From LifeSiteNews

By Jonathon Van Maren

Premier Danielle Smith is following through on a promise to address growing concerns with Canada’s euthanasia regime.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has sent a mandate letter to Justice Minister Mickey Amery directing him to draft and introduce new legislation on euthanasia to ensure better oversight of so-called “medical aid in dying,” or “MAiD” and to prohibit it for those suffering solely from mental illness.

In December of last year, Smith’s United Conservative government indicated that they would seek to address growing concerns with Canada’s euthanasia regime. Mainstream media outlets attacked the move, with the CBC actually reporting that: “Some are concerned new limitations could impact already vulnerable Albertans.”

Premier Smith has now followed through on that promise. The September 25 mandate letter, which lays out directives on a wide range of issues, calls for the justice minister to take steps to protect vulnerable Albertans suffering from mental illness:

As lead, work with relevant ministries to introduce legislation to provide greater oversight and appropriate safeguards for medical assistance in dying and prohibit medical assistance in dying where a person seeks this procedure based solely on a mental illness.

In an email to the CBC, Amery stated that while euthanasia law is under federal jurisdiction, healthcare falls under provincial jurisdiction. The CBC falsely claimed that mental illness “has never been an approved sole eligibility factor for MAID, though the government has considered permitting it.” In fact, the Trudeau government passed Bill C-7, which legalized MAID for those struggling with mental illness, in 2021.

That eligibility expansion has been delayed twice—in 2023 and 2024—and is now slated to come into effect in 2027. Despite those delays, Bill C-7 is still law. MP Tamara Jansen and MP Andrew Lawton are currently championing Bill C-218, the “Right to Recover Act,” which would reverse this and make it illegal to offer or perpetrate euthanasia on someone struggling solely with mental illness.

The CBC’s coverage of this move was predictably repulsive. In addition to their disinformation on euthanasia for mental illness, they reported that “Smith’s letter directing new provincial legislation on MAID comes almost a year after the government surveyed just under 20,000 Albertans on whether they think the province should step in. Nearly half of those surveyed disagreed with putting in more guardrails on MAID decisions.”

“Nearly half” is an unbelievably deceitful way of reporting on those results. In fact, 62% were in favor of legislation for a dedicated agency monitoring euthanasia processes; 55% were in favor of a MAID dispute mechanism allowing families or eligible others to challenge decisions to protect vulnerable people, such as those with disabilities or mental health struggles; and 67% supported restricting euthanasia to those with physical illnesses rather than mental illnesses. The CBC did not report on a single one of those numbers.

Provincial legislation to protect people with mental illnesses is badly needed, although I pray that by the time Justice Minister Amery gets around to drafting it, the Right to Recover Act will be passed in Parliament, and provincial action will be unnecessary. In the meantime, it is increasingly clear that much of Canada’s mainstream press coverage of this issue actively threatens the lives of the suicidal and those struggling with mental illnesses. If their dishonesty and attempts and manufacturing consent were not so routine, they would be breathtaking.

Jonathon Van Maren

Jonathon’s writings have been translated into more than six languages and in addition to LifeSiteNews, has been published in the National Post, National Review, First Things, The Federalist, The American Conservative, The Stream, the Jewish Independent, the Hamilton Spectator, Reformed Perspective Magazine, and LifeNews, among others. He is a contributing editor to The European Conservative.

From the Vigilant Fox

Aaron Siri is no stranger to high-stakes battles. As a veteran of complex civil litigation, he’s taken on civil rights cases involving mandated medicine, class actions, and government cover-ups.

One of his most notable wins was forcing the release of the Pfizer documents that the FDA wanted hidden for 75 years.

Now Siri, alongside Del Bigtree and the team at ICAN (Informed Consent Action Network), is gearing up to release a new film centered on an Inconvenient Study — one that revealed devastating vax vs. unvax results when it comes to long-term health outcomes and chronic disease.

On top of that, Siri is releasing a new book, Vaccines, Amen, where he explores how vaccines have morphed into a product based on faith, becoming almost like a religion for large segments of America.

Siri’s work is highly respected in the medical freedom community. He also regularly shares his insights and updates on Substack. Without further ado, let’s get into the interview.

Injecting Freedom by Aaron Siri Safeguarding individual rights demands constant legal, social, and political struggle against government censorship, coercion, and mandates.

QUESTION #1 – In your new book, Vaccines, Amen, you compare vaccines to a religion. Can you briefly explain why you see it that way?

SIRI: Most of the claims made about vaccines by the medical community and media are based on beliefs and dogma, not evidence. I can say that with confidence after a decade of deposing the world’s leading vaccinologists and prosecuting well over a hundred lawsuits against health agencies.

On that journey, I found that common claims about vaccines are often contrary to the evidence, and my book lays bare this evidence. There is what medical and health authorities tell the world, often beliefs and dogma, and then there is what they admit under oath in a lawsuit when faced with the hard, cold data and evidence.

QUESTION #2 – The hepatitis B vaccine has been on the childhood schedule since 1991, given to infants on the very first day of life. Hepatitis B is primarily spread through sexual contact or intravenous drug use—not situations newborns face.

While it can be transmitted from mother to baby, mothers are routinely tested before delivery. That leaves no logical reason to inject a newborn with this shot. So the obvious question is: how did it end up on the childhood schedule in the first place?

SIRI: Pharma pushed a universal recommendation to sell more of this product and increase its profits. Newborns were an easy target. CDC went along because they are a captured agency, as is made crystal clear, with hard evidence, in Chapter 5 of my book.

QUESTION #3 – President Trump declared on Monday that there should be “no aluminum” and “no mercury” in vaccines moving forward. Were you surprised by those remarks? Did you ever think a U.S. president would take that stance publicly?

SIRI: In 2017, Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) published a white paper on how aluminum adjuvants in vaccines can cause autism.

See https://icandecide.org/article/how-aluminum-adjuvants-in-vaccines-can-cause-autism/

The truth often takes years to reach the surface, but it has finally reached a critical mass such that even the U.S. president feels comfortable telling the public what the data already shows.

QUESTION #4 – Trump also advocated for spacing out vaccine doses and that the hepatitis B shot should be delayed until age 12. What’s your reaction to those proposals?

SIRI: We live in a free country, and every parent and adult should be free, without any coercion of any kind, to decide what injections they want or do not want to receive and when they want to receive them.

QUESTION #5 – You often hear that vaccines are the greatest “gift” of modern medicine — that they’re the reason we no longer see the waves of infectious disease that plagued people in the 19th century. What say you?

SIRI: Read Chapter 7 of Vaccines, Amen, and you will see that this claim is simply not true. Vaccines had, at best, an immaterial impact on mortality in the United States, and the evidence reflects they may have even had a negative impact on mortality.

QUESTION #6 – What stood out to you most from Monday’s autism announcement, and how do you think this will shape the vaccine conversation and policy going forward?

SIRI: The fact that a sitting president is willing to point to and call out any consumer product sold by a powerful and well-heeled company is a milestone.

Aaron Siri’s new book, Vaccines, Amen, is now available on Amazon.