Liam Michaud
@liammichaud.bsky.social
researcher on drug policy & law | phd candidate in socio-legal studies | former community harm reduction worker | Tkaronto, Treaty 13
Indebted to the important research of many others on this one including (but not limited to!) GKolla, GBardwell, CHastings @sarahferencz.bsky.social @zoedodd.bsky.social @ehyshka.bsky.social @drugpolicy.org @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Indebted to the important research of many others on this one including (but not limited to!) GKolla, GBardwell, CHastings @sarahferencz.bsky.social @zoedodd.bsky.social @ehyshka.bsky.social @drugpolicy.org @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social
I used FOI requests, court records, and new media to map these cases. Many more are unreported. This practice is spreading rapidly beyond Ontario to other provinces / territories.
November 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I used FOI requests, court records, and new media to map these cases. Many more are unreported. This practice is spreading rapidly beyond Ontario to other provinces / territories.
Prosecutors frame these cases as a form of redress to communities impacted by overdose. Friends and family are often charged.
November 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Prosecutors frame these cases as a form of redress to communities impacted by overdose. Friends and family are often charged.
This also risks also becoming a pipeline for involuntary medical intervention and longer term incarceration under the province's mental health act.
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This also risks also becoming a pipeline for involuntary medical intervention and longer term incarceration under the province's mental health act.
Reposted by Liam Michaud
So, the takeaway is that habitual offender laws did not emerge from the tough on crime era in the late 1900s, but instead from the eugenics movement in the early 1900s. The Howard Law Journal published my research on this last month.
May 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
So, the takeaway is that habitual offender laws did not emerge from the tough on crime era in the late 1900s, but instead from the eugenics movement in the early 1900s. The Howard Law Journal published my research on this last month.
Reposted by Liam Michaud
@avierkant.bsky.social and I also did an amazing symposium on Marta Russell with @kmtani.bsky.social for @lpeblog.bsky.social in 2022, featuring contributions from @nhold.bsky.social, Ruth Colker, Jules, @deanspade.bsky.social & Liat Ben-Moshe
Capitalism & Disability: A Symposium on the Work of Marta Russell
The modern disability rights movement has been primarily oriented around seeking labor inclusion through the expansion of civil rights statutes. Despite this, few disability theorists have approached…
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August 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
@avierkant.bsky.social and I also did an amazing symposium on Marta Russell with @kmtani.bsky.social for @lpeblog.bsky.social in 2022, featuring contributions from @nhold.bsky.social, Ruth Colker, Jules, @deanspade.bsky.social & Liat Ben-Moshe
the decades long fight to get needle access in prisons is also a helpful tool of how rights-based approaches, while limited, can be critical tools in fighting for material resources & basic dignity.
July 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
the decades long fight to get needle access in prisons is also a helpful tool of how rights-based approaches, while limited, can be critical tools in fighting for material resources & basic dignity.
uptake on the program is extremely low, especially among women, because of lacking confidentiality protections & risk of reprisal. several prisons hosting a program have ZERO people accessing it. canada is an outlier internationally with its high barrier and security-oriented approach.
July 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
uptake on the program is extremely low, especially among women, because of lacking confidentiality protections & risk of reprisal. several prisons hosting a program have ZERO people accessing it. canada is an outlier internationally with its high barrier and security-oriented approach.