- Feb 27
- 8 min
Canada Rejects CRPD Abolition of Forced Treatment
We haven’t been blogging in a while because we’ve been waiting for a response to our third petition, which we sent to Canada’s House of...
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- Feb 25
- 2 min
Our 2022 Petition to Canada's House of Commons
Petition to the House of Commons Enact Article 14 and Rescind Reservations to Article 12 of the CRPD WHEREAS the United Nations Special...
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- Sep 10, 2021
- 2 min
Letter to Party Leaders and Local Candidates
We've been emailing our candidates and party leaders to think about our rights with the UN-CRPD as a base. We invite you to use our...
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- Jun 24, 2021
- 1 min
Our Second Petition Tabled in Parliament!
Watch the Honourable MP Ms Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East, NDP) table our second petition in Parliament: Link to Video Parliamentarians have...
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- Dec 20, 2020
- 1 min
The public RESPONDS to our petition!
In three days, we got 300 signatures! What a strong and positive result! People are backing our demand that Canadian legislators end...
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- Dec 18, 2020
- 1 min
Petition!
We've started a petition for human rights and it's doing pretty well! We know that places of detention scare people, and that psychiatric...
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- Sep 24, 2020
- 1 min
Canadian Legislators Unresponsive
On June 23, 2020, we sent a letter co-signed by 24 academics, activists and psych survivors, to 35 ministers and officials in federal,...
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- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
CRPD Rapporteur’s Visit to Canada Ignored by Media
It’s been a year since Catalina Devandas Aguilar visited Canada. This should have made headlines as the biggest disability rights event...
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- May 11, 2020
- 1 min
An Intro to the CRPD for legislators and activists.
See Irit Shimrat's Mad in America post on this Intro to the CRPD here! Mad Canada Shadow Report Group is proud to present our four-page...
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- Dec 17, 2019
- 1 min
Another call for human rights
Post-election research: we have again asked four major political parties in Canada for their positions on human rights in Canada's mental...
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