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"Canada" Katılım Aralık 2013
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Flavio E.
Flavio E.@FlavioEvan·
I want to take a moment. This is just me speaking, not the fact-checker. Just a person. To everyone who has been through this process with someone they love: I see you. These are among the hardest moments a family can face, and the courage it takes to walk that road with someone deserves nothing but respect. I wrote this thread to challenge political messaging, not the dignity of those decisions. When MAID becomes a talking point on a podcast, real families get erased from the conversation. The health practitioners who carry this work with compassion every day, the patients who make this deeply personal choice, and the loved ones who hold their hands through it are not a statistic or a scare story. We can debate ethics and policy. We should. But we can do it as Canadians who recognize the humanity on every side of this. That part is not political. That part is just human. 🍁
Flavio E.@FlavioEvan

1/5 🔍 REALITY CHECK: Is 1 in 20 deaths in Canada really assisted suicide? The Claim: Rogan cites the "1 in 20" stat and claims a young Canadian got it for seasonal depression. Poilievre validates this, warning that MAID shouldn't be "offered to kids" or people "whose only condition is mental illness." The Implication: They are framing this statistic as a dystopian reality where the Canadian government is actively euthanizing physically healthy, depressed youth instead of offering them help. The Reality: Yes, the math is actually right. According to Health Canada's 6th Annual Report, there were 16,499 MAID provisions in 2024, representing 5.1% of all deaths in the country. So yes, roughly 1 in 20 deaths in Canada is an assisted suicide. But there is a BIG "but." When you look at the actual data, the demographic driving this number is entirely different from what Poilievre and Rogan are suggesting: Terminal Illness: Over 95% of MAID provisions were "Track 1" cases, meaning the person's natural death was already reasonably foreseeable. Cancer, not depression: Cancer was the most frequently cited condition, affecting more than 63% of MAID recipients, and the median age of a recipient was 77.9 years old. Mental Illness is legally excluded: Anyone whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness is legally barred from accessing MAID in Canada; that expansion was met with heavy pushback and has been officially delayed until at least March 17, 2027. Furthermore, MAID is strictly limited to adults 18 and older. The Bottom Line: Let's be precise. 1 out of every 20 total deaths in Canada (about 5%) is from MAID. But if you look inside that 5%, it consists almost entirely of terminally ill, elderly patients—not depressed kids. 👇 Receipts: Health Canada's 6th Annual Report on MAID (released late 2025 detailing 2024 data). Bill C-39 / C-62 (Delaying MAID for mental illness until 2027).

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Bev 🇨🇦
Bev 🇨🇦@Garnet_2203·
How can Maple Maga Doug Ford get away with this? There’s close 30,000 unemployed people in Ontario.
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Louise Martin
Louise Martin@LouiseMartinCBC·
An investigation by the fifth estate has found the website known as Entropy, which launched in Calgary, is in fact a safe haven for white supremacists and other extremists seeking to monetize the hateful content they livestream to online audiences. cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
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Mike Levin
Mike Levin@MikeLevin·
Let me get this straight. The federal government held a legal auction for the right to build offshore wind farms. A company won those auctions fair and square, paying nearly a billion dollars into the U.S. Treasury. The projects went through years of review. Courts repeatedly upheld their legality. Everything was above board. Then the Trump administration tried five separate times to kill other wind projects in federal court and lost every single time. Judges reviewed the administration’s supposed “national security” justification and weren’t persuaded.  So now they’ve landed on a new plan: pay the company nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS of your tax money to just walk away. Because, and I am not making this up, the president thinks offshore wind turbines are ugly and claims without evidence that they “drive whales crazy.”  He’s been nursing this petty grudge since 2012, when he tried to block a wind farm visible from his golf course in Scotland. Fourteen years later, American taxpayers are footing the bill for it. This is stupid policy. It’s fiscally reckless, strategically blind, and driven entirely by a personal vendetta rather than any coherent vision for American energy or competitiveness. Meanwhile, China is racing ahead, building offshore wind at a staggering pace and positioning itself to dominate the global clean energy economy for decades to come. None of this is America First. nytimes.com/2026/03/17/cli…
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Flavio E.
Flavio E.@FlavioEvan·
A statistic can be 100% accurate and still be used to push a false narrative. The '1 in 20' number is real, but Poilievre used it to suggest that healthy kids and depressed people are being euthanized. The actual 2026 data shows those groups represent ZERO percent of MAID cases. Correcting the context isn't 'shilling'—it's just making sure the full picture is on the table. If the facts don't fit the slogan, that's a problem with the slogan, not the math.
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Sharan Kaur
Sharan Kaur@msSharanKaur·
For the love of god, spend the money. Fix the house. We are a G7 country, let’s act like it. 24 Sussex belongs to the office not a person.
National Newswatch@natnewswatch

Rideau Cottage 'inadequate' home for a PM as decision on 24 Sussex looms: internal memo. Carney government could choose fate of official residence within months, source says, @AshleyBurkeCBC reports cbc.ca/news/politics/… Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

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Marit Stiles
Marit Stiles@MaritStiles·
The cuts to OSAP are personal for me. I got into politics because of my two daughters. Watching them move through our public schools, seeing what a difference it makes when things are properly funded – and what it costs when they're not. That doesn't leave you. So these OSAP cuts aren't abstract to me. Doug Ford made a choice. A deliberate choice that tells students from regular working families that getting ahead just got a little harder. A little further out of reach. I'm not going to let that stand. When the legislature returns next week, I'm going to fight this from day one. If Doug Ford wants to do the right thing, the door is open. And if he doesn't, I'll keep fighting. Thank you to the hundreds of you who showed up at our Save OSAP Townhall. Let's keep going. ❤️
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Sophia
Sophia@kaliyugacowgirl·
“We will go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost effective.” - Kurt Vonnegut
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Gabrielle Blair
Gabrielle Blair@designmom·
Girls and women don’t “get pregnant.” They are impregnated. By men. Quick reminder: Ovulation is involuntary. Ejaculation is voluntary.
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Linda bleskie
Linda bleskie@LBleskie·
She was smart, strong and a premier that actually cared about ALL the people of Ontario.
Captain Dick@CaptainDick12

@LauraBabcock Kathleen Wynne was ten times better than Ford and she warned us about him. She was right. Ontario debt is currently double what it was when she left office. Kathleen was the victim of a massive advertisement campaign by Ford which he is now using to promote himself.

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Isaac Callan
Isaac Callan@isaaccallan·
🧵: During last year's snap election, as he fought a campaign under the banner of protecting Ontario from US tariffs, Doug Ford visited Washington, D.C. in his role as premier. Here's a look at how much it cost the public, mid-campaign. Uncovered through FOI. #Onpoli
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🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦
🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦@Reil76·
No, Albertans do not fund other provinces through equalization—that’s a myth. Equalization is a federal program paid from general federal revenues (taxes collected nationwide at the same rates from all Canadians). Provinces don’t pay into it—no “Alberta cheque” exists. In 2025-26, payments totaled ~$26.2 billion (rising to ~$27.2 billion in 2026-27), mostly to Quebec, Manitoba, etc. Alberta, BC, and Saskatchewan get $0 because their fiscal capacity (revenue-raising ability) exceeds the national average, thanks to higher incomes and resources. Albertans pay more federal taxes per capita due to higher earnings, so they contribute more indirectly to the national pool—but that’s how progressive federal taxation works everywhere, not a direct transfer from Alberta to others. The program ensures comparable services across Canada without provinces needing higher taxes.
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