Peter Stockland- On matters of life and death, media cater to those campaigning for the latter at the expense of the former and the integrity of their craft
Reporting on key case pitting MAiD lobbyists vs freedom of religion, major news organizations leave one side of the story aside.
New career opportunities for serial killers;
The mother of a 26-year-old man who was medically euthanized—after having previously opposed her son’s assisted suicide—alleges that one medical practitioner, whom she calls “Dr. Death #2,” approved her son’s death solely “based on mental illness.”
Kiano Vafaeian was medically killed via assisted suicide. His mother, Margaret Marsilla, shared a post on Facebook Tuesday, mourning her son’s death and blaming Canada’s assisted suicide regime and Dr Ellen Wiebe for her loss. Marsilla says Wiebe approved her son’s death when no other doctor would.[…]
Wiebe is one of Canada’s leading MAiD practitioners, having overseen over 400 assisted deaths. She serves on the advisory council of Dying with Dignity Canada and is a board member and research director for another pro-euthanasia group, the Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers.
We’re going to need you to bump them up.
National Post- 76,475 Canadians have died by MAID. Is that too many?
National Post: Saskatchewan doesn’t have a surgeon who can complete the surgery. She has waited years to see a specialist
A Canadian woman who got approved for a medically assisted death because of a years-long wait to receive surgery for her chronically painful condition may finally get treated. American conservative commentator Glenn Beck has offered to pay for her to have surgery in the United States.
Article content“If there is any surgeon in America who can do this, I’ll pay for this patient to come down here for treatment. THIS is the reality of “compassionate” progressive healthcare,” Beck said in a post on X after Jolene Van Alstine’s story spread across social media. “Canada must END this insanity and Americans can NEVER let it spread here.” […]
Her husband said he doesn’t want her to go through with her request for MAID, which has been scheduled for Jan. 7…
May the odds be ever in your favour.
National Post- An assisted-suicide political time bomb is ticking for Mark Carney
…support drains away when those tight guidelines are loosened to include those who are suffering from mental illness as the sole underlying condition (42 per cent) or societal reasons such as homelessness (26 per cent) or poverty (25 per cent).
I still can't believe this article was published:
'did you know the government of Canada could save $1.2T if it forcibly killed all the retired elderly people according to 'traditional practices'!?!?!?!?!? We need to publish this fact right away, it demands scholarly attention!' https://t.co/t9sUowpVVR
— The Black Horse (@TheBlackHorse65) November 3, 2025
How Canada found creative solutions for the difficult problem of serial killers.
A severely obese woman in her 60s who sought euthanasia due to her “no longer having a will to live” and a widower whose request to have his life ended was mainly driven by emotional distress and grief over his dead spouse are the latest cases to draw concerns that some doctors are taking an overly broad interpretation of the law.
Article contentThe anonymized cases highlighted in the latest report from the Ontario Coroner’s MAID Death Review Committee include people whose conditions were declared “grievous and irremediable” — incurable — and their deaths reasonably foreseeable because they refused all forms of care or had stopped eating and drinking.
The euthanasia conference was held at a Sheraton. Some 300 Canadian professionals, most of them clinicians, had arrived for the annual event. There were lunch buffets and complimentary tote bags; attendees could look forward to a Friday-night social outing, with a DJ, at an event space above Par-Tee Putt in downtown Vancouver. “The most important thing,” one doctor told me, “is the networking.”
Which is to say that it might have been any other convention in Canada. Over the past decade, practitioners of euthanasia have become as familiar as orthodontists or plastic surgeons are with the mundane rituals of lanyards and drink tickets and It’s been so long s outside the ballroom of a four-star hotel. The difference is that, 10 years ago, what many of the attendees here do for work would have been considered homicide.[…]
At the center of the world’s fastest-growing euthanasia regime is the concept of patient autonomy. Honoring a patient’s wishes is of course a core value in medicine. But here it has become paramount, allowing Canada’s MAID advocates to push for expansion in terms that brook no argument, refracted through the language of equality, access, and compassion. As Canada contends with ever-evolving claims on the right to die, the demand for euthanasia has begun to outstrip the capacity of clinicians to provide it.
There have been unintended consequences: Some Canadians who cannot afford to manage their illness have sought doctors to end their life. In certain situations, clinicians have faced impossible ethical dilemmas. At the same time, medical professionals who decided early on to reorient their career toward assisted death no longer feel compelled to tiptoe around the full, energetic extent of their devotion to MAID. Some clinicians in Canada have euthanized hundreds of patients.
Just in case you thought this was written by some far left activist kook: Dr. Jauhar is a cardiologist at Northwell Health in New York, where Dr. Patel and Dr. Smith are the directors of the center for heart failure and transplant.
The need for donor organs is urgent. An estimated 15 people die in this country every day waiting for a transplant. We need to figure out how to obtain more healthy organs from donors while maintaining strict ethical standards.
New technologies can help. But the best solution, we believe, is legal: We need to broaden the definition of death.
In New Mexico, a woman was subjected to days of preparation for donation, even after her family said that she seemed to be regaining consciousness, which she eventually did. In Florida, a man cried and bit on his breathing tube but was still withdrawn from life support. In West Virginia, doctors were appalled when coordinators asked a paralyzed man coming off sedatives in an operating room for consent to remove his organs.
Stories like these have emerged as the transplant system has increasingly turned to a type of organ removal called donation after circulatory death. It accounted for a third of all donations last year: about 20,000 organs, triple the number from five years earlier.
Most donated organs in the United States come from people who are brain-dead — an irreversible state — and are kept on machines only to maintain their organs.
Circulatory death donation is different. These patients are on life support, often in a coma. Their prognoses are more of a medical judgment call.
They are alive, with some brain activity, but doctors have determined that they are near death and won’t recover. If relatives agree to donation, doctors withdraw life support and wait for the patient’s heart to stop. This has to happen within an hour or two for the organs to be considered viable. After the person is declared dead, surgeons go in.
This one’s a bit brutal for morning coffee. You might want to wait a few hours to read it.
Dr. Heidi Klessig: The body you give away for free is worth around $5 million in billable charges.
National Post- A disabled man’s fight for life in an age of MAiD
If euthanasia is considered a right, then so too should self-directed home care
It’s the “Canadian” way.
Armstrong Economics- MAID for Children and Teens – Canada Expands Eugenics Program
The Canadian government has already created a coloring book for children entitled “Me and My Illness.” First, they created a coloring book for children to process the potential death of their loved ones through medically assisted suicide, and then they created a suicide coloring book for CHILDREN. The book encourages children to focus on their pain, highlighting how their illness isolates them from society and makes them different. Later in the book, children are provided a “decision-making toolkit” explaining “small” and “big” medical decisions.
Just close your eyes and think of England.
Telegraph- Assisted dying ‘will kill as many as 4,500 people a year’
Report says legislation could save taxpayer £90m as critics flag dangers of ‘money-saving prejudices’
Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying now accounts for 1 in 20 deaths in Canada. It took 90 years, but Tommy Douglas final got his way. (Please down load the PDF and save it; it’s sure to disappear)
SDA regular Gord Magill discusses The Machine in Life and Death, a deep dive into Canada’s euthanasia law and how it is being promoted.
Don’t go giving them ideas.
Telegraph- Global deaths from assisted dying surpass 30,000 in a year
The increase was recorded across countries where assisted dying and euthanasia is legal, including the Netherlands, Belgium, and the US states of California and Oregon. In Canada, an estimated one in 25 people who died last year were legally killed.