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Canada legally kills more citizens per year than die by gun violence in the United States, according to a new report.
According to the Post Millennial, 16,499 people were killed in 2024 through Canada’s medical assistance in dying program compared with 15,364 gun homicides in the United States that year.
Since the population of the United States is more than eight times larger than the population of Canada, far more Canadian assisted suicide deaths occur on a per-capita basis than American gun deaths.
That year, state-sanctioned deaths accounted for about 5 percent of all deaths in Canada, which prides itself on its gun control laws, that year.
Canada first approved ending the lives of its citizens in 2016, limiting the program to those whose death was “reasonably foreseeable.”
In 2021, Canada added people with chronic disabilities who were not expected to die soon. A further expansion to target Canadians with mental health issues is now being debated.
Age may soon not be a barrier if some have their way.
For example, doctors at the Quebec College of Physicians have said state-sanctioned death “may be an appropriate treatment for babies suffering from extreme pain.”
Canada is now the world leader in total euthanasia deaths, and comes second to the Netherlands in the per-capita rate of state-approved lethal injections, according to VOZ.
The site noted that Canada’s rise in ridding itself of its elderly and ill comes amid “recurring accounts of elderly, disabled or vulnerable people who claim to have been pressured or to have not given explicit consent.”
Despite undergoing new management, CBS got caught once again spreading another massive lie on its signature Sunday evening program this week.
On Sunday, “60 Minutes” aired a story about a 57-year-old illegal alien named Moussa Diawara, who was deported from the United States back in July.
Diawara, originally from Mali, had lived in the Houston area for more than 25 years and worked as an Uber driver. During his time in America, Diawara also married a U.S. citizen and raised two children.
6o Minutes reported that ICE detained Diawara on July 11 and put him on a charter flight to Ghana at the end of the month. Ghanaian authorities then sent him back to Mali.
Diawara claims he was deported without being able to speak to his lawyer or a judge.
Naturally, “60 Minutes” portrayed Diawara as a victim of what they considered a ‘cruel and inhumane’ deportation policy. The outlet further tries to evoke sympathy for Diawara by softly interviewing members of his family.
The 60 Minutes report stated that Diawara entered America on a tourist visa, overstayed, and then received a 2012 immigration judge’s ruling that said he could not be sent to Mali on the grounds that he would face persecution there.
“60 Minutes” claimed that Diawara’s persecution concerns revolved around his conversion to Christianity. Mali is a Muslim-majority nation.
But as is the case with so many immigration stories via the corporate media, a key piece was missing.
DHS General Counsel James Percival revealed that Diawara claimed the reason why he was scared to go back home to Mali was that he was gay, not due to a conversion to Christianity.
“This illegal alien is @60Minutes poster child for what it claims are wrongful deportations,” Percival wrote on X. “I pulled his file. His claimed reason for fearing Mali was that he is ‘gay,’ just in case you’re wondering how bad the immigration fraud problem is.”
Barely hours after Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court declared him the winner of a historic fourth term, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wasted no time revealing his priorities.
Standing before supporters in São Paulo on the night of October 25, the 80-year-old Workers’ Party leader declared that his campaign had been forced to overcome “interference coming from outside to inside through digital platforms” and that “we’re going to have to regulate them.”
According to Brazilian reporting citing CNN Brasil, Lula said:
“This was an election in which we had to overcome interference from outside, through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate.”
He continued:
“It is not possible that we are not aware that crime in the digital world must be treated like crime in the real world.”
He attacked “monstrous companies” that “earn millions and billions, pay no taxes in this country, and try to direct the electoral result.”
Little man syndrome.
Four foot ten inch Robert Reich called for Democrats to steal Elon Musk’s businesses and nationalize them on Sunday.
Reich is taking a page directly from Joseph Stalin and all of the communists since then.
Former labor secretary Robert Reich on Sunday called for Democrats to “defund” Elon Musk and take control of his companies.
Robert Reich: “We’ve got to defund Musk. And when I say defund Musk, you know, 75% of his wealth is dependent on taxpayers who are buying Starlink systems for the Department of Defense. Defund Musk. I mean this. If we have a Democratic administration, and the Democrats ought to be starting this, not just with oversight hearings, but also starting laying the groundwork for nationalizing Starlink and SpaceX.
Nationalize it. It should be a public corporation.
We should not ever have that kind of power in one person’s hands, one private person’s hands. I mean, Musk is buying, trying to buy the senator from Texas. I mean, why would we, why should we allow this? Seriously.
Well, we shouldn’t. And then this week people started talking about, oh, Musk is going to be held accountable. And he said Live by the sword, die by the sword. That was his— that was in X on, uh, on one of his— yeah.
Yeah, on Twitter, on X. And he said that. And he also said, anyone who picks a fight with me, you’re going down. And he was talking about the Dems. And it’s not a fight. It is accountability. I mean, it is holding him accountable is what people are talking about. And so he’s getting ahead of it, threatening, threatening, threatening, threatening with his money, with his power, with his reach. with his connections.
Well, he knows that if the Democrats take over the House and possibly the Senate, one of the things they are going to be doing is focusing on Elon Musk.
I mean, he’s really going to be targeted, and he knows it. And he’s going to be using his 360 million followers or 260 million followers on X to kind of give him a buttress against that. And he’s going to use litigation. And he’s— I mean, this is— When I say this is Exhibit A in terms of the billionaire takeover of America, this is the oligarchic problem. This is— Musk represents the power of oligarchy in America over democracy. And it’s something like what happened in the first Gilded Age when we had the robber barons. I mean, he is the equivalent of the robber barons of the first Gilded Age, but he’s much, much— he’s even worse. Bigger, even more corrupt in terms of trying to bribe his way into politics. And he also ends USAID. I mean—
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In early 2025, after President Trump took over, Ukraine’s Zelensky claimed that he was unable to locate $100 billion Ukraine received from the US.
UKRAINE: What if 58% of the U.S. taxpayer dollars sent to Zelensky never even reached Ukraine? Where did it go? Did the CIA skim a cut? Did Ukrainian officials and generals pocket their share? Did The Big Guy get his usual slice? If Zelensky’s claim is true—that he only received $75 billion of the $177+ billion Washington sent—what happens next? Do we shrug and move on, or do we finally demand answers and accountability?
This is no surprise.
When FTX’s CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was arrested after the cryptocurrency trading vehicle FTX went bankrupt, we reported that FTX was used as a money laundering vehicle in Ukraine. Next thing that happened the DOJ threw SBF in jail and ignored any relationship between FTX and money laundering.
The Justice Department charged three noncitizens with voting in Ohio, a year after the state made 167 federal referrals of noncitizens who appeared to cast ballots in the state.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose noted that’s only “so far.” His office has referred more than 1,000 election fraud cases from even-numbered years to the U.S. Department of Justice, and other cases to various local prosecutors at the state or local level.
While the Justice Department has ramped up prosecutions of noncitizens across the country, the gap between identifying potential election offenses and prosecuting them reflects, in part, the limited resources and competing priorities of local prosecutors,.
“It’s difficult to get county prosecutors to prosecute voter fraud cases. They become prosecutors to go after murderers and rapists,” LaRose told the Daily Signal.
LaRose, first elected in 2018, has removed about 1,300 ineligible voters, which include noncitizens, from the state’s rolls. The number also includes dead people and those registered in other states during his time in office.
Ohio is among a handful of states with highly competitive races that could determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. Republican Sen. Jon Husted is fending off a challenge from former Democrat Sen. Sherod Brown.
The Trump administration made the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database available to state election officials last year to verify the citizenship of registered voters. Numerous states have used the system.
Before the database was made available, Texas removed more than 1 million from the voter rolls between 2021 and 2024, which included noncitizens, deceased people, people who moved, and people with felony convictions.
Last year, Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate’s office reported 277 confirmed noncitizens registered to vote after checking records through the federal SAVE database. Of these, 35 had ballots counted in the 2024 general election and five attempted ballots were rejected. A spokesman for Pate did not respond to questions about whether the names were removed, or whether the illegal voters were prosecuted.
Even in Texas, which has strong laws to protect against voter fraud, there is a lengthy process for removal of registered voters.
“In Texas, voter registrations are based in counties,” said Alicia Pierce, spokeswoman for Texas Secretary of State Robert Howden. “If we have reason to believe that a registered voter may be a noncitizen, we refer that to counties for their review and investigation.”
Inaccurate voter registration could be a clerical error, as opposed to actual illegal voting, which would be a crime.
In September, Howden’s office referred 117 cases to state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office for investigation of potential noncitizen voting.
North Carolina removed 747,274 ineligible voters in 2023 and 2024 and another 498,889 in the first quarter of 2025. Earlier this month, the Justice Department announced charges against 10 noncitizens in North Carolina for allegedly casting ballots.
Maine removed 217,262 canceled registrations in 2025. Two individuals in the state were prosecuted for duplicate voting in the 2020 election.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel reported 16 referrals in 2025 and another 22 referrals in 2026 concerning suspected noncitizen voting. She brought five prosecutions in August. Meanwhile, Alaska took 3,048 names off the active registration list in 2026.
The New York City Council has passed a bill that will force some property owners to give nonprofits first dibs on buying their distressed properties if the bill becomes law. The bill has headed to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s desk for his signature.
The “Community Opportunity for Purchase Act,” or COPA, will force some landlords to offer up their properties to “community land trusts” and nonprofits for 90 days so that they can have first dibs on the properties. Although a similar proposal has been floated before that would have applied to a much larger number of properties, this one is not as extreme. The original COPA bill was vetoed by former Mayor Eric Adams right before he stepped out of office.
The bill will impact 2,100 NYC buildings that are mostly managed by the Housing Preservation Department in the Big Apple. The previous bill would have covered around 10,000 buildings in the city. The bill was brought by Brooklyn lawmaker Sandy Nurse, who claimed that the bill last year was “legally sound” but that changes were made for government agencies.
“It was more that there was a number of different points that could be sued over, so it wasn’t that there was anything unconstitutional; it was just that they wanted an opportunity to re-strengthen now that they’ve had a third review of it,” she said.
Ann Korchak, the board president of the Small Property Owners of New York, slammed the bill. “COPA, in any form, is a destructive housing policy for renters, owners, and affordable housing. COPA will devalue buildings, forcing small, often immigrant and multigenerational, owners to sell their buildings for pennies on the dollar,” she said.
“Giving the right-of-first-refusal to nonprofits shuts out conventional buyers who have the financial wherewithal to immediately improve and rehabilitate a failing building,” she added, per the New York Post.
If the measure goes into effect, it will slow down property deals for those buildings that are impacted by it. The previous version of the bill was lauded by socialist New York City Mayor Zorhan Mamdani, who said in a policy proposal that NYC should “pass COPA to give CLTs [Community land trusts] and non-profits the right of first refusal when landlords sell.”
Despite being one of Donald Trump’s biggest political investments in Latin America, or perhaps because of it, Argentine President Javier Milei is presiding over a deepening recession. His country’s industrial base is crumbling, the middle class is shrinking, and factories keep closing. Yet Milei’s grip on power has only tightened with the help of powerful patrons in Washington and Tel Aviv.
Now, a new scandal has erupted which raises troubling questions about the fate of the nation’s wealth.
On October 8, National Audit Office president Juan Manuel Olmos confirmed that Argentina’s Central Bank lost $1.023 billion in gold reserves through operations that moved physical gold out of the country without the public’s consent.
The financial loss may be only part of the story. Nearly 11 tons of Argentine gold are unaccounted for. How the gold bars left the country, where they are now, and whether the government can recover them all remain open questions.
Beyond the missing gold lies a larger issue: what will remain of Argentina’s national wealth, industrial capacity, and economic sovereignty when Milei’s experiment ends?
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