What I do know is being able to choose when to die should be a human right. I’ve updated my will to give power of attorney, we just went over my wife’s parent’s will to also provide guidance for MAID. I’ve seen my grandmother not eat and die slowly over a week, and I think that’s just not fair.
Now, I also think we should:
Stop treating disabled people like moochers, and start treating them like humans. We need to fix our benefit systems. My sister is disabled and it’s fucking stupid that she’d be worse off with a job, or that we need to set up special trusts to handle money for her.
Stop private ownership of Long Term Care homes. Have you ever been to a fucking LTC home? They’re fucking expensive and under staffed. If you don’t have someone constantly advocating for you, you’re going to get treated like shit and ignored. it is fucking awful and it needs to end. And this is not on the staff. There are some wonderful people doing these jobs, and they’re oveworked and abused by their employers.
Fund Mental Health treatment. We do not fund this field, we have a shortage of qualified professionals, and they charge a lot. It’s unacceptable. The government picking up the slack so that we can hire the right number of people would be a huge win.
Cover medication in our single payer system.
Put serious consequences for companies that try to renege pensions that leave the elderly destitute. The Bay dissolving their pensions should have resulted in jail time.
I don’t know if everywhere else in Canada is the same, but LTC in Ontario is a crime. It should have ended with Covid when they had to bring the army in to manage LTC homes.
And frankly, I think the UN with their shit morals needs to back the fuck off.
Manitoba’s premier recently expropriated a care home that was set to shut down, even after exhaustive meetings to try and come to a deal.
I am so gd glad we’ve got Wab Kinew leading us. He’s got morals and recognizes that Manitobans need good leadership after the shitshow PC Brian Pallister created.
I think the problem is that nobody knows how awful it can be until it happens to them, and then they can’t do much to advocate for themselves because alll of their energy is just being used to survive. Doesn’t help that most politicians don’t seem to give a shit too…
I don’t know if we have the right implementation.
What I do know is being able to choose when to die should be a human right. I’ve updated my will to give power of attorney, we just went over my wife’s parent’s will to also provide guidance for MAID. I’ve seen my grandmother not eat and die slowly over a week, and I think that’s just not fair.
Now, I also think we should:
I don’t know if everywhere else in Canada is the same, but LTC in Ontario is a crime. It should have ended with Covid when they had to bring the army in to manage LTC homes.
And frankly, I think the UN with their shit morals needs to back the fuck off.
Manitoba’s premier recently expropriated a care home that was set to shut down, even after exhaustive meetings to try and come to a deal.
I am so gd glad we’ve got Wab Kinew leading us. He’s got morals and recognizes that Manitobans need good leadership after the shitshow PC Brian Pallister created.
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2026/02/03/province-had-no-choice-but-to-take-over-care-home-set-to-close-health-minister
I really respect that. The job of government is to take care of the people.
I thought it was to make money?
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I think the problem is that nobody knows how awful it can be until it happens to them, and then they can’t do much to advocate for themselves because alll of their energy is just being used to survive. Doesn’t help that most politicians don’t seem to give a shit too…
Yes, by the time most people want MAID they’re too far gone to get it.
That’s why it is very important to have a will.
A living will. Families default to keeping people painfully alive and the hospital-medical industry profits from it.