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A group of Indigenous Sixties Scoop adoptees is trying to scuttle a proposed $800-million settlement announced last year by the federal government, CBC News has learned.
“Our mission right now is to put a stop to this,” said Priscilla Meeches, one of the Manitoba-based plaintiffs in the national class-action lawsuit.
“We need a better settlement than this because there’s too many of us out there and at the end of the day, it’s just not gonna be enough.”
Read more at CBC News
Some of the pharmaceutical companies selling prescription opioids that have caused thousands of deaths are looking to profit from the antidote for overdoses, according to a VICE News analysis of drug approval records from Health Canada.
One emergency room doctor in Toronto who regularly reverses opioid overdoses with naloxone said the revelations show “companies [are] cynically profiting from both ends of the crisis” that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in Canada last year.
Read more at Vice News
The pharmaceutical giant that misled physicians and patients about the addictive properties of its top-selling drug OxyContin, fuelling an overdose crisis that has devastated communities across North America, will stop marketing opioids to U.S. physicians.
However, the new policy does not extend into Canada.
Purdue Pharma L.P. announced the change in a statement issued on the weekend.
Read more at The Globe and Mail
Late last month, a motion to receive approval for a multi-million dollar class action suit against the Quebec government and the Catholic Church was filed in the courts of Quebec. The plaintiffs are to be an elderly band of survivors of what is called “the Duplessis orphans.”
We generally like to link to news stories for attribution. However, this story received no mention in press outside of Quebec and only a little there if Google News is to believed. So you can be excused if you haven’t heard of the Duplessis Orphans or this story.
Unlike the outrage we feel over well-publicized tragedies like the First Nation victims of church-run residential schools or the victims of CIA-mind control experiments in Montreal or the victims of sexual abuse by priests within the Catholic church, the story of the Duplessis orphans hasn’t gained such fire inside or outside of Quebec despite decades of controversy. This is perhaps because it is a true French-Canadian tragedy that was shaped by the politics and religious climate of 1940s & 50s in Quebec where Le Chef was boss and his right-hand was the church with the most loyal following in North America. Even the CBC in its precis on the fate of the orphans neglects to mention the role of the Catholic church.
So it appears everyone would like to forget it, except the victims can’t.
The Duplessis Orphans came about because they are a class of people that the Quebec government and its society of the day were too embarrassed to acknowledge even existed – the children of single parents who were orphaned. Orphaned? Of course, those who remember back to the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s remember that to be “born out of wedlock” was an incalculable sin and a stain on a family. Better to hide the bastard children somewhere than been seen flouting societal norms especially in Quebec of the day.
Where were they hidden? So-called sanctuaries run by the church. Some 20,000 children. But that is not all.
They weren’t just hidden. They were falsely diagnosed as mentally ill and treated as mental patients so the Quebec government could rake in health grant money from the federal government and pay the church because these sanctuaries were now deemed psychiatric institutions.
Needless to say, the young children’s vicissitudes and abuse were many and there have been many failed attempts to get acknowledgments of the crimes against humanity by the groups responsible and some kind of decent compensation. The Canadian Encyclopedia does somewhat of a job on this issue. We thank the Underground Knowlege YouTube channel for the photo above and recommend their short 4-minute video for a quick history of the controversy surrounding the fate of the Orphans.
Many if not most are now dead. Just like the woman who suffered at the hands of Montreal mind-control madman Ewen Cameron in the 1960s, it wasn’t until after her death and recently that her daughter received any compensation from the Canadian government. This seems to be the fate of the remaining orphans.
We have uploaded the Orphan’s statement of claim and you read it and download it here.
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On a brisk spring day in 1965, Annie Michael stepped onto an airplane for the first time.
The 10-year-old had tested positive for tuberculosis, the airborne disease that had ravaged her hometown of Niaqunngut, a remote Baffin Island community southeast of Iqaluit. Her southbound flight was the first leg of a days-long journey to the Queen Mary Hospital for Tuberculous Children in Toronto.
While Michael’s stay at the hospital was meant to cure her potentially deadly condition, the experience left damage of another kind.
Read more at CBC News
Police are investigating after an officer allegedly became intoxicated while he was guarding a body in a northwest Toronto apartment, multiple sources told CBC Toronto.
The officer was called to the Humberline Drive home for a report of a sudden death on January 28. After the coroner arrived to the scene, the officer allegedly got into his police vehicle and started to drive back to a station, according to the sources.
Read more at CBC News
The Ontario College of Pharmacists has launched an investigation after fentanyl was found in a naloxone kit assembled at an undisclosed pharmacy somewhere in the province.
According to a report in the Toronto Star, the powerful opioid was located in a kit that was given to a customer at a Shoppers Drug Mart on Monday.
Naxolone is used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
Read more at CP24
A 13-year veteran of the Ontario Provincial Police has been charged with assault and weapons offences following a domestic dispute in Augusta Township last month.
Grenville OPP responded to a domestic call on Jan. 20 that involved the off-duty OPP officer, police reported Monday.
After an investigation, the 44-year-old male officer was arrested and charged with assault, two counts of assault with a weapon, mischief and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.
The officer appeared before the Ontario Court of Justice in Brockville and he has been assigned to administrative duties.
Read more at Recorder.ca
OSHAWA — NDP Leader Andrea Horwath has added local stories of struggle with long-term care to her growing list of concerns about Ontario’s long-term care system.
Along with Oshawa MPP Jennifer French, Horwath recently met with three Durham families who discussed their difficulties in accessing quality long-term care for loved ones.
Read more at Durham Region News
Two whistleblowers whose private information was leaked in brown envelopes from Prince Edward Island’s government to the Liberal Party say they won’t fade away without being compensated for the economic and emotional toll on their lives.
A report released last month by the privacy commissioner — completed six years after the initial complaint — found the province breached the basic privacy rights of three women who held a September 2011 news conference to allege fraud and bribery in a provincial immigration program.
Read more at CBC News