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Conservative Canadian MP Says His Father Was Offered Euthanasia Unprompted

Conservative MP Bob Zimmer said his father was offered medical assistance in dying (MAID) toward the end of his life without asking for it, prompting the MP to question whether safeguards for the procedure are being followed.

Zimmer said on X that his family was preparing to bring his father home from the hospital, as he “was about to pass away and he wanted to be at home to be more comfortable.”

While they were waiting, a nurse “approached us and offered MAID to him,” despite his father having not asked for the procedure, the MP for B.C.’s Prince George – Peace River – Northern Rockies riding said.

“I was disgusted. All the warnings about MAID we debated in the [House of Commons] and warned would happen with the change in legislation and the Liberals said would never happen […] are happening,” he said.

An official from the justice minister’s office told The Epoch Times that the law allows for health practitioners to provide eligible Canadians with the option for MAID. He said if Zimmer suspected wrongdoing or malpractice, he could raise it with the B.C. Ministry of Health’s MAID Oversight Unit, which could then investigate.

Zimmer’s testimonial was in response to a Leger survey that found one in 10 Canadians know someone who has been offered MAID for a treatable condition. Those surveyed were also asked if they knew someone in Canada who died due to a long healthcare waitlist, and 18 percent of those people said “yes.”

The federal government, meanwhile, has tabled legislation to allow Canadians to make advance requests for MAID. The MAID Safeguards Act would allow individuals to provide advance consent for euthanasia after receiving a diagnosis of an incurable illness expected to impair their future decision-making ability, such as Alzheimer’s or other degenerative neurological disorders.

The Justice Department has said that if a person shows a “clear refusal or resistance to MAID,” then the advance request would be invalid and the procedure would not be provided. An advance request would not guarantee approval for MAID.

The legislation would also indefinitely extend the exclusion of people whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness from MAID eligibility. The exclusion is currently scheduled to expire on March 17, 2027, after two extensions prompted by concerns from provinces, territories, and healthcare stakeholders.

A parliamentary committee recommended making that exclusion permanent in a June report. The report cited concerns about determining whether a mental illness is irremediable, distinguishing MAID requests from suicidal intent, and ensuring access to adequate mental-health services.

The Conservative Party has opposed the expansion of MAID and called for stronger monitoring and public reporting, minimum national standards for oversight, and a review of the effectiveness and enforceability of existing MAID safeguards.

The Tories have also opposed advance consent for MAID, with Conservative MP Andrew Lawton requesting on Oct. 29 that the Liberals’ bill be split into two so that advance consent and the indefinite exclusion of the mentally ill from accessing euthanasia can be voted on separately.

A total of 76,475 people received MAID in Canada between its legalization in 2016 and the end of 2024, according to Health Canada’s latest annual report, released in late 2025. In 2024, MAID deaths accounted for 5.1 percent of all deaths in Canada.

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Dearborn Poll Worker Speaking in Arabic Tells Undercover Non-Citizen He Can Vote for Senate, Just Not President

James O’Keefe has released undercover video from a Dearborn, Michigan, polling place on Election Day showing a poll worker, speaking in Arabic, telling a reporter who stated he was not a U.S. citizen that he could still vote in the U.S. Senate race, just not for president.

In the clip posted to X, the undercover journalist asks, “I’m not a U.S. citizen is that okay?” and later inquires about voting for “Abdul,” a reference to Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.

The post translates the worker’s response as “Only for U.S. President you can’t vote, but the others you can.”

O’Keefe notes that under 18 U.S.C. § 611, noncitizens are prohibited from voting in federal elections, including U.S. Senate races, subject to narrow exceptions.

Dearborn, home to one of the largest Arab-American communities in the United States, has been a focal point in the closely watched Michigan Senate contest between El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers.

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Alarming Abuse Identified In Secret Ukraine Azov Battalion Detainment And Forced Conscript Transition-House

Ukraine has forced conscription. Essentially a radical forced draft where the government pays private contractors to locate Ukrainian men, drag them off the streets, put them into military training and force them to fight in the war. Inside Ukraine this process has become more and more aggressive as the population of available fighting-age males has declined.

The process is also fraught with corruption. The private contractors, “draft enforcers” ie. “headhunters”, are paid to find the men who refuse to fight. Financial support given to Ukraine by Europe and the USA funds these headhunting operations. However, the headhunters also take bribes and payments by Ukraine families who want to keep their sons, brothers and husbands alive and away from the eastern Ukraine meat grinder.

The headhunters are paid a bounty by the government for every Ukraine conscript they produce. The headhunters will let the conscripts avoid service if a bribe is paid by the family. To say the headhunters are hated by the Ukrainian people would be an understatement. This has created a powder-keg of anger inside the population of Ukraine and is the #1 reason why President Zelenskyy will not permit an election. Zelenskyy would be crushed.

When the headhunters capture the conscript, they turn the man over to the Ukrainian Azov Battalion who are responsible for getting the unwilling soldiers prepared to fight and die. Azov uses physical and psychological pressure to break the resistance of the conscript and get him trained for the front lines. You can easily imagine what horrors happen in this process until the conscript finally breaks and agrees to go fight.

We have watched this unfold for several years. Everything about this forced military service is horrific. That horror is compounded when you realize the ideological mindset of the Nazi Azov Battalion and the unlimited brutality they are willing to execute to succeed in the objective.

There are no rules, laws or humanitarian limits within this process, and everything is subject to the overarching Ukraine corruption system that exists within this hellscape of a country supported by EU and U.S. elites.

Last night one of the interim Azov detainment facilities was identified in the Kiev suburb of Petropavlivska Borshchahivka.

The Azov guards held between 20 and 40 men who were in the process of ‘transition’, where they were allegedly beaten, abused, subjected to controlled torture operations and psychological efforts needed to turn ordinary civilian men into combat ready soldiers. Some of the conscripts were being severely injured during their transition and training.

A paramedic was called who witnessed up to 40 men with substantial injuries in the basement of the house being used as one of the Azov transition facilities. Word soon spread throughout the neighborhood and people began assembling to confront the plain clothed armed guards who refused to let further medical assistance reach the men in the basement.

Hundreds of citizens began showing up. The Azov regular military came in to support their undercover comrades. Things quickly escalated as the Azov group have no respect for the civilian population; they are, after all, just sheep awaiting slaughter. The civilian population have no respect for the Azov military because they know exactly what tortures are happening in these transition houses.

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MICHIGAN: Voter Reports Intimidating Comment Made Inside Polling Place By Man Wearing Hoodie With Arabic Writing: “If you’re not here to vote for Abdul, then you better turn around!”

A Michigan voter reported a concerning incident to an Oakland County Republican official this afternoon. According to the GOP official, whom I spoke with this evening, the incident reportedly happened inside the polling place near the check-in table. The unidentified voter approached the Republican official, who was placing signs for Republican candidates outside the polling place, and said a man he believes is an Abdul El-Sayed supporter approached him and another voter. According to the concerned voter, the man who approached him was wearing a hoodie with Arabic writing.  He told the GOP official the man appeared to warn him,  saying, “If you’re not here to vote for Abdul, then you should turn around!”

The GOP official provided me with a photo of the young male accused of delivering what is being referred to as “voter intimidation” inside the Highland Township polling place.

We blurred the face of the young man who allegedly intimidated voters to protect his identity, as we cannot verify the comment he made to the person who reported it.

Oakland County Republican Party Chair Vance Patrick tweeted about the incident shortly after it was reported to him. Patrick posted about the “credible reports of voter intimidation” on X. He also added a phone number for another voter who may have “witnessed anything.”

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Tucker Carlson Says Trump Is Considering a Nuclear Strike on Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain

Tucker Carlson claimed in a post on X on Sunday night that the Trump administration is considering launching a nuclear strike targeting Pickaxe Mountain in central Iran and that the president is expected to make a decision by November 7.

“Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran,” Carlson wrote.

Carlson said that Israeli intelligence has claimed that the “Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program” underneath Pickaxe Mountain, allegations that Tehran has denied.

“No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place,” Carlson said. “No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place.”

For his part, Trump has publicly ruled out using a nuclear bomb against Iran, but he has been threatening to strike Pickaxe Mountain. “We’ve knocked out their nuclear. We still have to take care of, I would say one or two sites, but we can do that in 10 minutes,” Trump told reporters over the weekend. “You probably could look at Pickaxe Mountain, and you have to take care of that. We can do that all very quickly.”

In his post, Carlson said that Netanyahu was pushing for the US nuclear strike due to his precarious political position following Israel’s October 27 Knesset election. Netanyahu’s coalition led his opposition but failed to gain the majority needed to form a government.

“To that end, [Netanyahu has] applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations,” Carlson wrote.

The former Fox News host, who spoke with President Trump before he launched the war on February 28, went on to discuss the potential consequences of the US using a nuclear bomb, which would mark a first since World War II.

“An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final,” Carlson said.

He pointed out that the Pentagon has been rewriting the US nuclear strategy to “make first use of so-called ‘battlefield nukes’ easier and therefore more likely.” The Pentagon’s policy chief, Elbridge Colby, has for more than a decade called for the US to develop additional capabilities to fight a “limited nuclear war.”

Carlson cited “close observers” who said Trump would likely decide by the weekend, or November 7, whether or not to carry out a nuclear strike. He also said that the president is “hesitating” for the time being and is “listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.”

Trump was also supposedly favoring diplomacy before joining Israel’s 12-Day War against Iran in June 2025 and before launching the current war alongside Israel on February 28.

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New York State Board of Elections Issues Statement on Westchester County Ballot Scanner After Machines Reject Ballots at Up to 332 Polling Sites Affecting as Many as 250,000 Votes

The New York State Board of Elections released a formal statement on Election Day addressing the countywide ballot-scanning disaster in Westchester County, where voting machines at the vast majority of polling locations rejected paper ballots from the moment polls opened at 6 a.m.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the chaos began immediately and forced voters across the county to place completed ballots into orange emergency bags (later supplemented by blue ones when supplies ran short) for later counting under bipartisan oversight.

County Executive Ken Jenkins, a Democrat, later described the situation as a “debacle” and “unacceptable,” stating that as many as 250,000 ballots across 332 polling sites were impacted.

According to the state board’s statement, the root cause was a late change to a contest in one municipality that required updated election programming after the initial preparation and testing of Election Day equipment. That updated programming was tested and deployed for early voting and for Election Day machines in that single municipality.

Everywhere else in Westchester, however, the machines continued running the original programming and therefore could not recognize or accept the Election Day ballots.

The board is now working with the Westchester County Board of Elections to deploy replacement election media containing the updated programming.

The immediate priority, officials said, is to restore scanning capability to at least one machine at every polling location, with more machines brought online throughout the day. In the meantime, emergency ballot procedures remain in effect.

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VAERS and VSAFE: The “Worst Case Scenario” Twice

Files that were removed from the internet are in the evidence pack.

The scale of the violation is hard to imagine, I know. After the dazed feeling wears off, let’s get busy. I also want to thank Dr. Clayton Baker, who was the first to bring my attention to the role of Tom Shimabukuro in covering up vaccine safety signals for over ten years. Incredibly, he is still at the CDC, serving as the deputy director of the Influenza Division in their National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD).

The following research brief benefited from various digital research assistants, and I have not edited the language yet. But the information cannot wait.

Read and share with friends and family. It’s not over yet.

The United States began vaccinating against Covid-19 on 14 December 2020. Two CDC programs were designed and paid to catch any harm that clinical trials had missed. VAERS takes reports from doctors, patients and manufacturers. V-safe sends vaccinated people text messages asking how they feel. Here we follow the paper trail of those two systems from the Christmas 2020 rollout into 2022. The bottom line:

The government’s “worst case” for amount of Covid vaccine injury reports assumed 1,000 reports a day. For fourteen months it was double that. For some of those months, it was triple.

The document that matters most is a monthly report from the contractor that runs VAERS for the CDC, General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). It covers December 2020 and went to the CDC’s contracting officer’s representative on 16 January 2021, with CDC program staff and an FDA reviewer copied. Its first page carries a chart.

A red line marks 1,000 reports a day, which the government’s own planning called the “worst case.” The reports crossed that line on 21 December, the winter solstice, in the first week of the rollout. They dipped under it for three days around Christmas. From 26 December they stayed over it. The contractor told the CDC. that it was “unable to meet processing and other timeframes (data processing, telephone inquiries, clinical inquiries, etc.)” (GDIT report, PDF p. 8). All this while they were telling everyone everything was ok.

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The UK Is Fast-Tracking Permanent Residency For An Army Of Migrants

It’s not quite citizenship, but it’s close enough. The UK offers a number of loopholes or “fast tracks” to permanent residency for third world migrants, and one of those loopholes is “Indefinite Leave to Remain” (ILR), also known as permanent settlement.

Settlement status allows migrants to stay in the UK essentially for the rest of their lives, with unrestricted access to the labor market, access to health and welfare benefits, and the ability to leave and reenter the country any time they wish. It also gives them the ability to bring their families to live in the UK.  They enjoy many of the advantages of citizens, except they don’t get to vote and their children do not automatically become citizens.

Many critics of the system argue that once these migrants become entrenched, it is impossible to legally deport them.  They also argue that “settlement” is a progressive government agenda to provide to mass citizenship for millions of migrants in the near future.

At bottom, ILR is a way for left-wing leaders to import masses of migrants while pretending as if this is not true immigration.  

A debate has been raging over more strict rules for who qualifies for settlement, but the UK government’s obsession with multiculturalism makes any serious immigration reform difficult. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced final details of the government’s reforms to permanent settlement rules, and she notes that there will be special allowances for most migrants working in social care.

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Carney takes a swipe at Musk and Starlink, while his government writes seven speech and surveillance bills

In an interview with POLITICO in Montreal on Thursday, following the Canada-EU summit, Carney said: “If you’re connected to a satellite system that a billionaire, almost trillionaire, decides to turn off at one moment or not, that’s not a good idea either.” He did not name Elon Musk or Starlink. The interviewer raised Musk, Starlink and Ukraine, and Carney answered, “Yeah.” He added that Canada would never tie its defences to Musk’s system, “nor would we, given the track record.” POLITICO called the remark the “subtweet of the day.”

The track record includes Musk switching Starlink on for Ukraine in the first days of the war, when Russian missiles were knocking out other communications and the Ukrainian army risked fighting blind. The remark appeared aimed at the Liberal base and at Democrats in Washington who have made Musk a political villain. Had Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre sneered at a named businessman in the same terms, the CBC reaction would likely have been far harsher.

Carney’s broader point, that one powerful actor able to cut people off is dangerous, is a fair one. It also describes his own legislative agenda. At least seven government bills either govern what Canadians can say online or expand state surveillance. Four deal with speech and three with surveillance, and some are already law.

Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, received royal assent June 18 and took effect July 18. It creates new offences for displaying certain symbols, adds a stand-alone hate crime offence, writes a legal definition of “hatred” into the Criminal Code and repeals the defence for people expressing, in good faith, an opinion on a religious subject or text. The Department of Justice states that “the law repeals this specific defence,” while maintaining the change does not criminalize religious expression. The government has not explained why a defence it says changes nothing needed to go.

Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, was introduced June 10 and remains before Parliament. It would create a Digital Safety Commission of Canada with three to five cabinet-appointed commissioners empowered to issue orders, investigate, inspect and fine. The government’s fact sheet sets penalties of up to three per cent of global gross revenue or $10 million, whichever is higher, a scale that would fall hardest on the largest platforms, including Musk’s X. Alongside material that is already illegal, such as child abuse imagery and intimate images shared without consent, platforms would have to police “content that foments hatred,” a standard interpreted by commissioners the Liberal cabinet appoints. The framework closely resembles Justin Trudeau’s Online Harms Act under a new name.

Bill C-25, the Strong and Free Elections Act, received royal assent June 18. It makes it a crime to knowingly spread false or misleading information about elections or voting with intent to disrupt an election or affect its results, and bans deepfakes of candidates and election officials made to mislead. Opinion and satire are exempt, but officials working for a government that is itself on the ballot will decide what was false, what a speaker knew and what he intended. The government says the rules now reach activity outside Canada, an odd position for a Prime Minister troubled by one man’s satellites crossing borders.

Bill C-16, the Protecting Victims Act, became law the same day. Most of it targets child predators and sextortion, but it also rewrites criminal harassment. According to the Department of Justice, the prosecutor once had to show the victim feared for their safety. Now it is enough that “a reasonable person in the victim’s circumstances would fear for their safety,” including through “modern technology.” Rebel News reporters have been labelled harassers by Liberal politicians for asking questions in public, and the lower bar gives that label new legal weight.

Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, passed the House of Commons in June and is now before the Senate. It lets police demand information on “reasonable grounds to suspect,” allows the public safety minister to order providers to build in technical access for police, which critics call a backdoor, and permits metadata to be kept for up to six months.

Bill C-8, the cyber security act, received royal assent June 15. It lets the minister and cabinet issue orders to telecom companies, with secrecy orders attached, including cutting off service to an individual where “strictly necessary.” Conservative amendments on the public safety committee requiring prior judicial authorization passed, but the Speaker ruled them out of order and they were removed, so judges review such orders only after the fact.

Bill C-2, the Strong Borders Act, was among Carney’s first major bills and drew enough backlash over its surveillance powers that the Liberals split it. The border measures moved into Bill C-12 and passed, while C-2 stalled. Its lawful access powers returned as C-22.

Musk cannot jail anyone, levy fines worth three per cent of global revenue, secretly order a phone company to cut off a customer or strip a religious defence from a hate speech trial. The Government of Canada can now do, or soon will be able to do, each of those things. Carney’s remark leaves open who in this country really has a finger on the off switch: the billionaire with the satellites, or the Prime Minister who spent the past year writing the laws to use one.

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Carney Liberals block motion to study Canadian church arsons

A motion by a Conservative MP to study arson attacks and crimes against Christian churches and other religious places was shot down by Liberal MPs, who claimed that it is not warranted.

On October 29, during debate in a House of Commons Heritage Committee meeting, Conservative MP Andrew Lawton made a motion to “undertake a study of no fewer than eight meetings on vandalism, arson, shootings and other criminal attacks against places of worship in Canada.”

Lawton’s motion noted that since 2015, “police-reported hate crimes targeting religion have more than doubled, from 469 to 1,115 a year.”

He called on the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture to “appear on a panel of his own, without other witnesses, for no less than two hours, and invite the Minister of Public Safety, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Statistics Canada, police services and their hate crime units, and representatives of Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and other faith communities, including congregations whose places of worship have been attacked, as well as any other witnesses the committee deems relevant,” to discuss the matter.

However, the committee chair, Liberal MP Lisa Hepfner, ruled the motion “inadmissible as it exceeded the mandate of the committee.”

When the question was asked, “Shall the decision of the Chair be sustained?” all Liberal and other MPs except the Conservatives on the committee voted “yes.”

Lawton then brought forward another motion asking the committee recognize that “historic religious buildings and faith traditions are important parts” of Canadian society and must be protected and reported to the House for further debate.

This motion was voted down as well.

Conservative MPs for some time have urged Liberal MPs to back a bill that, if passed, would make church arsonists pay for the damages they cause, saying that it is needed, as “vandalizing places of worship is unacceptable.”

The Liberals thus far have refused to back the bill.

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