The Canadian federal government under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau legalized medically assisted suicide nationwide in 2016.

As critics predicted, the state-facilitated suicide program — referred to as medical assistance in dying — was grossly liberalized in a short of period of time, maximizing both the number of accepted rationales and the number of those killed.

The province of Alberta appears keen to rein in Canada’s sick experiment and protect its would-be victims, especially ahead of the Carney government’s planned MAID eligibility expansion next year.

Background

In its first year, MAID offed 1,108 Canadians. That number tripled the following year, and by 2021, the number of Canadians killed by their government had climbed to over 10,000 in a single year.

‘MAID should not be a substitute for robust health care.’

The Canadian government revealed in its latest MAID report that a total of 16,499 people were euthanized under the program in 2024, accounting for over 5% of all deaths in Canada that year. Of those euthanized, at least 4.4% nationally were not terminally ill. In Alberta, the number was 4.6%.

By the end of 2024, the number of Canadians who have died through MAID crested 76,000.

Originally, MAID applicants had to be 18 or older and suffering from a “grievous and irremediable medical condition” causing “enduring physical or psychological suffering that is intolerable” to them.

Within years, the country’s eugenicist-founded health care system had given the green light to effectively execute those struggling with anxiety, autism, depression, economic hardship, PTSD, and other survivable issues.

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Persons suffering solely from a mental illness will be eligible for MAID beginning March 17, 2027.

Alberta takes action

Alberta Attorney General Mickey Amery, who is also the justice minister of the ruling United Conservative government, introduced legislation last month — the Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act — that would “increase oversight, introduce necessary safeguards, and provide greater clarity around eligibility requirements for medical assistance in dying … in the province.”

The bill would, among other things, prohibit MAID in Alberta for: persons under 18; persons whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness; individuals lacking the capacity to make their own health care decisions; and advance requests.

It would also prohibit euthanasia for individuals whose natural death is not reasonably foreseeable; restrict the display of MAID propaganda; empower health practitioners and institutions to refuse participation in the euthanasia regime; and bar Alberta health professionals from referring individuals for MAID eligibility assessments outside the province.

The legislation would also introduce penalties for doctors and nurses who violate the proposed provincial rules.

“Canada has the fastest growing death rates in the world when it comes to MAID. Far from being an option of last resort, MAID is now the fifth leading cause of death in Canada,” Amery told the Alberta Legislature last week. “The country is currently projected to reach its 100,000th death by MAID in June, becoming the first nation in the modern era to measure its total assisted deaths in the six figures, more than the totals of any other jurisdiction with some form of legal, doctor-assisted death.”

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said in a statement, “Those struggling with severe mental health challenges need treatment, compassion and support, not a path to end their life at what may be their lowest moment. In Alberta, a patient whose sole underlying condition is mental illness will not be eligible for MAID.”

‘The state refusing to fund and provide a killing service is the baseline.’

Rebecca Vachon, health program director for the Canadian think tank Cardus, said in a statement, “We support the adoption of these enhanced protections for Albertans and urge all legislators to work collaboratively to implement them.”

While the Catholic Bishops of Alberta underscored that “the Church teaches that ‘euthanasia and assisted suicide are always the wrong choice,'” they similarly characterized the bill as an important step in the right direction, stating, “A just society is one that protects the vulnerable, upholds the dignity of every person, and chooses to accompany them in times of illness and dying. The Alberta government is taking some significant steps that respect these necessary values.”

Gabrielle Peters, a disabled writer and co-founder of Disability Filibuster, recently noted in a piece for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute,

The state refusing to fund and provide a killing service is the baseline we build from. Without that, there is simply no foundation. If disability — and only disability — makes one killable, then why would a state build the infrastructure, policies, and programs necessary to support disabled life? Particularly when one is an expense and the other represents considerable cost-saving?

Some euthanasia advocates have joined state media in framing the life-affirming legislation in negative terms.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association, for instance, suggested that the legislation “would significantly restrict access to medical assistance in dying … and undermine constitutionally protected rights.”

Michael Trew, Alberta’s former chief addiction and mental health officer, recently wrote that the bill “amounts to taking away choice from many who are fully competent” and that “this loss of choice INCREASES pain and suffering.”

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The Republican lieutenant governor of Texas says his party is going to have a tough time in the midterm elections unless Republicans stop bickering among themselves.

Dan Patrick was speaking about the expensive battle between two Republicans for one of the state’s seats in the U.S. Senate, according to the Texas Tribune.

‘We’re going to have a tough time holding the Texas House.’

Patrick said that whoever loses the runoff election on May 26 between incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton must endorse the winner or risk losing the seat — and possibly turn over control of the Senate to Democrats.

And if the candidates continue criticizing each other, they’ll even imperil Republican control of the state House as well, he added.

“Get over it and come together as one,” said Patrick. “We’re going to have a tough time holding the Texas House.”

President Donald Trump had already weighed in on the issue in March when he said on social media that he would eventually make an endorsement in the race and that the other candidate must drop out for the good of the party. So far, he has not publicly endorsed either Cornyn or Paxton.

A loss of Republican control of the U.S. House would deeply jeopardize Trump’s ability to continue passing his agenda in the latter end of his second term. It may even lead to another impeachment.

Patrick admitted that the Texas Senate, where he officially presides, is in safe hands, but added that Cornyn and Paxton must help keep the Texas House in Republican control.

Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows appeared to respond to Patrick on social media.

“We will not lose the Texas House,” Burrows said. “We will fight to retain every Republican seat. I look forward to the fall campaign where we get to talk about Texas’ prosperity under Republican leadership; and, I trust the voters of Texas to continue to vote for conservative government up and down the ballot!”

Texas House Democratic Campaign Chair Rep. Christina Morales took the opportunity to swipe at Patrick and the GOP.

“Dan Patrick is telling Republicans they’re in trouble in November, and for once, he’s telling the truth,” said Morales.

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“Dan Patrick and Texas Republicans have spent years pleasing Trump, catering to corporations, and rewarding their wealthy donors while Texas families can’t afford groceries, can’t trust the power grid, and can’t access basic healthcare,” she added in part. “Their voucher scam is defunding our neighborhood schools. Our communities are being torn apart by Trump’s ICE raids that Republicans refuse to stand up against.”

Republicans got a boost in their effort to keep the U.S. House in their control on Tuesday when a Trump-endorsed candidate won a special election to fill the Georgia seat vacated by Marjorie Taylor Greene. While Democrats did not win the long-shot election, they seem to have made some inroads in the state.

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A California man pleaded guilty on Monday to stealing millions of dollars in taxpayer funds through his participation in a prescription drug fraud scheme, the Department of Justice reported.

Paul Richard Randall, a 66-year-old man from Orange County, has admitted to submitting nearly $270 million in fraudulent claims to Medi-Cal, California’s version of the federal Medicaid program, from May 2022 to April 2023.

‘This guilty plea should send a message that this administration — consistent with the president’s war on fraud — will not turn a blind eye while criminals fleece taxpayers.’

As part of his plea agreement, Randall confessed that he and his alleged accomplices took advantage of Medi-Cal by exploiting a policy change. The government program suspended the requirement for health care providers to obtain prior authorization before delivering services and medications for reimbursement while transitioning its prescription drug program to a new payment system.

Randall billed Medi-Cal millions of dollars each month for dispensing high-reimbursement, non-contracted, generic drugs through a pharmacy, including some pain medications. One such medication was Folite tablets, a vitamin available over the counter.

The DOJ contended that of the $270 million billed, Medi-Cal paid more than $178 million for 19 drugs that were either medically unnecessary, not provided to the patients, or both.

The funds provided by Medi-Cal were laundered to a third party to pay kickbacks to Randall and his alleged co-schemers.

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Randall has been in federal custody since June 2025 and pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. He faces up to 30 years in prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for August 3.

One of Randall’s accomplices, Kyrollos Mekail, a 37-year-old from Moreno Valley, pleaded guilty in August 2024 to two counts of health care fraud. Mekail is awaiting sentencing.

A second alleged co-conspirator is charged with two counts of health care fraud.

RELATED: The Medicaid fraud problem is not going away

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“This defendant used a public health program as his personal piggy bank,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said of Randall. “This guilty plea should send a message that this administration — consistent with the president’s war on fraud — will not turn a blind eye while criminals fleece taxpayers.”

“Thanks to the leadership of President Donald Trump, the Department, working closely with the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, is supercharging efforts to take down every fraudster and bring them to justice,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.

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Anthropic is sending out a warning that its artificial intelligence model is sophisticated enough to undo decades of research.

The company operates Claude, the AI chatbot that has been ripped off and turned into a free, public model, and is hoping to get together with a consortium of tech companies to button up the security measures ahead of its release.

‘It has found vulnerabilities, and in some cases crafted exploits.’

Anthropic’s Mythos model of Claude AI will only be available to 40 select companies to be used for the power of good, the company claims.

It represents “the starting point for what we think will be an industry change point, or reckoning, with what needs to happen now,” said Logan Graham, head of Anthropic’s vulnerability testing team.

The company fears that its new AI model is so good at finding cracks in cybersecurity that it must only be shared with companies it deems capable and responsible enough to prepare for possible attacks when Mythos goes public.

“This model is good at finding vulnerabilities that would be well understood and findable by security researchers,” Graham said. “At the same time, it has found vulnerabilities, and in some cases crafted exploits, sophisticated enough that they were both missed by literally decades of security researchers, as well as all the automated tools designed to find them.”

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Anthropic will reportedly commit up to $100 million in credits for the project, meaning the amount of money it would typically charge for such a volume of its chatbot’s usage.

Labeled Project Glasswing, the initiative to shore up cybersecurity will grant Mythos access to handpicked companies chosen largely from Big Tech like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft. The group is rounded out by internet infrastructure and cybersecurity giants like Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Nvidia, and Palo Alto Networks, along with financial titan JPMorgan Chase and key open-source nonprofit the Linux Foundation.

This is not the first time an AI company has warned its product is too dangerous for the public, and looking back, readers can gauge whether or not Claude may be as dangerous as its creators purport it to be.

In 2019, OpenAI sent out a warning ahead of its release of GPT-2, claiming that its capabilities — now vastly eclipsed by later models — could be used to mass-produce propaganda or misleading text.

As Wired reported at the time, OpenAI said GPT-2 was too risky to be released to the general public.

RELATED: Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, slammed by Elon Musk for anti-white responses to simple prompts

Claude has been in the news for alleged missteps, leaks, and accidental postings throughout the past year, and while it may not be a household name yet, it has raced its way through the tech sector as a go-to for “agentic” work building software, apps, and even companies.

In addition to its model being open-sourced and used by the general public for free, the company has been noted for “accidental” postings of its own code.

Anthropic “accidentally uploaded a file to a public repository that’s just meant to help developers understand how to use their product” and “exposed some of the source code of Claude,” reporter Aaron Holmes explained recently.

Proprietary information was further leaked in another alleged accidental posting, this time through a blog draft that revealed “internal source code.”

The company seems poised for consistent marketing battles, both willing and unwilling, from its high-stakes lawsuit against the federal government labeling it a supply chain risk to the blowback it has received from putting a woman closely linked to the cultish Effective Altruism movement in charge of its AI’s “Constitution.”

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A gun-toting Ohio man was arrested Saturday after he opened fire multiple times at a car full of juveniles after a “ding-dong ditch” prank on his Green Township residence, WXIX-TV reported, citing court records.

Police said they discovered shell casings and a semiautomatic pistol with a green laser at the home of 33-year-old Yarvis Godfrey in the 5000 block of Starvue Drive, the station said, citing an affidavit.

‘He doesn’t deserve what’s happening to him. He’s not a criminal at all. And I’m concerned for him and his family.’

WXIX said no one was hurt, but court records indicate that a bullet struck the vehicle the teens were in as they took off.

Godfrey is charged with felonious assault, improperly discharging a firearm at or into a habitation or school safety zone, and two counts of discharge of a firearm on or near prohibited premises, the station said.

Four juveniles told police they went to the home to “ding-dong ditch” it and banged on the front door before running back to their vehicle, WXIX said, citing the affidavit.

A neighbor of Godfrey’s said in a WXIX news video that “he’s got footprints on his door … I guess they were kicking it.”

The station said the teens drove to a nearby cul-de-sac, turned around, drove back up the street, and passed the home in question.

The teens told police they saw a man with a gun near the street, and all four described the gun as having a green light or laser, WXIX reported, citing court records.

The station said the suspect fired multiple shots, and the juveniles fled to another cul-de-sac.

The suspect, later identified as Godfrey, followed them to confront them when police arrived, WXIX said, citing the affidavit.

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Officers said they found a bullet hole in the trunk of the juveniles’ black Kia Rio, a second bullet hole in the siding of a nearby home, and a third bullet hole in the siding of another home, the station noted, citing court records.

Police said they also found a .45 caliber shell casing on the road in front of the home, WXIX reported.

Officers executed a search warrant on the home and said they found a .45 caliber black semiautomatic pistol with a green laser, the station said, citing the affidavit.

“Responding with a .45 caliber weapon is completely disproportionate,” Hamilton County prosecutors said in court Monday, WLWT-TV reported; prosecutors also requested a no-firearms order to be added to Godfrey’s bond.

Godfrey’s bond was set at $80,000 on all the charges, WLWT noted, adding that the judge granted the no-firearms order. Godfrey reportedly also is to have no contact with the juveniles.

During Godfrey’s arraignment, his attorney said Godfrey doesn’t know who the juveniles are, WLWT said, adding that prosecutors allege the group knows one of Godfrey’s children who lives in the home.

RELATED: ‘Ding-dong ditch’ prank ends with homeowner firing multiple rounds at car — and juvenile passenger getting shot, cops say

Police said Godfrey was taken to the Hamilton County Justice Center, but he didn’t turn up in a Thursday-morning check of the facility’s inmate roster.

Police said all juveniles involved were charged with disorderly conduct.

The same neighbor who spoke in the WXIX news video said of Godfrey, “He’s a really good man, and I hate to see what’s happening to him. He doesn’t deserve what’s happening to him. He’s not a criminal at all. And I’m concerned for him and his family. “

The neighbor added that Godfrey “was very angry. I think it had happened before. I think this was like the second time. … ‘I’m tired of them doing this to me’ is what he said.”

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Outrage spread online earlier this week after reports emerged that Iryna Zarutska’s suspected murderer was ruled incompetent to stand trial. Amid the outrage, however, a glimmer of good news came out for those invested in seeking justice in the high-profile case from August 2025.

Blaze News reported Wednesday that Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr., the suspect in Iryna Zarutska’s senseless stabbing on the subway system in Charlotte, North Carolina, was deemed incompetent to stand trial. This news caused many to speculate that the suspect may escape punishment on a technicality.

‘How many more innocent people must we sacrifice for the sake of coddling and babying the absolute scum of the Earth?’

Many online commentators and even a foreign leader reacted to an X post from the New York Post on the development.

“The purpose of a system is what it does,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said.

RELATED: Homeless schizophrenic man accused of stabbing Iryna Zarutska to death is ‘incapable to proceed’ to trial

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“If you’re competent enough to target a woman and murder her, you’re competent enough to stand trial, be found guilty, and receive the death penalty,” BlazeTV’s Allie Beth Stuckey responded.

The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh’s response summed up the outrage:

The whole idea of “incompetent to stand trial” is f**king nonsense. If you’re too “incompetent” to understand that you shouldn’t butcher an innocent woman on the train, you should die. Period. Arrest, convict, execute. You are not fit to be a part of human society. How many more innocent people must we sacrifice for the sake of coddling and babying the absolute scum of the Earth? Our ancestors had it right. They would have had this guy hanging from the gallows an hour after conviction. The old system of justice was light years better than this insane bulls**t we’re dealing with now.

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, who has cleaned up his country from crime quite effectively in recent months, said, “Impeach the corrupt judges.”

CEO of NXR Studios and Pastor Joel Webbon weighed in as well: “No one is too incompetent for the death penalty. All you have to do is sit there. He’ll do fine.”

While the outrage surrounding the murder case continues, the report from the New York Post’s headline did not mention separate federal charges against Brown that are unaffected by the findings of the state case. The Post did, however, mention this fact in the report.

The Western District of North Carolina U.S. Attorney’s Office made this key detail abundantly clear in its response to the Post on social media: “DeCarlos Brown is in federal custody on a federal indictment. The state proceedings, including any competency finding in those proceedings, are completely separate.”

Brown faces a federal charge of one count of committing an act causing death on a mass transportation system. If convicted, he could still face life in prison or even the death penalty.

“Crimes like this … affect everyone who relies on mass transportation to get to and from work and go about their daily lives,” U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson said in September, “and federal charges are necessary to protect the public and ensure confidence in our transportation systems.”

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