PANDEMIC 10 - Burn It Down
COMMONS
English - July 08, 2020 09:09 - 31 minutes - 29 MB - ★★★★ - 69 ratingsPolitics News Society & Culture Documentary canada hockey sports history storytelling Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Jonathan Marchand is one of the thousands of young disabled people living in long-term care. But Marchand doesn’t want to fix the system. He doesn’t think it can be reformed. Marchand is an abolitionist. For a century and a half, Canada has hidden away disabled people in institutions where they were neglected and abused. Is long-term care just the latest incarnation of this dark history?
COMMONS: Pandemic is currently focusing on how COVID-19 is affecting long-term care in Canada.
Featured in this episode: Jonathan Marchand, Sharon J. Riley (The Walrus), Kenneth Jackson (APTN News), Madeline Burghardt, Dustin Galer
To learn more:
“When Is a Senior No Longer Capable of Making Their Own Decisions?” by Sharon J. Riley in The Walrus
“‘Sitting duck’: Disabled woman, 27, lives in Toronto seniors home with COVID-19 outbreak” by Kenneth Jackson in APTN News
Working Towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century by Dustin Galer
Broken: Institutions, Families, and the Construction of Intellectual Disability by Madeline Burghardt
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