Isabel Grant

@igrantubc

Law Professor specializing in criminal and mental health law. VAW and disability advocate.

Vancouver Joined January 2011

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"79% of measures that are deemed to benefit one gender over another favour men. 60 measures are defined as benefiting “majority men,” 12 are judged to benefit “predominantly men,” whereas only 16 measures are deemed to benefit “majority women,” and 3 benefit “predominantly women.

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Why should protection against foreseeably devastating injury or death depend on proving the person applying the pressure personally appreciated its risk? Where the woman has died and cannot testify about consent, the law urgently needs safeguards. policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/11/sexual…

policyoptions.irpp.org Canada must stop treating sexual strangulation as just rough sex An Ontario ruling exposes a gap in Canada’s consent law that can leave women unprotected from the lethal risks of sexual strangulation.

Isabel Grant @igrantubc Oct 29

These issues are too important to play politics on – this is the obvious solution to split the Bill so that people can vote without a poison pill.

Andrew Lawton Verified account @AndrewLawton Oct 29

The Liberals’ new MAID, bill C-41, stops the mental health expansion but introduces another expansion, for people who've lost the capacity to consent.

I asked the Speaker to split the bill so MPs can vote on these two fundamentally different issues separately.

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Isabel Grant @igrantubc Oct 27

We recognize the "unique risks" of advance requests – we just don't care. That's Canada.
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www.parl.ca Government Bill (House of Commons) C-41 (45-1) - First Reading - Medical Assistance in Dying... Government Bill (House of Commons) C-41 (45-1) - First Reading - Medical Assistance in Dying Safeguards Act - Parliament of Canada

Isabel Grant @igrantubc Oct 14

"Women are more likely to have their conditions wrongly attributed to psychiatric causes, more likely to have symptoms misdiagnosed as psychosomatic, and more likely to experience delays in getting a diagnosis, according to the study." theguardian.com/society/2026/o…

www.theguardian.com Women ‘more likely to be told autoimmune conditions are psychological’ Cambridge University study suggests stark gender divide in misdiagnosis, with women also waiting longer for treatment