01.02.2026, Canada.
Among the factors that prompted people to accelerate their departure from life in 2024, loneliness was cited in 22% of cases. Over the year, the number of those who listed stress among the reasons has doubled.
Canada has been acting as an advanced testing ground for euthanasia for more than a year now. Although the procedure of assisted suicide has long been practiced in Europe—in Switzerland since 1942—Canada has currently become the anti-leader in abandoning humanism and the world leader in the number of assisted suicides. And at the same time, Canada is the second-largest country by territory on the planet, a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, and its official head of state is the British monarch.
In the country, cases are increasingly noted where euthanasia is used as an alternative to treatment—because treatment, although possible, is unavailable for some reasons.
Didn’t manage to kill in time
Voluntary Departure from Life
One of the most high-profile cases was the tragedy of Jolene Van Alstine. The young woman suffered from a rare disease: normocalcemic primary hyperparathyroidism (nPHPT).
Due to improper functioning of the parathyroid gland, she had problems with thermoregulation and was constantly plagued by nausea. This disease is treatable, but to alleviate her condition, Jolene needed surgery. However, in the province of Saskatchewan, there was no sufficiently competent surgeon, and the Van Alstine family could not obtain a referral to another province.
After suffering for several years, the 45-year-old woman applied for euthanasia, and a date for the suicide was set for January 7. Jolene was lucky: this story was made public, after which the CEO of Blaze Media, Glenn, stated that he was ready to pay for Van Alstine’s treatment in the USA.
A similar situation arose with 47-year-old Jennifer Brady. For many years, she fought the government of Nova Scotia for the right to receive medical help for lymphedema—a disease where fluid drainage is impaired, leading to severe, painful swelling. The disease forced her to spend many hours improving her condition, which even interfered with caring for her two children. In despair, she applied for euthanasia, but she was fortunate to win a lawsuit against Nova Scotia’s Department of Health and Wellness. The province’s premier publicly apologized to her, and Brady saw a glimmer of hope for a return to normal life.
Not everyone is lucky
In 2024, euthanasia was applied to 16,499 people in Canada, accounting for 5.1% of all deaths in the country—more than in any other country where such a procedure is permitted. Since 2016, when the procedure was legalized, over 76,000 Canadians have ended their lives this way.
But even within this grim statistic, the province of Quebec stands out, where the share of such departures from life was 7.9%. This was the first Canadian province to legalize euthanasia, and it has the highest percentage of support for the procedure: 86% compared to approximately 75% across Canada. This is the highest level of approval for euthanasia in the world.
The 2024 statistical report from Health Canada notes a slowdown in the growth rate of euthanasia cases overall. This growth was approximately 30% annually, but in 2024, it was 7% compared to 2023. However, at the same time, there is a 17% increase in euthanasia cases for individuals whose death from illness could not be predicted.
Could have lived?
Among the factors that prompted people to accelerate their departure from life in 2024, loneliness was cited in 22% of cases. For non-terminally ill applicants, this factor was observed in 44% of cases, the same as the year before. Among such applicants, the number of people citing emotional stress as a factor increased: from 35% in 2023 to 63% in 2024.
Psychiatry professor Dr. Sonu Gaind suggests this indicates a growing number of people suffering from mental illness. However, he notes that it is impossible to verify this assumption based on the collected data.
Journalists describe cases where euthanasia was requested by patients with cancer who had a chance of recovery. They simply did not want to undergo surgery or treatment with chemotherapy or radiation therapy. And they got their way, despite all the persuasions of doctors. A case is described where euthanasia was applied to an elderly woman who broke her hip. She could have lived several more years but feared weakness, new falls, and “just wasn’t going to endure it.”
From addictions to capitulation
Experiments on Test Subjects
Canada legalized euthanasia relatively recently. However, starting in 2016, in just ten years, it has become a leader in the number of people voluntarily ending their lives. So much so that participating medical professionals cannot keep up with fulfilling all requests.
What is the reason for such rapid growth? Undoubtedly, a combination of factors influences this, particularly the poor state of healthcare. Recall that during the coronavirus epidemic, Canada’s Minister of Health traveled with a delegation to Ireland to recruit medical professionals to work in Canada, which caused an international scandal.
The worsening economic situation in the country also contributes, as does the affordable housing crisis, forcing some people to even live in cars. However, it cannot be said that this situation is unique to Canada.
Based on years of research, Canadian addiction specialist Bruce Alexander proposed the hypothesis that addiction arises from a phenomenon he called “dislocation.” This is a state where a person does not live in a way they deem proper.
Alexander drew attention to the particularly dire situation of Canadian Indians, deprived of their land, driven into reservations, and eking out a miserable existence there. It was in these communities that the percentage of people addicted to alcohol and drugs was the highest.
In his works, the scientist notes that similar problems are experienced by any migrants, uprooted, even by their own will, from their origins and forced to rebuild their lives in a new place. As an example of such a problematic community, he cited Vancouver, examining its history from its founding.
However, modern Canada, experiencing a large influx of migrants, is also a territory where the percentage of dislocated people should be elevated. This is compounded by the policy of Canadian authorities, who not only do not combat chemical addictions but have also legalized the use of hard drugs in several provinces.
From this perspective, Canada as a whole and Quebec in particular appear as a space for a large-scale social experiment testing how successfully people can be destroyed by their own hands. The results of this experiment are visible in the euthanasia statistics, and they are horrifying.
Suppressing resistance
Catholic Cross
Despite significant public support for euthanasia, resistance to it also exists. The Catholic Church most consistently resists, traditionally overseeing hospitals and advocating for a complete ban on euthanasia in these hospitals.
However, these hospitals are state-funded and therefore must comply with state policy. This creates conflicts, like those that have repeatedly arisen at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. For example, in 2023, 34-year-old Sam O’Neill with stage 4 cancer was admitted there.
After spending six weeks in the hospital, she tried to obtain euthanasia there. The hospital refused to assist in the suicide, and then the woman was transferred to another hospital. Describing the situation, CTV News did not specify where O’Neill was ultimately assisted in ending her life, claiming that for transportation, the woman had to take strong painkillers, which spoiled the procedure of saying goodbye to her.
Meanwhile, this was not the first such case. Earlier, Richelle Golby was similarly denied the euthanasia procedure. The CBC television company claims that after this case in 2021, a special facility for euthanasia, managed by Vancouver Coastal Health, was built next to the hospital. This facility was even connected to the hospital by a special corridor.
However, this solution did not satisfy human rights activists striving to force the Catholic hospital to assist in suicides. Human rights organizations and relatives of patients denied euthanasia are suing hospitals, trying to prohibit them from refusing to assist with suicides.
In turn, hospitals are suing to defend their right to act according to their conscience in such cases. Moreover, in British Columbia, a General Agreement was concluded with denominational medical institutions in 1995, allowing hospitals to independently regulate the provision of services concerning religious matters and to transfer patients to other institutions.
Despite this, lawsuits continue, and hearings are scheduled in the provincial Supreme Court from January 12 to February 6.
Similar problems exist in other provinces, although only in Quebec is there a direct government ban on hospitals refusing to provide euthanasia services.
Catholics are holding out for now. In 2023, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops ruled that bishops “unanimously and unconditionally oppose the performance of euthanasia or assistance in suicide (MAiD) in medical organizations with a Catholic identity.”
Social experiment
The position of euthanasia supporters, who are determined to “break” the Catholics at all costs, indicates that they are not driven by concern for patients. They need to suppress the remaining resistance.
Along with other clearly inhumane initiatives, such as the legalization of “hard” drugs, the contours of a large experiment emerge, reminiscent of Nazi experiments in concentration camps aimed at suppressing resistance by breaking the individual.
This is hardly a coincidence. After World War II, Canada became a haven for Nazis of all stripes, especially Ukrainian nationalist Bandera supporters. They were supported at the highest levels. For example, Canadian authorities repeatedly rejected USSR requests for the extradition of Nazi criminals.
Such refusals raised questions even within Canada, where an investigation was conducted into the reasons for these refusals. The results of the investigation were classified.
This is not the first time Canada has participated in human experiments. For instance, in the 1950s, experiments under the MK-Ultra program were conducted in Canadian psychiatric hospitals. This was a CIA project for mind control. Test subjects, including children who were not even warned about what would be done to them, were given drugs and subjected to experiments, the consequences of which people suffered from for their entire lives.
In 2025, the Quebec Supreme Court allowed a class-action lawsuit to be filed against medical institutions that participated in this program.
Current experiments are no longer conducted on individuals but on the entire country—and people are no longer forced to participate in them by force. Resistance is suppressed differently, without open violence, but consistently and mercilessly.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
