Some right-to-die activists want everyone to have access to euthanasia—even young people with mental illness. Are they also making suicide contagious?
Zoraya ter Beek, 28, expects to be euthanized in early May.
Her plan, she said, is to be cremated.
“I did not want to burden my partner with having to keep the grave tidy,” ter Beek texted me. “We have not picked an urn yet, but that will be my new house!”
She added an urn emoji after “house!”
During the past several months the corporate media have devoted a lot of coverage to a species of voter they describe as “double haters.” This pejorative label notwithstanding, such voters are neither unique to the current election cycle nor particularly hateful. It’s probably more accurate to call them double dissenters. They disapprove of the presumptive presidential nominees offered by the two major political parties and decline to choose the “lesser of two evils.” Some may sit out 2024 and others may vote for an independent like Jill Stein, Cornel West or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This has earned them the derision of a pundit class that fears most third-party votes will be cast at the expense of President Joe Biden.
Canada appears to be a “trading-down” market, a trend that may persist for some time.
Recent data from Statistics Canada on the food retail and service industries, as well as fresh GDP figures, paint a concerning picture, especially for those looking to attract more food companies or grocers to our country.
Mars may have been habitable for millions of years longer than previously thought before it finally dried out, scientists believe.
The surface of the red planet was once covered in oceans, lakes and rivers and would have resembled Earth during the earliest aeons of the solar system. It raises the tantalising prospect that simple life may have evolved in Martian waters and thrived, but not for long enough to have developed into complex organisms.
Her family immediately went to police, who told them not to go public, and that they would help return Irene…. In early February, however, the family finally did go public — and hinted that the authorities were complicit in the abduction and know exactly where she is. — copticsolidarity.org, February 292, 2024 – Egypt.
The seventh (and final) season of ABC’s liberal drama Station 19 has begun, and only three episodes in, it’s already pouring on the leftist propaganda. Thursday’s “True Colors” episode centered on “Fabruary-Seattle Winter’s Pride,” which the fire station is participating in and inserted a child into the planning.
One of the show’s many gay characters, Travis (Jay Hayden), asks a smart question…“How many Prides do we need,” adding, “…It feels a little excessive to me. I mean, we’re here, we’re queer…We don’t need to look like a box of Lucky Charms year-round to prove that.”
It took Karim and Joseph more than eight months to find a two-bedroom apartment to rent in downtown Toronto.
The high school friends, now 30 and 31 years old respectively, who did not want their last names published to avoid identifying their current landlord, started their search in July 2022. Joseph, the more experienced of the two, had already warned Karim of the “scope of how quick things happen.”
I’m covering press conference by pro-Palestinian groups denouncing Toronto Police actions as brutality on the weekend. It is taking place at headquarters. pic.twitter.com/dGsQcH5frZ
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Convicted double murderer Alex Murdaugh was slammed with a 40-year prison term Monday morning for a slew of financial crimes he pleaded guilty to last year.
The disgraced former attorney has already been sentenced to two life terms for the shocking murders of his wife and 22-year-old son in one of the most closely watched criminal cases in recent history.
The federal government says it will launch a national school food program, hoping to deliver meals to an additional 400,000 children per year.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland made the announcement during an event in Toronto on Monday, the latest in a series of public appearances by the prime minister and his cabinet ministers ahead of the federal budget planned for April 16.
The national program will “take pressure off of families, invest directly in the future of our kids and make sure they’re able to reach their full potential — feeling healthy and happy,” Trudeau said in a statement.
Adidas has banned football fans from buying German football kits customised with the number 44, after media raised its resemblance to the symbol used by World War Two-era Nazi SS units.
“We will block personalisation of the jerseys,” an Adidas spokesman said.
SS units were the most responsible for crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis.
The newly released kit has also caused controversy with its choice of pink for the away colours.
Ontario is in the midst of a drug crisis. These 7 charts tell us who’s being hit hardest
As Canada grapples with a drug toxicity crisis, new research looking at four years of opioid overdose deaths in Ontario offers a revealing glimpse of the face of these victims.
The research highlights, among other things, the disproportionate impact that opioid overdoses are having on Black, Asian and Latin American drug users and raises questions about whether the province’s racialized communities are getting the help they need.
… The researchers found that when they compared the number of deaths occurring by ethno-racial group in the first quarter to the last quarter in the study period, the proportions changed. During the first quarter, July-September 2017, white people accounted for 92.6 per cent of those who died of opioid toxicity. That proportion had dropped slightly to 90.1 per cent by the last quarter of the study period. At the same time, the proportion of Asian and Latin American people dying of opioid toxicity rose to 5.9 per cent from 3.6 per cent, while the proportion of Black people who died increased marginally to four per cent from 3.9 per cent.
As federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre prepares to hold a rally Monday on Vancouver Island, a new poll suggests the provincial Conservative Party in British Columbia is benefiting from his popularity even though there are no official links between the two parties.
Fifty-six per cent of likely federal Conservative voters support the provincial Conservatives instead of BC United, the other centre-right party, according to a survey by the Angus Reid Institute.
JK Rowling has challenged Scotland’s police to arrest her under the SNP’s new hate crime laws after stating that a series of high-profile trans women are men.
The Harry Potter author, who lives in Edinburgh, tweeted: “Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.
A March 29 social media post by Veterans Affairs Canada wishing veterans a “happy March holiday season” caused quite an uproar among many politicians and veterans, who worry that the Christian Easter holiday is being purposely renamed.
“Is [Veterans Affairs] too woke to acknowledge either the cultural or religious significance of Easter?” Conservative MP Michael Barrett wrote on X on March 30. “53% of Canadians are Christian. And nobody worth worrying about is offended by wishes of a Happy Easter.”
Observers have noted increasing instances of Christians feeling sidelined in Canada in recent years.
