friends4Lisa

Contents  Intro   Overview   Timeline   Intro    "These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to one another, render true and perfect justice in your gates."      - Zech. 8:16 (JPS) "The idea according to which life in a democracy is fundamentally peaceful, policed, and violence-free (...) does not stand up to the slightest scrutiny. [....] [T]hey have integrated forms of brutality into their culture, forms borne by a range of private institutions acting on top of the state[.]"     - Achille Mbembe, "Necropolitics" This timeline was begun in 2019, and published with an online petition concerning the death of my partner, publicly identified as Lisa (not her real name, but a name by which she was known), on Nov 14, 2017, of disputed causes, while a PhD student at the University of Toronto's Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies. In June 2022, the timeline was significantly expanded and an...

Note on CBC coverage In examining media coverage of the University of Toronto "mental health crisis" in major news sources, I believe the CBC's limited coverage of this crisis deserves particular scrutiny.  A search in July 2021 turned up approximately eight articles and three videos in some 5 years, specifically relating to the mental health crisis, all but two of which are from 2019. An earlier article addressed the Minden Park "accident" on Sept 4, 2018 , while four articles covered the death of an international student in an off campus house fire on May 30, 2018 , and resulting charges. Both of these incidents were reported in numerous sources at the time they occurred. The earliest article specifically addressing mental health concerns and suicides appeared on March 18, 2019 in connection with a student protest following the second Bahen Centre death on March 17, 2019 , and fully a year and a half after the first known student deaths in this context in 2...