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Shawn Bauman: a fall at home, a surgery that never came, and a MAID death 12 days later.
Shawn Bauman lived on Vancouver Island. He was 55 and the father of two daughters, a man who had already come through cancer and heart surgery. His ex-wife, Lori Bauman, the mother of those daughters, says he was a heavy drinker and not in the best of health, but nothing. alecomm.io/2026/10/20/shawn-…
The Greens Voted Against Fairer Parliamentary Staffing.. So Much For Political Equality.
When politicians defend a system that gives them more resources than their smaller rivals, Australians are entitled to ask whose interests are really being protected.
On 3 September 2025, the Senate defeated the Members of Parliament (Staff) Amendment (Providing Certainty and Improving Integrity) Bill 2025.
The legislation sought. alecomm.io/2026/10/19/the-gr…
Pressured to scrap his anti-MAID directive while cognitively declining. A woman whose profile places her as a Sasklander returned from British Columbia says her 91-year-old father had an advanced directive not to die by medical assistance in dying. In his last week of life, while he was showing clear signs of cognitive decline, a nurse liaison with the Anglican MAID committee pressured him to change that directive.. alecomm.io/2026/10/16/pressu…
Hospital staff brought up MAID to a 91-year-old in poor health. A man says his 91-year-old mother, who lives in Canada and is in poor health, has had medical assistance in dying brought up to her a couple of times by hospital staff, alongside reminders that she has the right to refuse treatment.. alecomm.io/2026/10/14/hospit…
Australian Legislative Ethics Commission retweeted
Well, that was wild. I'm at the Australian Parliament and just left a meeting with two staffers for the governing party. They told us that the government needed more power to censor things like the upcoming US execution of Nidal Hasan.
When I asked why they needed to censor that video, one said it was to prevent copycat killings. Copycat killings by governments? I asked. Er, no, they said. Copycat killings like of a backpacker, several decades ago.
So, under that logic, I pointed out, the government should censor things like last year's Bondi massacre, where two Muslims killed 15 people, no? Well, that was news, they said. Didn't they realize their bill would allow the government to censor news? They didn't seem to know, or care.
They also admitted that they did not know that the bill would allow the government to create and operate an unlimited number of fake social media accounts to attack its political enemies and spread disinformation. Having presented them with information they had never heard about a bill they had clearly not read, they emphasized to us, strenuously, that they were moving forward with the bill.
So there you have it. The government wants the power to arbitrarily censor scenes of violent crime, or violence, for any reason. And it wants the power to use an unlimited number of fake accounts to wage offensive disinformational warfare against the Australian people.
Given that the Bondi massacre last year increased public opposition to mass migration, and support for the populist One Nation Party, it seems obvious that the government wants to censor such events in order to protect its political power.
It's quite telling how obediently governing party members insist such a law is needed without even knowing what's in it.
Australia’s Climate Hypocris: Truck Cattle Thousands Of Kilometres, Burn Diesel, Then Call It Sustainable.
alecomm.io/2026/10/13/austra…
What If POTS Wasn't Just a Racing Heart — But Your Body's Autopilot Losing Its Calibration?.
You stand up. Your heart takes off like it's sprinting a race you never entered. The room tilts, your vision greys at the edges, your legs feel strangely heavy, and your brain goes foggy mid-sentence. Then you sit down and, slowly, it settles. For people living with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia. alecomm.io/2026/10/11/what-i…
What If Fatty Liver Wasn't Just "Too Much Fat" — But a Power Plant and Detox Hub Stuck on Overdrive?. Most fatty liver advice starts with calories and willpower. Cut the sugar. Move more. Lose weight. Useful levers — but they miss the bigger pattern: non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and its progressive form, NASH, often behave like a systems failure inside the liver's energy and clearance machinery. Fat piles. alecomm.io/2026/10/11/what-i…
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Child Protection: A System That Keeps Failing Children
Children have been raped, assaulted, neglected and exploited while supposedly protected by the state. Others have died after warning signs, disrupted placements and failures to provide care. The articles and official reports collected here expose failures that extend beyond an individual offender: failures to listen, supervise, act, support and account for what happened.
Australian Child Protection And Guardianship Watch. 6 October 2026
Across Australia, significant changes are unfolding in child protection, guardianship, institutional accountability and the rights of vulnerable people.
Some involve new laws. Others involve parliamentary inquiries, court action, government oversight, whistleblowers or changes to the way agencies exercise extraordinary powers over children and adults.
This weekly ALECOMM briefing looks beyond. alecomm.io/2026/10/06/austra…
2026 Ombudsman Report States Blows Lid Off State Sanctioned Kidnapping. This report explicitly finds that DCJ—the department referred to as DOCS—acted unlawfully by making statutory child-protection decisions before babies were born. It also finds failures involving consent, inappropriate assessment tools, support referrals and unreliable records.
The central problem was that DCJ treated reports about unborn babies as though it already had. alecomm.io/2026/10/05/2026-o…
Fifteen Hours in Emergency. Then a Pain Clinic Offered Him MAID.. A Canadian man who slipped on ice waited over 15 hours for a surgeon, was left with permanent spinal damage, waited more than 10 months for a pain clinic, and was offered medical assistance in dying when he said his pain was 10 out of 10.. alecomm.io/2026/10/03/fiftee…
She Asked for a Cognitive Test. The Doctor Suggested MAID First.. A Canadian daughter says when her mother asked for a cognitive test because she was worried about symptoms, the doctor suggested medical assistance in dying before discussing the MoCA.. alecomm.io/2026/10/03/she-as…
A Seizure. Offered MAID Before a Doctor Even Saw Them.. An older Canadian says that after a seizure they were offered medical assistance in dying before they had been seen by a doctor.. alecomm.io/2026/10/03/a-seiz…
J.M.M.: Committed to Keep Him Safe. Dead by MAID on a Day Pass.. A 52-year-old Vancouver businessman and father of three with bipolar disorder was committed to St. Paul's psychiatric ward by his own family. They say he left on a day pass and died by MAID at Dr. Ellen Wiebe's clinic the same afternoon.. alecomm.io/2026/10/01/j-m-m-…
Rita Busby: One Sentence in Hospital, and Staff Prepared to Kill Her. Rita Busby, 93, of Brampton, told a nurse she wanted to die while drowsy after an accidental overdose. Her daughter says hospital staff began preparing euthanasia. She lived six more months and died naturally at home.. alecomm.io/2026/10/01/rita-b…
Approved for MAID in 24 Hours. Two Nights Before, He Called It Off.. A Canadian son says a PSW helped his father apply for MAID after a local news segment. A doctor approved him within a day. Two nights before the date, with the kit already in the house, his father withdrew.. alecomm.io/2026/10/01/approv…