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Surgery Denied. Death Approved.

The Quiet Violence of Neglect

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Kelsi Sheren
Dec 09, 2025
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Canada’s assisted-death regime has reached a point most people assumed was dystopian fiction and it’s doing so with bureaucratic calm. A woman in Saskatchewan, Jolene Van Alstine, suffering from a rare but treatable parathyroid disease, has applied for MAiD not because she is dying, but because she can’t access the surgery that would let her live.

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