After watching the recent supermarket tantrum, I wanted to make a thread to ask about your experiences in this city. Do you feel welcome in the city, how long have you been here, etc?
Edit: Interesting to see all the downvotes, care to elaborate?
"Survivors and families of those who allegedly underwent brainwashing experiments at McGill University in Montreal are planning a class-action lawsuit against the Quebec and federal governments because of what they claim had been done to them decades ago.
Dr. Ewan Cameron, a former psychiatrist at McGill University’s Alan Memorial Institute, conducted CIA-funded experiments in the 1950s and 1960s involving sleeping drugs, electroshock therapy and the powerful hallucinogenic LSD to see if the brain could be reprogrammed.
Typically, patients entered the program -- known as Project MKUltra -- with relatively minor mental health issues, such as anxiety. In many cases, patients claim to not have consented to being treated with psychedelic drugs or electricity.
Some patients also claim to have been put into medically-induced comas for weeks while being played loops of noise or repeated statements.
“These were innocent people that went in for mild depression… They came out completely ravaged and their life was ruined,” Marlene Levenson, whose aunt was admitted to the facility, told CTV Montreal.
Cameron had reportedly hoped his experiments would cure his patients’ illnesses by erasing certain memories and reprogramming their brains. Instead, several patients reported the experiments had an adverse effect on their lives.
After the treatments, Levenson said her aunt could no longer care for herself and hated being touched.
Many victims of these experiments have since passed away, but some family members have documents that share first-hand accounts of what allegedly transpired at the facility.
Angela Bardosh’s mother Nancy Layton showed CTV Montreal a letter from her mother that read in part: "They destroyed many parts of me. I'm lucky to be alive."
Bardosh said Layton was admitted to the facility at age 18 due to depression. Bardosh claims her mother’s time as a patient of Project MKUltra ruined her life. According to Bardosh, within six months of Cameron’s treatment, her mother developed acute schizophrenia.
“It's horrific to go back, it's very emotional,” said Bardosh. “For me, personally, it took me years to even read my mom's medical records.”
The victims and their families have now banded together in the hopes of filing a class-action lawsuit against the Quebec and federal governments, and maybe even McGill too, seeking damages and an apology for what they had to endure.
“I believe we can claim moral damages as a result of the experiments when Dr.
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Any one else in the same boat?
Mike Blunden (most likely a career AHLer, 4th line NHLer) and Patrick Holland (who is talented but younger and has zero NHL experience) were just called up to mitigate the Habs' injuries, meanwhile Leblanc played on Hamilton's fourth line last night vs. the Marlies in a 2-1 loss.
Is nobody giving him a chance? Is he a bust? Or was he just overrated to begin with?
I'm interested to hear what you guys have to think. Two seasons ago he looked pretty promising (not an all-star or anything, but certainly not bad), and now he's getting passed on the depth chart by pretty much everybody. I realize Blunden fills a checking role on the 4th line, but I personally thought that giving Louie a chance with DD and Bourque would have made sense.
https://www.mtlblog.com/news/the-secret-montreal-experiments-they-dont-want-you-to-know-about
Michael D'Alimonte ·
November 03, 2015
Doses of LSD given through an IV; drug-induced comas lasting two months; amnesia brought on by drugs psychological torture. None of these actions seem possible in an accepting, liberal city like Montreal. But there's a dark part of Montreal's history everyone seems to forget, or simply not talk about, and all of these atrocities (and more) occurred in the heart of the city.
During the late 1950s, Dr. Ewan Cameron was the director of the renowned Allen Memorial Institute, the Psychiatry Department of the Royal Victoria Hospital, part of the McGill University Health Centre.
On the surface, Cameron was conducting esteemed academic research on the human mind for the benefit of his psychologically afflicted patients.
Those unlucky enough to be admitted to the Allen, within the Ravenscrag mansion, experienced something far more horrific.
Commissioned by the CIA to create an effective brainwashing technique, with partial funding from the Canadian government, Dr. Ewan Cameron subjected his patients to a new form of psychological torture, which went on to serve as the basis for the Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation Handbook, essentially the CIA's textbook on torture.
And he did it right under the noses of Montrealers.
While older citizens may remember the media frenzy that occurred once the story of Dr. Ewan Cameron's work broke, exactly what happened has largely remained a mystery, and many modern Montrealers have next to no idea what occurred at the Allen all those years ago.
Using a variety of sources, including declassified CIA files, we've pieced together the narrative of what is arguably the darkest moment of Montreal's long history.
The Motive: Creating A Super Soldier
Cold War paranoia pervaded the mindset of CIA officials in the late 1950s, fears that were only bolstered when American prisoners of war returned from captivity praising Communism and admonishing the United States. These soldiers had been reprogrammed, or brainwashed, and the CIA feared the consequences of an enemy with such mind-altering techniques.
Certain brainwashing practices were long-since rumored to be practiced by China and Russia, and the aforementioned cases prompted the CIA to devise their own brand of mental warfare. Knowing that no enemy of the United States had devised a scientific or technological method to brainwash prisoners
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