How media fuels authoritarian policies on mental health and addiction
Marcus Gee provides the latest entry into a genre of commentary that depicts mental illness and drug use as an urgent threat to public safety.
Anyone who follows the news in any major Canadian city over the past few years has likely heard some variation of this refrain from politicians and the media:
There’s chaos and disorder in the streets. Someone needs to step in to protect law-abiding citizens from random vi…
