Canadian Mindscape Monitor

Sorry, dearest readers, that we’ve been delinquent here at CMM lately getting posts up… We’re trying to get back on the job after binge-working on the aforementioned feature article about the rights of seniors in BC care homes. But we couldn’t let you miss today’s New York Times coverage of the latest on the lawsuit [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Many people arriving at CMM via search engines in recent weeks have been searching for information about the inquest into the death of Jeffrey James at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Toronto civil rights activist Don Weitz has contributed some invaluable, detailed, first-hand-account analysis on the topic to CMM. Click on the “Comments” [...]

The recommendations from the inquest into the death of Jeffrey James at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health are being applauded by its own “voice for clients”, the Empowerment Council, in this Globe and Mail article. Certainly, CMM is always encouraged when somebody with the Coroner’s kind of public credibility states the obvious: that [...]

A Globe and Mail article includes some damning testimony from the public inquest into the death of Jeffrey James at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. After angering and embarrassing staff by performing a sexual act in front of them, James was left in restraints for FIVE DAYS in Canada’s “premier” psychiatric hospital, and [...]

Researchers at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health have proudly proclaimed in a press release that they detected noticeable differences in people’s brain serotonin levels in winter compared to summer. “This offers an explanation [...]