoming in Philosophies of Disability and the Global Pandemic, a special issue of The International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies of which I am guest editor. Additional posts about nursing homes and about MAiD […]
CFP: Canadian Philosophical Perspectives: Diversity, Particularity, and Universality, Queen’s University, Mar. 21-22, 2020 (deadline: Feb. 6, 2020)
Keynote Speaker: Will Kymlicka Philosophy both relies upon and interrogates the norms, practices, institutions, and histories of the societies we inhabit. It seeks both to provide an ecumenical account of these social features and to pay close attention to questions facing particular societies. Philosophy in the Canadian context might thus face a dual mandate to […]
Do Disabled Canadians Vote?
A federal election is taking place in Canada today. All across the country, eligible voters will submit their ballots to determine the next federal government here. The months and weeks leading up to the election have been rife with controversies and scandals, including the SNC-Lavalin affair, Bill 21 in Quebec, and shocking revelations and photographs […]
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