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When Ottawa Police were criticized for ignoring criminal negligence concerning persons disabled by sensitivities, they put their best man on it. Scott Nystedt. When Nystedt moved on, they gave the file to John McGetrick. Both were previously with OPP:
August 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Ontario Minister of Labour, 1988
July 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Care providers have legal responsibilities
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Care providers have legal responsibilities
Care providers have legal responsibilities Disabling reactions may be caused by inappropriate treatments
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July 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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As our allies abandon the Ottawa Convention against landmines, Canada must publicly defend it, writes HRC Researcher @amandaghahremani.com:
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Opinion: As our allies abandon the Ottawa Convention against landmines, Canada must publicly defend it
The NATO summit is the ideal place to push back on five allies’ efforts to withdraw from our namesake treaty, which bans the use of explosives that typically kill civilians
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June 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Benedetti, Flanders, Leznof, and Stewart dismissed millions of Canadians. Two journalists, a researcher and a physician pushed a false binary, ignored the “other side,” and omitted findings of Ontario reports, U.S. studies, and the federal health department. Since then immunopsychiatry has emerged.
June 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Sensitivities are easily diagnosed
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Sensitivities are easily diagnosed
Physicians use long-approved, publicly-insured methods
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June 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Environmental sensitivities are not “a disease”.
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June 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I've started a Substack journal about human rights and persons with sensitivities, including allergies. It will focus on the abuse of people whose psychosocial problems are caused or exacerbated by psych sequelae of sensitivities. Here's my first entry:

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Environmental sensitivities are not new.
Sensitivities have been known to medicine for centuries.
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June 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Pesticide or herbicide spraying in your Ontario municipality? A former OHRC Commissioner reminds us it's important to accommodate persons with sensitivities:
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OHRC Keith Norton to Pat Vanini, AMO : Keith Norton, OHRC : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Note requesting that Ontario municipalities keep in mind the rights of persons with environmental sensitivities when considering their response to West Nile...
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May 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It is unfortunate that this field is being invisibilized in Canada, mostly due to an astonishing level of hostility among psychiatrists. However, it is good to see the issue moving forward elsewhere.

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Experiences in implementing immunopsychiatry in real life
Immunological mechanisms, both alone and in combination, are associated with a broad range of psychiatric disorders encompassing autoimmune, autoinfla…
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May 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
BBC health reporter James Gallagher explores the evidence that a dysfunctional immune system is responsible for the depression or psychotic illness of thousands, perhaps millions, of Britons. People may benefit from treatments aimed at the immune systems rather than their brain cells. (2016)
BBC Radio 4 - The Inflamed Mind
Can your immune system make you psychotic or depressed?
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April 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Asthmatic patients are being encouraged to opt for environmentally friendly inhalers after it was revealed the most popular versions emit the same amount of greenhouse gas as a car journey between London and Sheffield.

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Asthma inhalers emit same amount of carbon as 180-mile drive, health watchdog warns
Greenhouse gases in 100-dose inhaler equivalent to driving from London to Sheffield, new guidance warns
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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HRC Research Fellow Amanda Ghahremani spoke with CANADALAND on the International Court of Justice's ruling of “real and imminent risk” of genocide in Gaza, and the provisional measures Israel must take in order to prevent it:
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#82 Could Canada Be Complicit in a ‘Plausible Genocide’?
The ICJ court ruled that Palestinians in Gaza face a “real and imminent risk” of genocide, and laid out the provisional measures Israel must take in order to prevent it.
www.canadaland.com
January 31, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Sensitivities over millenia...

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November 17, 2024 at 6:46 PM
1834 - idiosyncrasies
November 17, 2024 at 4:31 PM