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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 23:39:12 JST 
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"As an expert on Shutting People Down For Not Using My Obnoxious Terminology, to be only properly referred to as GNU/SPDFNUMOT for short, I.."
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 23:23:01 JST
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Online anonymity for French social media users may soon be a thing of the past. This is what France’s Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, told the newspaper Le Parisien earlier this week.
“In the coming weeks, we will be looking at anonymity on social networks,” Darmanin said. “Let’s take up the proposal put forward by MP Paul Midy that was tabled a few months ago so that each French citizen has his own digital identity.”
“This allows investigators to trace the perpetrator of an offense,” Darmanin added.
Paul Midy, an MP from Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party, put forward a proposal that all French citizens should have access to a digital ID by 2027. France’s National Assembly adopted the proposal in October 2023.
In order to ensure the bill’s passage, however, Midy withdrew a provision that would have ended online anonymity in France by 2027 due to widespread opposition to the idea in the Assembly.
The proposed ID was to be facilitated by a third party via an encrypted system. Thus, users would remain anonymous to the public, but their actual identities would be known to law enforcement.
Midy justified his proposal on the grounds that it would address “the level of violence on social networks” and cyberbullying. He compared the concept of a mandatory digital ID linked to a user’s real-world identity to the requirement for all motor vehicles to display a license plate.
Representatives from across the political spectrum opposed the measure, however, including from Marine Le Pen’s National Rally as well as Midy’s own party, Renaissance. Some pointed out that such a step would risk running contrary not only to European Union laws governing privacy, but France’s constitution as well.
Ségolène Amiot, an MP from the left-wing La France Insoumise party, denounced the proposal as a form of repression, while the Socialist Party said it is a “red line” for them. National Rally MP Aurélien Lopez-Liguori said that the French “do not want to wear registrations,” because they are not “cars” nor “prisoners.”
Even a representative from Democratic Movement (MoDem), which is currently part of the ruling coalition with Macron’s Renaissance, opposed the measure. MoDem MP Philippe Latombe accused Midy of seeking media attention by putting forward proposals that are “legally unfounded.”
Nevertheless, Midy’s plan was supported by 125 of his colleagues in the National Assembly.
[...] Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin has made it clear that the French government is determined to put an end to online anonymity. “At the Ministry of Justice, we consider that ending anonymity on social networks is of the utmost importance in the fight against pedophilia, drug trafficking, cyberbullying, and so on,” he told Le Parisien.
There is no political solution in the EU.
https://rmx.news/article/is-online-anonymity-about-to-end-in-france/
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 07:33:21 JST
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 07:22:00 JST
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 06:34:13 JST
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>Republicans in the House and Senate are finalizing legislation that would formally recognize the West Bank as "Judea and Samaria," applying Israel’s official term for the region to all American government communications, according to a copy of the bill obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
>Led by Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) [and who else?] and Rep. Claudia Tenney (R., N.Y.), the Recognizing Judea and Samaria Act would prohibit government use of "West Bank" when referencing the territories around Jerusalem. Israel, which annexed the area in 1967, refers to it as the biblical Judea and Samaria, though the United States and international community avoid this term, viewing the region as home to a future Palestinian state.
>The bill from Cotton and Tenney, then, would upend decades of U.S. foreign policy and is reminiscent of the Trump administration’s first-term push to recognize both Jerusalem and the Golan Heights territory near Lebanon as belonging to Israel. Congressional Republicans widely supported those declarations after pushing—and failing—for years to formalize similar policies through legislation.
>While it is unlikely that the Senate version of the bill will clear the 60-vote threshold needed for approval in the upper chamber, congressional sources argued that its unveiling could influence the Trump administration to champion the policy, particularly at Foggy Bottom. Cotton, who chairs the Senate Republican conference, worked closely with Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the Senate, and the two share similar views on foreign policy.
>"The Jewish people’s legal and historic rights to Judea and Samaria goes back thousands of years," Cotton told the Free Beacon. "The U.S. should stop using the politically charged term West Bank to refer to the biblical heartland of Israel."
>The legislation would erase the term "West Bank" from all government communications and laws, such as the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
>The United States would only "refer to the land annexed by Israel from Jordan during the 1967 Six-Day War by its historical names of ‘Judea and Samaria,’ with the land south of Jerusalem being considered ‘Judea’ and the land north of Jerusalem being considered ‘Samaria,’" the bill states. The term "West Bank" would be erased from all "official government materials."
>The bill also prohibits federal funds from being spent on any "policy, guidance, regulation, notice, executive order, materials, briefing, press release, communications, or other work product that refers to Judea and Samaria as the ‘West Bank.’"
>The bill reflects an early GOP push to prioritize a string of pro-Israel initiatives. This includes the recent House passage of legislation that would sanction the International Criminal Court and its leaders for issuing arrest warrants targeting Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. That bill did not advance in the Senate, though Cotton has engaged in negotiations that could lead to its reintroduction in the upper chamber.
>Both the House and the Senate, meanwhile, are working on legislation that would authorize wide-ranging sanctions on the Palestinian government, as well as any international partner that has aided its terrorist payment program, known as "pay-to-slay." Cotton is backing that bill in the Senate, with Rep. Mike Lawler (R., N.Y.) taking it up in the House.
>Tenney, who is shepherding the House version of the Judea and Samaria bill, has secured four early cosponsors and expects backing from more GOP members as the legislation gains steam. She is also spearheading the creation of a new congressional caucus, the Friends of Judea and Samaria.
>Both efforts, Tenney said, will "reaffirm Israel's rightful claim to its territory."
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 14:17:58 JST
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In the meanwhile, in Shitholm (©️ Shlomo):
>Sweden is grappling with an unprecedented wave of explosions, with 32 blasts recorded so far in 2025 — an average of more than one per day. While gang-related violence has long plagued the country, police now warn that bombings are increasingly being used for financial extortion, signaling a dangerous shift in criminal tactics.
>At a press conference on Tuesday, Stockholm Deputy Regional Police Chief Tobias Bergkvist described the situation as “very serious,” revealing that Stockholm alone had witnessed 21 explosions in the past month.
>Nationwide, there were five separate blasts on Tuesday alone, including incidents in Kärrtorp, Bagarmossen, Årstaberg, and Upplands-Bro — some repeated attacks in the same locations.
>[from @rmxnews, ...] "Today in Sweden 🇸🇪:
>▶ A major explosion at a residential building in Kärrtorp, southern Stockholm.
>▶ Another explosion at a home in Bagarmossen, southern Stockholm. Two arrested.
>▶ Bomb squad responding to two hand grenades found on a residential street cycle path in Blåsut, [...]"
>Police have arrested 50 individuals in 25 different cases, including bomb makers, perpetrators, and gang leaders operating from abroad. Despite this, the violence continues unchecked.
>According to Hampus Nygårds, assistant director at the National Operations Department (NOA), Sweden’s gang networks do not produce their own explosives. Instead, a small but highly active group of bomb manufacturers supplies criminal organizations, making it difficult to eliminate the problem.
>“We have taken down more than two bomb makers, but the violence has not diminished. These individuals sell explosives, and once they are in circulation, they are difficult to track,” Nygårds explained.
>Previously, Sweden’s gang violence was primarily conflict-driven, linked to territorial disputes and drug wars among largely immigrant-dominated groups. However, police now see a rise in blasts targeting businesses for extortion — a trend that suggests a move toward organized financial crime.
>This shift has been facilitated by digital recruitment platforms, mirroring legitimate job websites but used for criminal activities. Gangs openly advertise roles such as hitmen (“yappers”), arsonists (“steppers”), and bombers, with both domestic and international clients coordinating attacks from abroad.
>In response to the escalating crisis, Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer has convened an extraordinary meeting of the Council Against Organized Crime for Thursday to discuss the implementation of additional measures to curb the violence.
>One such proposal is the lowering of Sweden’s criminal age from 15 to 14 years — a recommendation presented by special investigator Gunnel Lindberg on Tuesday.
>“We propose a reduced penal age for crimes carrying a minimum sentence of four years or more,” Lindberg stated, adding that the proposal also applies to conspiracy, attempted crimes, and aiding violent offenses.
>The move follows concerns that Swedish gang networks are actively recruiting children to carry out murders and bombings, taking advantage of the fact that minors receive lenient sentences under current laws.
>Justice Minister Strömmer defended the plan, arguing that youth crime as a whole may be decreasing, but the involvement of minors in serious gang violence is rising sharply.
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 23:18:56 JST
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 21:14:49 JST
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>In a very unexpected development Denmark is now working directly with Russia's Gazprom to do environmental mitigation on the damaged Nord Stream pipelines, in the wake of the multiple underwater blasts that took them offline on September 26, 2022 - leading to years of accusations against Moscow and a Russia-West tit-for-tat.
>Denmark's energy agency has granted Nord Stream 2 AG (which is under Gazprom) permission to engage in preservation work on Nord Stream 2 in the Baltic Sea. The agency described that there remain serious safety risks after the natural gas pipeline was filled with seawater and the remnants of natural gas.
>"The work aims to preserve the damaged pipeline by installing customized plugs at each of the open pipe ends to prevent further gas blow-out and the introduction of oxygenated seawater," Denmark's energy agency said.
>The $11 billion pipeline project to pump Russian gas to Germany was hugely contentious for years, with Washington opposing it, before it was blown up in a 'mysterious' sabotage operation.
>The Western mainstream media has since backed off its repeat accusations that Moscow must have blown up its own vital pipeline, in light of revelations and a recent consensus that it was either a team of Ukrainian specialists on a 'rogue' yacht or else a major CIA op with help from the US Navy.
>While Scandinavian countries were once leading the accusations and investigations against Moscow related to the sabotage, suddenly Denmark appears to be working with 'pariah' Russia. All of this is happening as Washington still has far-reaching sanctions on Russia as well as the NS2 Russian operator, Gazprom's Nord Stream 2 AG.
>"The damaged line of NS2 is estimated to still contain approximately 9-10 million cubic meters of natural gas, while the intact line remains filled with gas, the Danish agency said," Reuters notes. "The United States in December issued further sanctions on the operator and other Russian entities saying it considers Nord Stream 2 a Russian geopolitical project and opposes efforts to revive it," the report adds.
At last, sanity.
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 16:44:47 JST
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 23:31:10 JST
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The green transition from a toothless technocracy to an authoritarian kakistocracy.
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 22:47:11 JST
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@Eiswald There is no moat in AI, only "national security concerns." There's still a lot to come, decentralized (and secure) training among the others. -
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:34:25 JST
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@Curvin @IAMAL_PHARIUS @Gonzo17 I can confirm this fully. -
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 16:17:35 JST
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>Remember when sleep offered an escape from endless advertising? That era may be ending. While U.S. citizens already face up to 4,000 advertisements daily in their waking hours, research suggests that even our dreams are no longer safe from commercial messaging. A new study reveals that 54% of young Americans report experiencing dreams influenced by ads—and some companies might be doing it intentionally.
>The findings come at a critical time, as the American Marketing Association previously reported that 77% of companies surveyed in 2021 expressed intentions to experiment with “dream ads” by this year. What was once considered science fiction may now be becoming reality, with major implications for consumer protection and marketing ethics.
>According to The Media Image’s newly released consumer survey focusing on Gen Z and Millennials, 54% of Americans aged 18-35 report having experienced dreams that appeared to be influenced by advertisements or contained ad-like content. Even more striking, 61% of respondents report having such dreams within the past year, with 38% experiencing them regularly—ranging from daily occurrences to monthly episodes.
>Conducted by Survey Monkey on behalf of The Media Image between January 2nd and 3rd, 2025, the research included a representative sample of 1,101 American respondents aged 18-35. While the sample skewed slightly female (62%), the findings are considered reflective of broader perspectives within this age group.
>The data shows a striking pattern: 22% of respondents experience ad-like content in their dreams between once a week to daily, while another 17% report such occurrences between once a month to every couple of months.
>The phenomenon isn’t merely passive. The survey reveals that these dream-based advertisements may be influencing consumer behavior in tangible ways. While two-thirds of consumers (66%) report resistance to making purchases based on their dreams, the other third admit that their dreams have encouraged them to buy products or services over the past year—a conversion rate that rivals or exceeds many traditional advertising campaigns.
>The presence of major brands in dreams appears to be particularly prevalent, with 48% of young Americans reporting encounters with well-known companies such as Coca-Cola, Apple, or McDonald’s during their sleep. Harvard experts suggest this may be due to memory “reactivation” during sleep, where frequent exposure to brands in daily life increases their likelihood of appearing in dreams.
>Perhaps most troubling is the apparent willingness of many consumers to accept this new frontier of advertising. The survey found that 41% of respondents would be open to seeing ads in their dreams if it meant receiving discounts on products or services. This raises serious ethical questions about the commercialization of human consciousness and the potential exploitation of vulnerable mental states for marketing purposes.
>Despite these concerns, there appears to be limited interest in protecting dreams from commercial influence. Over two-thirds of respondents (68%) indicated they would not be willing to pay to keep their dreams ad-free, even if such technology existed. However, a significant minority (32%) expressed interest in a hypothetical “dream-ad blocker,” suggesting growing awareness and concern about this issue among some consumers.
>The research comes in the wake of dream researchers issuing an open letter warning the public about corporate attempts to infiltrate dreams with advertisements, sparked by Coors Light’s experimental campaign that achieved notable success. This confluence of corporate interest and technological capability raises serious questions about the future of personal privacy and mental autonomy.
>The potential manipulation of dreams for advertising purposes raises serious concerns about psychological well-being and the need for protective regulations. As companies explore ways to influence our subconscious minds, the lack of existing safeguards becomes increasingly problematic.
>Nearly a third of respondents would consider paying for an ad blocker that kept their dreams marketer-free.
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 11:20:21 JST
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"We need fire, strength, force of will, men fighting with lions in Roman stadiums, a total revolution, conservatives to die off, blood instinct..."
"So, what about Hitl-"
"What? We're just going to post here and make snarky jokes about each other's homosexuality, forget politics brother." -
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 06:13:15 JST
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@sun For now. -
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 15:29:57 JST
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 21:30:59 JST
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS Already heading to a good start on this.
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 23:44:50 JST
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>The Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) announced the start of an operation against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northern Syrian town of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab) on December 17.
>The announcement came in the midst of a build-up of Turkish troops on the Syrian border in preparation for a possible invasion alongside its proxies in the SNA.
>Al Mayadeen's correspondent stated that "Turkiye wants a security belt 30 kilometers wide on the border with Syria," stressing that it "is close to achieving its goal."
>The Turkish military has built a concrete barrier between Kobani and the Turkey border, while Turkish warplanes can be seen flying above the city.
>US media has also reported that Turkey is building up its forces along the border in preparation for a possible invasion. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that according to one US official, "A Turkish cross-border operation could be imminent."
>The WSJ adds that SNA fighters and Turkish uniformed commandos and artillery in large numbers are now concentrated near Kobani, a Kurdish-majority city in Syria on the northern border with Turkey.
>Turkey began building up its forces near the border two weeks ago as militants from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a UN-designated terror group, toppled the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and occupied the capital, Damascus.
>Kurdish forces under the People's Protection Units (YPG) began taking control of Kurdish-majority areas in Syria in 2012, with the outbreak of war in 2011. Turkey has sought to prevent Kurds from forming contiguous regions in areas of Syria on its southern border, stretching from Afrin in the northwest to Kobani in the north center and to Hasaka in the northeast.
>Turkey first supported ISIS and then sent its own forces to invade northern Syria multiple times to prevent such a Kurdish region from being established.
>The US military partnered with the YPG to create the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in 2015. The US and SDF occupied land outside of traditional Kurdish control, including Sunni Arab areas containing Syria's oil fields and wheat-producing regions. The US has been trying to keep Syria partitioned, under sanctions, and unable to rebuild since the war ended in 2019.
>[from @UmarFarooq_] "US forces back in Kobane to monitor Turkish-backed SNA and US-backed SDF in northern Syria. This is one area that could become a new flashpoint. Turkiye wants to connect enclaves it has along the border, and Kobane (circled in map) sits in between."
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 21:47:34 JST
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@cowanon Evidence confirms a variant of this thesis.
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 19:39:12 JST
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>The rate of medical assistance in dying - also known as euthanasia - has grown in Canada for the fifth straight year, albeit at a slower pace.
>The country released its fifth annual report since legalising assisted dying in 2016, which for the first time included data on the ethnicity of those seeking euthanasia.
>Around 15,300 people underwent assisted dying last year, accounting for 4.7% of deaths in the country. Canada lawmakers are currently seeking to expand access to euthanasia to cover people with mental illnesses by 2027.
>Canada is among a few countries that have introduced assisted dying laws in the past decade. Others include Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Austria.
>The figures released on Wednesday by Health Canada show that the rate of assisted dying in Canada increased by nearly 16% in 2023. This number is a sharp drop from the average increase of 31% in previous years.
>The report cautioned that it is too early to determine what caused the rate to slacken.
>Nearly all of those who requested assisted dying - around 96% - had a foreseeable natural death. The remaining 4% were granted euthanasia due to having a long-term chronic illness and where a natural death was not imminent.
>The average age of those seeking assisted dying was around 77 years old, with cancer being the most frequent underlying medical condition.
>For the first time, the report delved into race and ethnic data of those who died by euthanasia.
Around 96% of recipients identified as white people, who account for about 70% of Canada's population. It is unclear what caused this disparity.
>The second most reported ethnic group was east Asians (1.8%), who account for about 5.7% of Canadians.
>Assisted dying continued to have the highest usage rate in Quebec, which accounted for nearly 37% of all euthanasia deaths, despite the province holding just 22% of Canada's population.
>Quebec's government launched a study earlier this year to examine why its euthanasia rate was so high.
>[...] Like the UK, Canada initially only legalised assisted dying for those whose death was "reasonably foreseeable".
>However, Canada expanded access in 2021 to people who may not have a terminal diagnosis, but want to end their life because of a chronic, debilitating condition.
>It was set to broaden access once again to people with mental illnesses earlier this year.
>But that was delayed for the second time after concerns were raised by Canadian provinces, which oversee healthcare delivery, about whether the system could cope with such an expansion.
>On Wednesday, Health Canada defended the procedure, saying that the criminal code sets out "strict eligibility" criteria.
>But Cardus, a Christian think tank, said the latest figures were "alarming" and showed Canada has one of the fastest growing euthanasia programmes in the world.
>A report released in October by Ontario - Canada's most populous province - has since shed some light on controversial cases where people were granted assisted dying when they were not nearing their natural death.
>One example included a woman in her 50s with a history of depression and suicidal thoughts who had a severe sensitivity to chemicals.
>Her request for euthanasia was granted after she failed to secure housing that could have met her medical needs.
>Another case made headlines in recent months of a Nova Scotia cancer patient who said she was asked if she was aware of assisted dying as an option twice as she underwent mastectomy surgeries.
>The question "came up in completely inappropriate places", she told the National Post.
>Canadian news outlets have also reported on cases where people with disabilities have considered assisted dying due to lack of housing or disability benefits.
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