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Mark Carney is looking to eliminate personal #privacy from #Canada. The government will be able to demand anyone that provides electronic services (which includes anyone who has an email address) develop such tracking capabilities as the government may order and then demand that information with reasonable grounds to suspect any federal offence: https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-22/first-reading
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EUGENICS, REPACKAGED AS BIOLOGICAL FREEDOM
In the industrial heart of Kitchener, Ontario, A.R. Kaufman, a wealthy factory owner and staunch capitalist, helped pioneer the birth control movement in Canada. But his motivations were far from progressive. Kaufman’s advocacy for contraception and sterilization was not rooted in a desire to empower women or alleviate poverty. Instead, it stemmed from a fervent belief in eugenics: the idea that society should rid itself of its undesirable elements.
The 1892 Criminal Code criminalized the sale and distribution of contraceptive products and the dissemination of information about them. Despite these barriers, the birth control movement gained momentum. In 1932, Elizabeth Bagshaw, one of Canada’s first female physicians, became the medical director of Canada’s first birth control clinic in Hamilton. It operated illegally but with quiet support from sympathetic doctors. Around the same time, A.R. Kaufman launched his Parents’ Information Bureau (PIB) in Kitchener, Ontario.
The PIB distributed contraceptive materials—including spermicidal jelly, diaphragms and informational pamphlets—by mail and arranged referrals to doctors willing to perform sterilizations. Kaufman’s program quickly expanded, serving tens of thousands of clients annually and playing a significant role in shaping public discourse around birth control in Canada.
Kaufman’s efforts began close to home. When faced with the reality that many of his employees at the Kaufman Rubber Company could not afford to support their families, rather than increase their wages, Kaufman launched a birth control program targeting his workers. Over 1,000 employees were sterilized under this initiative.
Kaufman’s belief in eugenics, coupled with his desire to maintain social control, are on stark display in a letter to American journalist, H.L. Mencken.
“I have said, and still think, we must choose between birth control and revolution…Many of these people are not willing to work but I do not criticize them harshly for their lack of ambition when they are the offspring of people no better than themselves,” Kaufman wrote.
Kaufman made no bones about the lengths to which he was willing to go to rid society of undesirables.
“I agree it might be more merciful and cheaper to ‘have at them [the poor] with machine guns,’ but the law has an inconvenient way of insisting on prolonging people’s agony,” he wrote.
He went on to describe his sterilization efforts as the “next best” solution. His hope, he said, was that public authorities would eventually take over the work.
“If you manage to sterilize a few thousand liabilities the work may eventually get public recognition,” he wrote.
Kaufman’s influence extended far beyond Kitchener. He lobbied governments across Canada to adopt birth control and sterilization programs, particularly targeting Indigenous communities and the working poor. His efforts were part of a broader eugenics movement that gained traction in Canada in the early twentieth century, fueled by fears of overpopulation, economic instability and racial mixing. While many eugenicists distanced themselves from the ideology after World War II, Kaufman remained a vocal proponent, simply rebranding his campaign as “responsible parenthood”.
This strategic shift in language coincided with the lead-up to the 1969 decriminalization of birth control in Canada. By then, Kaufman had positioned himself as a public health advocate, masking his eugenic goals behind the veneer of social responsibility. But the underlying ideology remained unchanged.
As Karen Stote, assistant professor in the Women and Gender Program at Wilfrid Laurier University, notes, Kaufman’s work was never about reproductive freedom—it was about population control. His programs disproportionately targeted Indigenous women, and his legacy continues to echo in ongoing debates about reproductive justice and medical consent.
Kaufman’s capitalist background also played a key role in shaping his views. He was fiercely anti-union and saw birth control as a way to manage labor rather than empower it. Rather than addressing systemic inequality, he sought to eliminate the poor altogether.
“My first reaction when I took an interest in the deplorable state of affairs of some people was ‘to dump them in the lake,’” he wrote. “Since my idea was also impractical from a legal standpoint, I decided to do the next best.”
Kaufman’s influence also reached into the legal realm through his support of Dorothea Palmer, a birth control advocate who was arrested in 1936 during the Eastview birth control trial in Ontario. Palmer was charged under the Criminal Code for distributing birth control information, but Kaufman funded her legal defense, arguing that her actions were in the public interest.
The case became a landmark moment in Canadian reproductive rights history, and Palmer was ultimately acquitted. Kaufman’s backing of Palmer further illustrates his strategic efforts to normalize birth control, even as his motivations remained rooted in eugenics.
For the Waterloo Region community, this legacy is especially poignant. Today, the legacy of A.R. Kaufman is deeply contested. While some credit him with helping to normalize birth control in Canada, others point to the coercive and discriminatory nature of his programs.
His name has been removed from schools, and scholars like Stote continue to uncover the extent of his influence on policies that harmed marginalized communities.
Kaufman’s programs and ideology were not abstract policies but lived realities for local families, many of whom were directly impacted by his sterilization initiatives and anti-union practices. His name, once emblazoned on local institutions, now prompts reflection on how communities remember and reconcile complex histories.
The birth control movement in Canada did eventually lead to greater reproductive autonomy for many women. But its origins are steeped in a history of control, not liberation. Kaufman’s story is a reminder that social progress can emerge from deeply flawed beginnings—and that we must confront those origins honestly if we hope to build a more just future.
Eastview, site of birth control trial in 1936.Kaufman Rubber Factory.#aRKaufman #angusMclaren #birthControl #CriminalCode #FionaMcAlister #hLMencken #karenStote #moreThanJustBootsTheEugenicAndCommercialConcernsOfARKaufmanSBirthControllingActivities #wilfridLaurierUniversity #womenAndGenderProgram
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Netflix Renews Brazilian Crime Hit ‘Criminal Code’ For Season 3
#News #CriminalCode #HeitorDhalia #Netflixhttps://deadline.com/2025/07/netflix-criminal-code-season-three-renewal-1236448711/
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The Criminal Code: Season 2 Trailer is HERE, and it’s a wild ride! Join the hunt for the Phantom Gang in this explosive Brazilian crime drama, dropping June 4 on Netflix.
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‘Criminal Code’ Season 2: Heitor Dhalia On Making Netflix’s Breakout Brazilian Crime Drama
#News #Brazil #CriminalCode #HeitorDhalia #Netflixhttps://deadline.com/2025/04/criminal-code-season-2-heitor-dhalia-netflix-brazil-drama-1236364213/
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Lawyer Pushes Back Against Accusations that Critics of Bill C-63 are “Rage Farming”
A lawyer has spoken out against the personal attacks pushed by the government. She explains that there are valid criticisms towards Bill C-63.
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Why the Criminal Code and Human Rights Act Provisions Should Be Removed from the Online Harms Act - Michael Geist https://ap236.com/0do7V7 #OnlineHarmsAct #HumanRightsCode #CriminalCode #cdnpoli @canadiangreens @cdnpoli
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CW: Indonesia summons UN official over criminal code comment, Bali in damage control over non marital sex
After the United Nations posted a statement of concern on Indonesia’s new Criminal Code, the Foreign Ministry summoned a UN official to provide an explanation.
The DPR and the Ministry both consider the statement to be a violation of the country’s sovereignty in enacting its own domestic laws. The Foreign Ministry expressed disappointment and said the UN should have communicated privately with the government instead of releasing a public statement. It’s the view of the United Nations that Indonesia has an obligation to follow the United Nations Charter as the country is a member state and also a member of the UN Human Rights Council.
The UN expressed concerns over the freedom of opinion and expression, including the ability to criticize the government and members of the government, which are curtailed in the new Criminal Code.
Separately, Bali is in full damage control thanks to widespread misunderstanding and misreporting of the upcoming Criminal Code which won’t be implemented for another three years. Tourist cancellations, driven by fears that the moral police will be checking up on their sexual activities, have spooked the government.
The Bali government have said that they will not be checking on the marital status of holidaymakers and other visitors at any point and that they should not be worried.
That is actually inaccurate, because if a foreigner happen to be in a relationship with a local resident and an immediate family member of the local resident objects to their cohabitation and sexual relations, they can file a police report. Similarly if the foreigner happen to be married and is having a extramarital relations while in Indonesia, their legal spouse can report them.
#Indonesia #CriminalCode #KUHP #tourists #Bali #UnitedNations #FreedomofExpression
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Indonesia bans sex outside marriage in new criminal code
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#Indonesia passes #criminalcode banning sex outside of marriage
....New defamation articles also make it illegal for people to insult the president or express opinions against the national ideology.
However legislators said they had added defences for free speech and protests made in the "public interest".
Still, #HumanRights Watch on Tuesday said the new code's provisions were a "disaster" for human rights.
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Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦 @[email protected] ·> 217.1 Every one who undertakes, or has the authority, to direct how another person does work or performs a task is under a legal duty to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm to that person, or any other person, arising from that work or task.
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This means if your employer is *not* taking reasonable steps to prevent you from getting covid, they are criminally guilty of dereliction of duty. It's not just labour law they are breaking.