If you were to guess at the number of people signing up for legal assisted suicide in Canada, you probably guess a few people a year, right? Maybe a few dozen at most? Try 45,000 people — the population of Palm Springs, California. That’s how many people have killed themselves through Canada’s Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) program since assisted suicide was legalized in 2016. The number of deaths is still exploding, with thousands more people taking advantage of the program each year. A total of 44,958 people have ended their lives through MAID over the seven years from 2016 to 2022, the last year with available data, according to Health Canada. The first year, 1,018 people died. That number nearly tripled the next year to over 2,800 people. Over the next few years deaths continued to skyrocket, sometimes thousands each year. By 2020, the number of people killed had topped 10,000, and by 2022 the number had reached a whopping 13,241 people, 4.1% of all deaths in Canada that year. Canada’s program has come under scrutiny for its liberal approach to approving applicants, especially people suffering from mental illness. At first, only adults whose natural death is “reasonably foreseeable” could get approved. In 2021, Canada expanded it to adults whose natural death is not “reasonably foreseeable,” such as those with non-terminal illnesses and disabilities. In 2027 the program will be expanded further to people whose sole reason for wanting to die is a mental health condition. Already though, Canadians with a history of mental illness have been allowed to end their lives. Alan Nichols, 61, was hospitalized in 2019 over fears he might be suicidal and asked his brother to “bust him out” as soon as possible. However, within a month he had applied for assisted suicide and was killed. He listed “hearing loss” as the one reason he wanted to die. Another man, Amir Farsoud, 54, was living with agonizing chronic back pain and took depression and anxiety medication. He wanted to end his life using MAID in 2022 as he was unable to work and lived on government checks and felt there was no way to avoid homelessness when the shared house he rented was listed for sale. He changed his mind, however, only after good Samaritans stepped up and raised more than $60,000 for him. “I’m a different person,” Farsoud said. “I had nothing but darkness, misery, stress and hopelessness. Now I have all the opposite of those things.” Recently, a chilling exchange between Dr. Ellen Wiebe, who runs an assisted suicide clinic in Canada, and Liz Carr, a comedian, actress and disability rights campaigner made the rounds on social media. The Canadian doctor Liz Carr interviews in this is one of the most frightening people I have ever seen. pic.twitter.com/K9jL057Nyi — Billy Bragg (@Serena_Partrick) October 5, 2024 Carr has used a wheelchair ever since an illness when she was just seven-years-old and is a vocal opponent of assisted suicide. She is concerned about vulnerable people requesting assisted suicide or even feeling compelled to do so. “Apart from the fact I don’t have the desire, I think probably I would be eligible under the Canadian law,” Carr told Wiebe. Wiebe, who also runs an abortion clinic, said she has been involved in more than 400 deaths and called it “the very best work” she has ever done. The clinician has killed a businesswoman diagnosed with dementia in her fifties, a military veteran with PTSD and chronic pain, and even a 56-year-old woman with advanced multiple sclerosis who starved herself to make sure her death was “reasonably foreseeable” back when that was a requirement of MAID. Wiebe injects her patients with a lethal cocktail of drugs that causes unconsciousness, then cardiac or respiratory arrest. Canada is not the only country where mentally ill people have been euthanized. In the Netherlands, several different women in their 20s have been allowed to die by assisted suicide based on mental suffering alone as well as a 28-year-old autistic woman who suffered from chronic fatigue. However, Canada’s law is one of the most loosely regulated, and the criticism has been fierce, swift, and global. Earlier this year, The Washington Post urged Canada to “rethink” its “risky expansion” of euthanasia, saying the upcoming expansion to mental illness “goes too far.” “Many in the grips of psychiatric distress view, temporarily, suicide as their only way out, only to later be grateful they did not kill themselves in the depths of their suffering,” the editorial board wrote. Canada’s law is “probably the biggest existential threat to disabled people since the Nazis’ program in Germany in the 1930s,” declared Tim Stainton, director of the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship at the University of British Columbia. Even Pope Francis spoke out against the law during his trip to Canada, lamenting the “patients who, in place of affection, are administered death.” Meanwhile, the bodies are piling up.

University of Nevada, Reno, is facing backlash over its refusal to support its women’s volleyball team, which had announced it would not be playing against San Jose State University’s women’s team because of its trans-identifying male player. It started when the UNR women’s volleyball team released a statement that made it the fifth university to forfeit its game against SJSU because the California school’s team’s star player is a male. “We, the University of Nevada Reno women’s volleyball team, forfeit against @SJSU and stand united in solidarity with the volleyball teams of Southern Utah University, Boise State University, the University of Wyoming, & Utah State University,” the statement read in part, as previously reported. The statement included that the girls demanded “that our right to safety and fair competition on the court be upheld. We refuse to participate in any match that advances injustice against female athletes.” INSANE response from @unevadareno after the women’s volleyball team decided to forfeit their match against SJSU. This is the intimidation & emotional blackmail that girls face when they stand up for themselves. Hold the line girls, @NevadaWVB. We’re all behind you! BOYcott https://t.co/9n9wsoaqHt pic.twitter.com/k8JQPL8aEQ — Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) October 14, 2024 Later, the university released a statement showing it did not support the move by the women’s team, saying that the school is about “providing an inclusive and supportive environment,” claiming the prior statement was made “independently and without consultation” of the school. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ COMING TO DAILYWIRE+ OCT. 28 The university also claimed that the school is governed by a law which protects “the equality of rights under the law,” which includes things like race, sexual orientation, “gender identity or expression.” It ends with a statement that the match on October 26 will still happen and those girls who wish not to play can do so without any disciplinary action. Former collegiate swimmer and outspoken advocate for women’s sports Riley Gaines slammed the response by the university, first sharing the statement and then calling it “INSANE.” “This is the intimidation [and] emotional blackmail that girls face when they stand up for themselves,” Gaines wrote. “Hold the line girls, @NevadaWVB. We’re all behind you! BOYcott,” she added. Megyn Kelly of “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast also reposted the article about the girls refusing to play and threw her support to them after they lost the university’s support. “A 5th team forfeits in D1 collegiate women’s volleyball rather than play against a team w/a male player,” Kelly wrote. “This, as their own school turns on them, content to endanger them by pressuring them to play,” she added. “The girls aren’t having it. GOOD FOR THEM.” Related: Fourth University Women’s Team Refuses To Play Against Trans-Identifying Male

CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings mocked Vice President Kamala Harris for her sudden interest in former President Donald Trump’s health and advanced age, noting the irony after she’d spent most of the last four years covering for President Joe Biden’s obvious decline. Jennings made the comments during a Monday evening panel discussion, where he argued that Harris’ argument — that Trump should make all of his medical records public — was likely to fall flat. WATCH; Watching Harris lean into attacks on Trump “mental acuity” is just rich, given her role in the Biden coverup. Some pushback to the Dem lectures on @cnn last night. pic.twitter.com/5zGkHb1t4j — Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) October 15, 2024 Jennings started off with a little free advice for Harris and her campaign, arguing that it was not a great look for her to push that line of attack. “If I were Harris, I wouldn’t be leaning too heavily into who’s hiding what kind of medical conditions of people who are or want to be the president given her role in lying about the condition of Joe Biden for the last four years,” he said. “That’s number one.” “Number two, I don’t think this works for her,” he continued. “I think — I’m back in the same bucket I was earlier. You’re not selling your own candidacy, you’re punching Donald Trump in the same way every other Democrat we’ve ever heard from for the last eight, nine years has punched this guy. That’s not the problem with your campaign. We’ve heard all the attacks on Trump. If she can’t sell her own candidacy any better than just punching on him, for her, if I were in her camp — I just don’t know if it’s going to be enough.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ COMING TO DAILYWIRE+ OCT. 28 Another panelist suggested it was good for the Harris campaign to remind people of Trump’s age and mental acuity, and Jennings cut back in. “Honestly, just to be lectured by Democrats about, ‘You have to have mental acuity to be the President of the United States,'” Jennings added in mocking tones. “After what we just lived through for the last four years? Come on! Don’t lecture me about mental acuity and the presidency … Democrats, who all — you included — who all assured us that Joe Biden was riding unicycles and juggling knives in the Oval Office.” “We all know that wasn’t true, and Harris was the chief cheerleader for that — the lectures about the mental acuity, come on,” he concluded.

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