Over the next few weeks, I’m dedicating a portion of my website at formant.ca to something far beyond portfolio work.
As an Indigenous developer and creator, I’ve experienced firsthand the racism, neglect, and gaslighting that still permeates many aspects of Canadian healthcare. That includes doctors who go out of their way to dismiss or actively harm patients — often in public-facing positions.
This new section of my site will serve as a transparent, documented archive of medical abuse and discrimination, starting with my own story and eventually opening up to others. These are professionals operating in public service roles, and their actions deserve public accountability.
In Canada, racism — particularly anti-Indigenous racism — is something the office and healthcare world often pretends doesn’t exist while quietly enabling it. This project aims to make that silence impossible.
If you’re Indigenous and have a story, there will soon be a place to submit your experience (with verification requirements to protect against false claims). This isn’t about vengeance — it’s about transparency, healing, and forcing long-overdue accountability.
Stay tuned.
Top comments (4)
insane level of guts doing this imo, kinda makes me wonder though- you think real accountability ever happens without stuff getting loud like this or does the system just rely on people staying quiet
They 100% expect you to stay quiet. Most people do, it's almost expected if Canadians to be a "non-complainer" to be hire-able.
I haven't been what people expect for, a long time so I just don't really care anymore.
I don't think it should be considered guts or a strong notion to, stand up for your rights. What's really ridiculous is, how many people get away with abuse due to patient compliance.
I don't ask for much, but asking for respect from some of these people is, a struggle.
Hi Tyler,
Your projects also speaks to me.
I'm an Arab, and unfortunately, also, when doctors see in my medical record that I have a particular mental illness, I get bad service.
I got to a point that I got physically abused by a therapist, which led me to stop university. Sadly, my grades in computers science were pretty high on top of that and I was obliged to abandon my classes.
Also, my general doctor says that my neurological diagnostics (approved by the Jewish hospital of Montreal) is all "psychological", and that I have nothing. I go every months to him and sadly I had to see other doctors around to have A compiled result, which doesn't make sense, and shouldn't be that way.
So yeah I'm interested to work with you, and I'm a front-end web developer.
I'll try to DM you, I'm new in that app
Jad! I am so sorry to hear that man. That is absolutely messed up a professional had the audacity to say that. That's what I'm trying to discuss here! Feel free to get ahold of me, that's just sad and unfortunate to hear.