disgusting news story of the week...
Link is broken.
Thanks Lagatta and JKR
First Nations winning this court case would quite literally turn Canada on its head, so I’m sure the fix is in and corporate Canada, the back room lobbyists who really run Canada, would never ever allow it to occur. It’s a nice dream though.
This is absolutely horrific, and an example of how quickly Medical Assistance in Dying has become Canada's safety valve for its failure to adequately address a myriad of systemic oppressions.
"Pate is one of the co-authors of a report, released last May, that identified 12 Indigenous women — all of them imprisoned now or in the past — who experienced miscarriages of justice. She says two of the women in the report are asking for medical assistance in dying because they believe they will never get justice." [emphasis added]
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/04/02/after-30-years-in-prison-...
And our settler-state beat goes on...
(But billions for proxy war in Ukraine.)