Canada: Euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths

The rate of medical assistance in dying – also known as euthanasia – has grown in Canada for the fifth straight year, albeit at a slower pace.

The country released its fifth annual report since legalising assisted dying in 2016, which for the first time included data on the ethnicity of those seeking euthanasia.

Around 15,300 people underwent assisted dying last year, accounting for 4.7% of deaths in the country. Canada lawmakers are currently seeking to expand access to euthanasia to cover people with mental illnesses by 2027.

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‘Cultural sensitivities’ may have stopped teachers intervening to save Sara Sharif, MP suggests

An inquest into the death of Sara Sharif should examine if concerns over cultural sensitivities meant teachers were afraid to question why she began wearing a hijab after being seen with bruises, an MP has suggested.

Will Forster, who became MP for Woking in July, said that the review into the 10-year-old’s death had to look at every aspect of her care.

At the Old Bailey on Wednesday, Urfan Sharif, Sara’s father, 42, and Beinash Batool, her step-mother, 30, were convicted of her murder.

Islamophobia and community cohesion should have been co-accused.

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Trudeau presents premiers with plan to address Trump’s border concerns as tariff threat looms

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Canada’s premiers on Wednesday to discuss Ottawa’s plan to address U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s concerns about the Canada-U.S. border.

This is the second time Trudeau has met with premiers since Trump threatened to hit Canada with steep tariffs last month — and the first meeting since the prime minister’s dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, President Trump, USA

How a Chinese firm ran a billion-euro carbon credit scam

When Stefan Schreiber decided to invest in a carbon emission reduction project with a Chinese company, he was convinced he was dealing with a trustworthy business partner. “They made a very professional impression: the way they presented themselves, the way they communicated,” he said.

DW met Schreiber in a meeting room at his company’s plant in Schwedt, a town near Berlin. The office overlooked huge pipes and tanks, and trucks trundled past. Schreiber is a board member of Verbio, a German biofuel producer that also trades carbon certificates.

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John Ivison: With our ‘post-national’ leader it’s no wonder Trump thinks we aren’t a real country

While taking part in a geography student awards ceremony in 2016, Vladimir Putin corrected a schoolboy who said Russia’s border with the U.S. ended at the Bering Strait.

“Russia’s borders have no end,” Putin said, before clarifying. “This is a joke.”

It was the same kind of mirthless, menacing crack that permeates Donald Trump’s repeated reference to Canada as the 51st state of America .

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San Diego sheriff says she won’t honor county’s ‘sanctuary’ immigration policy

The sheriff of San Diego county defied a new policy limiting county cooperation with federal immigration authorities, setting up a showdown over California’s efforts to shield residents from Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans.

On Tuesday, San Diego county supervisors voted to prohibit its sheriff’s department from working with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) on the federal agency’s enforcement of civil immigration laws, including those that allow for deportations.

California law already generally prohibits cooperation but makes exceptions for those convicted of certain violent crimes. The new policy brings San Diego in line with seven other counties in California, including Los Angeles, the nation’s largest, which recently adopted a policy that goes beyond state law.

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Dog’s return only adds to mystery of Canadian man missing in wilderness

When Micaela Sawyer saw the photo of a weak, emaciated dog shuddering in the snow, she hoped desperately it was her Murphy.

The golden retriever with a dulled red coat and legs riddled with injuries, was unmistakably the dog she and her partner, Jim Barnes, had raised as a puppy, she said.

For more than 50 days, Barnes and Murphy had been the focus of an extensive search in the wilderness of western Canada after they vanished in mid-October.

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One in three Canadians say government response to COVID was overblown: poll

What surprises bioethicist Kerry Bowman isn’t that more than a third of Canadians think governments overreacted to COVID, according to a new national poll. It’s that the sentiment isn’t higher.

“I think a lot of Canadians have doubts,” said Bowman, who teaches bioethics and global health at the University of Toronto. “What we didn’t do as a nation was think about, in a mature democratic society, how far can we go with restrictions, and how far can we go, quickly, in the absence of clear evidence.”

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Trudeau will have to ‘kiss the ring’ to achieve smoother bilateral relations with Trump: John Bolton

If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants to get on U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s good side for the sake of a smooth bilateral relationship, he’ll likely have to be openly deferential, says former U.S. National Security Advisor, John Bolton.

“It’s always possible, if somebody kisses the ring. I mean, that’s what Trump likes,” Bolton told CTV Power Play host Vassy Kapelos in an interview airing Wednesday, when asked if he thinks it’s possible for Trudeau and Trump to forge a better relationship than during the former president’s first term.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, President Trump, USA

Russian ‘spy ring met with Just Stop Oil’

Russian spies met with Just Stop Oil (JSO) protesters to plan a disinformation campaign against Kazakhstan, a court has heard.

Orlin Roussev, who led a spy ring from his home in Great Yarmouth, claimed that his team had met with the climate campaigners as they plotted to douse the country’s embassy in London with blood.

The Russian security services would pass on fake intelligence about the staged protest to the Kazakh intelligence agencies in order to gain favour, jurors heard.

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Trudeau’s dingbat feminist comments on Kamala Harris ’not helpful,’ premiers say

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s comments likening Kamala Harris’s election loss to an attack on women’s rights and progress earned him criticism from the country’s premiers on Wednesday.

Speaking on Tuesday night at an event hosted by the Equal Voice Foundation — an organization dedicated to improving gender representation in Canadian politics — Trudeau said there are regressive forces fighting against women’s progress.

This was likely a deliberate act of sabotage.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, President Trump, USA, WTF?