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New Blog Post: “Commentary on the proposed federal Safe Long-Term Care Act: Between over-regulation and under-enforcement?” As of Sept 2025, the Federal government has not introduced the Safe Long-Term Care Act. Thx @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca mjlh.mcgill.ca/2025/10/08/p...
Commentary on the proposed federal Safe Long-Term Care Act: Between over-regulation and under-enforcement?
Contributed by Poland Lai, PhD Introduction  The purpose of this blog post is to provide a brief update on the development of a federal Safe Long-Term Care Act. Long Term Care (LTC) homes, als…
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The Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Health Equity and Community Wellbeing at @torontomet.bsky.social, DAWN Canada, and @atlasveteransca.bsky.social have released a new survey on women and gender-diverse people with disabilities accessing primary care in Canada.

Learn more: bit.ly/3LOeEeC
Survey Preamble and Consent
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January 15, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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Equality nerds! Joshua Sealy Harrington and I wrote a chapter on s 15 of the Charter for The Canadian Constitutional Law Open Access Casebook, 2nd ed (Richard Moon, Howard Kislowicz, and Asha Kaushal, eds), that is now available on SSRN as a handy reference: ssrn.com/abstract=603....
Equality Rights
<span>This chapter provides an overview of equality rights under s. 15 of the </span><i>Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms</i><span>, including notes
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January 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Online #SexualHarassment mirrors street harassment, restricting women’s freedom and forcing self-censorship.

Elon Musk’s AI tool #Grok perpetuates this harm by enabling abuse and dehumanising women and young people.

Learn more about digital violence here: https://ow.ly/gTpN50XU0Cv
Power off: How feminism can combat digital violence - Transforming Society
The editors of the Journal of Gender-Based Violence argue that digital violence against women extends offline patriarchal abuse and demands urgent feminist action and accountability.
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January 10, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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Sukaina Dada is a pediatric occupational therapist and Chief Executive Officer of SMILE Canada – Support Services.

Her new book, Untold Stories of Disablement and Displacement: Syrian refugees in Canada, centers the stories of Syrian refugees with disabilities.

Check it out: bit.ly/49rngjb!
January 5, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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🎥 A powerful video exposing ageism in health care—& calling health professionals to deliver care with dignity at every stage of life.

Watch here: https://cstu.io/8c63c7

#EndAgeism #HealthEquity #OlderAdultsMatter
January 3, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Dec. 3 is International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a day to promote #disability justice, dignity, and well-being.

For #IDPD2025 learn how the @edid-ghdi.bsky.social team is working to better understand the experiences and stories of women with disabilities: bit.ly/4rF66Hi
December 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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NEW✨ Our social care systems are failing the most vulnerable.

@arlenejackson.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social reviews Care Poverty and Unmet Needs ed. Teppo Kröger, Nicola Brimblecombe @cpeclse.bsky.social, Ricardo Rodrigues and @profkirstein.bsky.social

#DisabilityHistoryMonth #UKDHM
Our social care systems are failing the most vulnerable - LSE Review of Books
Care Poverty and Unmet Needs brings together twenty-seven social policy researchers to analyse “care poverty: inadequate and unequal social care provision.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
On #InternationalDayOfPersonswithDisabilities I invite you to check out my research project site. My research summaries are availabile in American Sign Language and French sign language: profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/lai...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Happy to see my book review of The welfare of future children: reproductive ethics and disability screening, Rebecca Bennett, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, paperback, pp. , £17.99. ISBN 978-1-3503-4435-8. The book review is published in the Medical Law Review doi.org/10.1093/medl...
The Welfare of Future Children: Reproductive Ethics and Disability Screening, Rebecca Bennett.
In a 1927 United States Supreme Court decision about forced sterilization of a woman deemed to be intellectually disabled in Virginia, Justice Oliver Wende
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November 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Alice opened doors for many of us. I am very shocked and sad. My sincere condolences to Alice's family, friends and colleagues.
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Pleased to see our paper on fertility responses to benefit generosity and universalism published in Population and Development Review doi.org/10.1111/padr...
Led by A. Barigazzi, supervised by G. Gallo & me with a research visit @ucdgearyinst.bsky.social
<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library
This study examines the relationship between fertility and social policies across countries within the European Union. Using European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) data f...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This is not unexpected but still very disappointing and disturbing. I hope this will prompt much needed (but most likely difficult) conversations about misinformation, funding for public health, and vaccination records. Our actions affect the whole region (and beyond).
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Canada's loss of measles-free status a setback, but 'reversible': health official | CBC
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November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Very thoughtful article about lack of inspections of care homes by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in England. Something is wrong when a regulator - any regulator - let a service provider uninspected for a long time. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Grieving families' despair at care home inspection gaps
BBC finds a fifth of care homes rated "inadequate" were not reinspected within a year or more.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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🏆 Congratulations to Lucy Series on winning the 2025 Peter Townsend Prize from the British Academy for her book Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution, part of the Law, Society, Policy series.

Learn more about the prize: https://ow.ly/EHN050Xne86
Peter Townsend Prize
The Peter Townsend Prize, worth £1,000, is awarded biennially for outstanding work with policy relevance on a topic to which Townsend made a major contribution.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Not happy about this at all. But can we please stop calling it child porn? If a short form is needed, how about CSAEM (child sexual abuse + exploitation material)? True, the SCC was dealing with the offence of child pornography before it was amended to CSAEM, but "porn" unnecessarily diminishes it.
November 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
"Recognising care as something universal and with legal protections (e.g. paid care leave) will help." ... "Care is inevitable; political failure need not be."
November 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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The UCP’s use of the NWS clause to end the teachers strike is sinking in. This is a terrible precedent for *all* groups with protected rights. Why would the government ever not use s 33 now in any case where they can’t make a credible s 1 argument?
"Bill 2 is perfectly legal."

"The kids need to go back to class."

I agree.

That doesn't mean the premier should've done an endrun around the legislature and the courts.

If the back-to-work law was defensible, why didn't she defend it before leaving the country?

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Alberta Strong and Free, Notwithstanding
The UCP's Bill 2 skirts the legislature and the courts, leaving it up to the public to push back swiftly
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October 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Bill 60, if passed, will make it even more difficult for renters in ON. “Only in Doug Ford’s Ontario can hard-working renters in good standing be able to count on just a one-year lease, while a foreign spa company at Ontario Place gets a guarantee for 99.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Say goodbye to rent control, indefinite leases if Ontario passes housing proposal: advocates | CBC News
Ontario's planned new housing legislation could open the door to ending rent control and indefinite leases across the province, advocates warn after a recent proposal by Premier Doug Ford's government...
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October 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Ontario bill would look at so called ‘alternative options’ for ending 'evergreen' residential leases. This will make the rental market even more unaffordable. ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti... check out govt's technical briefing: news.ontario.ca/assets/files...
Ontario bill would look at ‘alternative options’ for ending residential leases, scrap Toronto green roof bylaw. Here are the highlights
The Ford government has tabled an omnibus bill that would make changes to a whole suite of laws and regulations, from green roofs to tenant evictions and driver’s licences.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
📣Thought-provoking article. "When immigrant and racialized communities’ needs are dismissed as “special treatment” rather than essential care, we normalize exclusion. We allow health systems to treat some health needs as optional." healthydebate.ca/2025/10/topi...
Using ‘integration’ to silence culturally specific care - Healthy Debate
When culturally specific care is allowed to vanish under another name, we all lose a piece of the commons we rely on.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Hello York University graduate students! Are you interested in working in the public sector (e.g. governments and non-profit)? Check out www.yorku.ca/gradstudies/... offered at @YorkU_Markham ! First class on Thur, Oct 23, from 4 to 7 pm. 6 weeks. Shuttle from Keele to Markham and back. Thx.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM