Most-read 2022: Why is Canada euthanising the poor?

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/most-read-2022-why-is-canada-euthanising-the-poor/

#YuanYiZhu
#canpol #euthanasia #MAiD #DoctorsKillingPatients
#TheSpectator

"In the privacy of Zoom chat rooms, MAID professionals give PowerPoint presentations that ask questions such as, “What is the role of the MAID assessor when resources are inadequate?” In them, they freely discuss cases of patients who seek to die because they have no access to housing, to medical treatment or to food — things the Canadian public were told did not happen."

#YuanYiZhu

The assisted suicide doctors who admit patients are driven by poverty
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-assisted-suicide-doctors-who-admit-patients-are-driven-by-poverty

On 5 November 1873, "Sir John A Macdonald resigned as Prime Minister by simply telling the House of Commons that the government resigned. Reportedly (and I find this part amazing) the opposition just calmly switched desks with the government mid-sitting."

https://twitter.com/ParlCharlie/status/1588908768334876674

Sir #JohnAMacdonald
#canpol #history #parliament

Via #YuanYiZhu

Over at the birdsite, #YuanYiZhu asks the follow-up question: "Does that mean Jean Chrétien (Minister of Indian Affairs, 1968—74) stands trial at The Hague? Or does he still get a state funeral? How does this thing work?"

https://twitter.com/yuanyi_z/status/1586010687343857666

#ResidentialSchools #JeanChrétien
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That's from #YuanYiZhu in the #NationalPost .

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/yuan-yi-zhu-no-more-mr-nice-guy-canada-must-assert-itself-on-the-world-stage

I confess that I've wondered in the past what exactly Foreign Affairs Canada does usefully.

#canpol

"Hear me out: Prince Charles at the head of a government of national unity."

#YuanYiZhu

https://twitter.com/yuanyi_z/status/1544965351498211328

#ukpol

'The Supreme Court of Canada finds that it is unconstitutional to sentence the Quebec mosque shooter, who murdered six men, to more than 25 years to life because "it would bring the administration of justice into disrepute". I think the Court is doing that itself.'

#YuanYiZhu

https://twitter.com/yuanyi_z/status/1530185519992283136

#canpol #murder #SupremeCourtOfCanada