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Two years ago, over the Thanksgiving holiday, Allison Ducluzeau started to feel pain in her stomach. At first, she assumed she had eaten too much turkey, but the pain persisted. A couple of weeks later, she saw her family doctor who requested CT scans, although none were sorted. Soon after, as the agony worsened, her partner insisted she went to the emergency unit at their local hospital on Vancouver Island. Finally, doctors confirmed the couple’s worst fears: she was almost certainly suffering from advanced abdominal cancer.

Allison, then 56, later learned that she had stage 4 peritoneal carcinomatosis, an aggressive condition. By the time she saw a specialist early last year, he warned that she might only live a few months longer: chemotherapy tended to be ineffective for her cancer, buying a bit more time at best, and she was inoperable. Instead, she was told to go home, sort out her papers, and decide if she wanted medical assistance in dying.

Unsurprisingly, Allison was devastated. “I could barely breathe — I went in there hoping to come out with a treatment plan but was just told to get my will in order.” That night was the worst of her life as she broke the shattering news to her son and daughter at her home in Victoria. “I told them I might only live for another two months,” she recalled. “If I’d not had my children, I might have accepted MAID [medical assistance in dying] — but when I saw the effect on them, having just been through the deaths of my own parents, it made me dig really deep.”

So, determined to find help, she researched her condition, spoke to doctors as far away as Taiwan, flew to California for scans and eventually travelled to Baltimore for treatment. She had discovered that patients could be given debulking surgery to reduce their cancer, followed by targeted use of heated chemotherapy — yet back in Canada, she could not get even an initial telephone chat with a surgeon who performed such operations for two months. Aided by her tight circle of friends and relatives, she raised almost half the $200,000 cost for the operation by crowdfunding. By the time she managed to see an oncologist in her home province of British Columbia, she was already on the road to recovery.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Just as the White class the British WASPs or French-Canadian replaced the Native Americans of Canada, the rest of the world will now replace the WASPs or La Territoire de la Québécoise French-Canada will be culturally killed off replaced by the world, everything is becoming broken.

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She does not share the ethical or religious concerns held by many opponents of euthanasia. Nor does she oppose Canada’s 2016 MAID reform; she agreed with her father five years later that it was an “appropriate” option for his intensifying pain after many years of prostate cancer.

But she has deep worries about assisted dying being offered by doctors in a health system that is floundering — especially with inadequate and overwhelmed oncology services when cancer patients comprise almost two-thirds of the soaring numbers of citizens opting for MAID. “We do not have a good standard of care here, especially for cancer — and that is why it is so dangerous to have MAID, especially when it can be used to take a bit of pressure off physicians and the government.”

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Two years ago, over the Thanksgiving holiday, Allison Ducluzeau started to feel pain in her stomach. At first, she assumed she had eaten too much turkey, but the pain persisted. A couple of weeks later, she saw her family doctor who requested CT scans, although none were sorted. Soon after, as the agony worsened, her partner insisted she went to the emergency unit at their local hospital on Vancouver Island. Finally, doctors confirmed the couple’s worst fears: she was almost certainly suffering from advanced abdominal cancer.

Allison, then 56, later learned that she had stage 4 peritoneal carcinomatosis, an aggressive condition. By the time she saw a specialist early last year, he warned that she might only live a few months longer: chemotherapy tended to be ineffective for her cancer, buying a bit more time at best, and she was inoperable. Instead, she was told to go home, sort out her papers, and decide if she wanted medical assistance in dying.

Unsurprisingly, Allison was devastated. “I could barely breathe — I went in there hoping to come out with a treatment plan but was just told to get my will in order.” That night was the worst of her life as she broke the shattering news to her son and daughter at her home in Victoria. “I told them I might only live for another two months,” she recalled. “If I’d not had my children, I might have accepted MAID [medical assistance in dying] — but when I saw the effect on them, having just been through the deaths of my own parents, it made me dig really deep.”

So, determined to find help, she researched her condition, spoke to doctors as far away as Taiwan, flew to California for scans and eventually travelled to Baltimore for treatment. She had discovered that patients could be given debulking surgery to reduce their cancer, followed by targeted use of heated chemotherapy — yet back in Canada, she could not get even an initial telephone chat with a surgeon who performed such operations for two months. Aided by her tight circle of friends and relatives, she raised almost half the $200,000 cost for the operation by crowdfunding. By the time she managed to see an oncologist in her home province of British Columbia, she was already on the road to recovery.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Holland is over

they are a failure a people who have given up, like Trudea is giving up on his Canadians

the place is gone, it was a giant anti-humabn Ponzi scheme
Canadians are in a similar place to the Dutch journey.

it is done, its over, they had a chance with the Farming Protests and Geert Wilders but its finished now

they had an old Empire that almost took the world but decayed long ago, its just a collection of people from all over the world who have no interest in the West Germanic Franc Weser–Rhine Saxon Boer Germano Low Franconian culture, they are almost a dead people
its Royal family hates what little is left of its own people, it is not a Free Speech Federal Democracy like the USA, it is a Unitary parliamentary monarchy.
the Dutch in the Netherlands will probably return to water, if we get a big storm or wave which breaks their barriers they will return to the sea, as climate change continues mayeb it will happen. The recent immigration won't maintain Holland now, its just a different banker scammers, merchants who take cuts from Oil and cheat the USA when it wastes blood and treasure trying to grab oil, collection of smutty drugged out drunken hustlers and sports ball idiots...what else to the sell they have Food, indoor robo chemical Farming, I would say US food is better but French food might be of better quality than American, they have some chemical industry guys who packed their bags, all of their industry, motors, electonics is Chinese or German or American or French or Japanese and they old successful Dutch left Europe and got on a boat and arrived in America a long time ago.


What's left the 'Universal Music' brand that a US compnay trying to avoid taxes and trying to copyright a bunch of crappy Eurovision vision songs? What else do they have 'Heineken', its awful perhaps this is what like watered piss mixed with alcohol tastes like? I'm not sure anyone would buy it if not for all the sportsball brainwashing advertising


name me one single contribution they have made to humanity the past decades and you are not allowed name someone working with an American group, from Holland Netherlands name a single Dutch book, a Dutch band a Dutch work of art a Dutch movie from the past 30 years.
btw You are not allowed name an American family with a Dutch great great grandparent or Dutch-American or Jew Anne Franke, you are not allowed actors like Rutger Hauer or Famke Janssen, they found their success in the USA, or Van Halen who quit Holland and became an American rocker or Vincent van Gough from the 1850s the original Dutch they died while ago.



They have already started to replace themselves with jihadi Arab immigrant drug dealers and Balkan prostitues so they might even start praying to some weird Molech or Baal thing soon.

Does Canada feel the British Empire has come to its end and the only route is a multi-culture babylon path that worships Death, does Canada want to follow the Dutch?

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Holland is over

they are a failure a people who have given up, like Trudea is giving up on his Canadians

the place is gone, it was a giant anti-humabn Ponzi scheme
Canadians are in a similar place to the Dutch journey.

it is done, its over, they had a chance with the Farming Protests and Geert Wilders but its finished now

they had an old Empire that almost took the world but decayed long ago, its just a collection of people from all over the world who have no interest in the West Germanic Franc Weser–Rhine Saxon Boer Germano Low Franconian culture, they are almost a dead people
its Royal family hates what little is left of its own people, it is not a Free Speech Federal Democracy like the USA, it is a Unitary parliamentary monarchy.
the Dutch in the Netherlands will probably return to water, if we get a big storm or wave which breaks their barriers they will return to the sea, as climate change continues mayeb it will happen. The recent immigration won't maintain Holland now, its just a different banker scammers, merchants who take cuts from Oil and cheat the USA when it wastes blood and treasure trying to grab oil, collection of smutty drugged out drunken hustlers and sports ball idiots...what else to the sell they have Food, indoor robo chemical Farming, I would say US food is better but French food might be of better quality than American, they have some chemical industry guys who packed their bags, all of their industry, motors, electonics is Chinese or German or American or French or Japanese and they old successful Dutch left Europe and got on a boat and arrived in America a long time ago.


What's left the 'Universal Music' brand that a US compnay trying to avoid taxes and trying to copyright a bunch of crappy Eurovision vision songs? What else do they have 'Heineken', its awful perhaps this is what like watered piss mixed with alcohol tastes like? I'm not sure anyone would buy it if not for all the sportsball brainwashing advertising


name me one single contribution they have made to humanity the past decades and you are not allowed name someone working with an American group, from Holland Netherlands name a single Dutch book, a Dutch band a Dutch work of art a Dutch movie from the past 30 years.
btw You are not allowed name an American family with a Dutch great great grandparent or Dutch-American or Jew Anne Franke, you are not allowed actors like Rutger Hauer or Famke Janssen, they found their success in the USA, or Van Halen who quit Holland and became an American rocker or Vincent van Gough from the 1850s the original Dutch they died while ago.



They have already started to replace themselves with jihadi Arab immigrant drug dealers and Balkan prostitues so they might even start praying to some weird Molech or Baal thing soon.

Does Canada feel the British Empire has come to its end and the only route is a multi-culture babylon path that worships Death, does Canada want to follow the Dutch?

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something is very wrong since Trudeau got to power, Trudeau has this obsession of ignoring Canada needs or immediate troubles that Canada faces while obsessing over weird stuff like transgender rights or cosplaying as the world's multi-culture characters...

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You’ll often hear Canadians talking about their fundamental right to free speech. But, as with many Canadian misconceptions, this is a case of them mistaking themselves for Americans.

Yes, “freedom of expression” is guaranteed by our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but there’s a pretty big loophole nobody mentions. The preamble to the Charter explicitly mentions that this freedom is subject to “reasonable limits.”

There’s also the other part of the Charter where provincial governments can steamroll any freedom they want, provided they publicly announce that they’re doing so.

This is all very different from the US, where you just have the First Amendment.

But in Canada, it means that you can get fined or even go to jail based on something you say. Say something on Twitter that “wilfully promotes hatred” and you could go to jail for two years.

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Okay. The system here is bent in a lot of places and yes, I will admit broken in a lot of places.

But I can say that next week when I see a neurologist at a local hospital, I will not walk out of there with a bill. Nor will I be billed for the tests that I am sure are heading my way.

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Okay. The system here is bent in a lot of places and yes, I will admit broken in a lot of places.

But I can say that next week when I see a neurologist at a local hospital, I will not walk out of there with a bill. Nor will I be billed for the tests that I am sure are heading my way.

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That's good. And it's been good for a long time. I have friends in Ontario who've been treated under the healthcare system. But the problem is, it's heading in the wrong direction. The standard of care has definitely eroded since my one friend was treated for lymphoma with a bone marrow transplant 35 years ago to now, where my other friend is having a hard time getting his prostate cancer attended to.

So, what's making it go off track? How can it be made sustainable so that you'll get timely, effective treatment ten or 15 years from now?

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

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Obviously, USA should import Single Payer Health Care . . . Oh, Obamacare is already the Law of the land?

never mind.

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Total health expenditure expected to climb to $8,563 per Canadian in 2022

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Total health expenditure in 2022 is expected to rise by 0.8%, following high growth of 13.2% in 2020 and 7.6% in 2021. Prior to the pandemic, from 2015 to 2019, growth in health spending averaged 4% per year. It is anticipated that overall health expenditure will represent 12.2% of Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2022, following a high of 13.8% in 2020.

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The following 3 health spending categories continued to account for the largest shares of health dollars (over half of total health spending) in 2022: Hospitals (24.34%), Physicians (13.60%) and Drugs (13.58%).

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Our healthcare system is designed to make sure that every penny you have gets taken from you and isn't passed on to your children.

They don't succeed every time, but they win far more often than they lose. Give it another couple of generations and nobody will own anything anymore except for the few who own everything.

Good luck getting healthcare when that day we just stop pretending any of us owns anything comes. You'll only get it if it's cost effective, which will be weighted against how worthwhile you are to fix.

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