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Canada

• 'Nobody cared' about her son — until he hanged himself, by  Diana Zlomislic, Totonto News, July 14, 2011
• Zyprexa Settlement Information.
• Are we medicating a disorder or treating boyhood as a disease? By Carolyn Abraham, The Globe and Mail, October 18, 2010.
• Youth Lock-ups Blasted, by Diana Zlomislic, Toronto Star, July 7, 2010.
• Tribunals can apply Charter rights, Supreme Court rules, The Globe and Mail, June 11, 2010.
• Struggling Against Psychiatry’s Human Rights Violations – An Antipsychiatry Perspective, by Don Weitz (published online in Radical Psychology, volume 7, Summer 2008, http://radicalpsychology.org)
• The Mental Health Law Program of the Community Legal Assistance Society
• Expert Panel Recommendations: Standards of Care fot he Administration of Psychotropic Medications to Children and Youth Living in Licensed Residential Settings, July, 2008.
• Autopsy of an Autopsy of an Ontario Schizophrenic, November, 2007.
• Don Weitz Acceptance Speech for Award in Advocacy from the Mental Health Legal Committee, in Toronto, April 27, 2007.
• Young Canadian children are being prescribed anti-psychotic drugs, by Sharon Kirkey, CanWest News Service, Monday, June 18, 2007
• Challenging Mainstream Media – Psychiatry’s Cheerleaders, by Don Weitz

• Identity, Inmates, Insight, Capacity, Consent, Coercion: Chemical Incarceration in Psychiatric Survivor Experiences of Community Treatment Orders, Erik Fabris
• Ontario Human Rights Commission rules inquests must be held for inpatient deaths.
• Health Canada "Dear Health Care Letter" regarding the heart damaging characteristics of ADHD drugs, May 2006.
• VGH detained and drugged man against his will: Judge finds patient was committed without proper paperwork, August 27, Vancouver on Canada.com
• Stephen Mullins v. Dr. John Mark Levy, et al, Reasons for Judgment  The Supreme Court of B.C. awarded Stephen Mullins  $15,000 damages and costs for false arrest, false imprisonment and assault. The Court found that, suffering a panic attack brought on by family deaths and business pressures and going to VGH for help, Stephen was wrongfully seized and beaten by VGH security people, locked in a prison-like cell and drugged to unconsciousness without being examined by doctors who signed false Certificates after he was detained and imprisoned. Unfortunately the trial judge rejected arguments that Stephen's constitutional rights were breached by the precipitate and negligent acts of the defendants. In effect, bank robbers, child rapists and murderers have more rights than honest, law-abiding citizens who suffer emotional upset or more serious mental illness. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms purports to require that everyone who is detained or imprisoned be informed of the reason for the seizure and of the right to talk to a lawyer and he must promptly be given the means of calling a lawyer. (Description taken from an e-mail by his lawyer.)
• June 6, 2005 Legislative Hearing.

• September 16, 2011, Decision finding Prozac caused 16 year-old to murder friend.

Ontario

• Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office
• In Starsky v Swayze, the appeals court ruled Ontario Review Board improperly force drugged Starson.
• We Are All Equal In Ontario Courts -- Yeah Right! Volume II
• Chief coroner cancels inquest into boy's death, October 24, 2007.

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