Federal office mandate burdening Ottawa doctors as public servants seek medical notes

Family doctors in Ottawa are seeing an influx of public servants looking for medical notes to support work-from-home requests, putting added strain on an already overburdened health-care system.

Dr. Roozbeh Matin, who practises in Barrhaven, said he’s been noticing the trend for months, ever since the federal government announced plans to mandate public servants to work from the office more often.

“This is a systemic problem that all of us physicians in the Ottawa area are noticing,” he said. “We have been basically inundated with requests from our civil servant patients requesting various sorts of accommodation.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

An Unexpected Encounter Between Israeli Soldiers, Hamas Fighters Led to Yahya Sinwar’s Dramatic Death

For more than a year, Israeli military and intelligence forces have been searching every inch of Gaza for the man believed to be the architect of the October 7 attack that killed more than 1,200 people in Israel, Yahya Sinwar. Yet it was a chance encounter with a squadron of trainees on patrol that miraculously uncovered Israel’s most wanted target.

“Wow, wow, wow, it’s Sinwar,” an Israel Defense Force soldier exclaimed while gazing at a body after an exchange of fire in southern Gaza, according to Kan news. It took nearly 24 hours before forensic tests confirmed what that soldier recognized: the top Hamas leader was dead.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Poor at risk of being coerced into assisted dying in Canada

Assisted dying is used by patients in Canada because they are poor and lack housing, a major report has found.

The first official report into assisted dying deaths in Ontario, which has been obtained by the Telegraph, found vulnerable people face “potential coercion” or “undue influence” to seek out the practice.

Sixteen experts across medicine, nursing and law identified people whose lives may have been wrongly terminated at the hands of the state, where the action is called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Labour sends almost 100 party staff to help Democrats in swing states

Labour is sending almost 100 current and former party staff members to the US to campaign for the Democrats in swing states.

Activists from Sir Keir Starmer’s party will spend the next two-and-a-half weeks canvassing for Kamala Harris in four key battlegrounds ahead of the US election on Nov 5.

They will target Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia, which are all seen as crucial to Ms Harris’ path to the White House.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, USA, WTF?

Pierre Poilievre has taken politics to a new low. Justin Trudeau is willing to join him there

New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh is not wrong when he says that dangerous politics are being played with national security in this country.

Taking aim at Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre, Singh said on Thursday: “I think it’s clear to me that both of these leaders have at many times chosen to put the party before the country.”

Only at the Star.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference"

Kamala Harris plagiarism allegations ‘more serious’ than I thought, admits New York Times expert

Kamala Harris’s plagiarism is “more serious” than it first seemed, a New York Times expert has admitted after he initially downplayed more than a dozen examples of copied paragraphs in her book.

Ms Harris was on Monday accused of plagiarising several sections of her book on crime, including a story once told by Martin Luther King Jr.

More than a dozen sections of the book were apparently copied from various sources, including Wikipedia.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Kamala Harris", Election 2024, WTF?

Sask school allows boys in Grade 7 female changing room, parents outraged

A school in rural Saskatchewan is under fire for its handling of female changing room access for Grade 7 students.

Parents and politicians are speaking out against Balgonie Elementary School allowing two biological males identifying as female to use the changing room facilities matching their gender identity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"They really do want your children", WTF?

Report: Hundreds of Cars Seized by Green-Posturing London Mayor

Newly released figures reveal that almost 1,500 cars were snatched last year on the orders of the Mayor of London’s office, as part of its Ultra-low Emissions Zone (ULEZ), the largest in the world, incorporating all London boroughs.

Under Sadiq Khan, a total of 1,429 cars were removed from their owners in the 12-month period ending in July 2024. Around half (761) of the vehicles were subsequently auctioned, raising £710,000.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

‘No Māori people at all’

Participants in Indigenous cultural exchange program to New Zealand feel ‘scammed’

What many thought was a dream opportunity for Indigenous youth from Canada to participate in cultural exchange with local Māori communities in New Zealand turned into what one participant describes as a “nightmare.”

It was marketed as a 12-week working holiday for Indigenous youth but left some participants feeling scammed.

I’m sorry but I’m laughing. But these young people learned a valuable lesson so there’s that.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Netanyahu: Sinwar’s dead, now time to stop axis of evil, free hostages

Hamas’s leader Yahya Sinwar’s assassination marks the end of Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip, opens the possibility of ending the Iranian-led axis, and creates new options to free the remaining 101 hostages, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday night.

“Hamas will no longer rule Gaza. This is the beginning of the day after Hamas,” Netanyahu stated shortly after the IDF confirmed it had successfully killed Sinwar.

Awww…

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"