Feeling sad and depressed? You might be suffering from capitalism.

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There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

By Audre Lorde

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Area-based social determinants of health (SDOH), including neighborhood income and social deprivation, were independently associated with worse cardiovascular outcomes amo...

https://www.ajmc.com/view/area-level-sdoh-linked-to-worse-cardiovascular-outcomes-in-hypertrophic-cardiomyopathy#research #socialdeterminantsofhealth

Canada is always held up as being considerably better than the United States as far as racism goes*.

And while there are definitely little pockets where you can mostly not be irritated by racist assholes daily, the systemic issues are still the systemic issues.

This week, a report came out from the Black Women’s Institute for Health and Street Voices about the state of Black women's health in Canada.

https://bwhealthinstitute.com/voices-unheard/

There is an executive summary of sorts available at this link:

https://www.streetvoices.ca/news/voices-unheard-a-historic-report-reveals-the-urgent-state-of-black-womens-health-in-canada-977

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For the first time in Canadian history, nearly 2,000 Black women, girls, and gender-diverse people have come together to share their lived experiences navigating the health system — and what they expose is a national crisis that can no longer be ignored.
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I'd wager that it WILL, in fact, continue to be ignored, much like the Ontario Human Rights Commission's most recent report on anti-Black racism in the Toronto Police Service is the umpteenth report on anti-Black racism in the Toronto Police Service.
And it never actually goes away.

Canada is functionally two mining companies and a bank in a trench coat whose population likes to tell itself fairy tales about Its place in the world. Anything that undermines the collective state of suspended disbelief is touted as "anti-Canadian" or "racist against white people".

Which, I guess, means that reality itself is "racist against white people".

The PDF of the report itself is available here:
https://bwhealthinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Voices-Unheard-Healthcare-Barriers-and-the-Lived-Experinces-of-Black-Women-in-Canada.pdf
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* I have not stepped foot in the US in well over a decade as my personal boycott, but I do recall distinctly commenting that crossing that border was like getting in a fucking time machine and going the wrong way. But it's really just comparing a dumpster fire to a forest fire.
Neither is desirable.

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"Wealth-based eugenics is a quiet algorithm: it doesn’t kill; it sorts.
The unsorted don’t survive the wait. The ledger calls it efficiency." The Aberration Hypothesis - 2026 - L. Nault

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