This woman needs a Do not contact order against her husband immediately. She needs to be in a safe place where he cannot reach her or he will kill her. I am so scared for this woman!

@alisonborealis.bsky.social Thought you might be interested. bsky.app/profile/mssi...

A NEW BC Supreme Court judgment just dropped granting the petition of Health Authority to prevent a husband who is a strong pro MAiD advocate from killing his wife - a plan he called 'dignicide.' www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/2...

Can we also PLEASE talk about the failures of the charity— sorry, "non-profit"— model of disability? There aren't too many orgs which especially multiply marginalized disabled ppl trust to represent them, & this would be a PERFECT example of why. This org reps me at the UN.🙃 /6

I just want access to the #CanadaDisabilityBenefit b/c I'm struggling on disability esp. w/CPP clawbacks, and I basically got scammed. A LOT of work went into exposing this. This work derailed a lot of things in my life if anyone kindly wants to help. ko-fi.com/anhedoniaoak... /4

I contacted Inclusion Canada repeatedly with my concerns and was told in writing that they didn't vet the company I was recommended. And despite detailing my concerns about how others might be harmed, none of their solutions which were offered to me included warning other people. /3

Despite receiving HUGE amounts of govt. funding to provide these services, these benefits navigators seem to have omitted looking into the CUSTOMER (why are we paying at all?) experiences their clients had. All of these orgs may be doing the same thing: www.canada.ca/en/employmen... /2

Here's the on point article about Inclusion Canada not doing their due diligence w/their benefits navigation services, and pointing disabled people towards shady 3rd party for-profit services just to access basics like the DTC & #CanadaDisabilityBenefit. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... 1/6

As @mssinenomine.bsky.social is quoted in the piece, “It was an effective PR tool when there was a lot of media coverage about poverty and MAiD." And so,

This article @mssinenomine.bsky.social is quoted in is infuriating on so many levels: www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

A debt of gratitude owed to @anhedoniaoakley.bsky.social for bringing this issue to public attention. There are so many bad decisions made by the federal govt around Canadian Disability Benefit and they keep compounding rather than solving them. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Transit violence rising across Canada — in some cities, by nearly 300% Exclusive CBC News/IJF data shows crime rates still well above pre-pandemic levels theijf.org/transit-viol...

. @ivacheung.com compelling, insightful, and beautifully written post reflecting on her mother-in-law and dementia. Unpretentious. Erudite. Profundity. A restrained and yet all encompassing presence of love. ivacheung.com/2025/11/on-s...

Please read this to understand how dire the situation is in Nunavut: www.aptnnews.ca/featured/foo... I made print copies of my book a fundraiser to raise awareness of food sovereignty/security issues in the North, but the PDF is free if you want to download + donate directly to QCFC + other orgs.

Join us this November for the Inaugural PHC CREST Conference!🎺 Focusing on elevating the nursing and allied health clinician-scientist, this event will feature two keynote speakers, a panel discussion, a workshop, and more.  📆 Nov 6 📍St. Paul's Hospital/Virtual Register:  https://bit.ly/4nBsOx9

"Abundance has political influence, but it is not a fighting manifesto, or a plan to build an organized, participatory mass party, and its vision is reheated forty-year-old deregulation mixed with Internet YIMBYism." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

If you follow me on the other place you are familiar with some of what I've gone through recently using wheelchair taxis. Some asked why I didn't use transit or HandyDart, I decided to answer that question. Paypal link at bottom of post for those inclined. 🙏 mssinenomine.substack.com/p/is-handyda...

Just got to the Learning Bitcoin conference. The current panelist is talking about why there’s a drop in testosterone. The panel is called Decentralized Health and Wellness.

A priest and his power: Consent and the doomed rape case against a residential school principal Roechelle Becker & @bethanylindsay.bsky.social “There is no consent when agreement is induced by an authority figure,” @igrantubc.bsky.social theijf.org/oconnor-resi...

I can't be certain based purely on this photo but it appears to me that what is really bad here is that there is a ramp leading to a platform where there is no space for a wheelchair user to sit. They do this then blame accessibility as one of the reasons for this ugly lump of painted concrete.

A society that withholds treatment that could ease a child’s suffering & possibly prolong her life reflects & reinforces a cruelty that doesn’t so much creep as it does march. A big boot just breached the threshold in BC. NEW post by me about Charleigh Pollock. open.substack.com/pub/mssineno...

Absolutely shameful of the BC NDP to pretend to not be playing politics with a disabled girl's life, particularly in the context of a rare disease (especially one which can result in multiple hospital stays in a year due to seizures and other sequelae). Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

NEW post by myself and @jhallinpeel.bsky.social responding to the pro-govt attack editorial in Times Colonist today. Denying Charleigh Pollock: The Tragic Politics of BC NDP and their Apologist Press. open.substack.com/pub/mssineno...

“The dying are alive. Killing us more quickly - via MAiD or denying us treatments necessary to live - will not protect anyone else from death. In fact it will do the opposite and put everyone at greater risk of being among the dying prematurely.”

Bureaucrats deciding to withhold physician-recommended care. And the elected politicians refusing to intervene. Why do we even need you if you aren't willing to serve your purpose to the electorate? @davidebybc.bsky.social @josieosborne.bsky.social

Do we as a society withhold medical care during the palliative stage of life? Care that is recommended by their physicians, makes them more comfortable, and prevents complications? I didn't think we did. This is the exact opposite of what palliative care is about.

Sharing @mssinenomine.bsky.social important and timely post "BC Government MUST Reinstate Funding For A Disabled Child's Medication." For those not familiar with the case, the BC Ministry of Health has cut funding for a child with a rare disease. mssinenomine.substack.com/p/bc-governm...

NEW post by me. The BC Govt has cut funding to an essential treatment for a disabled child with a very rare disease. Her name is Charleigh Pollock and time is running out. There is link to petition in post. Please sign, share. open.substack.com/pub/mssineno...

Omg the amazing and incredible @bethanylindsay.bsky.social just won silver in the Scoop category at the @cajournalists.bsky.social awards!!! So deserved! Here's the story that won her the award. theijf.org/bc-publicly-...

unions: they get the job done

Absolutely amazing thread!

The “tragic” element having less to do with their arrested adolescent angst than our obligation to live in the world they make of it.

It is a uniquely boring & unsympathetic but nevertheless instructive sort of tragedy that some of the world’s wealthiest men are so transparently, desperately miserable.

Arguments like the one BC Ministry is making here only make sense if you live in a candy unicorn universe where employers are not motivated by efficiency and max profit and only ever act in the best interests of workers.

We need comprehensive laws guaranteeing people access to mechanical cooling in their homes & workplaces as well as laws protecting safety of those who work outside. "BC Has No Workplace Temperature Limits. Advocates Want Change" @michellegamage.bsky.social www.thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...

BIG SMILES EVERYONE so so proud of doing this without having to pass legislation that would immediately be successfully challenged. instead the government contracts Dr Vigo to news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

it is just so wild to me that this is something they are openly bragging about. not that long ago putting people in solitary for an episode of psychosis would have been a scandal that would come out from investigative reporting, not from some press release

If you are not prepared to love a disabled child, do not have children.

Prime Minister Mark Carney took away the dedicated Minister for Persons with Disabilities and is ignoring critics while people are openly calling for the involuntary euthanasia of certain disabled people. Give us our Minister back and address the hate speech, @mark-carney.bsky.social. #cdnpoli

What is described here is OPENLY involuntary euthanasia. This is Nazi level discussion happening in Quebec. "Quebec society should be able to 'liberate' people with severe autism who cannot make a decision about MAiD for themselves" h/t @trudolem.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/trudo-...

Please check out my friend's TikTok about eugenics & social murder. They do a great job of explaining how the algorithm of eugenics relies on the belief that science is neutral and how this results in people viewing injustice as "logical." www.tiktok.com/@accidentala...

I really hope people read this. It is a critique of a paper from "our side" that neglected to include disabled people's history, work or analysis on this topic in any way. This happens regularly - pretty much constantly. I value their work, in fact that is exactly why I critiqued it.

NEW by me in The American Journal of Bioethics. Acceding to MAiD Proponent’s Framing Excludes Abolition as Potential Solution www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9ERWJ...

A must read article! ..."MAiD was legalized and expanded based on the desire of some individual plaintiffs whose evidence could and should have been interpreted as a compelling case for the elimination of ableism rather than the creation of assisted suicide/euthanasia." ...

@mssinenomine.bsky.social is honestly one of the coolest people I know and has such important things to say about MAiD.

NEW by @trudolem.bsky.social "The newly released reports appear to confirm what is argued in several chapters in our recently co-edited volume, Unravelling MAiD in Canada: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide as Medical Care..." theconversation.com/ontario-chie...

NEW by me in The American Journal of Bioethics. Acceding to MAiD Proponent’s Framing Excludes Abolition as Potential Solution www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9ERWJ...

Contrary to the pundit class’ insistence, someone talking to you on public transit has been so reviled for so long there was a painting about it 150 years ago

Vancouver Police won't be releasing further information tonight about the number of deaths or information about the driver from this evening's tragedy at Lapu Lapu Day. Says the driver was known to police, but says it would be inappropriate to say anything else tonight, promise more tomorrow.

As usual, @mssinenomine.bsky.social writes the best piece I've seen in months, on any topic. Read it; it's worth your time. "[E]very issue, every concern was Sisyphus “Still here. Still asking you to notice this rock called ableism.” And every experience was the same wave off: Not now. Not here."