MAiD in Ontario had years of rapid growth. Here’s what the new numbers show

After years of exponential growth in the year-to-year increase of Ontarians accessing medical assistance in dying (MAiD), the rate appears to have reached a plateau, according to new numbers provided by the Office of the Chief Coroner.

The stabilizing growth rate means MAiD deaths are moving toward a “predictable, steady share of overall mortality” in Canada, according to some analysts — who argued the data counters claims that the uptake of MAiD is increasing too rapidly.

They kill people for being depressed.

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

Gavin Newsom’s American dystopia

Gavin Newsom Oily Evangelist

‘President Gavin Newsom met today in Carmel, California with the representatives of the “Ten” – a consortium of giant tech and finance firms who control most of America’s business assets. Facing a challenge from front-running New York senator Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is pushing for a radical redistribution of wealth and property, Newsom has struck a deal with the oligarchs. He has imposed a universal basic income to head off a mounting populist revolt…

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCommunism, Communists, USA

Coldplay, Taylor and the era of the $2 billion music tour

Like hundreds of thousands of people this summer Ali Jones was mad for it. “I spent six months trying to get resale tickets for the Oasis concert in Cardiff,” says Jones, who landed two tickets for the opening night of the band’s reunion tour, two weeks before the big night, at £500 each.

He didn’t stop there. Jones, who works in the wine business, bought four tickets for Heaton Park in Manchester at £120 a pop, then two more for Wembley Stadium, a snip at £80 each. Add in travel, hotels, beer and food, and he estimates that he spent well over £2,000 for the Oasis experience. While it hasn’t gone down well with his fiancée, given the couple are in the process of buying a house, Jones has no regrets.

How’s business? Sucks.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Conrad Black: Hope on the Horizon for End of the War in Gaza

It is now difficult to see how the Gaza war, as we have known it for the last two years, will not be ended soon. As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has famously said, it will end “either the easy way or the hard way” but it will end.

This choice resides with the beleaguered and shell-shocked Hamas leadership, such of it as survives. The distinction is between escaping with their lives but militarily defeated, and in terms of political influence, torn out of Gaza root and branch, or being killed in hopeless combat in their tunnels in central Gaza city where they are constantly reminded of the presence of 60,000 battle-hardened Israeli counter-urban guerrilla soldiers overhead.

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

Owners of historic pub The Silent Woman spark row after changing its 100-year-old name which was inspired by Thomas Hardy

The ‘woke’ owners of a historic Dorset pub have been criticised for changing the public house’s century-old name.

The pub in Wareham has been known as The Silent Woman since the 1920s.

Its name was inspired by the famous author, and Dorset native, Thomas Hardy who referred to it as ‘The Quiet Woman’ in his 1878 novel The Return of the Native.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Officials to continue trade talks after Carney leaves White House meeting empty-handed

Mark Carney’s second visit to the White House as Prime Minister ended without any relief from punitive U.S. tariffs, but President Donald Trump predicted Canada and the United States would ultimately reach a deal even if some levies remain in place.

Dominic LeBlanc, the minister responsible for Canada-U.S. trade, remained behind in Washington to continue talks even as Mr. Carney heads home Wednesday morning. Mr. Carney was scheduled to dine with Vice-President JD Vance Tuesday evening.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Audit finds widespread irregularities in federal indigenous contracting program

A long-awaited federal audit has uncovered serious irregularities in a program meant to give contracting preference to indigenous-owned businesses, revealing that most companies claiming indigenous status were never properly verified.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the probe into Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty’s department found that two-thirds of suppliers who said they were indigenous could not prove it.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue"

Here’s What Amused Ukrainians About Joe Biden…It’s Pretty Damning

In the words of Michael Scott, “well, well, well…how the turn tables.” The Ukrainians thought Joe Biden’s leadership skills were subpar and were rather amused about his family’s allegedly corrupt ties to the country, particularly his son’s board seat on Burisma, which was widely perceived as a pipeline for government access for a handsome fee. All of this was going to be included in a 2016 report compiled by the CIA. It was an embarrassing review of Biden’s supposed stellar foreign policy bona fides, so the then-vice president and his office moved to have it squashed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Biden Family Sleaze"

Can Canada Survive Donald Trump?

On a Thursday evening in early September, King Street West was crowded with fans and industry types attending the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Just down the street from the red carpets, at an event space upstairs from a bar, a markedly wonkier assemblage had convened. The Canadian Club Toronto was sponsoring a Q&A discussion with Canada’s Commissioner of Competition, Matthew Boswell. Despite the entertainment alternatives on offer just down the block, the room was packed.

The Competition Bureau seeks to bolster Canada’s economy and root out anti-competitive practices. It issues reports about the state of national competitiveness and casts a cold eye on threats to consumer interests. Boswell, smart and engaging with a self-deprecating measure of Canada nice, had just opened the floor to questions. More than 47 minutes into the evening’s discussion, Vass Bednar, the head of a Canadian think tank, rose to ask about “the elephant in the room” that had gone tactfully unmentioned.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

John Ivison: The sober truth about all those promises provinces made to lower trade barriers

It’s a mark of how strongly Ron Kubek feels about the political mismanagement of Canada’s wine industry that he took time out from bringing in this year’s grape harvest to vent.

The owner of the Lightning Rock winery in B.C.’s Okanagan Valley said that he can export his award-winning Pinot Noir into Washington State tariff free under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade agreement.

But if he wants to access Ontario’s LCBO or Quebec’s SAQ liquor stores, he is obliged to pay markups of 71 per cent and 130 per cent respectively. Lightning Rock has been ranked in the top 25 wineries in the country, but it is a small (3,500-case), relatively high-cost producer, making delicious, jammy pinots.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

It’s Good v. Evil. It’s Always Been Good v. Evil.

Today is the two-year anniversary of the October 7, 2023 slaughter of Israeli innocents which brought on the current war over the Gaza Strip that President Trump is earnestly attempting to end through negotiation, as opposed to his Israeli counterpart Bibi Netanyahu’s attempts to end it by flattening every building left standing in Gaza City in an effort to annihilate what Hamas fighters remain there and to finally rescue what hostages remain.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives