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Aug 5, 2026
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Vaughn Palmer: Court overturns B.C.'s unique law for forced treatment of people with mental illness
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Vaughn Palmer: Court overturns B.C.'s unique law for forced treatment of people with mental illness
Opinion: Province has no research to back up claim it has better results than other provinces
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By Vaughn Palmer
Published Aug 05, 2026
Last updated 4 hours ago
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The most obvious shortcoming was the province's failure to do a proper comparison of the mental health regimes in other regi…
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