The organizers of last week's Mad Pride festival want you to know that the property on Queen and Shaw, currently home to the Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), harbours an unsavory past. To glimpse this history, one need only look at the historic brick walls that line the premises. These century-old partitions were built almost entirely by patients of the former Provincial Lunatic Asylum—without pay—just one example of the exploitative labour practices that played a central role in the operation of that controversial institution.

Photo by wili_hybrid. There is little more dreadful for a parent than unintentionally hurting one’s own child. There is little more traumatic for a child than having something they dearly want taken away from them. A Toronto psychologist is under fire for recommending controversial treatments which some believe cause just that. A heartbreaking NPR documentary [...]