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Sunday, November 23, 2025

Windows and Mirrors: Canada’s Shifting Overton Window

Hard Drugs and Euthanasia

Introduction

Political and social change rarely happens in a straight line. Ideas move from fringe to mainstream through a process that policy analyst Joseph Overton described as the Overton window: the spectrum of ideas considered acceptable at any given time. Yet every window opens onto a mirror. The mirror reflects back what those choices say about us — our values, contradictions, and the shadows of progress.

Canada offers two striking examples of this dynamic: the evolution of policy on hard drugs and euthanasia. Both were once unthinkable, both have become law, and both reveal the complex interplay of necessity, taboo‑breaking, and human cognition.

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