Federally funded pro-euthenasia podcast barely receives attention after four years
A federally funded euthenasia advocacy podcast has low viewers and subscribers four years after receiving nearly $300,000 from the feds.
Author: Clayton DeMaine
The federal government pumped nearly $300,000 into a social worker-led podcast to open dialogue around euthanasia. Despite having the grant for over four years, the podcast has only garnered about 50 to 300 views per episode and has just over 70 subscribers.
The federally funded Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council awarded $289,226 to a Lakehead University research project titled Disrupting Death; An examination of Canadian Experiences with Medical Assistance in Dying, according to the podcast’s website.
Canadian armed forces combat veteran and anti-euthanasia advocate Kelsi Sheren highlighted the podcast in a recent post on X, claiming the grant was designed to “combat” her own show, which exposes and argues against Canada’s assisted death industry.
A look at the podcasts YouTube page shows that it has made 42 videos over four years after receiving the $289,226 start up grant.
The last video posted some seven months ago received only 49 views so far, with at least one of those views being from Juno News.
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council is part of the innovation portfolio currently headed by Liberal minister Melanie Joly.
The grant for the show was part of an over $1 million package to Lakehead University in Thunder Bay for research projects in June 2022.
The description of the nearly $300,000 funding agreement on Lakehead University’s website states that the grant was for a five-year “insight grant” to examine Canadian experiences with Canada’s euthanasia program.
“Our research team is grateful for this funding and excited to use this podcast to have important conversations about MAiD and end-of-life. The goal of this research is to provide insight and contribute to improving the implementation of accessible, person-centered MAiD for Canadians,” the announcement reads.
The university stated that the grant would be used to “Acquire a deeper understanding of the experiences of Canadians who are intimately impacted by MAiD, including three different groups of Canadians most intimately involved with MAiD, those who request it, those who accompany them, and those who provide the intervention.”
According to Health Canada’s “Sixth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada,” Canada’s euthanasia deaths accounted for 5.1 per cent of total deaths in Canada in 2024.
Canada will put pplto death fo being old, depressed, or sick. Bit won't put murder, pedophile or rape. Something is very wrong with this country and its ppl.
I’d be supportive of this if it were exclusively for liberal voters with remorse and guilt upon realizing what they’ve done to Canada.