IMPORTANT 🧵"What’s in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with a Disability Concluding Observations on Canada (March 2025, Part I)." 1/7 Look friends, in this 22 pages of recommendations, 20 contain critical recommendations covering the failings of our system. This reaffirms what our communities have told various levels of government and the UN over many years. Here's a summary of just the general concerns. 2/7

Video 2/4: Atreyu Lewis (19, they/he)

#killbillc7 #MAiD

ID: A brown transmasc person is in frame from the shoulders up. He’s wearing a blue and white speckled shirt, and his dark hair is down to his shoulders. Behind him is a TV, a brown cabinet, and a blue painting. Video 3/4: Rain

#killbillc7 #MAiD

ID: A brown transmasc person is in frame from the shoulders up. He has a septum & eyebrow piercing. He’s wearing headphones, and a black shirt with white text which reads “Prisoners’ Justice.” Behind him are glass doors & brick wall.

Here's an update on where the federal gov't is at re: the expansion of Medical Assistance in Dying. The Special Joint Committee on MAiD has been struck. It met today & heard from staff at the Department of Justice & Health Canada. #BillC7 #cndpoli 1/

📽️ The committee will meet until June 23rd and they are looking into:

-Rules as it relates to the expansion of MAiD for people with mental illnesses (which will be allowed starting 2023)
-Potential expansion of MAiD for "mature" minors
-Advanced directives, and more. 2/

We're tuned into the Special Joint Committee of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). We will be live tweeting as much as we can. Tune in here: parl.ca/Committees/en/…

They'll discuss access of MAiD re: mature minors & the sunset clause re: access due to mental illness. 1/ Abby Hoffman from the Department of Health is giving a statistical overview. In 2020, 7,000 people used MAiD, accounting for 2.5% deaths in Canada. Number of MAiD cases will approach 10k in Canada. Around 200 are disabled younger people who aren't dying (i.e chronic pain MS, etc)

The Ontario Ministry of Health Update today was just a further entrenchment of normalized deaths.

Ten children have died from COVID-19, two are in ICUs right now. These were children, who died because @fordnation failed to protect them. @fordnation Kieran Moore, said "So we’ve not seen any significant threat to the health of children.”

We see the threat to the health of disabled children. Any number of children We care about the two children fighting for their lives in the ICU.

In collaboration with @CPEPgroup we've launched a summer series called Cops out of Care Work. These panels ask us to radically rethink our current care systems by centering disability justice & abolition. #HamOnt #DisabilityTwitter

Register here: djno.ca/post/cops-out-… Cops out of Care: May 27, 6 PM:
Learn about the interconnection between disability, policing & prisons. Triage protocol, #LTCjustice, & ongoing deaths of disabled people demonstrate the role of policing in our lives

Features: El Jones, @cyreejarelle @pinkcaneredlip @Souabouomar

Minister Elliot blatantly lied earlier this week when she said there is no final draft of the Critical Care Triage protocol. Media personnel have seen it. Doctors have already received iterations of it & have been forced to use it (THREAD) 1/7 #onpoli #triageprotocol @fordnation The provincial government has had over a year to implement solutions that would prevent the need or use of the protocol. Instead of increasing social assistance rates or instituting a moratorium on eviction, Ford made it impossible for disabled people to stay safe at home 2/7