Canada And Godwin's Law

Godwin's Law states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." But sometimes such comparisons are appropriate. Take, for instance, Canada. 

    The Kupferberg Holocaust Center has an article concerning the murder of the disabled in concentration camps that relates: 

    The Nazis considered people with disabilities to be “useless eaters” and a burden on the Aryan race. In order to purify German society, Hitler authorized the secret killing of psychiatric patients beginning in October 1939. The Nazi Euthanasia Program became known as Aktion T4 (named after the coordinating Chancellery office at Tiergartenstrasse 4 in Berlin) and marked Nazi Germany’s first campaign of mass murder. T4 initially targeted developmentally disabled infants and toddlers in Germany, but later included adults with disabilities all across Europe.

    German doctors and nurses played key roles, killing 250,000 people in a program that was euphemistically labeled as euthanasia. Many of these murders occurred even after Hitler publicly suspended the operation in August 1941. Physicians evaluated patients in asylums, hospitals, and nursing homes where anyone deemed unable to work or harmful to German society was taken to remote killing stations. Many were murdered in specially constructed gas chambers, while others were killed by lethal injection and systematic starvation. ...  

     Canada may not have the concentration camps, but it has its Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) program, which the Canadian government describes thusly:

    Medical assistance in dying (MAID) is a process that allows someone who is found eligible to be able to receive assistance from a medical practitioner in ending their life. The federal Criminal Code of Canada permits this to take place only under very specific circumstances and rules. Anyone requesting this service must meet specific eligibility criteria to receive medical assistance in dying. Any medical practitioner who administers an assisted death to someone must satisfy certain safeguards first.

    Only medical practitioners are permitted to conduct assessments and to provide medical assistance in dying. This can be a physician or a nurse practitioner, where provinces and territories allow. 

And the Canadian government will pay for it, to boot. 

    It was sold to the public as a program only for the worst cases among those nearing the end of life, but it has not remained that way. In their 2025 essay, "The Cautionary Tale of Euthanasia in Canada," by Levi Minderhoud and Daniel Zekveld, they relate:

    Euthanasia [under the program] was first intended only for those nearing the end of their lives. Now, Canada has one of the most permissive euthanasia policies in the world, revealing a rapidly increasing culture of not just accepting death, but actively promoting it.

    Veterans have called the Ministry of Veterans Affairs looking for help and been offered euthanasia instead. Those with suicidal ideation have gone to the hospital for help, only to be encouraged to consider euthanasia. A woman was even asked if she was aware of the option of euthanasia before going into cancer-removing surgery. 

They continue:

    MAiD was first legalized in 2016 for Canadians whose death was “reasonably foreseeable.” At the time, a person had to have a grievous and irremediable medical condition which caused enduring physical or psychological suffering to qualify for euthanasia. Think of someone with a terminal cancer prognosis.

    In 2021, just five years after legalization, MAiD was expanded to include those whose “death is not reasonably foreseeable.” With this expansion, people with disabilities or non-terminal illnesses could choose to have a doctor end their lives. Think of someone who is wheelchair bound.

    The next expansion has already been passed into law, but implementation has been delayed until March 17, 2027. This would allow Canadians suffering solely from a mental illness to be eligible for euthanasia. Think of someone suffering from depression.

    Since legalization, the number of euthanasia deaths in Canada has steadily grown every year and showed little sign of slowing down. Between 2016 and 2023, over 60,000 Canadians have been euthanized, with over 15,000 in 2023 alone. Euthanasia now accounts for 4.7% of all deaths in the country, a rate second only to the Netherlands. Euthanasia is now the fifth most common cause of death in Canada. Compare these numbers with Oregon, the first American state to legalize assisted suicide in 1997. In 2023, 367 people died by assisted suicide in Oregon, or just 0.8% of all deaths in the state.

• See also "Why is Canada euthanising the poor?"--The Spectator. 

Well whether the implementation for mental illness is not supposed to be until 2027 is probably a moot point as it seems to already be a de facto criteria. Thus, we read in the Daily Mail this week: "Canadian doctor met man, 45, suffering from IBD and depression outside Tim Hortons and took him to be EUTHANIZED." The article recounts: 

    A Canadian doctor euthanized a man suffering from inflammatory bowel disease and depression after assessing him outside a Tim Hortons, according to officials. 

    Dr James MacLean has been placed under mandatory clinical supervision for six months following allegations that he improperly administered Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) to two patients.

    MacLean was investigated after he approved Thomas Dillon, who had Crohn's disease, for euthanasia. 

    Dillon, 45, was deemed eligible for MAID by MacLean and a nurse practitioner due to his condition, which led to persistent complications with a colostomy bag, according to medical records obtained by the Globe and Mail. 

    He also had a history of alcohol abuse, suicidal ideation and depression, according to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) report.

    MacLean conducted the MAID assessment outside a Tim Hortons in June 2023 and he was found eligible for the procedure under 'track 2', designed for patients who are not expected to die imminently but who will suffer grievously from an incurable condition.

    He then exchanged dozens of text messages about plans for him to be medically euthanized, records showed, which culminated in the doctor personally driving Dillon to a morgue facility in London to undergo the procedure.

    The doctor administered a lethal cocktail of drugs into Dillon's system in January 2024, inside a holding facility room in an industrial unit where human cadavers are prepared for funeral homes, officials said. 

    Well, some will argue, you can't really compare Canada to Nazi Germany on this issue because Canada's MAID laws require the person to be an adult (i.e., 18 years or more older). But even that is under discussion, with some medical professionals asserting it should be extended to "mature minors" and "the Quebec College of Physicians (CMQ) has raised the idea of extending current MAiD practices to cover infants under one year old in cases of 'severe deformities.'" 

    And I've discussed before the racist nature of MAID in that even the Canadian government acknowledges that 95.6% of the people being killed under the MAID are white.  

    In the end, what will be the real difference between Germany's Aktion T4 and Canada's MAID? That one government was comprised of national socialists and the other is international socialists? That just means that one government favored Germans and the other hates Canadians. 

The Whisperer In Darkness

This is creepy. From Modernity: "Disembodied Human BRAINS Being Kept ALIVE for Drug Tests – But Are They CONSCIOUS?" From the article:

    In a development straight out of science fiction, a Connecticut-based startup called Bexorg is using technology to maintain functioning human brains outside the body for extended periods. 

    These disembodied organs, sourced from recently deceased donors, are being employed to test experimental drugs aimed at neurodegenerative diseases. 

    The work has ignited fresh debate: could these brains possess some form of consciousness?

    The company’s BrainEx system pumps synthetic blood through the brain’s vascular network, delivering oxygen and nutrients while maintaining appropriate temperature and conditions. 

    This allows the brains to remain metabolically active for up to 24 hours or more, providing a realistic platform for observing how drugs interact with human neural tissue at a cellular and molecular level.

    Unlike traditional animal testing or lab-grown organoids, these intact human brains carry decades of real-world exposure to medications, environmental factors, and aging processes.  

A Video Lecture On The Chemistry Of Pyrotechnics

I haven't had the chance to watch these videos yet, but they looked like they might be interesting, particularly to those interested in or working in the fields of chemistry, civil engineering, or mining engineering. From the description, the presentations appear to be based off the book Chemistry of Pyrotechnics - Basic Principles and Theory 2nd Ed by John A. Conkling & Crhis Mocella (2011). The Second Edition is out of print and can be pretty expensive, depending on the seller, but it appears that Amazon has the Third Edition for $83 for the print edition (which isn't too bad for a text book). It appears that the video producer has other videos on the same topic on his YouTube channel. 

 From the video description: "**Watch Addendum for corrections: Sucrose formula is incorrectly given as Glucose, both of their end valences are +24 and were unintentionally exchanged**"

 VIDEO: "Advanced Explosive Design [ p1 ]"
Dug (45 min.)

 

 VIDEO: "Advanced Explosive Design [pt 2]"
Dug (17 min.)

Canada Experiences Cultural Enrichment From Its Indian Immigrants

From The Bureau: "Foreign Gun Squads Rock Toronto Suburbs: 17 Arrests in Peel Expose Canada's Diaspora Extortion Pipeline, From Student Visas to Shootings-for-Hire." The article reports:

    Peel Regional Police have arrested 17 men tied to an international criminal network known as For Brothers, targeting what investigators describe as a coordinated campaign of intimidation, threats, and escalating violence aimed at South Asian business owners across Canada and the United States — in what police called one of the largest extortion cases the region has ever seen, and the latest enforcement strike against a crisis that The Bureau‘s investigations have traced to the wholesale exploitation of Canada’s immigration and international-education systems.

    The network operated mainly out of Brampton, Caledon, and Mississauga, touching Surrey, British Columbia, with ties extending well beyond Ontario into India and California.

    At a news conference Monday, Peel Regional Police Chief Nishan Duraiappah said the investigation was international in scope. “This investigation is far beyond Peel; it has ties to British Columbia, as well as the United States and India,” he said, noting that one of the accused has been linked to an attempted homicide in India. The violence, he reiterated, was deliberate: “(Victims) were specifically targeted and escalated over time.”

    In all, the 17 accused are connected to 24 incidents. Investigators linked 16 of those — including arson and multiple shootings — to For Brothers, accounting for 324 rounds discharged. Deputy Chief Nick Milonovich said members of the network are believed to be responsible for roughly half of the 620 rounds fired from illegal firearms in Peel Region this year.

    At Monday’s news conference, police underscored the brazenness of the campaign by sharing surveillance footage of the attacks. In one nighttime clip, set against snowbanked suburban driveways, figures move between parked vehicles firing multiple shots at a home; in another, recorded on a residential street, a person in a red hooded sweatshirt is seen with an arm extended toward a home, a flash visible in the dark. 

    The investigation, led by Peel Regional Police’s Extortion Task Force, began in December 2025 as a Joint Forces Operation drawing in the Ontario Provincial Police, the Canada Border Services Agency, the Surrey Police Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada. Several businesses — among them restaurants and trucking companies — were repeatedly targeted after refusing to meet extortion demands. In one incident, two of the accused are alleged to have carried out a shooting and arson at a residential address in Caledon, followed minutes later by a second shooting targeting a business in Brampton.

    The network's reach extended into the drug trade.

    Police seized illicit drugs alongside six firearms, cell phones, SIM cards, and fraudulent identification cards — a haul that places For Brothers within the same currents of narcotics and violence The Bureau has traced across Indian transnational smuggling networks linking Canada, the United States, and India, with alleged ties to Mexican cartel proxies in Canada. The Bureau has reported how Ryan Wedding, an alleged Canadian cartel proxy indicted in major U.S. prosecutions, exploited Indian long-haul trucking networks running out of Peel Region and across Greater Toronto to move cartel narcotics.

    Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown said none of the 17 accused are Canadian citizens.

The article goes on to note that British Columbia "has become a major hub for transnational organized crime" and that "that Ottawa lost control of its borders during a massive increase in immigration under the Trudeau Liberals, and now lacks the capacity to counter rampant scams tainting sectors of the economy tied to immigration, foreign-student education, and the job placements that lead to citizenship." And we can't forget China:

It is a pattern long documented in Chinese diaspora communities, where human smugglers known as snakeheads built underground parallel economies; the same phenomenon, government sources confirm, is now proliferating across Indian communities in Canada. 

And the task force charged with policing the extortion rackets is overwhelmed by the shear volume of the crime. One of the crime groups--the Lawrence Bishnoi organization--is described in the article as an "India-based mafia that a classified RCMP assessment has described as a tool of state operations for the Government of India."

VIDEO: Improving Grappling Rules In D&D

Dash Rendar is back with a short video with some ideas to improve grappling in D&D together demonstrating in the real world what he is discussing.

VIDEO: "Grappling in DnD is Broken!!!!" -- Dash Rendar 

David Strom Asks If Russia Is Losing Its War Against Ukraine

Writing at Hot Air, David Strom observes that with Ukraine suddenly being able to operate with fewer constraints placed on it by the United States, it is able to strike deeper into Russia and inflict more damage on critical infrastructure. He writes:

At the same time that Trump reduced American aid, he also allowed Ukraine to take the gloves off and to put Russian assets in Russia at risk, and the results are stunning. Not only have the tactical battle lines extended into Russia, making logistics infinitely harder, but Ukraine is now systematically dismantling key parts of Russia's economic engine and weapons production facilities. 

And he cites the following from a Reuters article:

    "Virtually all major oil refineries in central Russia ‌have been forced to halt or scale back fuel output following Ukrainian drone attacks in recent days, according to official data and sources.

    The combined capacity of refineries that have fully or partially halted operations exceeds 83 million metric ⁠tons per year, or around 238,000 tons per day. That accounts for around one quarter of Russia's total refining capacity, according to data and sources who spoke on condition of anonymity...

    One of Russia's largest refineries, Kirishi, with capacity of 20 million metric tons per year, has been fully shut since May 5, according to the ⁠sources."      

And, according to the Washington Post, "Russia’s losses from Ukrainian strikes have already exceeded $7 billion, while oil production has reportedly dropped by around 400,000 barrels per day."  So, even as oil prices have sky rocketed due to the conflict with Iran, Russia cannot take full advantage of price surge. Moreover, it places Russia in the position of increasingly becoming a vassal to China. 

    While this sounds good for Ukraine, unmentioned by Strom is the acute manpower shortage faced by Ukraine. For instance, in an article assessing Ukraine's opportunities and challenges in the next several months, Reuters reports:

    Assessing the military situation, John Helin of the Finland-based Black Bird conflict-analysis group echoed Biletsky in saying ‌fatigue was ⁠a problem for Russian forces, while Ukraine's war effort is hampered by a manpower shortage.

    "It does seem like, four or five months into this year, it's much more likely that the Russians will get exhausted before the Ukrainian problems come to a breaking point," he told Reuters. 

The Reuters article continues:

    Russian troops are bearing down on eastern Ukraine's "Fortress Belt" where fighting is raging inside the strategic city of Kostiantynivka, its southern end.

 

    The constellation of heavily fortified ​cities anchors Ukrainian defences. Capturing it would position ​Russia to threaten the rest of the Donbas.

 

    Biletsky, ⁠whose forces hold over one-tenth of the total front line, said his troops were firmly holding the flank around Sloviansk, the belt's northern bastion, and forcing Russia to attack the city head-on.

 

    Such costly assaults have helped drain Russian forces and led to heavy losses of field commanders, he said, in what ​he described as a professional degradation of Moscow's military.

 

    "The lack of personnel no longer allows them to advance the way they did, for example, ​a year ago," said Biletsky.

 

    Biletsky ⁠said it was too early to draw conclusions from Kyiv's recent success, but that Ukraine could capitalise on it by continuing mid-range attacks and advancing "carefully".

 

    Moscow is "radically losing" in battlefield communications because of Musk's crackdown on use of Starlink, Biletsky said.

 

    But he described the sides at parity in evolving technology - with Ukraine leading in unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and heavy bomber drones, and Russia winning the race for fibre-optic drones, which cannot be jammed.

 

    A ⁠potential blueprint for ​a modernised Ukrainian army, his corps has led efforts to transform training and integrate new technology such as UGVs as ​an important part of its battlefield strategy.

 

    Biletsky's units lead the way in deploying stealthy kamikaze drones and robots armed with machineguns or rocket launchers to replace significant portions of infantrymen, aiming for 30% by 2027, he said.

 

    The next "revolution" will allow commanders ​to stage more "creative" combined assault operations while conserving precious troops, Biletsky said.

 

    "It will happen this year, and I think we'll show how our corps is a vivid example of it," he said.

Trump Bumps Up Refugee Cap ... For White South Africans

The Associated Press reports:

    The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will admit an additional 10,000 white South Africans into the U.S. as refugees this year, increasing its historically low annual cap but still blocking people from other countries from entering through the program.

    Trump suspended the refugee program on his first day in office and, since then, has turned it into a vehicle to allow Afrikaners — a group of white South Africans descended mainly from Dutch settlers — into the U.S. Advocates say the decision to focus a decades-old program on one group has left people around the world fleeing war and strife stranded and with few options.

    The administration says Afrikaners are subject to persecution in their home country, a charge the government in South Africa denies.  

The excuse given by the South African government is that South Africa has such a high murder rate that the murder rates of the Boer farmers is not abnormal. But what is abnormal is that Julius Sello Malema, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters--the third largest political party in South Africa--is infamous for regular chanting the anti-apartheid struggle song "Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer" at political rallies. A chant with which the crowds join in. Nevertheless, that is not what prompted the recent bump in the refugee cap. Rather, turning back to the AP article:

    Christopher Landau, the deputy secretary of state, and Troy Edgar, the deputy secretary of Homeland Security, met with key congressional committees on Thursday as part of the legally required consultation process with lawmakers, according to two people who were granted anonymity to discuss a private meeting.

    During the hour-long session, Landau told lawmakers that one of the ways that Afrikaners had faced persecution at home was the erasure of their history in school textbooks, according to the people with knowledge of the meeting. The discussion infuriated Democrats, who called the approach and the consultation “indefensible.” 

Democrats have been trying to erase our history for decades so it no wonder they would defend South Africa doing the same. 

Daily Skeptic: The U.K.'s Two Tier Legal System

 In "When 'White Racism' Trumps Non-White Murder," Frank Haviland discusses the murder of 18 year-old Henry Nowak by a murderous Sikh named Vickrum Digwa who, despite UK knife laws, was allowed to carry a curved dagger with an 8-inch blade under a religious exemption. A weapon he apparently used to rob and stab Nowak. If Nowak had promptly received medical treatment and Digwa arrested, this would have been merely another story of a white victim of "cultural enrichment". But...

    Here’s the problem for Nowak: he was white, his assailant was not. Which means Digwa was perfectly within his rights to play the race card, and did so to maximum effect.

    When the police arrived at the scene, they handcuffed the collapsed victim (which must have been a relief to those concerned about where his blood was going). According to bodycam footage played in court, Nowak repeatedly told the officers that he had been stabbed and “couldn’t breathe”. They still handcuffed him. The police eventually decided to render first aid, shortly before Nowak lost consciousness. The ironic parallels with George Floyd are so obvious, I feel I need comment no further. 

    Digwa meanwhile, claimed he acted in “self-defence”, faced with the unspeakable violence of Nowak’s alleged “racial abuse”. Despite the four fatal stab wounds, the fact that Nowak’s phone was later discovered in Digwa’s pocket, and the revelation that Digwa’s mother was allegedly filmed removing and disposing of the knife, Digwa’s barrister shamefully instructed jurors to decide whether the murderer acted “in the heat of the moment”.   

 Haviland notes, however, that the attitude of the police in this case is not unique, but part of a larger pattern of POC being treated differently for violent crime:

    Alas, this is not an isolated incident. It is the latest confirmation of a pattern which stretches across the pond from Britain to the United States: non-white attackers can, it seems, stab, rape or even kill white victims while hurling racial epithets – “white slags”, “white bitch”, “kill the white slag”, and still walk free or face only token consequences, because the counterclaim of ‘racism’ is treated as mitigation or even justification. 

He goes on to discuss several examples from both the U.S. and the U.K., concluding with the Muslim rape gangs that freely operated, with the knowledge and tacit approval of law enforcement, for years because authorities did not want to appear racist. He also discusses the equality lie and how it shows up in how laws are selectively enforced, before concluding:

    As I have long argued, the accusation of racism is the Left’s most potent weapon. It is a charge which cannot be defended, and requires no evidence to assert. Thanks to this one word, British society is already de facto two-tier. Muslim rape gangs continue to operate with impunity, because protecting white girls would be ‘racist’. Police refuse to stop and search young black men, with similar reasoning. How long before it is actually legal to stab someone white, because he was ‘racist’; because he looked ‘racist’; merely because he was white? You may laugh, but please explain the joke to Henry Nowak as I don’t think he’d get it. 

    No society in history would be able to delude themselves on this scale without careful indoctrination. Thankfully, our children are now being taught from the age of seven to reflect on their “white privilege”, and that non-whites “cannot be racist” to them. In other words, to accept their fate and pay the price for the lie that diversity is “our greatest strength”. 

    I grieve for the victims of this lie. And I wonder how comforting it is for them, as they lie dying in a pool of their own blood, to know that it was their “privilege”, not non-white “racism” wot done it.   

A system is what it does, and so we should be very concerned when the system starts looking the other way when whites are killed or victimized. Because at some point, in the coming decades, those same systems might have evolved to be the ones doing the killing. You laugh, but it was the system that handcuffed Nowak and withheld medical treatment. 

More:

•  "The Philosophy Underlying DEI" by Allen Porter, Law & Liberty.

Colion Noir: LA Burglars No Longer Afraid

 Colion Noir discusses why burglars in Los Angeles are no longer afraid of citizens or the police. They aren't afraid of civilians because the civilians have been disarmed and face real consequences should they use a weapon to defend themselves. The burglars probably won't be arrested; and if they do, will either not be charged or let off with a wrist slap. He also notes that the goal of "criminal reform" is not public safety but a disarmed and cowed public. 

VIDEO: "LA Burglars Aren’t Afraid Anymore… And This Video Proves It"
Colion Noir (10 min.)

This Is What A Collapsing Civilization Looks Like

"Terrified Seattle neighborhood builds massive barricade across streets amid horrific crime wave," reports the New York Post. From the article:

    Residents in a troubled Seattle neighborhood have begun erecting large homemade barricades across residential streets after a surge of gun violence left many fearing for their safety.

    Neighbors living near Aurora Avenue say repeated shootings, alleged prostitution activity and late-night chaos have pushed the community to a breaking point.

    Following another burst of gunfire over the weekend, frustrated residents took matters into their own hands by physically blocking off nearby roads in an effort to keep traffic and suspected criminal activity out of the area, Fox 13 reported.    

The reason that they had to build the blockades was because the local government didn't care enough to do anything (this is not a neighborhood with rich donors):  

    Locals say they have repeatedly contacted city officials, including the mayor’s office, the Seattle City Council and police, but believe little has changed.

    “What we’ve gotten is a lot of nothing,” one resident said. “It’s terrifying to live here, and it’s even more terrifying that the city is absolutely doing nothing to protect the citizens in this neighborhood.”

    According to neighbors, earlier versions of the barricades were vandalized shortly after being installed. Residents later rebuilt them with stronger materials and added reinforcements. Near one blockade, a hand-drawn chalk message reading “No Gunfire” was scrawled on the pavement.

    “We’re just afraid that a neighbor is going to have to die before the city will do something,” another resident said. 

Now that there is public attention on the matter, the City has met with residents and is promising to "increase" nightly patrols. I put "increase" in quotes because I would be willing to bet that there was no discernible police presence before this. 

    What we see here is the breakdown of the basic social contract: the citizens pay taxes and they get protection from both marauders and the government (i.e., don't get thrown in prison or killed for failure to pay taxes). It is particularly vexing in this case because the citizens have been legally and physically disarmed. Physically, in that it is difficult to own a weapon; and legally because the circumstances under which they can legally use what weapons they have are so limited.