Born into Care International Perspectives on the Removal of Babies at Birth 🥚 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook-o...
Prison Adoptee
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Adopted person born to a criminalized and incarcerated mother at the Andrew Mercer Reformatory. Many adoptees across Canada remain unaware of their carceral birth histories. Follow @amreformatory.bsky.social. https://andrewmercerreformatory.org/
As the current National Housing Strategy reaches the end of its cycle in 2027–2028 and a new strategy is being developed, Canada has the chance to reflect on the lessons of the past decade and chart a new path forward.
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Andrew Mercer Ontario Reformatory for Females@amreformatory.bsky.social · last wk.For centuries, pregnant women were incarcerated, and their babies were forcibly removed for adoption—while few questioned it. This Article uses systems theory to outline the problem of automatic rights denial of children born to incarcerated persons. 👇 journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/cj...
What they don't mention are the women and girls who died there, or the babies born to incarcerated mothers and taken for adoption.
Andrew Mercer Ontario Reformatory for Females@amreformatory.bsky.social · 3w agoBefore it was Toronto's trendiest neighborhood, Liberty Village was home to the Toronto Central Prison and the Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women; institutions built to hold the people the city didn't want to see. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cmi...
Adoptees of Bluesky: Has anyone heard any critiques of the Northern Ireland redress scheme?🥚 www.executiveoffice-ni.gov.uk/news/ministe...
Ministers welcome Public Inquiry and Redress Scheme legislation
First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly have welcomed the passage of the Inquiry (Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses) and Redress S...
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🥚Shame on Canada and others!👇
Andrew Mercer Ontario Reformatory for Females@amreformatory.bsky.social · 4w ago🧵Canada has had NO comparable Truth Recovery Independent Panel to investigate maternity homes, reformatories, Good Shepherd Institutions, refuges, rescue homes, asylums, industrial and training schools, and other institutions in which women and girls were confined. www.tiktok.com/@newscoolfm/...
Responses to Sweden’s 2025 Adoption Reckoning by @tobiashubinette.bsky.social, born in South Korea, adopted to Sweden, academic 🥚 intercountryadopteevoices.com/2026/07/08/r...
Responses to Sweden’s 2025 Adoption Reckoning | InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV)
Sweden’s 2025 Adoption Commission report sparks adoptee, parent and agency responses on apology, support, reform, reparations and accountability.
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1/6🧵 Ontario decided it needed a separate prison for women. The result was the Andrew Mercer Ontario Reformatory for Females, which opened on August 28, 1880. During the next 89 years, more than 20,000 women and girls would pass through its gates.
🥚I guarantee this adoptee would have no knowledge of their mother's tragic history of abuse. Image from the document dated Jan 26, 2026 Application to Institute Proceedings clg.org/Class-Action...
Prison Adoptee@prisonadoptee.bsky.social · last mo.
I had no idea!! Almost 20,000 in psychiatric hospitals in Ireland!! What would Canada find? While I research the Mercer Reformatory, I have had a few touch base with me born in psychiatric hospitals and adopted. 🥚 Read the whole article here: theconversation.com/mother-and-b...
16x9 - Slave Labour: Magdalene Laundries disgraced Irish Catholic women In a 16x9 exclusive, we discover Canadian laundries and speak to a woman who says she was born into slave labour. 🥚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD9u...
16x9 - Slave Labour: Magdalene Laundries disgraced Irish Catholic women
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Last chance to share your feedback! The deadline to provide a written submission to the National Housing Council’s review panel on #AccessibleHousing is June 22! Make your submission here: nhc-cnl.ca/review-panel...
National Housing Council - Shaping the future of housing in Canada through inclusion and participation
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Office of the Federal Housing Advocate@housinglogement.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe deadline to provide a written submission to the National Housing Council’s review panel on #AccessibleHousing is June 22! Make a written submission here: nhc-cnl.ca/review-panel...
Have lax laws left the for-profit adoption industry ripe for misconduct? FRONTLINE and Retro Report investigate how so-called baby brokers have targeted pregnant women and families looking to adopt, and an epicenter of the problem in Utah.🥚👇 www.pbs.org/video/baby-b...
FRONTLINE | "Baby Brokers" - Preview | Season 2026 | Episode 7
Have lax laws left the for-profit adoption industry ripe for misconduct?
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Research has consistently demonstrated that poverty, housing insecurity, untreated mental health challenges, addiction, childhood trauma, and a lack of community supports are among the strongest predictors of criminal legal system involvement. 6/8
There is a common misconception that safe consumption sites encourage drug use. The purpose of these services is to save lives, recognizing that people cannot recover if they are dead. 1/12 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Dread and anxiety as Ottawa's last supervised injection sites prepare to close | CBC News
Ottawa’s last supervised drug consumption sites will close for good this week, and many within that community warn the city will come to regret it.
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Access to prison records was previously limited under claims that the YCJA protected the records of girls under 18. My group and I challenged this barrier and were successful. Learn more below.🥚👇
Andrew Mercer Ontario Reformatory for Females@amreformatory.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe worked hard to break down this barrier. Three years. Multiple IPC orders. Dismissed reconsideration requests. The YCJA does not retroactively restrict access to records solely because an individual was under 18 while incarcerated at Mercer. PO-4827-R canlii.ca/t/kl2n3
Why do we comply? Habit? Trust? Because we've been taught not to question things? Millions filled out the long-form census without a second thought. Most of us don't recognize when our rights may be eroded until someone raises a red flag. www.jccf.ca/constitution...
Constitutional challenge launched over compelled disclosure of sensitive personal information in 2026 census | Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms
CALGARY, AB: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that lawyers funded by the Justice Centre have filed an application for judicial review in Federal Court challenging certain porti...
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"The worst thing they did was make us grateful." Good explanation of how gratitude was manufactured among the Orphan Train riders.🥚 Hope the link works. www.facebook.com/reel/1770764...
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@adopteereading.bsky.social A category for adoptees with a carceral birth, perhaps? Laureen Pittman and Deborah Jiang-Stein are both adoptees who have published books. Hopefully, mine will join them soon.🥚 Great website - thank you!👇
Adoptee Reading@adopteereading.bsky.social · 2mo agoHello again, adoptee readers! This post explains why our website was inaccessible for several months. Adoptee Reading is now back online & ready to continue helping adopted people discover #adoption literature from the #adoptee perspective. adopteereading.com/2026/06/01/a...
Hello again, adoptee readers! This post explains why our website was inaccessible for several months. Adoptee Reading is now back online & ready to continue helping adopted people discover #adoption literature from the #adoptee perspective. adopteereading.com/2026/06/01/a...
Adoptee Reading Is Back!
Hello again, adoptee readers! Some of you may have noticed that Adoptee Reading has been inaccessible for many months. In late 2025, I realized that the site was being inundated with traffic origin…
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National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pb...
National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking - 2023-2025 Report
This report highlights efforts undertaken by federal departments between April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2025, to advance key commitments under the National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking. It also i...
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🥚I corruption just never ends. They should be investigating prisons though in every country!!
Nelly Delly@marconi333.bsky.social · 2mo agoCosta Rica confronts child welfare history that has long gone unexamined. Investigations into int'l adoptions between 1970s and 90s when hundreds of children left for Scandinavia, often under circumstances now being questioned as fraudulent, coercive or legally void. ticotimes.net/2026/05/20/c...
🥚A Saskatchewan group called AIM (Adopt Indian and Métis) aired May 30, 1968. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Adoption agency seeks homes for Indigenous and Métis children in 1968
A Saskatchewan group called AIM (Adopt Indian and Métis) describes its success at placing children in new homes. Aired May 30, 1968 on CBC-TV news with reporter Craig Oliver.
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LANDMARK COURT DECISION COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING FOR HOW CANADA ADDRESSES HOMELESSNESS For the first time in nearly 25 years, a Canadian court has extended new constitutional protections—this time for the equality rights of people experiencing homelessness— housingrights.ca/waterloo-dec...
The National Right to Housing Network
A national network dedicated to the progressive realization of the right to housing in Canada, and its meaningful implementation.
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