Canada the Cruel

We morphed into socialist apathy without even realisng it:

An incendiary device was thrown at the front doors of Schara Tzedeck synagogue on Thursday evening, according to the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver.

No one was injured in the attack and the damage to the building was minor in nature.

It is the third Jewish institution to be targeted in the last week. Gunshots were fired at a synagogue in Montreal overnight Wednesday and at a Jewish girls school in suburban Toronto on Saturday.

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In November last year, American border agents ordered that a freight train crossing into the U.S. be halted.

Homeland Security agent David Spitzer said in an affidavit that 13 Mexican nationals were discovered and many “attempted to abscond after the train was ordered to stop.”

But the scene didn’t take place on the U.S. border with Mexico — it unfolded just south of Vancouver, where American prosecutors and law enforcement officers say they’re dealing with a huge increase in human smuggling from British Columbia.

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Isn't she sweet?

She kicked a man to death:

A teen girl charged in the 2022 death of a Toronto homeless man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

She was one of eight teen girls who had initially been charged with second-degree murder in the death of 59-year-old Ken Lee and on Thursday, she pleaded guilty to the lesser charge.

The teen was 13 years old at the time of the killing; she is now 15.

Under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the maximum sentence for manslaughter is three years in custody, though the Crown can apply for a youth to be sentenced as an adult, in which case the maximum penalty is life in prison.

The teen remains in custody and will be back in court in July for sentencing proceedings.

Prior to entering the plea Thursday, the girl sat in the prisoner’s box smiling at her mother in the body of the courtroom, with her hair parted in the middle, with a slim French braid down either side, tied back in a ponytail.

 

What was her hair like the night of the murder?!

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The part that gets me is that there was a way to treat this woman's cancer but no one had the means or will to do so:

So, determined to find help, she researched her condition, spoke to doctors as far away as Taiwan, flew to California for scans and eventually travelled to Baltimore for treatment. She had discovered that patients could be given debunking surgery to reduce their cancer, followed by targeted use of heated chemotherapy — yet back in Canada, she could not get even an initial telephone chat with a surgeon who performed such operations for two months. Aided by her tight circle of friends and relatives, she raised almost half the $200,000 cost for the operation by crowdfunding. By the time she managed to see an oncologist in her home province of British Columbia, she was already on the road to recovery.

Today, Allison is in remission. She lifts weights daily, and goes running and cycling. She recently married her partner on a beach in Hawaii in front of her children. But she remains infuriated that Canadian doctors offered to kill rather than treat her. “The way it was presented was shocking,” she told me. “I was disgusted to be offered MAID twice. Once I was even on the phone, when I was on my own having just come back from Baltimore. It left me sobbing.”

 

Then don't advocate for euthanasia. 

It is never painless or compassionate. 

It is a means to rid the public of the onerous task of caring.