Veteran alleges 20 cases of assisted suicide offers by Veterans Affairs Canada

A Canadian veteran has told MPs that she has written proof of multiple veterans being offered assisted suicide by Veterans Affairs Canada, reigniting a national controversy over the department’s handling of vulnerable former service members.

Kelsi Sheren, a combat veteran and CEO of Brass & Unity, testified before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs on Wednesday, saying her organization has documented 20 cases in which veterans were allegedly offered Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) by VAC officials.

(Incognito)

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Why 42 million Americans are about to lose their Snap benefits

About 42 million Americans will lose their food benefits from November 1 because of the government shutdown.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme (Snap) helps low-income families buy groceries. It is relied upon by one in eight Americans.

Eligible families use an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card much like an ordinary debit card to purchase food. They are usually reloaded by the federal government at the beginning of every month. But on Saturday, this might not happen.


UPDATE: Judges order Trump admin to use emergency funds to pay for SNAP benefits with cutoff Saturday

A pair of federal judges ruled Friday that the Trump administration must use emergency funding to restore at least some SNAP food benefits — one day before the US Department of Agriculture had warned money for the program would run out due to the ongoing government shutdown.

The judges in Boston and Providence, RI, both said that the USDA could decide whether to fund the entitlement commonly known as food stamps in full or in part for the month of November — but a full cutoff was unlawful.

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Putting repeat offenders behind bars will keep Canadians safe, Poilievre says

Even though an election call is not within sight, federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre appears to be in full campaign mode as he brings his party’s platform to locations across the country. At the forefront of his message is one that resonates with Canadians: crime and keeping the public safe.

h/t Patti Jo

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U.N. Warns U.S. Attacks on Criminal Drug Boats ‘Unacceptable‘

U.S. military strikes against cartel drug boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean journeying from South America are “unacceptable” and must stop, the U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk warned Friday.

Türk, an Austrian-born career U.N. bureaucrat, called for an immediate investigation into the strikes against narco terrorists in what is the first such condemnation of its kind from the globalist organization.

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Religious symbols ban: Quebec passes law to prevent students, staff from covering their faces

The Quebec government has passed a law extending the province’s ban on religious symbols to everyone who interacts with students in schools.

The law also prohibits students from wearing face coverings in a bid to strengthen secularism in schools.

The new legislation expands on a secularism law from 2019 that banned religious symbols for public employees deemed to be in positions of authority, including teachers, judges and police officers.

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Kamala Harris loses it, goes on expletive-laden rant about Trump’s donation-funded ballroom

“Are you f‑‑king kidding me?” Harris raged on Jon Stewart’s “The Weekly Show” podcast on Thursday as she accused Trump of prioritizing the renovations despite the government shutdown threatening the distribution of food aid benefits.

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Carney and Xi agree to tackle ‘irritants’ in Canada-China relationship

Opening the door to what he calls pragmatic and constructive dialogue, Prime Minister Mark Carney held a bilateral meeting Friday with the president of China on the margins of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

It marked the first formal leader-to-leader contact between the two nations since 2017.


In other words nothing was accomplished beyond a reminder that Carney should keep the KY handy.

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Federal prosecutors investigate BLM leaders over alleged misuse of $90M+ in donations

Federal prosecutors are investigating whether senior leaders of the Black Lives Matter organization defrauded donors who contributed tens of millions of dollars during the 2020 protests, two sources familiar with the probe tell Fox News.

The Associated Press first reported that the Justice Department’s ongoing inquiry is focused on the foundation’s handling of donations collected in the wake of the George Floyd killing, when the group saw a surge of more than $90 million in contributions.

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Mark Carney’s HEY JEW

Ignorance can be forgiven. Willful gutless idiocy cannot. Let’s face it. The sad reality is that our current Western leaders are pathetic despicable opportunists.

Given the current global antisemitic frenzy, The Beatles’ hit song Hey Jude seems ripe to be tailored as “Hey Jew!”

My sincere apologies to Israel for our amateurish Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent decision to recognize a country that never existed anywhere other than on paper ‒ that is “Palestine” of course ‒ which technically amounts to recognizing Atlantis, or rather George Lucas’ Death Star.

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It’s time to declare a national emergency over violent crime by migrants

Despite what the BBC would have you believe, people are right to be fearful of the consequences of our open borders

How could any decent human being possibly object to mass immigration? That, it would seem, is the mystery puzzling the BBC. Yes, even after all these years. Because earlier this week it sent reporters to Buxton in Derbyshire to ask residents the following question: why are you people all saying you’ll vote Reform, when practically everyone in your town is white British?

Buxton, noted the BBC’s reporters, has experienced “very little” immigration, is a good 250 miles from Dover (“where the small boats arrive”), and has “no hotels housing asylum seekers”. Yet almost everyone they spoke to, apart from some wonderfully compassionate teenagers at a local school, viewed the small boats, and mass immigration in general, as a major source of concern. How baffling. If you work for the BBC, anyway.

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‘You got some pants on, officer?’: video from Detroit virtual court hearing goes viral

A video of a Detroit police officer appearing at a virtual court hearing without wearing any trousers has gone viral.

“You got some pants on, officer?” Judge Sean Perkins asked police officer Matthew Jackson after he introduced himself to the virtual district courtroom on Monday and inadvertently revealed himself not to be wearing trousers.

“No, sir,” Jackson admitted before the video showed him moving up the camera up so the lower half of his body was no longer in the frame.

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LILLEY: Canadians shouldn’t accept a lower standard of living

First it was Prime Minister Mark Carney saying that young people would need to sacrifice, now it’s the head of the Bank of Canada warning of a lower standard of living. It seems that Canada’s leadership sees us as a country in decline, but it shouldn’t be this way.

In fact, that was the point that Bank Governor Tiff Macklem was making on Wednesday. Macklem was talking about the impact of tariffs and American protectionist policy on Canada’s economy.

So who has been at the economy’s helm these past 11 years?

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