Canada's Medical Decline

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Manitoba hospitals don't have capacity to do their own testing, Dynacare official says

Dynacare's chief medical officer says Manitoba hospitals don't even have the capacity to deal with their own testing, after being asked whether the province's public health system could handle the lab company's work.

Dr. Jenisa Naidoo said Thursday some of the lab work that's supposed to be done in provincial health-care facilities is being sent to the private company.

Her statement is "not based on [Shared Health's] information. It's based on the fact that we get the work," Naidoo said during a Manitoba Labour Board hearing that will determine whether Dynacare workers provide an essential service.

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Dementia patient found face down in puddle in another neighbourhood after leaving Winnipeg home, lawsuit says

A company that provides residential care to people with complex behavioural health issues is being sued after a man with a mental disability was allegedly left unsupervised and walked away from the home unaccompanied.

The man, now 38, was diagnosed with dementia and was living at a residential apartment complex in Winnipeg, operated by Cambridge Health Inc., with 24-hour behavioural care services and supervision.

He was not to leave the home unless accompanied by a staff member or a designated family member. The man was in a common area at about 4:30 p.m. on April 3, 2025, when "he was left unsupervised and walked out of the Cambridge home," the lawsuit says.

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Ste. Rose du Lac doctor sounds alarm over staffing shortages

An "exhausted" Manitoba doctor is sounding the alarm over staffing shortages that might result in more emergency room closures in Ste. Rose du Lac.

Dr. Ashley Blais, a physician at the community's hospital, says it has recently had to close the emergency department for several days due to the "downstream consequences of flooding and prolonged disruption at the Dauphin Regional Health Centre."

"We opened our doors, and our physicians or nurses and staff absorbed increased patient volumes, additional in-patient pressures, because our neighbours needed us. And that's what we do — that's what rural health-care providers do in a crisis," she said in an interview with CBC News.

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Donor who reported sexual contact with HIV-positive person allowed to give plasma in Regina: documents

Health Canada inspection documents reveal a person who said they'd had sexual contact with someone who tested positive for HIV was allowed to give plasma twice at a for-profit donation centre in Regina.

An inspection exit report obtained by CBC details multiple deficiencies that led federal regulators to find the Grifols paid plasma centre in Regina non-compliant following an inspection that began Jan. 13 of this year.

That includes documenting "multiple times" when people who had punctures and bruising on their veins were allowed to give plasma, without any documented additional assessment of the donor's suitability.

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Doctors say B.C. Supreme Court ruling on foreign-trained doctors a 'blow' for rural health care

Doctors are speaking out after the B.C. Supreme Court ruled the province can't force foreign-trained doctors to work in "underserviced" areas

"It's another nail in the coffin of rural health care," said Charles Helm, a semi-retired physician who has worked in Tumbler Ridge — a small community in B.C.'s Peace Region — for more than 30 years.

Currently, doctors trained in non-Canadian schools are required to live and practise in rural or remote locations in the province for two or three years.

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Figures that there's those who think multicultural immigration is key to improving our faltering health care system.

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Interesting little data point:

REVEALED: More Canadians die from MAID each year than Americans do from gun homicides

Canada's medical assistance in dying (MAID) program accounted for more deaths than gun homicides in the United States in 2024. This is despite the US having roughly eight times the population as Canada.

https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-more-canadians-die-from-maid-each-year-than-americans-do-from-gun-homicides

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REVEALED: More Canadians die from MAID each year than Americans do from gun homicides 

Wonder what proportion of those suicides are White?

Google AI's response:
According to the Sixth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada, the vast majority of recipients who answered the voluntary demographic questions identified as Caucasian.

Racial and Ethnic Breakdown

Caucasian (White): 95.6% of respondents

East Asian: 1.6% of respondents.  Other racial, ethnic, or cultural identities made up the remaining small fraction of respondents.

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An 83-year-old grandmother in Ontario died thanks to Medical Assistance in Dying, better known as MAiD. But her family says she changed her mind, cried, prayed, and begged not to get the injection.

Her granddaughter says Brigitte Stegemann was very confused that morning, had failed a cognitive assessment, and never clearly consented to what was about to happen.

The medical professionals apparently saw it differently... and now police are investigating.

https://revolver.news/2026/09/report-canadian-grandmother-euthanized-while-carrying-and-begging-for-her-life/