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 ...
Tag: chronic illness
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 ...
Meet Natassa, who desperately needs a stem cell donor this Christmas
A family from South London are making a desperate appeal on behalf of their 19-year-old daughter. Natassa urgently needs to ...
Traitors and Dancing On Ice star Mollie Pearce is supporting a vital charity this Christmas
The children's bladder and bowel charity ERIC has just launched its Radio 4 appeal for this Christmas, which is being ...
The Covid Day of Reflection is a disgrace and an ill-advised insult to millions of people
The Canary has given me the chance to write an article on Lisa Nandy’s ill-advised decision to hold a UK ...
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 ...
The government could be in the dock over its failure to protect disabled people from climate crisis
Friends of the Earth and two co-claimants are appealing against the High Court’s decision in October to reject their legal ...
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 ...
The DWP is facing court action next week which Labour shamelessly CHOSE to defend
On Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 November, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is in court in London. Campaigner ...
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 ...
The DWP Christmas bonus should now be worth a staggering £327. Yet it’s still £10.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has said it will be paying claimants their £10 DWP Christmas bonus soon. ...
Accessible transport is not accessible AT ALL – with 92% of disabled people now facing barriers
The National Centre for Accessible Transport (NCAT) has found that 92% of disabled people they spoke with face barriers when ...
UN Day of Disabled People is a FARCE in a country that wants us all dead
Hello again, on 'IDPD2024!' It’s been a while since I wrote this because among other things, I’ve been deep in ...
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 ...
Disabled people can no longer trust parliament or MPs – as Assisted Dying Bill is passed
Kim Leadbeater's Assisted Dying Bill has passed through parliament at its second reading - despite vigorous campaigning from chronically ill ...
Fletcher and his mum are raising awareness for ERIC – the charity that supported them
Around three children in every primary school class in the UK is suffering with a bladder or bowel health condition, ...
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