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Christopher Lyon
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Academic. Personal. Posts about research (work), life, and societal issues.

CW: some posts about euthanasia/assisted suicide.

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Canada-US relations imiating art.

Canadian Bacon: youtu.be/VcPyKQIfNSs?...
Globe and Mail newspaper headline from 15 February 2025 Canada’s best players and crowd stood up against the U.S. despite 4 Nations loss Once again, they asked the Montreal crowd not to boo the U.S. hockey team or its anthem on Saturday night. So they booed.
February 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Thomas et al. found that family members in one region in Canada are permitted to kill their loved one .
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The 2018 CAMAP conference report quotes a veterinarian working as MAID provider (see bottom of page 40). camapcanada.ca/wp-content/u...

All illegal.
In one health region, if explicitly requested by a patient, family members were permitted to assist or provide the lethal medication without facing criminal charges.
February 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Slight correction: There is legally a choice between self-admin (oral, usually) and injection MAID outside of injection-only Québec, but some provincial and local health authority documents suggest the former is simply unavailable or not offered.

www.saskhealthauthority.ca/your-health/...
Currently in Saskatchewan, there is no oral consumption option for medical assistance in dying.
February 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Only three provinces are publicly known to track apparent non-Criminal Code compliant deaths in MAID.
1 Québec's annual reports list over a dozen every year.
2 Ontario's new MDRC rpts some. Privately maybe >400.
www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
3 BC www2.gov.bc.ca/enSearch/det... 👇
List of British Columbia MAID Oversight Unit referrals to Colleges of Physcians and Surgeons and police and the reasons: Assessor or provider: - “concluded patient was eligible but did not find they met all individual eligibility criteria” - “Missing information, refusal to cooperate with Oversight Unit, conduct” - “Repeated late, missing, and incomplete documentation” - “Potential impact of patient's condition on their capacity” - “Assessor's assessment incomplete” - “Assessment conducted by a registrant not licensed at appropriate level” - “Repeated late, missing, and incomplete documentation” Criminal Code Sections 241.2(1) and 241.2(3) - Criminal MAID eligibility and safeguard violations
February 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Fab to see this last night. And in such a gorgeous venue.

Also, I learnt the Merchant Taylors' arms feature 'camel leopards' drawn like spotted camels. We know them as giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis). Early taxonomists called them 'camel leopards'.

Paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
At that time taxonomic classification was the thrust of scientific research sparked by Linnaeus’s publication of his binomial system in Systema Naturae in 1735, and its definitive 10th edition of 1758 (Linnaeus, 1758). Linnaeus placed giraffes in the genus Cervus with deer as he thought it was related to the deer family by virtue of its antler-like horns and he gave it the species name of camelopardalis, the name given to giraffes by the Romans. In 1762 the French zoologist Mathurin Brisson placed it in a new genus, Giraffa. He thought that the horns were permanent, and this difference merited its placement in its own genus. He also gave it the species name, giraffa (Brisson, 1762). Neither Brisson nor Linnaeus had ever seen a giraffe. Settling the taxonomic controversy using real specimens was, therefore, a primary goal of Allamand. Thus on 31 October 1766 he wrote to M. Louis Daubenton, a member of the French Academy of Sciences, about the young calf.
December 3, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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Here's Ontario guidance.
www.cpso.on.ca/Physicians/P...
"Completion of Death Certificate If, after reviewing the report provided, the OCC determines that no investigation is needed, physicians who provided MAID must complete the medical certificate of death.33 When completing the death certificate35 physicians: must list the illness, disease, or disability leading to the request for MAID as the cause of death; and must not make any reference to MAID or the drugs administered on the death certificate."
October 10, 2023 at 1:12 PM
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Everyone should read this book.
Cover of the novel 'Parable of the Sower' but Octavia E Butler. Cover has a cream background with a figure of a Black woman in a red and orange dress and head covering in a side profile facing the the right. Title is in red serif font, with the author's name is in large sans serif font. Other text includes 'Winner of a MacArhtur "Genius" grant' and supporting comparing it to 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale.
October 6, 2023 at 11:46 AM
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I'm doing some reading on 'time' these days and am struck by this passage from Mykaela Saunders essay 'Everywhen: Against ‘the power of now’ in the Griffith Review.

www.griffithreview.com/articles/eve...
"The Western, colonial-capitalist imagination measures time as a straight line from beginning to end, with finite points bookending this line. Think about where you were born and think about where you are now: do you see all the space and time in between those two points as a straight line? How could that be, when you’ve taken thousands of twirls upon the planet and maybe circled dozens of times around the sun? Nothing in the universe is ever still, and nothing travels straight. Yet if there is one hallmark of the non-Indigenous, it is the proclivity to force the mind – which exists in a round world that spins and twirls – into straight lines where none actually exist."
October 5, 2023 at 3:55 PM
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Chaotic evil, lab edition. Tape notes to random computers with warnings like:

"Remote working, do not turn off"

"Model running, do not touch"

Nobody will touch these machines or the desks they sit on - for YEARS.

Unrelated: Be nice to your PhDs and postdocs before they leave. #phdchat

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Hand written note on piece of paper taped to desktop computer tower stating, "Please don't turn me off working remotely."
October 2, 2023 at 2:12 PM