Video Is Canada really falling apart?

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CANADA VS USA in the first quarter 2025:

Double the GDP growth, half the inflation,

1/10 the deficit,

15% more new jobs...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but Canada does not necessarily need the US.

The US is going to hurt our lumber and metals industries which ironically enough are heavily dominated by US companies, but it is still the US consumer who is going to be paying the price.

 

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And 2 out of the 3 partners in the CUSMA trde agreememt are just going to work around the US.
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Canada would like a word.

 

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Another trade pact to reduce everyone's relaince on the US as principal trading partner and bypass
US customs and tariffs.

Sources from both Canada and Brazil told Reuters that Canada's International Trade Minister is expected to travel to Brasilia on August 25.

Mercosur includes Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia.

 

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Over 150 Canadians including toddlers have been kidnapped by ICE.

The boycott remains strong. Las Vegas mayor is complaining that Canadians just won't come back.

Hasta la vista baby.

 

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Canada and Mexico are working around the stupid tariffs that overhang the North American auto industry.

 

[KaraBulut]

In the US, we're in a race to kill each other... and it's usually a bloody process.

In Canada, they're having a problem with people choosing to check out voluntarily. Physicians can't keep up with the demand for Medical Assistance in Dying.

Canada Is Killing Itself

The country gave its citizens the right to die. Doctors are struggling to keep up with demand.

www.theatlantic.com

When Canada’s Parliament in 2016 legalized the practice of euthanasia—Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAID, as it’s formally called—it launched an open-ended medical experiment. One day, administering a lethal injection to a patient was against the law; the next, it was as legitimate as a tonsillectomy, but often with less of a wait. MAID now accounts for about one in 20 deaths in Canada—more than Alzheimer’s and diabetes combined—surpassing countries where assisted dying has been legal for far longer.

 

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I suspect that a lot of the assisted deaths are related to cancer or even to loss of quality of life for those with serious co-morbid conditions.

Unfortunately the article is behind a paywall, but if Atlantic is presenting this as some kind of existential threat to society in Canada, it isn't.

And to be honest, in terminal cases in hospice care or even those dying in their home, physicians have been assisting patients to live their fnal days without pain for years by administering drugs that contribute to end of life.

 

[KaraBulut]

I suspect that a lot of the assisted deaths are related to cancer or even to loss of quality of life for those with serious co-morbid conditions.

Unfortunately the article is behind a paywall, but if Atlantic is presenting this as some kind of existential threat to society in Canada, it isn't.

Like so many articles in The Atlantic, it's a very long and thoughtful piece of writing. The print edition is something like 12 pages long.

The overall tone of the article is "Canada did this as an experiment but they don't know what to do now that it has proven so popular". The forecast when the law was passed was that assisted suicide would be rare- estimated at 2% of deaths and at most, 4% of deaths. It's currently at 7% of deaths.

And to be honest, in terminal cases in hospice care or even those dying in their home, physicians have been assisting patients to live their fnal days without pain for years by administering drugs that contribute to end of life.

There are about a dozen States in the US that have assisted suicide laws. It varies from legalized "withdrawal of treatment", all the way to physicians writing a lethal prescription for patients to take at home. It happens tacitly in hospitals, even in States where it is not legal, and probably would be more common if not for the Catholic Church's involvement in healthcare in the US.

If you talk to nurses who work in acute care hospitals in the US, you'll hear that part of their frustration is that they often feel like they are prolonging death in a over-engineered nursing home. Physicians in the US are not educated to let go of their own bias and let patients die with dignity. My own personal opinion is that Americans seem to be enamored with violence and some of what we do to people in the last years of their life can only be described as violence.

 

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I think that Canadians are generally pretty fatalistic about the end game.

With universal healthcare we have no real fear of not having medical care available to the last breath, but also don't buy into extreme measures to prolong life at the at the expense of dignity in death.

Our longer life span than US citizens comes with a cost...tertiary and quaternary care...not regulated by private insurance can sometimes result in being alive...but with loss of quality of life.

Or maybe we just have a huge death cult up here.

 

[KaraBulut]

...Or maybe we just have a huge death cult up here.

Until you all allow mentally ill people to buy an unlimited number of assault weapons, you're just an amateur death cult.

 

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It won't help any US citizens (yet)...but Canada has announced an alliance with the Rainbow Railroad. There may be LGBTQ people from war torn or dangerous countries
hiding in the US and they want to seek asylum in Canada.

Major Announcement - Getting LGBTQI+ People to Safety in Canada - Rainbow Railroad

Rainbow Railroad is announcing the launch of a new, historic partnership with the Government of Canada.

www.rainbowrailroad.org

 

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Given the tariffs that have been imposed on Canada because of drugs entering the US....could we nicely ask people in the US to stop trying to import drugs into Canuckistan?

In exchange we really promise to try to stop fentanyl from reaching your border control points as well.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/1-kilogram-methamphetamine-cocaine-seized-ambassador-bluewater-bridges-1.7634221

 

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