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So today's topic is medical assistance in dying, known as Maid, a program in the Canadian

healthcare system that provides medical aid and or assistance in dying. Although it may seem like a narrow issue or a clear cut at face value,

Maid serves as a telling example of the systemic logics of austerity that the surplus class

faces with lessons to teach us about the political economy of health,

especially in the current context of the Canadian healthcare system,

which is pointed to as a gold standard by some health activists in the United States, and which

is currently undergoing several different fights against attempts to further privatized an already

fractured system. So we have a great guest joining us to talk about this. Cassandra Kislenko,

who is a journalist in Toronto, has been

reporting on Canadian healthcare and made from a disability justice informed perspective.

She has a big reported piece about this forthcoming in the baffler that is just fantastic

that might be published by the time that this is released, and also a really good piece that

just came out in the Maple called

how healthcare privatization in Ontario made the pandemic worse. So we'll get to how these two things

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