Health/Sick Care
A 33-year-old quadriplegic Canadian woman who is a mother of three says it was easier for her to get approved for state-sanctioned euthanasia than to get help for disabilities that she has been suffering with for many years. In a video shared online on June 20 by RightNowHQ, Rose Finlay of Bowmanville, Ontario, said there is a “huge and detrimental discrepancy that exists in the supports available to disabled Ontarians.”
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Read MoreA normal sight in Canada now. Edmonton, Alberta.
An addict passes away in front of our kids as we leave dinner.
Stop this madness.
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Read MoreAround 330 active or former members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) who say they were harmed by COVID-19 vaccine mandates have filed a class-action lawsuit against high-ranking members of the Canadian military, asking for some $500 million in damages.
“The CAF shirked its own purpose and rushed an untested product onto its members, mislabeled this experimental gene therapy a ‘vaccine,’ knowingly made false statements of safety and efficacy, and facilitated its mandate with no option to refuse except for mandatory permanent removal from service,” reads the statement of claim filed with the Federal Court on June 21.
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Read MoreUnvaccinated Canadian approved for organ transplant in US after she was rejected in her home country
An Alberta woman who was denied a life-saving organ transplant because she refused to get the COVID shots has been approved for the procedure at a hospital in the United States but will need to pay for the procedure.
The family of Sheila Annette Lewis said the woman will need to pay over $100,000 to have the procedure completed at U.S. hospital.
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Read MoreHouse Republican Conference chairwoman Elise Stefanik and Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America (SBA) president Marjorie Dannenfelser celebrated the first anniversary of the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
Nearly one year ago on June 24, 2022 — amid raucous national conversation, protests and counter-protests, and an illegal decision leak — the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, returning the decision on abortion to the national and state legislatures.
Conservatives have been celebrating since the Dobbs decision overturned Roe and the subsequent aftershocks protecting life across the country, and pro-life leaders are gearing up for the one-year anniversary of their movement’s big win.
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Read MoreBill 15 would eliminate voice of patients in Quebec: advocacy group
Users’ committees are currently drawn from communities across Quebec, overseeing health institutions. Under Bill 15, a new agency would usurp their role.
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Read MoreWhen I began the Detransitioners series for National Review, I expected to hear stories of regret and resentment. I anticipated learning about the nasty side effects of “gender-affirming” care.
Before the patients I interviewed went under the knife for mastectomies or began taking cross-sex hormones, they already carried deep scars from childhood. They had experienced intense psychological trauma at a young age.
From exposure to hardcore pornography at four years old to rape by a father at five years old to homelessness following domestic abuse in adolescence, the horrors they endured would be enough to break anyone. Their developing minds were so utterly shocked by what they’d experienced that they felt incongruity with their bodies. Suicidal ideation and self-harm were common themes. They weren’t just questioning their gender; they were questioning their very reality.
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Read MoreThe UK had one of the worst increases in death rates of major European economies during the Covid pandemic, BBC analysis has found.
Death rates in the UK were more than 5% higher on average each year of the pandemic than in the years just before it, largely driven by a huge death toll in the first year.
That was above the increase seen in France, Spain or Germany, but below Italy and significantly lower than the US.
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Read MoreLevine, a biological male who identifies as a woman, emphasized the importance of ‘gender affirming care,’ which he referred to as child sex changes, stating that it is ‘medically necessary, safe, and effective for transgender and non-binary youth.’
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Read MoreSenator Ted Cruz (R-TX) stumped the president of the Human Rights Campaign during a Wednesday hearing — with a yes-or-no question that most preschool-aged children could answer with no difficulty.
During a hearing titled “Protecting Pride: Defending the Civil Rights of LGBTQ+ Americans,” Cruz first asked HRC President Kelley Robinson whether she believed there was any difference between men and women – and when she failed multiple times to answer that question, he asked why she thought women had separate sports teams.
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