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The old asylums were horrible places and the arrival of effective antipsychotic medication in the Fifties brought a revolution in effective care, as disturbed patients suddenly required much less physical restraint. The first psychiatrist I can find that published his use of the French drug Largactil in Canada, and North America for that matter, was Heinz Lehmann in Montreal’s Verdun Protestant Hospital in 1954. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/archneurpsyc/article-abstract/651712?resultClick=1 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2655089/#b48-ndt-3-495 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Lehmann At the time there was understandable concern about the conditions in psychiatric hospitals and the rights of patients. Community care, combined with medication and appropriate counselling, was seen as a more humane alternative. Unfortunately, the cost of such care and who was responsible for it were less well defined than the mechanics of running large public institutions, giving governments in Canada and across the world - we were by no means alone in this - the opportunity to greatly reduce current budgets while making commitments for the future that they never fulfilled. Thus the number of psychiatric beds in Canada declined from 430 per 100,000 in 1959 to 70 per 100,000 in 2017, a grossly inadequate number. For too many, the worthy goal of deinstitutionalization became simply dehospitalization. https://madridge.org/journal-of-internal-and-emergency-medicine/mjiem-1000103.php With the benefit of hindsight, it’s easy to see now that the goal should have been to improve institutional care, moving carefully selected patients to community care only when that was adequately funded. Looking back, the level of optimism about a new and completely untested system was absurdly high. There is a sociological element to this story that we should be honest about. People with chronic psychotic disorders are not politically powerful. They don’t have the advocates for their care that sick children or breast cancer patients have. Unless money for them is ring-fenced, politicians will inevitably respond to what the public calls more loudly for.

Holy f'n projection.

Says the guy who writes nothing but hatred and vitriol and spews it in the same way jackson Pollock paints, one big incoherent splotchy mess

Rumor is that there is about to be a James perp walk.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7519288 Carney will hobble Canada through regulations and kowtowing to activists and global ESG measures. This is the real Carney, a Net Zero UN stakeholder capitalist. Expect more controls, destruction of the oil and gas sector, more taxes, and loss of sovereignty to the UN and Davos think tanks.

So you don’t care what his police interactions were because you have already decided. I’m not making excuses for anything, to do that you would need facts to support it. So far I haven’t heard any so we will see.

The appeals court in Ontario is full of undemocratic vile perverts. Sad

A serious mental health problem that's what you call it....on all sides, why is it that the courts think this is OK, there are people dying while waiting on treatment and these types of surgeries are taking up valuable health care times and openings...then there is the issue of the taxpayer paying this bill...taking up funds from our healthcare system that is critically short. Hey if you want 3 viginas and 6 penises then that is your choice, and you should find the funds and do that on your own, or find a rich sugar momma or daddy......

Your a perfect example of why the left and right side can not have a conversation, everything boils down to a screaming fest,with your hair on fire..... with nothing ever getting done, the story of Canada and the left....All one has to do is look into the liberals past 8 plus years, what is it we as a nation got done...other than our huge debt, and a few social programs... Our country is so divided, and we refuse to listen to any other group other than our own....Carney says he is going to unite us...I don't think that is possible....and i'm starting to think it may not be worth the effort....

Indeed, this is true and I suspect that The political power of those who don't want these people to be an eyesore.... Camping in our Parks... Or existing for that matter... Far outweighs the power of the afflicted. And yet, this system of collaborative and coordinated neglect is how we run all of our public institutions. So we get Rock bottom public costs, and problems not being solved, sometimes getting worse. And somehow this lowest common denominator still becomes fuel for populism. Once in awhile there's a huge event and everybody gets out of their chairs and starts yelling for a couple of weeks, then we go back to it.

Leftists: "That man was a VICTIM, dammit. This story is a testament to his tragedy, and the woman who was almost killed is an afterthought. In fact, she was probably just a CPC racist who deserved it. We need more victims like him released, not less. ALL HAIL CARNEY!"

Apparently he has had several interactions with police but until we know what kind they were, I'm not jumping to conclusions. Were they because he was presenting a danger to others or people were worried about him harming himself? Most mentally ill people are a greater danger to themselves than to others. I think it is very important that police should state whether they think something like this was motivated by terrorism or not.

And here's another thing: That id10t who was just here running his mouth, @CITIZEN_2015, is gone and he ain't coming back.

I've never seen the media and politicians try so hard to distance an attack like this from terrorism when it was a white guy who did it. Eg: The car of the Charlottesville attacker was attacked by a guy with a bat the instant before he sped off, but video of the scene, as shown by the MSM, is always started after the attack on his car and makes no mention of it. But he was not fleeing an angry, violent mob... Eg: Darrel Brooks killed about ten people and injured 50+, using the same vehicle that he used to run over his GF just two months earlier. He was also extremely politically active in favour of BLM and had posted about the Rittenhouse verdict just days before plowing through the crowd a few miles away from the courthouse where the Rittenhouse verdict was decided. But according to the MSM: "Brooks was fleeing a domestic dispute that happened a few miles away, that wasn't captured on video, when he just mowed his way through that crowd, running over more than fifty people." Eg: The Danforth shooter told people on the street "you're not in danger, I'm only looking for white people", but he wasn't religious, just had mental health issues, etc. But every single act of vandalism against a synogogue counts as a "white supremacist terrorist attack", none of them wer by muslims, and attacks against Christian churches are all considered "we didn't see nothin'.".

And ^this does not even account for the variations caused by a brain that is NOT SYNCHRONIZED with the body.

At the same time there is some validity to that. Imagine if the state had the ability to declare anyone they wanted mentally incompetent and have them locked up. That's been abused in history more than once and I'm afraid of giving someone like Justin Trudeau that kind of power over the citizenry So how do you circle that square?

And that's the thing. About 40% of all of the voters who are likely to vote have already voted before the story came out. I guess it's a bit of a cautionary tale. Don't vote Until the campaign is over Maybe it's time for us to revisit election laws in light of modern circumstances and require that campaigns be more like six or seven weeks long if we're going to have advanced polling open a week or two before the election. I also wouldn't mind seeing a law saying that in order to participate in the debates you have to have released your platform. That would put an end to this strategic release of platform nonsense that doesn't give Canadians enough time to look at the plans

Well as far as the cops are concerned the message there is we don't need to be afraid of a co-conspiracor driving another van through another group of people. They're rushing to try and make sure that everyone understands this is a one-off event and not likely the beginning of a series of attacks. It's a little early to say. This person may very well have had access to significant mental health resources. However they may not have been interested in pursuing that. I know of several cases, one that hit home personally, where people with mental health challenges are treated by medical experts and given medicines that will help correct their problem. But they tend to go off the medicine because it doesn't make them feel very well. They think they're coping so they stop using it and decide that they will go back to using it if they start having reoccurrences of the problem. Unfortunately these drugs are not the kind of drugs that you can take when you need them. They take time to begin to have an effect, they're not like a painkiller. And so the people often become very dangerously psychotic without warning even after months or years of having their condition under control. I'm really not 100% sure how you beat that. You could pass laws that say if the person is constantly having relapses or going off their meds then you could have a law that forces compulsion for them to have to be incarcerated while they are treated. And incarceration doesn't necessarily mean jail it could mean at a hospital or something similar. But I know that in many of these cases it's not a lack of treatment options, it's that you are relying on people with mental health issues to make good choices. One doesn't have to be a doctor to see the problem with that

I think they're also a little worried that people are going to panic believing that this is in some way tied with some of the civil unrest we've seen and that there might be additional perpetrators out there willing to commit these crimes again. If it's just one nut bar and we've got him in custody then people will feel slightly less panicked

Very similar indeed, although it's hard to see the picture in the dictionary clearly because it's partially obscured by a zucchini. I'm sure that's not relevant

Well I don't know about China but US Trump actually hurt Carney real bad last week by revealing a private conversion between them that he called Canada a 51st state. His intention was for sure not to help Varney as Liberal support dropped from 8 percent over the Cons to 3 two days ago and today bounced back to 4 percentage point. Tomorrow night we will have A Liberal majority government Liberals 192 seats the Cons 135 seats A strong majority.

Thanks for posting that. I was actually just about to say "How do the butthurt cultist losers here feel about all these people who refuse to look past Carney's lies and lucrative ties to the Chinese government?" I suggest you look up "integrity" in the dictionary, and then ask yourself why the two countries that we're in trade wars with are both going all-out in their support of Mark Carney... What's your reason for supporting that guy? Do you like being lied to? (We already know the answer, you don't have to say it) Do you like the fact that the Chinese gov't is investing in his election? Do you like that Trump wants him elected? Do you feel like Trump wants him elected because he feels like Carney - the guy who just moved Brookfield to Donald Trump's own state and then lied to us about it - will be a strong leader for Canada? Do you feel like the MSM needs billions of dollars the month before every election?

It's uncanny how similar he looks to the guy in the dictionary beside "ret4rded lunatic with memory issues".

What a load of claptrap. That was not a response, more like a kneejerk. You're trying to compare Goblins with Hobgoblins,

He does not. He still wanted his pension. What he probably regrets is that Trudeau was forced to step down. But if he had to do it all over again knowing that he would still wait to get his pension That's true. But even then the polls were suggesting his riding was in danger. It's worse now but it was not a slam dunk victory then either. He wasn't going to risk a pension worth something like 6 million dollars. He waited long enough to make sure his interests were secured and then he thought about Canada, by then it was too late

Carney's going to sell out Canada.....and, we won't even know about it. BY claiming that Trump had respected our sovereignty in their conversation - looks like, Carney's trying to white-wash Trump! 🤣 Same old Liberals! That's what we're gonna get! Final nail on the coffin!

This is the man who supports terrorism and has no sympathy for the woman who was beaten near to death Nobody pretends that it doesn't exist. Everybody says it exists. In fact harper did as much as a federal government could do to address that fact and it was a personal project of his. But your answer was safe supply and catch and release. And mental health has nothing to do with whether or not a criminal should be locked up. If you want to say that he should be locked up and while incarcerated receive proper mental health treatment so that one day he might be able to be a part of society again, sure knock yourself out. But that does not change the fact that if he is out on the street he is going to hurt or kill innocent people and you have no problem with that because you don't give a shit about their rights but you care all day and all night about the rights of a criminal who beats and tries to murder women. You are such a shoe stain.

Obviously he's talking about his emotional capacity, if he was talking about his physical brain the unit of measure would actually be PSI.

Aww, now you're calling yourself "featherweight"? Thanks for that flash of honesty.

Been there done that before...did you think this is the first I've tangled with right wing cawksuckers over your disgusting medieval attitudes towards mental illness? Our entire society has been a victim of these attitudes since before medieval times. Expressions of sympathy from lefties just pisses you people off more. You people use victims as props in your drive to see mental illness treated with vengeance instead of justice never mind with psychiatry.

Apparently on the call Carney told Trump he would have to talk tough about America and Trump for the campaign. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-fresh-questions-about-carneys-strategy-on-trump The man is a fraud people. Wake up!

This section of the Bible is apparently part of what is called the Olivet Discourse. It is prophecy about the future when the Lord returns. You can see that if you read Chapter 24 which precedes the part you posted. There are three classes of people present: the sheep, the goats, and the brethren. But the point I am making here is this is prophecy about the future events at the Lord's return after the Great Tribulation. It is not specifically referring to today. It is referring to how the gentile nations treated the brethren, who are the Jews, God's chosen people. This would require some study to understand. I admit I am not up on the details of the Olivet Discourse. But if you want to look into it you can. Just do a search with words something like: dispensational interpretation of Olivet Discourse. I would have to do some serious studying to really get into those verses and what they mean.

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💯 EXACTLY

Convict? He was already found guilty of being here illegally. He already had a deportation order.

Fyi: not real- https://www.fakeimagedetector.com/

Hers the full video. Prove that pic of him sleeping isn't a fake or just a still shot when his eyes happened to be closed.

Good luck to you too on Monday.

Conservatives will carry deficits too and much larger than what they are projecting. Their figures are wishful thinking but even with that they add close to 100 billion to deficit.

To convince undecided to vote for Carney. ps - please debate in a mature manner rather than insults. I get it you are losing and you are mad but we both want what is good for Canada. We just differ on what is better for Canada.

If we could use that meltdown to power a steam turbine we could generate approximately 1.3 megawatts of power! Robo! You're this close to being a renewable resource!

No, unlike you, I have read the report. You just read left-wing bloggers opinions and regurgitate them here half assed.

Geez i think you broke him. You have to go easy dude, please remember that encountering truth is to Robo Smith as stepping on a piece of Lego in the middle of the night barefoot is to us

But they did. That is exactly what happened. They changed the law to affect the statute of limitations so that trump could be charged with sexual harassment long after the statute of limitations ran out Did you forget that? This already happened. This isn't a conspiracy theory, everybody knows this to be fact LOL poor robosmith, Work up the courage to talk to me again and in three milliseconds you wind up looking like a Retarded lunatic with short-term memory issues

Lol...Leticia James is being destroyed and the Libbies can't save her. So delicious.

What a cesspool of negativity, rage, wild groundless accusations and pure distilled hatred. They seriously think and hope that it would help their cause. Why? Because that's who they are, how they think. This is the world that works for them that they cherish and admire. Do you want it as yours? If not my statement about has to be valid and true at least till some epiphany moment transpires. How and through what could it happen don't ask me.

'A number of people' killed in Vancouver after driver drives into crowd at festival There's no additional details of this time. The driver is in custody but nobody knows whether this was an accident or intentional or what happened. All of the sources do seem to confirm however that there was loss of life.

Are you so stupid you don't know that "arrested" is NOT convicted of "not following the law"? Garcia was "arrested" and sent to the gulag in El Salvador without ever being convicted of anything. Your HERO Trump has decided he alone can convict anyone without a trial, and you're celebrating that fascism. 🤮

Nothing of the kind. Rather, I'm describing a political and ideological entity based on objective and factually verifiable acts and statements of its members. Its leaders never distanced themselves and publicly denounced acts of rage and hatred. Then, on the individual level, one has to make the choice of either disengaging from it - that may include a publicly stated position or just staying away from anything related to it, ceasing participation and any support; or assuming a part of responsibility for every act that it inspires or directs and the consequences of it. What one cannot do in such situations is to pretend belief in some ideal, pure vision of the thing while silently condoning if not participating in what it does in the reality. This is not a choice that is valid logically and morally. If one isn't standing away from it, they will be sharing responsibility with it. This is how it worked and will be, always.