A woman from Canada with severe ME has been approved for MAiD – but she wants to live
After decades battling severe ME/CFS and systemic lack of support, Marcia Doherty - known online as "Madeline" - is going...
Bristol Palestine protest this Saturday will show a Christmas nativity scene under the horrors of Israel’s genocide
Palestine supporters will be marching through central Bristol this Saturday 21 December to draw attention to the links between Palestine...
The government’s response to Maeve’s inquest report is dire for severe ME patients
Health minister Andrew Gwynne has shown how little the new Labour Party government will actually do to fix the abysmal...
A bold new project is reclaiming disabled people’s history that’s previously been erased
A new disabled-led project, the Disability Action Research Kollective, is working on “reclaiming disabled history” to help centre ableism across...
Whistleblower tells the Canary the DWP Restart scheme is ‘little more than glorified CV advice’
A participant on a flagship Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) back to work programme has spoken out about their...
Just one disabled MP sitting on the Assisted Dying Bill committee shows what a sham it is
Membership of the committee set to scrutinise Kim Leadbeater’s bill to legalise assisted dying shows already that the process will...
A severe ME/CFS patient in Pakistan is urgently fundraising for crucial surgery
In Pakistan, severely chronically ill disability advocate and survivor of domestic violence Nevra Liz Ahmed urgently needs surgery for a...
DWP strips severely chronically ill mother and disabled son of £8k a year in Universal Credit migration
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Universal Credit mandatory managed migration has stripped a severely chronically ill and largely...
Channel 4 denies Fraser Nelson’s Dispatches conflict of interest – as Nelson boasts otherwise
After the Canary revealed the glaring conflict of interest of presenter Fraser Nelson in Channel 4’s Dispatches, the producer has...
Fraser Nelson failed to declare massive conflict of interest with Dispatches’ Britain’s Benefits Scandal
A Channel 4 Dispatches documentary on DWP disability benefits came right out of the poverty porn playbook of the worst...
A hospital in New Zealand discharged a young severe ME/CFS patient to a care home for pensioners
A hospital in New Zealand discharged a 34-year-old severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) patient to a care home for pensioners. There,...
The Samaritans are blocking people’s telephone numbers if they call too much
Content warning: this article contains references to suicide, trauma, and mental health that some readers may find distressing. On its...
The DWP has now stripped over 150,000 CHILDREN of benefits due to Universal Credit migration
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has now stripped more than 318,000 people of their benefits via the managed...
Pro-assisted dying group has its origins in eugenics – and it all revolves around your favourite chocolate company
What does a sitting Labour MP, a multimillion charitable trust, and the most prominent UK-based pro-assisted dying lobby group have...
The corporate media could learn a lot from a Sheffield-based project on journalism
Sheffield-based border abolition project Give Over has put together an abolitionist journalism toolkit for editors and journalists reporting on immigration....
Suffolk County Council’s deadly catalogue of failures in dementia case revealed
A bereaved daughter had to produce her own adult safeguarding review, after Suffolk County Council and joint safeguarding authorities utterly...
A young woman with severe ME/CFS in Pakistan needs an in-person advocate – can you help?
A young woman, Nevra, who lives with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) is issuing an urgent call out for an in-person...
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