If it’s free, you can’t afford it. It isn’t just the extravagant cost of anything provided by infamously inefficient Big Government in terms of taxation and inflation. When it comes to healthcare, patients often pay the ultimate price.

From the Toronto Sun:

Close to 15,500 people died waiting for health care in Canada between April 1, 2023 until March 31, 2024, according to data compiled by SecondStreet.org via Freedom to Information Act requests across the country.

You can only wait so long for certain procedures. Lack of prompt care can be the same as no care at all, except it comes with an expensive bureaucracy.

The actual number is even higher:

However, SecondStreet.org says the exact number of 15,474 is incomplete as Quebec, Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador don’t track the problem and Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia only provided data on patients who died while waiting for surgeries – not diagnostic scans.

The past year’s stats are just another drop in the bucket Canadian socialism forces its victims to kick:

Since April 2018, SecondStreet.org has identified 74,677 cases where Canadians died while waiting for care.

Meanwhile, private health insurance is repressed in Canada. Insured health services must be provided on a non-profit basis. Under socialism, you will eat the government cheese or you will go hungry — and the government will inevitably run short of cheese.

On a tip from R F.

It is scary enough that Canada’s system of socialized medicine implements death by chemical drowning as therapy for poverty, mental illness, and needing a wheelchair lift. Now they are considering a ghastlier means of executing the medically inconvenient — harvesting their organs while they are still alive:

Canadian doctors have suggested killing euthanasia victims by taking their organs, according to multiple reports, whistleblowers, and public talks.

The harvested organs are fresher that way.

“The best use of my organs, if I’m going to receive a medically assisted death, might be to not first kill me and then retrieve my organs, but to have my mode of death — as we medically consider death now — to be to retrieve my organs,” said Rob Sibbald, an ethicist of the London Health Sciences Centre in Ontario.

Godless “ethicists” could chill the blood of Satan himself.

Other Canadian doctors have publicly embraced “death by donation,” and a study came out earlier this year exploring euthanasia programs such as MAID as a means of organ harvesting. Canada legalized euthanasia in 2016, and since then the number of Canadians using MAID to kill themselves has significantly increased.

At the top of the slippery slope, MAID was only used to kill patients likely to die soon. No longer.

According to disabled whistleblower Roger Foley, who has been repeatedly pressured to submit to euthanasia,

“It could be they’re already doing euthanasia by organ harvesting, we just don’t know about it.”

Heather Hancock was also pressured by doctors to let them kill her for being disabled. She suggests that killing patients for their organs helps fund Canada’s socialized healthcare system.

The politically disfavored have been subjected to forced organ harvesting in communist China for decades. The main difference between China and Canada is that the fiends running the former imposed themselves by force. Canadians voluntarily elected leftists like Justin Trudeau, who preside over a system comparably morally vacuous. Maybe it isn’t too late to change course, but it will require a decisive reversal.

On a tip from R F.

Leftism has swamped North America like a torrent from a broken sewer main. But we may have reached the high water mark of moonbattery. Now the floodwaters can recede, leaving us the wiser for the miserable experience.

The USA resoundingly elected Donald Trump, whom the liberal establishment had been demonizing for years. Joe Biden will creep off into the sunset in 2 weeks.

North of the border, pretty boy wokester Justin Trudeau might not last that long. Canada has so decisively turned against him that he is expected to resign as soon as today.

Via Fox News:

Trudeau’s popularity continues to dwindle in Canada, which has a national election planned for Oct. 20 of this year. The country continues to suffer from a housing crisis, a declining per-capita GDP and high inflation, among other issues.

According to Canadian pollster Angus Reid, Trudeau has a disapproval rate of around 68% as of Dec. 24, with a meager 28% of Canadians supporting him.

Elon Musk, who predicted Trudeau would not be in power much longer, is not the only one who regards him as an “insufferable tool.”

Like Biden, Trudeau inflicted potentially irreversible damage on his country by opening the floodgates to mass Third World immigration.

Also, the bill has come due for Covid tyranny. Via Daily Mail:

His government’s heavy-handed COVID-era restrictions thoroughly antagonized his critics and culminated in a standoff with hundreds of truckers who descended on Ottawa in January 2022 to protest these vaccine mandates. Their demonstrations ground the city to a halt.

Trudeau responded by invoking Canada’s ‘Emergencies Act’ for the first time in the nation’s history to subdue the allegedly ‘illegal and dangerous’ protest blockades. Nearly one year ago, a federal judge ruled that the Liberal government’s response was unreasonable, unconstitutional and unjustifiable.

At last, Canadians have had enough of “his endless wokery veering into self-parody.”

Never forget how awful Biden and Trudeau have been. If we don’t learn from letting such people take power, it will all have been for nothing.

On tips from Chuck A and Varla.

In his characteristically slithery way, metrosexual moonbat Justin Trudeau is striking back at Trump for trolling him as the governor of the 51st state.

From Canada’s state-affiliated media:

“We were supposed to be on a steady, if difficult, march towards progress. And yet, just a few weeks ago, the United States voted for a second time to not elect its first woman president,” Trudeau said, adding that “women’s rights and women’s progress” are “under attack.”

By “women’s rights and women’s progress,” he appears to mean abortion.

The comments could be interpreted as a thinly veiled swipe at U.S. president-elect Donald Trump. In his first term, Trump appointed Supreme Court justices who were intent on overturning abortion jurisprudence — something they ultimately did with the Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health decision.

Careful with the swiping, Justin. You don’t want to go into a battle of wits unarmed.

It is doubtful that Trudeau will turn over his job to a woman — or even that he can define one.

On a tip from Bluto.

The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal is an instrument of soft tyranny that exists largely to impose degeneracy. It is punishing the township Emo (pop. 1,434) for failing to fly a flag in honor of depravity:

Borderland Pride requested Emo to declare June as Pride Month and display a rainbow flag for one week but the township refused, resulting in a years-long process in which the tribunal ruled against the township.

The tribunal ruled Borderland Pride will be awarded $15,000, with $10,000 coming from the township itself and the other $5,000 coming from Emo mayor Harold McQuaker.

Being forced to give the self-described “2SLGBTQA plus people” free money isn’t enough. The citizens of Emo must have their faces rubbed in moonbattery:

In addition to the compensation, the tribunal also ordered McQuaker and the Chief Administrative Officer of the municipality to complete a “Human Rights 101” training course offered by the Ontario Human Rights Commission within 30 days.

At last word, the town didn’t have an official flagpole. It had better get one, so that it can obediently display its obeisance to sexual perversion as a totalitarian political ideology and avoid escalating punishment.

Emo might get plenty of use out of the flagpole:

On a tip from Barry A.

In Canada, they might throw you in jail for objecting to the grooming of small children by male perverts dressed as hypersexualized parodies of women:

“A judge found me guilty today of criminal harassment for expressing my opposition towards drag queen story hour to a library manager set on hosting the event. For posting the video of our interaction on Facebook, and saying we’ll be back (to protest) if the event continues,” said Calgary Christian pastor Derek Reimer in a message sent to LifeSiteNews. …

“This charge is punishable up to two years, and I will be posting the sentencing date soon,” he noted.

Not all of the repression is inflicted on an official basis by the government:

Last April, his van was vandalized with an anti-Christian message as well as a satanic symbol while he was in jail for yet another arrest related to his pro-family activism.

As Leonardo da Vinci said, “It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” We are past the beginning now. Only the Devil could imagine what the end would look like if moonbattery prevails.

On a tip from seaoh.

When progressives bleat self-righteously about how compassionate they are, you almost have to admire their chutzpah. The alleged liberal motive for killing the unwanted is to save them from suffering. Yet those who aren’t torn to shreds in the womb may be subjected to death by drowning.

Listen to what Kelsi Sheren had to tell Jordan Peterson:

Via LifeSiteNews:

Sheren cited the testimony of Canadian Dr. Joel Zivot, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery [at the Emory] University School of Medicine [in] Atlanta, Georgia.

In February 2021, Zivot refuted the Canadian government’s claim that Midazolam, a drug used in MAiD, provided “relief from anxiety” and “comfort to the patient.”

Instead, he testified to the Canadian Senate that “muscle relaxants when used in MAID will produce death by suffocation.”

Whether you call it suffocation or chemical drowning, it can’t be pleasant. Yet we are told the victims look very peaceful while being killed. Here’s why:

Zivot explained that the muscle relaxant drugs given during MAiD “will produce an outwardly observed stillness as a consequence of muscle paralysis than has wrongly and repeatedly been described as a state of peacefulness.”

It is said to take from 30 minutes to 24 hours for death to occur. A bullet to the head would be more humane, but optics would be a problem.

The most recent reports show that MAiD is the sixth highest cause of death in Canada.

This isn’t trending downward.

On the positive side, Canada’s moonbat rulers can apply Medical Assistance in Dying to save money on pensions and socialized healthcare. It has been presented as a permanent solution for poverty, mental illness, and needing a wheelchair lift. However, it has been denied as a solution to regretting “gender-affirming care.”

On a tip from R F. Hat tip: Washington Standard.

This fake:

“Inclusive” means exclusive of everyone who fails to embrace sin and degeneracy.

The rainbow symbolizes God’s covenant never again to drown the world for succumbing to sin. It has been coopted for the purpose of blasphemy. The stooge with the paint-free roller must be wearing a hard hat in case the covenant does not cover fire and brimstone raining from the sky.

How tragic that the crosswalk will soon be covered in tire marks.

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

You can tell what a culture values by the monuments it constructs. Canadians are reverently erecting a monument to bestow cherished victim status upon those who conspicuously indulge in sexual depravity:

Construction officially began [Thursday] on the Government of Canada’s LGBTQ2+ National Monument in downtown Ottawa. …

Construction is expected to reach completion in 2025.

According to Trudeau’s government,

“It will be a lasting testimony to the courage and humanity of those who were harmed by the LGBT Purge, homophobic and transphobic laws and norms, and Canada’s colonial history.”

“Colonial history” is a reference to the expansion of Western of Civilization — which liberals have been working feverishly to reverse.

Appropriately, the monument will look like some kind of phallus eaten away by a horrific disease:

On a tip from Mike B.

Meanwhile, as Justin Trudeau’s regime tries to push down harder with life sentences for ideological infractions, police worry that building pressure will blow the lid off the pot:

Police have warned Canada’s leaders they will struggle to contain the fury at its deteriorating economy and a generational revolt by young people unable to ever buy a home.

The secret report by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police paints an apocalyptical picture of the future for America’s northern neighbor…

The report…

…warns that the truckers’ convoy protests that polarized the country in 2022 may just be the precursor for a society increasingly polarized by ‘conspiracy theories and paranoia’.

The leftists who charted this course for Canada will no doubt respond by suppressing what the report calls “misinformation” so as to keep the “conspiracy theories and paranoia” (i.e., awareness of what Trudeau et al. are doing to their country) under control, forcing the pressure to build still further until it finally blows.

We all know about Bidenomics. Here’s what the report has to say about the likely consequences of Trudeaunomics:

“The coming period of recession will accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations.”

Global warming lunacy inflicted by the government will accelerate this decline still more, ensuring that people have ever more to be angry about and ever less to lose.

Canadians sat out the American Revolution. It’s not too late to catch up.

On a tip from Ed McAninch.

When liberals started calling for the defunding and “reimagining” of police, some wondered what they planned to do about crime. Ever at the vanguard of moonbattery, Canada provides the answer:

Toronto Police Service Constable Marco Ricciardi said, “To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your [key] fobs at your front door because they’re breaking into your home to steal your car. They don’t want anything else.”

Just let thieves have your property. Then we don’t need police.

The Drive reports that some Canadians are taking the advice…

…like one person who—after having their vehicle broken into three times—opted to leave their car unlocked (along with a big, handwritten note indicating this) so that would-be thieves don’t break the window again.

You can see why a car is stolen in Canada every 6 minutes.

Enforcing the law is rejected because it results in disparate impact — although that can also be avoided by reassigning criminals of color to a different race.

Citizens would be able to defend themselves from thieves entering their homes demanding the car keys, except that where liberalism has triumphed, only criminals and the government (but I repeat myself) have guns.

On a tip from Brian Brandt.

Sometimes even left-wing politicians are sincere. Watch as Senator Chris Murphy, top Democrat negotiator for the failed bill to open the border even wider, specifies who it is that Democrats and their RINO collaborators care about most: “undocumented Americans that are in this country” — i.e., invaders illegally imported by our hostile government at our expense:

MSNBC propagandist Chris Hayes and Chris Murphy are members of the same species, Liberalis whitemalicus, identifiable by its repulsive, sluglike softness. You expect these creatures to leave a muculent trail behind them as they go.

Another specimen of this species is Justin Trudeau — who is also sometimes capable of sincerity:

True enough, Canadians who would vote for the party of Trudeau do not want Canada to be great.

When your rulers tell you that they care more about foreign invaders than they do about you and that they do not want their country to be great, believe them.

On a tip from Anonymous.

Even in a country that has succumbed to moonbat rule, the military may sometimes resort to discipline:

An internal Canadian Armed Forces communication shows a Toronto-area commanding officer threatening soldiers who are caught throwing out tampons in the men’s washroom with discipline and urging them to support the policy for the sake of transgender non-binary members of the forces.

Major Robert P. Ryan doesn’t like “petty acts of protest” like throwing into the garbage the tampons social engineers place in the men’s room to advance LGBT objectives. Hilariously, he gripes that this constitutes a waste of taxpayer money — as if the money had not already been wasted by putting the tampons there in the first place.

Ryan is also a member of the division’s Diversity Awareness Groups, specifically the Defence Advisory Group for Persons with Disabilities.

The ChiComs will conquer Canada just as soon as they can get their laughter under control.

There are still men in the Canadian armed forces, or the tampons wouldn’t end up in the garbage. But to quote Alexander the Great,

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

On a tip from Franco.

As Canada slides deeper into totalitarianism, the liberals in charge are ever less willing to tolerate dissidents like clinical psychologist, professor emeritus, and online educator Jordan Peterson. Mary Anastasia O’Grady sounds the alarm:

According to Ontario court documents, he’s been the subject of complaints since 2018 about his public statements “on topics of social and political interest, including transgender questions, racism, overpopulation, and the response to COVID-19, among others.” The complainers—none of whom seem ever to have been his patients—mainly tweeted their objections to the provincial licensing board known as the College of Psychologists of Ontario.

Ostensibly,

The board’s job is to regulate for competence, not for political views.

However, the board is part of the liberal establishment. That means its true primary purpose is to impose leftism.

In March 2020, the board warned Peterson about his “manner and tone.” Then…

In August 2022 the board wrote to Mr. Peterson on behalf of its panel of investigators about his “demeaning, degrading and unprofessional” public statements and the “harm” they could cause people. He could solve the problem, the bureaucrats said, if he would agree to attend a re-education camp of its choosing.

Peterson’s allegedly problematic manner and tone are generally thoughtful and professorial. But he is no coward. He declined to submit to demeaning political indoctrination. The board proclaimed that this refusal “may constitute professional misconduct.”

Canadian courts sided with the board, meaning that he might lose his professional credentials over thoughtcrime like this:

Court documents cite instances of name-calling politicians and his refusal to use pronouns other than those that correspond to biological sex. In May 2022, court documents say, “he commented on a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition cover with a plus-sized model, tweeting: ‘Sorry. Not Beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.’”

Liberals helpfully underscored his point by attempting to silence him.

The establishment’s main problem with Peterson is not that he is an articulate opponent of its ideology, but that he is unwilling to cower in submission.

This makes him a problem for the mob and a danger to a system that relies on cultural repression to advance its agenda.

In a free society, even those who disagree with Peterson would acknowledge his right to his opinion. Canada — the moribund canary in the coalmine of moonbattery — is not a free society.

On a tip from Varla.