The story of the Canadian woman, known as Mrs. B, who was killed by euthanasia after her spouse experienced care-giver distress, even though she had requested palliative care, has been reported by several media reports.
To provide greater context I went to the original MDRC committee report of the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario titled: Navigating Complex Issues within Same Day and Next Day MAiD Provisions. This was the MDRC 2024 – Fourth report.
When examining Same Day or Next Day euthanasia provisions the MDRC report states:
A small proportion (4.8%) of all Track 1 MAiD deaths occurred on the same day or next day of a request for MAiD. In 2023, 65 MAiD provisions (1.4% of Track 1 MAiD deaths) occurred on the same day of a request and 154 MAiD provisions (3.4% of Track 1 MAiD deaths) occurred on the next day of a request.
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A woman called police to tell them that she had drowned her 7-month-old baby in a bathtub, and police confirmed the horrific claim when they went to her home.
Tierra Scott-Franklin, 23, was arrested on Wednesday afternoon by Gainesville police at her residence in the Sweetwater Square Apartments.
‘She did what she did, but we stand behind her. She is loved. She is valued.’
A recent investigative report by Newsweek has exposed troubling connections between the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — America’s largest socialist organization — and officials linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). These revelations demand serious scrutiny because the DSA has achieved growing political influence in recent years. This influence reached a new peak with the 2025 election of longtime DSA member Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City.
The Newsweek report drew on dozens of internal DSA documents, including meeting minutes and presentation materials dating back to 2021. These records show the DSA’s international committee actively pursuing closer relations with CCP-affiliated entities, often framed as solidarity in the fight against “U.S. imperialism.” In one striking example from a 2025 meeting of the DSA China Working Group, a New York-based member stated: “China wants to interface with the DSA … If we develop a killer two-week itinerary, hire locals, and develop further connections with the CPC [Communist Party of China], then we’re golden.”
Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase on Wednesday agreed to match $1,000 contributions to President Donald Trump’s new “Trump accounts.”
Trump accounts include a $1,000 stipend for eligible children born between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2028. The Trump administration has pitched it as an important pro-natalist move to help families financially. Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, the two largest U.S. banks by assets, are the latest banks to throw their weight behind the measure.
“JPMorgan Chase has demonstrated a long-term commitment to the financial health and well-being of all of our employees and their families around the world, including more than 190,000 here in the United States,” JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said in a release. “By matching this contribution, we’re making it easier for them to start saving early, invest wisely, and plan for their family’s financial future.”
A Virginia judge on Tuesday ruled that a Democrat-led effort to radically redraw the state’s congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterm elections is invalid.
The ruling has dealt a major setback to plans that would have dramatically reshaped the state’s House delegation.
Judge Jack Hurley Jr., of the Tazewell County Circuit Court, issued a ruling declaring a proposed constitutional amendment advanced by the Virginia General Assembly to be procedurally invalid under state law.
Grace Carol Brown is accused of smashing a window, unlawfully entering the Comal County Republican Party headquarters, and starting a deliberate fire inside.
A 21-year-old Texas woman has been charged with arson and burglary after allegedly breaking into and setting fire to a Republican Party headquarters in New Braunfels, an incident GOP leaders say reflects a troubling escalation of political extremism.
Newsmax reported that authorities identified the suspect as Grace Carol Brown, who was arrested on January 22, 2026, following a joint investigation involving local law enforcement and the FBI. Brown is accused of smashing an exterior window, unlawfully entering the Comal County Republican Party headquarters, and starting a deliberate fire inside the building.
According to officials, employees arriving at the headquarters on January 14 discovered broken windows and evidence of a small fire, prompting an immediate response from the New Braunfels Police Department and Fire Department. The fire caused minor damage, and no injuries were reported, but Republican officials emphasized that the act appeared intentional and targeted. Police said investigators from the New Braunfels Police Department, the New Braunfels Fire Marshal’s Office, and the FBI’s San Antonio office worked together to identify the suspect, gather evidence, and obtain search and arrest warrants.
There are a multitude of stories emerging from the ongoing unrest in Minnesota, but the Elitist Media have settled on one of them to put forward in furtherance of narrative at the expense of other, more inconvenient stories. One of those stories remained hidden from the broadcast nightly news until tonight.
Per Minneapolis’ own Fox 9:
Two women have been charged after allegedly biting the fingers of U.S. Border Patrol agents in the moments that followed the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
Earlier this week, President Trump sent border czar Tom Homan to speak personally with leaders in Minnesota. In the latest update to those exchanges, President Trump called out a top official at the center of the controversy for refusing to cooperate with the administration.
On Wednesday morning, Trump issued a stern warning to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) after Frey indicated on Tuesday afternoon he was not going to enforce federal immigration law.
‘He is PLAYING WITH FIRE!’
Frey posted a short thread to X summarizing his position, stating that Minneapolis “will not enforce federal immigration law, and that we will remain focused on keeping our neighbors and streets safe.”
Trump noted his surprise at Frey’s apparent switchback following a “very good conversation with him”: “Could somebody in his inner sanctum please explain that this statement is a very serious violation of the Law, and that he is PLAYING WITH FIRE!”
The leftist media cabal constantly imagine themselves as the grand embodiment of Democracy and Freedom of Speech, even as they seek to put Republicans in jail and hope to censor them out of speaking on social media. They don’t live up to their First Amendment boasting.
For example, there’s CNN International host Christiane Amanpour, whose leftist ravings are also broadcast on PBS stations. On January 23, Amanpour led off her show with this attack on President Trump: “He says he’s bringing free speech back to America, but one year into Trump 2.0, few presidents have done as much to degrade civil liberties and muzzle the free press. Former Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron joins me to discuss how American journalism can survive.”
Citizens of Virginia will face a key vote on whether to enshrine the murder of preborn babies into their state constitution.
After the Democratic Party achieved massive victories in Old Dominion during the 2025 off-year elections, they were able to pass House Joint Resolution 1 in a decisive vote.
The measure will place a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom” ballot question before voters this fall, according to a report from The Christian Post.
If passed, the Virginia Constitution would be amended to say that “every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom, including the ability to make and carry out decisions related to one’s own prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, abortion care, miscarriage management, and fertility care.”
The Trump administration notified Congress on Tuesday that it has completed a “preliminary review” of the fatal Border Patrol shooting of Alex Pretti, laying out a minute-by-minute account of the encounter and identifying the two federal agents who fired their weapons.
Pretti, 37, a U.S. Veterans Affairs intensive care unit nurse, died after a confrontation with Border Patrol agents during federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis on Saturday.
According to the report, agents with Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection were conducting enforcement actions near the intersection of Nicollet Avenue and 26th Street as part of Operation Metro Surge. Officials said several civilians were present in the area, some of them “yelling and blowing whistles” as agents worked.
Kirk Bangstad, the Wisconsin owner of Minocqua Brewing Company, has openly expressed extreme hostility toward President Donald Trump, conservatives, and anyone who does not share his far-left ideology.
Bangstad, who was ordered to pay a six-figure sum for defamation in 2023 and was charged with harassment last year, has a long record of incendiary rhetoric.
The beermaker is also treasurer of a far-left federal super PAC bearing the same name as his brewing company.
Following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, Bangstad wrote, “F**k Charlie Kirk.”
President Donald Trump warned Iran to “come to the table” Wednesday as the United States moves a powerful naval force into the region, signaling that military action remains firmly on the table if Tehran refuses to negotiate.
Trump confirmed the deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike group, describing the move as a direct message to Iran’s leadership and a demonstration of American resolve.
“A massive Armada is heading to Iran. It is moving quickly, with great power, enthusiasm, and purpose. It is a larger fleet, headed by the great Aircraft Carrier Abraham Lincoln, than that sent to Venezuela. Like with Venezuela, it is, ready, willing, and able to rapidly fulfill its mission, with speed and violence, if necessary,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Rather than stand firm, crush the blatant insurrection against federal authority in Minnesota, and emulate his hero Andrew Jackson, President Donald Trump blinked.
Trump announced Monday that he had a “very good call” with Democrat Gov. Tim Walz and that the governor had requested they “work together with respect to Minnesota.”
That same day, Democrat Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey revealed he had also spoken with Trump and that they both “agreed the present situation can’t continue.”
A Democrat running to be Ohio’s attorney general promised to kill President Donald Trump if he wins the November election.
Elliot Forhan, a former state representative and current attorney general candidate, posted a plan outlining how he would “kill Donald Trump.”
“I want to tell you what I mean when I say that I am going to kill Donald Trump,” Forhan said in a video. “I mean I’m going to obtain a conviction rendered by a jury of his peers at a standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt based on evidence presented at a trial conducted in accordance with the requirements of due process, resulting in a sentence, duly executed, of capital punishment. That is what I mean when I say I am going to kill Donald Trump.”
This might shock you, but it’s true. A Soros-funded district attorney in a Democrat run city is threatening lawfare against ICE agents. He even called them “nazis” and threatened to hunt them down for their war crimes of *checks notes* enforcing existing immigration laws. We here at the Louder with Crowder Dot Com website are sure his desperation, as well as his progressive peers, has nothing to do with a new map showing how many congressional seats his state is losing WITHOUT the past deportations.
First, the Soros-funded Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner.
This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis. That’s what they are. In a country of 350 million, we outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice.
He sounds just like the commie officials in Chicago, and Minneapolis, and New York City, and California. They’ve gone all in on protecting illegal immigrants at the expense of actual American citizens.
The belief amongst many of us to the right of Karl Marx or Zohran Mamdani is that, among other reasons, it is because Democrats insist on counting illegals when it comes to the census to game the system. However, that’s one side of the argument. The other side would argue that, according to “experts” and “independent” “fact” “checkers,” there isn’t a signed affidavit admitting where democrats admit that they are doing this, so it’s not true.
On Tuesday morning, Border Patrol shot a man in Arizona.
The man was critically injured and transported to the hospital.
Here’s our original report:
DEVELOPING: Person in Critical Condition After CBP-Involved Shooting in Arizona
Now, more details are emerging about the incident.
It turns out that the man who was shot is an escaped convict.
In a hilarious turn of events, the anti-ICE agitators have now begun demonstrating outside the offices of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for considering working with federal agents.
#BREAKING: Anti‑ICE protesters surround Tim Walz’s office after he signaled openness to President Trump & Tom Homan.
— Insider Wire (@InsiderWire) January 27, 2026
Dozens of protesters were seen screaming “justice delayed is justice denied” outside of the Walz’s office. Many were wielding homemade signs condemning ICE and federal law enforcement.
🚨 JUST IN: Leftist protestors have STORMED outside Tim Walz’s office in Minnesota, FURIOUS that he’s starting to cave to President Trump and Tom Homan
LMFAO! That’s how you know he’s losing!
Cry harder, ICE WILL CONTINUE. Homan’s taking it from here 🔥 pic.twitter.com/ZYLy7wqHQF
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 27, 2026
Disturbing new details have emerged about the far-left mob that stormed a Sunday church service at Cities Church in St. Paul, exposing an incident far more terrifying than initially reported. Democrat-aligned protesters forced their way into the church during worship, targeting the congregation over false claims that the pastor supported immigration authorities.
According to witnesses, agitators blocked stairwells, preventing parents from reaching their children attending Sunday School. Mothers were left panicked and helpless as chaos unfolded inside what should have been a place of safety and refuge. One boy cried to his dad: “I thought you were going to die.”
Even more alarming, one protester reportedly harassed a child directly, telling them: “Do you know your parents are Nazis? They’re going to burn in hell.” The verbal abuse of children crossed a line that shocks the conscience.
The invasion of Cities Church was not a protest—it was intimidation, terror, and ideological violence aimed at families and children. Yet once again, political leaders and media outlets that routinely decry “threats to democracy” remain conspicuously silent when the victims are ordinary Americans targeted by the radical left.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has arrived in Beijing, the first British leader to make an official trip to China since 2018, after he said he believes he can unlock business opportunities there despite security concerns.
A chartered British Airways jet carried the Prime Minister to Beijing overnight — allegedly to keep Chinese spies away from the Prime Minister’s own government plane — for the first of a three-day trip to China, which the Labour leader hopes will thaw relations after what he called an “ice age”.
The hurried trip was only officially announced by China on Tuesday and seems to be something of a reward for Starmer after the British government forced through permission for Beijing to build a new “mega-embassy” in London just last week. The new complex, which will be the largest embassy in Western Europe once completed, has been the subject of intense criticism over spying and national security fears, but was signed off on nevertheless by one of Starmer’s government ministers.
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“Nobody elected him to be [President Franklin Delano Roosevelt], they elected him to be normal and stop the chaos,” then-Rep. Abigail Spanberger harshly said of then-President Joe Biden in 2021, after her Democratic Party lost the governorship of Virginia. Her point was that Biden had followed a radical agenda that betrayed how he had run and how the media had presented him: as a moderate.
Biden’s sudden radicalism in his first year in office, she seemed to be saying, lost her party the election.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than 200 illegal aliens in Maine in just five days as part of a targeted surge ordered by the Trump administration.
However, the successful crackdown has sparked sharp backlash from Maine’s Democrat Governor Janet Mills.
In a statement, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin said:
“The brave men and women of ICE have already arrested more than 200 illegal aliens in Maine in the last five days.
New details are emerging about the armed man killed by Border Patrol on Saturday.
As it turns out, this may not have been the first time Alex Pretti got into a physical altercation with immigration agents.
Reportedly, just one week before his death, Pretti (allegedly) broke his rib in a violent confrontation with ICE agents.
This clip from CNN has more details:
BREAKING: ICE Attacker Alex Pretti Had A Physical Altercation With ICE And Broke His Rib Just A Week Before He Was Shot and Killed.
He was tackled for impeding operations, and a week later he showed up with a loaded weapon to attack federal law enforcement.
He had a history… pic.twitter.com/63jFO5TJON
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 27, 2026
BREAKING: ICE Attacker Alex Pretti Had A Physical Altercation With ICE And Broke His Rib Just A Week Before He Was Shot and Killed.
He was tackled for impeding operations, and a week later he showed up with a loaded weapon to attack federal law enforcement.
He had a history of interfering with ICE and the left wants you to believe he meant no harm. This is who they are rioting for.
The operation motivating and fueling these people needs to be completely exposed and brought down.
More than 100 community members, including parents, attended a meeting of the West Chicago City Council to demand they take action against an elementary school teacher who posted about immigration.
West Chicago Mayor Daniel Bovey also joined the mob in calling on Gary Elementary School to get rid of the teacher for showing support for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
‘We want to ensure our schools are safe spaces, and we look forward to seeing all students back in school.’
“We have kids in our school districts, in this school specifically, who have lost a mom or dad or family member within the last three months. They’re going home wondering if they will ever see Mom or Dad again,” Bovey said.
The teacher’s outrageous statement was composed of only two words: “Go ICE.”
China’s top general is in deep water.
In an exclusive report, the Wall Street Journal has reported that China’s top military general has been ousted from his position after allegedly giving nuclear secrets to the United States.
The General was known in Beijing and to U.S. intelligence as President Xi Jinping’s top military ally.
The New York Post reported more on the general leaking nuclear secrets to the United States:
China’s top general has been accused of leaking nuclear secrets to the US and accepting bribes as President Xi Jinping purges the country’s senior military leadership.
General Zhang Youxia, 75, once considered one of Xi’s most-trusted military allies, allegedly leaked core technical data on China’s nuclear weapons to the US, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Zhang, the first-ranked vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, was officially placed under investigation on Saturday.
He was detained by military corruption investigators earlier this week, according to reports from Chinese outlets.
President Xi has reportedly sent a special task force to Shenyang in northeast China, where Zhang was previously stationed.
The U.S. Supreme Court has the opportunity to stifle Virginia Democrats’ tyrannical bid to restrict their constituents’ Second Amendment rights. The question is: Will they?
While much of the country was focused on the latest immigration-related news out of Minnesota on Monday, Virginia Senate Democrats quietly advanced an amended bill that would effectively criminalize hundreds of thousands of gun owners across the commonwealth. SB 749 seeks to outlaw the importation, sale, manufacturing, purchase, or transfer of an “assault firearm,” which the measure redefines as a “semi-automatic center-fire rifle or pistol with a fixed magazine capacity in excess of 10 rounds.”
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Melinda Rose Cook, a healthcare worker at VCU Health, has uploaded several videos that have since been deleted and urged healthcare workers to harm ICE agents who are also patients.
In one video, she urged nurses to inject patients with Succinylcholine, which is a drug used for brief paralysis. In another clip, she suggested people should expose agents to poison ivy, and in another clip, she suggested people should date them, and put laxatives in their drink to “get them sick.”
Now, I am no legal expert, but I don’t think nurses poisoning their patients willfully is what you would call legal. However, I can confirm this is evil, to say the very least.
According to Jasmine Crockett, she would never want to “upset Latinos.” She said this because she implies the majority of people who have broken federal immigration laws are of a certain race and ethnicity. Or, in other words, she correlates illegal immigration with the Hispanic community, which proves just how racist she truly is. Nonetheless, that was not even the worst thing she said.
Crockett, who claimed to “know history,” in the same breath, said ICE is akin to when “slave patrols were going out and dragging and disappearing people based on color.”
There are so many things wrong with what she said.
The Trump administration’s response to the weekslong insurrection in Minneapolis showed left-wing leaders across the country one thing: Riots work.
Weeks of left-wing rioting and obstruction of federal immigration enforcement operations have resulted in the federal government apparently giving major concessions to Minnesota Democrats, and now, Democrats in other states and cities are emboldened to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers from doing their job.
As his first executive order after taking office on Jan. 1, Sean Ryan, Democrat mayor of Buffalo, New York, decided on Monday to prohibit “the use of City of Buffalo personnel or resources for federal civil immigration enforcement.”