{"id":1084,"date":"2012-10-05T13:53:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T17:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:18","slug":"e-coli-and-eugenics-stephen-azzi-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2012\/e-coli-and-eugenics-stephen-azzi-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"E. coli and eugenics: Stephen Azzi in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        E. coli and eugenics: Stephen Azzi in the news\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Political Management professor and historian Stephen Azzi was prominent in the news media Oct. 5, commenting to Postmedia on Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz&#8217;s handling of the XL Foods tainted beef recall, and to the Ottawa Citizen on the unveiling of a Parks Canada&nbsp;plaque honouring Dr. Helen MacMurchy, a pioneering woman physician in the early 20th century but also an outspoken advocate of eugenics policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Azzi told Postmedia that he would be using the Agriculture Minister&#8217;s response to the tainted beef discovery and recall as&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;a textbook case about how not to handle an issue&#8221; for his course on strategic communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, he told the Citizen that failing to mention that MacMurchy championed&nbsp;eugenic policies &#8212; including forced sterilization of the so-called feeble minded &#8212; is to &#8220;airbrush history.&#8221;&nbsp; &#8220;It&#8217;s an essential part of who she was. We have to recognize historical personages warts and all.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the complete stories here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/health\/dark+side+honouring+Helen+MacMurchy\/7346152\/story.html\">http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/health\/dark+side+honouring+Helen+MacMurchy\/7346152\/story.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Management professor and historian Stephen Azzi was prominent in the news media Oct. 5, commenting to Postmedia on Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz&#8217;s handling of the XL Foods tainted beef recall, and to the Ottawa Citizen on the unveiling of a Parks Canada&nbsp;plaque honouring Dr. Helen MacMurchy, a pioneering woman physician in the early 20th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}