filed in Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Violence on Nov.17, 2008
The Toronto Star ran two strong opinion articles in the past two days, one by Joe Fiorito, and another by Anita Szigeti, attacking the Ontario Public Service Employees Union for its recently half-aborted ad campaign. (The Toronto Sun also ran a news article.) Szigeti points out that of the 23 recent incidents of “violence” against [...]
filed in Canadian Current Events, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Violence on Nov.12, 2008
The controversy over the sensationalist ads by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union continues. In a Nov. 10 press release, OPSEU acknowledged the ads “may be moving”, but vowed to keep them up. However, the billboards outside Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, which depicted a battered woman and implied she was beaten by [...]
filed in Canadian Current Events, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Violence on Nov.05, 2008
It seems the Ontario Public Service Employees Union local that represents staff at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health has a history of being more concerned about staff safety than patient safety. In the wake of the scandal already resulting from OPSEU’s placement of a sensationalist billboard ad yesterday, the Ontario Psychiatric Survivor Archives [...]
filed in Canadian Current Events, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Violence on Nov.04, 2008
The Ontario Public Service Employees Union today placed this billboard of a battered woman outside Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. In a press release, OPSEU states that “OPSEU is sending the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health a message they can’t ignore — starting this week outdoor advertising will be placed directly across from the [...]