‘Denial of care’: Doctors worry about benefit seeking freeloaders as payment requirements take effect

‘Denial of care’: Doctors worry about benefit seeking freeloaders as payment requirements take effect

‘Denial of care’: Doctors worry about refugees as payment requirements take effect

Refugees now have to pay out of pocket for part of their drug prescriptions, mental health counselling, dental services, vision care and health equipment — including wheelchairs — as changes to a federal program take effect.

For decades, Canada’s Interim Federal Health Program has provided complete health coverage to refugees and refugee claimants until they are eligible for provincial health plans and benefits.

But starting Friday, they must pay $4 for every prescription and 30 per cent of the cost of supplemental health products and services.


Remigration is the answer.

Be nice if our medicos cared as much for citizens.

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To the Trump Administration: Beware the So-Called Moderates

To the Trump Administration: Beware the So-Called Moderates

No one since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979 has read the Iranian regime better than US President Donald J. Trump. Despite the criticism from commentators, the opposition party, social media voices, and members of the foreign policy establishment, no political leader has understood Tehran’s methods more clearly, or acted against them with greater decisiveness. Many negotiated with Iran’s regime. Many hoped it would change. Trump recognized a central truth that others have either ignored or refused to confront: the Iranian regime survives by deception, delay, and the constant purchase of time.

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This Researcher Thinks Canada Is an Easy Target for the CCP

This Researcher Thinks Canada Is an Easy Target for the CCP

As a NATO member and U.S. ally, Canada is a natural target for Beijing’s overseas influence operations, according to Peter Mattis, China expert and president of the U.S.-based think tank The Jamestown Foundation.

However, Canada is particularly vulnerable, Matti says, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) views it as an easy target for several reasons.

One factor is a lack of strong controls against CCP interference in Canada, Mattis said in an interview with Jan Jekielek, senior editor and host of The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders.”

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Cuba says Trump’s fresh sanctions on its economy amount to ‘collective punishment’

Cuba says Trump’s fresh sanctions on its economy amount to ‘collective punishment’

Cuba’s government has said new sanctions imposed on the island by Donald Trump amounted to “collective punishment”, as an enormous 1 May procession outside the American embassy in Havana vowed to “defend the homeland”.

In an executive order on Friday, the US president said he would impose sanctions on people involved in broad sections of the Cuban economy, as he seeks to put more pressure on Havana after ousting Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, earlier this year.

The latest sanctions constituted “collective punishment” of the nation’s people, said Cuba’s foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez. “We firmly reject the recent unilateral coercive measures adopted by the #UnitedStates government,” he posted on X in English.

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Why the families of Tumbler Ridge shooting victims may face ‘difficult’ issues with OpenAI lawsuits

Why the families of Tumbler Ridge shooting victims may face ‘difficult’ issues with OpenAI lawsuits

The families of victims of the Tumbler Ridge, B.C., school shooting who are suing OpenAI could face some significant legal hurdles in their attempt to hold the artificial intelligence company partially responsible for the attack.

“As with so much in AI, the lawsuit takes us into unchartered territory,” said Robin Feldman, director of the AI Law & Innovation Institute at UC Law San Francisco.

Feldman said there a number of legal issues that the court will have to grapple with that will be “difficult for the plaintiffs,” who allege OpenAI failed to warn police about the shooter’s interactions with the company’s chatbot ChatGPT.

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‘Destroyed in less than a year’: Granville St. SRO resident wants public to see conditions

‘Destroyed in less than a year’: Granville St. SRO resident wants public to see conditions

As the province prepares to close the Luugat single-room occupancy (SRO) building on Vancouver’s Granville Street by the end of June, it appears BC Housing doesn’t want the public to see inside the former hotel that taxpayers paid millions of dollars to convert to supportive housing during COVID.

“I’m happy to get out of there,” Luugat resident Stewart Holcombe said with a chuckle Friday.


How was this allowed to happen?

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Some pro-Palestinian protests could be banned amid attacks on British Jews

Some pro-Palestinian protests could be banned amid attacks on British Jews

Some pro-Palestinian demonstrations could be stopped, the prime minister has warned, as the UK’s most senior police officer said the threat to the Jewish ­community was greater than it had ever been.

Keir Starmer indicated he wanted the language expressed on some protest marches to be subjected to “tougher action” as he sought to allay the fears of British Jews after a series of attacks on their communities in recent weeks.

“When you see, when you hear some of those chants – ‘globalise the intifada’ the one that I would pick out – then clearly there should be tougher action in relation to that,” Starmer told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.


I doubt GB has the means or the will to ban the Islamist marches.

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Canada Now Officially A 3rd World Shithole State

Canada Now Officially A 3rd World Shithole State

I pray they’re wrong. h/t Patti Jo

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U.S Troop Withdrawal Expands Yawning Rift Between U.S. and Europe

U.S Troop Withdrawal Expands Yawning Rift Between U.S. and Europe

BERLIN—German officials shrugged off President Trump’s decision to withdraw 5,000 U.S. troops from the country as symbolic, but analysts warned the broader trans-Atlantic rift risks leaving Europe’s economy and security dangerously exposed.

Trump’s latest increase in tariffs on European cars, his apparent U-turn on plans to station long-range missiles in Germany and the economic and military fallout from the war in Iran will have a bigger impact on the region, they warned.

“All of these are a bigger deal than a symbolic 5K-troop reduction,” said Thorsten Benner, director of the Global Public Policy Institute, a Berlin security think tank. “So is the rapid depletion of U.S. arsenals due to wasting enormous amounts of precious assets in the Iran war.”

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Trump’s trade czar tells Canadians that ‘America First’ is policy, not a slogan: sources

Trump’s trade czar tells Canadians that ‘America First’ is policy, not a slogan: sources

United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Canadians looking for insights into the future of bilateral trade this week that “America First” is policy, not a slogan, and they should not expect a return to the way things were.

Sources who attended a roundtable with U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade czar in Washington on Wednesday told The Canadian Press that Greer was measured and pragmatic as he laid out the administration’s policy goals ahead of the coming review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico-Agreement on trade, better known as CUSMA.

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Iran war ‘likely’ to restart, senior Tehran official warns after Trump says US might be ‘better off’ without deal

Iran war ‘likely’ to restart, senior Tehran official warns after Trump says US might be ‘better off’ without deal

The war between the US and Iran is “likely” to restart, a senior Iranian official predicted on the heels of comments by President Trump that the US might be “better off” without an agreement.

A “renewed conflict between Iran and the United States is likely,” said Mohammad Jafar Asadi, a high-level officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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Of course we should be deporting America-hating noncitizens

Of course we should be deporting America-hating noncitizens

New York magazine recently published an overwrought essay penned by pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil, who contends his life has been turned into a nightmare since being “abducted by ICE” for deportation.

Khalil is a forever student and former spokesman for the Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a group that targets Jewish students and engages in rioting and other revolutionary activity. To give you a sense of the group’s oeuvre, it brags about fighting for the “total eradication of Western civilization,” advocates “global intifada,” and supports the “armed resistance” of Hamas, an organization designated as a terrorist group by the Justice Department.

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