Canada the Cruel

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People in Canada are having their lives ended by assisted dying on the same day that requests are made, adding to fears that wrongful deaths may be occurring.

An official report by the Chief Coroner of Ontario’s Medical Assistance in Dying Death Review Committee (MDRC) highlighted that, in 2023, 65 people in Ontario had their lives ended by Canada’s assisted suicide and euthanasia programme on the same day that they made their requests to do so. A further 154 people had their lives ended the day after their request was made.

These same-day suicides, which comprise both assisted suicide and euthanasia, include the case of Mrs B, a woman in her 80s who suffered from complications following coronary artery bypass graft surgery and who chose to receive palliative care support at home.

After sharing her desire with her family to end her life through Canada’s euthanasia and assisted suicide programme, her spouse requested an assessment. However, Mrs B informed the euthanasia and assisted suicide assessor she “wanted to withdraw her request, citing personal and religious values and beliefs”, preferring instead to pursue “in-patient palliative care/hospice care”.

After being denied hospice palliative care, Mrs B’s spouse subsequently requested another euthanasia and assisted suicide assessment, which deemed Mrs B eligible for the euthanasia and assisted suicide programme. This approval was granted despite reservations from the first practitioner, who held “concerns regarding the necessity for ‘urgency’ and… the seemingly drastic change in perspective of end-of-life goals, and the possibility of coercion or undue influence (i.e. due to caregiver burnout)”.

Despite this, Mrs B’s request was approved by two separate assessors, and she died the same day.

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On Feb. 10, 2026, Jesse Van Rootselaar, an 18-year-old transgender male, attacked the community of Tumbler Ridge and its Middle School, whereupon he brutally murdered 8 people and wounded 27 others, before he subsequently divorced himself from all existence in the “deadliest school shooting since 14 women were killed in the Ecole Polytechnique massacre in Montreal.”

Predictably, countless left-wing political actors and pundits have already leapt to reflexively condemn the tragedy as a result of mental illness, in an effort to distract Canadian society from the hyper-liberal political ideology and propaganda that ultimately culminated in Van Rootselaar’s massacre of innocent children in Tumbler Ridge. 

Unfortunately, although it is easy to blame mental illness for the tragedy in Tumbler Ridge, it is utter sham to suggest that Van Rootselaar’s murderous rampage and suicide are anything but the culmination of Canada’s current political climate and the hyper left-wing ideology that has been forcibly imposed upon the Canadian people over the course of the past decade.

In fact, it is clear that the recent massacre of innocent lives in Tumbler Ridge is a direct consequence of the modern advent and onset of identity politics in Canada throughout the Liberal era.

Due to the modern advent of identity politics, every Canadian has been robbed of all personal agency and transformed into little more than a convergence of various identities and social circumstances. 

For example, the socio-political paradigm and perspective that every person inhabits, as well as the products of their labor, have all been rendered solely on the result of their location on the so-called ‘spectrum of identity’ within society. In fact, any action, no matter how great or terrible, has been rendered a mere by-product of ‘identity’ and its interaction with the nation-state’s political structures.

Even Shakespeare’s work has recently been deemed naught but the result of his “whiteness,” and the Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust has actually been called upon to “present Shakespeare not as the greatest, but as part of a community of equal and different writers and artists from around the world.”

Furthermore, the legitimacy of any person or people’s respective social plight and perspective, indeed their ability to suffer itself, has become contingent upon their ability to immediately display the requisite “diversity criteria” and intersectional location upon the “spectrum of identity.” In truth, it has become nigh-inconceivable that any person or community might suffer or become marginalized and oppressed at all in Canada, without explicitly exhibiting any of the necessary “diversity criteria.”

As a result, specific identities have been rendered right or wrong, rather than actions.

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An Indigenous man who bragged to an undercover cop about the Gladue “discount” that would cut his penalty in half for helping to clean up after a Calgary murder has been sentenced to 6.5 years in prison, even though the Crown was looking for as much as 10.

A jury convicted Jason Leo Tait of being an accessory after the fact to murder in the death of Keenan Crane. He was acquitted of manslaughter.

“Mr. Tait’s cavalier reliance on a Gladue ‘discount’ in discussions with the undercover operator are not only wrong in law, but they are undoubtedly distressing to hear for Indigenous people, as well as other citizens, particularly those who have roles in the justice system,” Justice Janice Ashcroft wrote in her Feb. 17 decision on Tait’s sentence.

Gladue principles, set out in a Supreme Court of Canada decision, require sentencing judges to consider the unique circumstances of Indigenous offenders to address their over-representation in Canada’s prisons.

“It is undeniable that Mr. Tait’s life has been impacted by many factors related to colonialism and residential schools,” Ashcroft said. “His comments demonstrate a lack of insight and education into history and how his own family and life have been affected by colonization.”

His “life circumstances, as connected to his crime, do allow for some mitigation and reduced moral culpability with respect to sentencing,” she said. “However, I still find that the aggravating circumstances outweigh the mitigating circumstances.”

The court heard that Crane, 22, was a low-level drug dealer who owed $300 to Tait’s roommate, Darren Bulldog. On April 7, 2022, Crane showed up at Tait and Bulldog’s place, where Bulldog confronted him about the debt. Crane was beaten, his hands and feet duct-taped, and given a lethal dose of fentanyl. His body was then dismembered.

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One in four Canadians living in long-term care homes were prescribed anti-psychotic medication without a diagnosis of psychosis, according to a new report that highlights serious risks associated with using the powerful drugs.

The report, released on Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, examines the safety and well-being of residents in long-term care homes. It found the rate of anti-psychotic medication use in long-term care homes was higher in Canada compared to several other countries, including the United States, Australia and Sweden.

Health professionals say anti-psychotic medications are largely used to manage symptoms of psychosis, including delusions and hallucinations. However, the medications are sometimes given to residents in long-term care facilities, such as those with dementia, to manage aggressive behaviour.

“Inappropriate use of antipsychotics can carry serious risks, including adverse reactions, cognitive decline, falls and even death,” the report cautioned.

The CIHI report stems from a commitment in 2023 between Ottawa and provincial and territorial governments to provide extra funding for specific health care improvements. Long-term care was among those priorities.