Anna Mehler Paperny
@mehlerpaperny.bsky.social
Reporter with the Investigative Journalism Bureau;
Author, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person;
Nosy questions, mostly.
[email protected] or [email protected]
Author, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person;
Nosy questions, mostly.
[email protected] or [email protected]
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Despite Trudeau promises, more Indigenous people being jailed in Canada
Like a growing number of formerly incarcerated Indigenous people, Marvin Starblanket's life is still governed by Correctional Service Canada rules.
www.reuters.com
Canada's mass incarceration of Indigenous people is worsening and an insidious driver is the stickiness of Canada's carceral system - when people should get a shot at freedom, but often don't. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
important update to Ontario's involuntary hospitalization regime:
November 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
important update to Ontario's involuntary hospitalization regime:
Guilbeault should just show up at tonight's NDP leader's debate.
November 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Guilbeault should just show up at tonight's NDP leader's debate.
Some First Nations are considering legal action to force the feds to reintroduce a bill that would, among other things, enshrine drinking water as a right for First Nations. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
First Nations considering court action to get feds to move on clean water
A lawyer in a 2019 lawsuit against Ottawa says his clients are considering legal action to force it to get moving on cleaning drinking water.
www.aptnnews.ca
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Some First Nations are considering legal action to force the feds to reintroduce a bill that would, among other things, enshrine drinking water as a right for First Nations. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
Biked across town and got back inside before the Real Snow started, I am a wizard and will not be going outside for several months.
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Biked across town and got back inside before the Real Snow started, I am a wizard and will not be going outside for several months.
Welcome to strip-tease-every-time-you-go-indoors season.
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Welcome to strip-tease-every-time-you-go-indoors season.
Is Canada's drug-trafficking law unconstitutional? And would your answer change if access to legal "safer supply" were near-impossible? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Legal safer supply programs inaccessible to most, B.C court hears
Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx were convicted of trafficking earlier this month for having operated an illicit-drug compassion club
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Is Canada's drug-trafficking law unconstitutional? And would your answer change if access to legal "safer supply" were near-impossible? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
It may be a "shared" responsibility but when one road user can kill people and the other can't, the responsibility is not shared equally.
Cllr Atkinson asks about educating public re: pedestrian injuries/deaths. Deputy Chief O'Brien says peds + drivers both need education. People are being hit in crosswalks + jaywalking. Drivers not paying attention. "We’re trying to target everybody because it is a shared responsibility." #yyccc
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It may be a "shared" responsibility but when one road user can kill people and the other can't, the responsibility is not shared equally.
Reposted by Anna Mehler Paperny
NEW: Ontario’s transparency watchdog has been forced to “intervene” after the solicitor general’s office repeatedly ignored orders to release information.
It’s part of a trend which has also raised questions about political interference. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1154356...
It’s part of a trend which has also raised questions about political interference. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1154356...
Ontario watchdog ‘intervening’ after solicitor general ignores transparency orders | Globalnews.ca
There have been several instances in recent years where the IPC has told the solicitor general's office to release information, only for the government to ignore the decree.
globalnews.ca
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
NEW: Ontario’s transparency watchdog has been forced to “intervene” after the solicitor general’s office repeatedly ignored orders to release information.
It’s part of a trend which has also raised questions about political interference. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1154356...
It’s part of a trend which has also raised questions about political interference. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1154356...
This is important to note but also important (in the US and elsewhere) is that even people with violent criminal convictions have rights.
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is important to note but also important (in the US and elsewhere) is that even people with violent criminal convictions have rights.
On involuntary treatment: "The intervention process outlined in Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act ... lacks sufficient evidence of effectiveness and poses substantial ethical concerns." www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
Involuntary treatment for substance use: application of Kass’ ethical framework to Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act
Key points
In Canada, more than 50 000 opioid-related deaths have occurred since September 2024, mostly in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario, where governments are all in various stages of develo...
www.cmaj.ca
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
On involuntary treatment: "The intervention process outlined in Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act ... lacks sufficient evidence of effectiveness and poses substantial ethical concerns." www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
Also if they're paid protesters they demonstrably have jobs. Pick a slur, Premier.
The homeless are notorious for paying protestors....it's like avocado toast for them.
NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford is doubling down after telling someone in the public gallery to “find a job,” claiming they were a paid, professional protester. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1154308...
globalnews.ca/news/1154308...
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Also if they're paid protesters they demonstrably have jobs. Pick a slur, Premier.
Reposted by Anna Mehler Paperny
Trump-era global funding cuts devastate HIV prevention programmes, UNAIDS says reut.rs/3KpYqYv
Trump-era global funding cuts devastate HIV prevention programmes, UNAIDS says
An uncounted number of extra people have died from AIDS and 2.5 million have lost access to medicine to block the spread of HIV, because of cuts to global programmes since Donald Trump returned to the White House, the U.N. body fighting AIDS said on Tuesday.
reut.rs
November 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Trump-era global funding cuts devastate HIV prevention programmes, UNAIDS says reut.rs/3KpYqYv
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the pitch
And the story
Between the cold call
And the callback
Falls the Shadow
And the reality
Between the pitch
And the story
Between the cold call
And the callback
Falls the Shadow
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the pitch
And the story
Between the cold call
And the callback
Falls the Shadow
And the reality
Between the pitch
And the story
Between the cold call
And the callback
Falls the Shadow
Reposted by Anna Mehler Paperny
The woman who drove the snowplow through a crowd of Palestine supporters was Athena Niggenaber, The Star confirms.
As folks pointed out last week, her social media is filled with anti-Palestinian racism, Islamophobia and other hateful rhetoric.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/con...
As folks pointed out last week, her social media is filled with anti-Palestinian racism, Islamophobia and other hateful rhetoric.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/con...
Contractor who drove plow through Palestinian protesters posted Islamophobic, anti-protest content on social media
The company the driver works for said it issued a one-day suspension over the incident.
www.thestar.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The woman who drove the snowplow through a crowd of Palestine supporters was Athena Niggenaber, The Star confirms.
As folks pointed out last week, her social media is filled with anti-Palestinian racism, Islamophobia and other hateful rhetoric.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/con...
As folks pointed out last week, her social media is filled with anti-Palestinian racism, Islamophobia and other hateful rhetoric.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/con...
Suddenly provincial sovereignty not as much of a concern. theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Carney and Smith to unveil energy deal in Calgary Thursday, source says
Deal has stoked environmental concerns in B.C. and objections from Premier David Eby
theglobeandmail.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Suddenly provincial sovereignty not as much of a concern. theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
shawarma shops should open earlier.
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
shawarma shops should open earlier.
100 Notable Books of 2025
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
People in BC who are hospitalized against their will won't be able to sue clinicians "providing involuntary mental-health care." news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
Province taking action to strengthen involuntary care, better support patients
The Province is introducing proposed amendments to the Mental Health Act to strengthen and protect mental-health care in B.C. and improve supports for people who suffer from severe, overlapping mental-health and substance-use challenges.
news.gov.bc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
People in BC who are hospitalized against their will won't be able to sue clinicians "providing involuntary mental-health care." news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
I relate too hard to this photo. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Premier Eby tells Carney it’s unacceptable B.C. has been cut out of pipeline talks
Eby said he expects Ottawa to include B.C. and Coastal First Nations as full participants in any future talks.
www.thestar.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I relate too hard to this photo. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Latest ATIP already a banger.
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Latest ATIP already a banger.
Ontario is appealing a judge's decision to throw out murder charges because the accused endured treatment in jail the judge called "akin to torture," @bkstar.bsky.social reports: www.thestar.com/news/investi...
Ontario is appealing judge’s decision to toss murder charges because of Maplehurst jail guards’ abuse of inmates
In its notice of appeal, the Crown says the judge erred by “materially misapprehending the evidence" underpinning his findings of abuse and cover-up.
www.thestar.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Ontario is appealing a judge's decision to throw out murder charges because the accused endured treatment in jail the judge called "akin to torture," @bkstar.bsky.social reports: www.thestar.com/news/investi...