Link Roundup: Gaslighting MPs and burning churches; MAiD heart transplants; Netflix loses $25B

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Oct 06, 2025

Thanks for spending some time this weekend with Things I Wrote Down.

We’re celebrating in our home the end of the Statistics course my wife has been taking as she completes her MBA. The last 8 weeks we’ve been hunkered down, because this has been the most challenging yet. Petra’s been crushing it, but it’s taken extra work. Yesterday she completed the exam and we celebrated with ice cream.

As a family, we can see the light at the end of the MBA tunnel now, and it’s, thankfully, not the oncoming Statistics train.

Here are 3 Things that stood out to me on the web this week, with a poem.

Arson is not a conspiracy theory

It was with some shock, but not surprise, that I watched this Liberal MP respond to a question by MP Andrew Lawton in the House of Commons. MP John-Paul Danko minimized and stigmatized the concerns Lawton raised about violence against people of faith in Canada as “alt-right conspiracy theory.”

Something I discovered as I followed the conversation on line after watching Lawton’s viral post was that Juno News, an independent media outlet, has mapped all 123 churches across Canada that have been vandalized, burned to the ground, or defaced.

Here's a map that tracks the violence. Arson isn't a conspiracy theory.

MAiD doctors love your organs

There’s so much to be alarmed about with this news about the MAiD patient whose heart was reanimated after a doctor ended their life via lethal injection. The heart was then shipped to the US to a recipient.

The medical teams sent out celebratory news of the first case of successful cardiac transplantation after MAiD. LifeSite News and the National Post reported that “the dead donor’s heart was removed, attached to a special machine that ‘reanimates’ or restarts the heart to keep blood flowing through the organs while keeping them warm, and then transported to Pittsburgh, where the transplant took place.”

It feels like we’re living in the pages of a sci-fi novel. It’s not outlandish to have concerns about how easily transnational organ trafficking will be and how MAiD will be the door through which it happens.

This viral tweet about the story got lots of attention online:

You’ve got to wonder what the downstream effects will be of Organ Donation after Euthanasia (ODE). Will it disincentivize research for diseases like ALS (which is what the MAiD recipient suffered from)? Why try to cure it or other illnesses if those who succumb can provide hearts and other parts to a medical system in need of organs?

Our docu-series over at Unveil called MAiD in Canada covers ODE in an episode. If you’re interested in learning more about the ethical concerns doctors and legal experts have about it, go give it a watch.

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Audiences slap back at Netflix

Netflix lost over $25 Billion in market share as paying customers cancelled their memberships this week. The mass exits came after concerned subscribers learned about the scope of the super-progressive content showing up in children’s programming.

Elon Musk had something to do with it, encouraging X followers to cancel subscriptions, a post engaged by more than 91 million times.

But even with such big losses, Netflix still reached more people last night than the Church has in 50 yrs. The Big 5 streaming services have reached more people in a week than the global Church has in 100 years.

Big Tech and Big Data platforms have demonstrated how new technology and distribution methods can reach people directly, without barriers, in powerful ways.

But Netflix is also learning a tough lesson this week: core audience segments want some barriers to remain firmly in place. People who hold traditional values are/were a huge part of the audience Netflix directly engages every single day.

And they’re slapping back at the platform after being slapped in the face. It will be interesting to see what Netflix does to listen to angered audiences.

I think it’d be smart for the platform to reach out to faith-focused filmmakers (established and indie like us) to create a pipeline for this content just as they have for other groups and national film boards. They could really turn it around through outreach and being proactive, working to show that they want people with traditional values to not only to stream their content but to create it.

I don’t have a problem with a platform like Netflix offering all types of content with all different viewpoints. But age-appropriate content should be carefully protected and audiences, especially parents, should be able to curate and control what their households consume.

Imagine if we leverage tech and the Holy Spirit’s inspiration? Greatest stories ever told!