Suneel Dhand is a British physician who has been openly critical of pandemic policy in many a YouTube video and now focuses his critical eye on another common medical issue: blood pressure.
“I believe it’s absolutely ludicrous that we would have this one size fits all approach to blood pressure [of ] 120 over 80.”
“Every passing year the guidance from the medical establishment gets more and more aggressive and on many levels this is a complete money grab…”
Rob Shaw: B.C.’s opposition parties demand probe into alleged government grant kickbacks: An electric vehicle manufacturer said it was solicited by the firm administering certain programs; the province says it has found no wrongdoing
This alleged shakedown has an eery similarity to the Shumiatcher Deals of the Tommy Douglas government in Saskatchewan.
Morris Shumiatcher was a lawyer and former Attorney General under Tommy Douglas who would help people secure business development grants from the Saskatchewan government. The process worked that an existing business person would hire Shumiatcher and Shumiatcher would then put together a deal inwhich the applicant would sell shares in their business to Tommy Douglas and Clarence Fines, Fines being the Minister of Finance. Once the shares were purchased Shumiatcher would arrange for the business to receive a very generous grant from the Saskatchewan government for business development. Shortly after the grant was paid the business person would buy back the shares from Tommy Douglas and Clarence Fines at an enormous profit. This scheme was repeated numerous times. The similarity to the current allegations in BC are obvious.
To read more on this scandal and several more I suggest picking up The Road to Jerusalem.
Shumiatcher had numerous legal shenanigans throughout his career and often found himself on the wrong side of the law.
In the early 1960’s Clarence Fines ran off to Grenada with his secretary and a ton of Saskatchewan taxpayer money. One of the last things he did was write a letter to the bank explaining a cheque for $1,500 from the Alberta Distillers was to be deposited into a CCF party slush fund and that Tommy Douglas would be looking after the account henceforth, but that’s a Saskatchewan Mafia story for another day.
National Post- Quebec man has two healthy fingers amputated to relieve ‘body integrity dysphoria’
“He is now living a life free from distressing preoccupations about his fingers, with all his symptoms related to BID resolved,” Nadeau wrote. “The amputation enabled him to live in alignment with his perceived identity.”
Trust The Evidence- The NHS has lost its way, and patients are paying the price.
In 2023, Cancer waiting times were the worst on record in England. While NHS waiting lists in England rose to a record NHS 7.75m in 2023, the Times reports more than 11 million patients are in need of follow-up hospital care, as they are on “hidden” NHS waiting lists.
The Telegraph now reports that the NHS waiting list could be two million longer than thought, based on ONS survey data that estimates 9.7 million are waiting for an appointment. The number waiting more than a year could be nearly 1.35 million.
Jagmeet Singh is boasting about the NDP forcing the Liberal government to provide a national school lunch program…
I guess all that free recreational fentanyl is making children hungry…
‘No minimum age listed in protocols for providing youth with taxpayer-funded recreational fentanyl.
It seems that parents will actually be powerless to stop the government from supplying their children with fentanyl, as safer supply technically counts as a health-care intervention and youth have substantial control over their own medical decisions in Canada.
While some provinces set a minimum age (typically between 14 and 16 years old) for when minors can make such decisions, British Columbia has no minimum and relies instead on a fluid idea of “capability” — youth in the province are considered “capable” if they understand what a medical intervention involves, why it is needed and its risks and benefits.
Yet it is hard to imagine any scenario where a drug-addicted minor would be capable of providing informed consent for safer supply fentanyl, given that addiction hijacks the brain and inhibits rational decision-making. While adults have extensive rights to personal self-determination, which permits them to make impaired or self-destructive decisions if they so choose, it is hard to see why this same freedom should be extended to youth when it comes to using hard drugs.
It is true that many drug-addicted youth are in foster care or estranged from their parents, and that, for them, securing parental consent is near-impossible. Yet making an exception for this subpopulation, and permitting them to receive free fentanyl, could incentivize other underage drug users to cut ties with their families and run away from home to secure free drugs.
As parents are often a youth’s greatest asset for recovery, any safer supply system that undermines child-parent relationships is harmful.
In a sad twist, the same laws that allow the government to give recreational fentanyl to kids without parental consent also prohibit parents from sending their children to involuntary addiction treatment — in other words, the government won’t help you force your kid to get clean, but they will give them unlimited “safe” drugs against your will.
As I argued in my MLI report, “By reframing the provision of unlimited recreational fentanyl as medical care, the provincial government may inadvertently turn itself into a parent’s worst nightmare — an unstoppable drug dealer with endless supply and unrestricted access to their child.”
While Health Canada confirmed to me in an email that it did not play a role in the development of these protocols, it did not respond to a follow-up email where I asked if the federal government had any objections to giving recreational fentanyl to minors.’
Josef Mengele was a man ahead of his time: Preventing a Calgary woman’s medically assisted death would cause her irreparable harm, a judge ruled Monday in ordering an injunction stopping her from ending her life be lifted.
First voluntary, then mandatory.
Patrick Christys: ‘The NHS cares more about net zero than saving lives. People will die, quite literally, sacrificed on the alter of the big green agenda’
Update: The link is gone, but you can watch the segment on Youtube
Let’s check in on Jagmeet’s Jew-hating fellow travelers;
Veteran NDP MLA Selina Robinson just sent a letter to her caucus colleagues telling them she’s leaving the NDP and will sit as an independent. This follows Robinson being forced by Eby to resign from cabinet for controversial comments she made about pre-1948 Palestine.
Selina Robinson told reporters she’s concerned about incidents of anti-semitism inside the @bcndp caucus and when she brought up anti-semitism training she was rebuffed. She feels she was punished for her hurtful comments but the same standard wasn’t applied to other MLAs.
Interesting conversation. A little slow, but covers a lot of ground. Your mileage my vary. Grab a beverage.
Grab a beverage.
National Post- The Fall: My once-vibrant dad emerged broken from the hospital. Then he was gone
Falls are all-too common among the elderly and often foretell a deterioration in health.
It is the cause of 85 per cent of all injury-related hospitalizations among seniors in Canada, according to Health Canada. And rates have been increasing. Twenty to 30 per cent of seniors experience at least one fall a year and many, like my father, land in hospital as a result.
Spend a bit of time in an emergency department and it won’t take long to realize that many of those ambulances making their way to hospitals, lights flashing, are carrying an older person who has fallen.
Hurry up and wait…
I would only fully understand later how dangerous that time in a bed or a stretcher can be for the elderly. Every day, every hour, starts a downward slide of mobility and overall physical and mental health, which often prolongs their hospital stay in a dangerous feedback loop. That is especially true for the elderly.
For every day an older person spends lying in bed, it takes two days to recover the strength and function that has been lost. It also takes just eight hours lying on a stretcher for a frail elderly patient’s skin to begin to break down, which could lead to debilitating pressure ulcers, or bed sores. Typical waits in many Ontario emergency departments are nearing the 20-hour mark, but can sometimes be higher.
“I’ve just flown in from Canada, where they’ve made killing people legal. I thought I’d get out before they make it compulsory.” *
Employers opposed to assisted suicide should be disqualified from Canada Summer Jobs funding, an advocate has written MPs. The submission to the Commons human resources committee is from the same group that successfully lobbied for denial of funding to pro-life employers: “Regardless of the Canada Summer job, even if it is to mow the lawn, that work gives sustenance to the group’s harmful mandate and activities.”
I’m not surprised that the doctor lost patience with this woman, but a Quebec regulatory body views that as a perfectly good reason to discipline him. As per the Jordan Peterson controversy, I expect he’ll have no recourse to the courts.
The doctor said he had never prescribed hormones to someone who wanted to “transform into a gentleman.” He then brought up concerns that the hormone would lead to aggressive behaviour and changes in character, something the patient said was just a stereotype.
During the consultation, doctor and patient started arguing, with the patient reminding the doctor that he is a trans man, and the doctor responding that he is “genetically female” and noting that as far as being a trans man: “That is in your brain.”
Meet the new central planner, same as the old central planner. If even Danielle Smith cannot challenge the ludicrous premise behind single payer health care, then “reform” just means shuffling the waiting lists around.
Smith’s United Conservative Party government is expected in the spring sitting to begin passing laws to make good on her plan to dismantle Alberta Health Services, the centralized body that oversees health delivery on everything from acute care to community care.
AHS is to be replaced by four agencies, while being reduced to the role of service provider in acute care.
Yearning to breathe their last.
Mischief is important. So important, your life could depend on it.
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada would like to know if you want medical training to be centered on social justice, or medical expertise.
Seriously.
Please fill out their survey. The survey closes Dec 31st.
h/t Ben
Within two weeks of his (wrong) diagnosis, he was contacted by a therapist about MAID.
If “MAID” was not a Liberal population cull, what exactly would they be doing differently?
A return to their roots: Sask NDP MLAs refuse to acknowledge ‘from the river to the sea’ is antisemitic
