Scottish Parliament Votes Down Assisted Suicide Legislation

The Scottish Parliament has voted down legislation that would have allowed terminally ill adults to choose an assisted suicide. Euthanasia laws have passed across the western world.

The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) bill fell on March 10 with 69 Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) voting against and 57 in favor, short of the 64 votes required to pass.

Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur, who tabled the bill, called the result “devastating” but said the conversation “isn’t going away.” McArthur has championed assisted dying since his re-election in 2021 and serves as one of Holyrood’s deputy presiding officers. He will need to be re-elected on May 7 to bring the issue forward again, reports the BBC.

Allen West Greets Patty Morin

This past Monday, I was in Maryland, and I had the privilege of meeting Patty Morin. [pictured here] I say privilege because when you stand in the presence of a mother who has buried her daughter, a mother who channels her grief into a fight for justice, you are in the presence of something sacred. Something that should humble every politician, every judge, and every governor who has decided that ideological posturing matters more than the lives of American citizens.  

Patty’s daughter was Rachel Morin. A 37-year-old mother of five children. Let that settle in for a moment. Five children. Rachel went for a walk on the Ma & Pa Trail in Bel Air, Maryland, on August 5, 2023. She never came home. Her body was discovered the next day. She had been brutally raped and murdered.

Alberta to Ban Doctors from Offering Euthanasia before a Patient Asks — Unlike the Rest of Canada

Alberta Justice Minister Mickey Amery and Premier Danielle Smith, pictured left.

Alberta doctors will be explicitly banned from raising assisted death with a patient without the person first bringing it up, according to a new bill tabled in the province on Wednesday.  

The goal is to ensure the potentially life-ending decisions are “initiated and driven” by people themselves.  

Some critics argue that it’s “mind boggling” that, across Canada, medical assistance in dying (MAID) is being presented as a care option. The fear is that initiating a discussion about MAID risks unduly influencing someone to choose it, given doctor-patient power dynamics.

However, Canada’s MAID providers argue that doctors have a duty to disclose “all available treatment options,” including, when appropriate, MAID.

Among other changes, Alberta’s proposed Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act would, if passed, restrict all regulated health professionals, including doctors and nurse practitioners, from bringing up MAID unless the person raises it.

Alex Schadenberg: I Have Amazing News.

On March 17, Scotland's parliament voted 69 to 57 to reject Liam McArthur's assisted suicide bill. This is a great victory after the same bill was passed at second reading, in May 2025, by a vote of 70 to 56.

The defeat of Scotland's assisted suicide bill follows the death of the England / Wales Kim Leadbeater assisted suicide bill that has essentially died in the British House of Lords.

Megan Bonar reported for BBC Scotland that Dr Gordon Macdonald, CEO of Care Not Killing, expressed relief.

Will Christians Ever “Stand Up” Against Evil as They Once Did?

Raymond Ibrahim Mar 17, 2026.

Why the simple act of standing up would be a gamechanger for Christians 

Western authorities seem to encourage anyone and everyone to “stand up” for themselves. Everyone, that is, except Christians—they who, rather ironically, created and made Western civilization so appealing in the first place.

There are numerous examples of this. Here’s an especially memorable one:

In 2024, a Muslim man stabbed and partially blinded Orthodox bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel while he preached inside his Sydney church. Commenting on this—as well as the ongoing terrorization of Christians at the hands of Muslims in general—an Australian man wrote “Christians should stand up” on social media.

Because of this simple assertion, police—accompanied by a head shrink—“visited” and questioned the man in his home. You can watch the video here. In it, the man can be heard questioning the police,

This is religious discrimination, right now, you know? Because you wouldn’t be knocking on Muslims’ doors if they had this conversation—so I already know why you’re here. This is religious discrimination.

Zahra Ghanbari, 34, the Captain of Iran’s Women’s National Soccer team is the Latest Iranian Team Player to have ended her attempt to seek Asylum

by: Human Events Staff  

Zahra Ghanbari, 34, the captain of Iran’s women’s national soccer team, [pictured here] is the latest Iranian women's team player to have ended her attempt to seek asylum in Australia and is returning home, Iran’s IRNA news agency reported Sunday. She is the latest of several players to reverse course amid concerns for their families as some now report that they have gone "missing."

Shiva Amini, an exiled former Iranian soccer player, said the decision came after “intense and systemic pressure on the players’ families” from Iran’s Football Federation. “Several of the players decided to go back because the threats against their families became unbearable and the intimidation was relentless,” she wrote on X. ...

The controversy began last week when seven members of Iran’s team at the Women’s Asian Cup refused to sing the national anthem, prompting backlash and threats. Their protest coincided with US and Israeli air strikes on Iran, which killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The women were branded “traitors” at home, and observers fear the regime may target their families if the players stay abroad.

We’re Losing Children to Diseases We Already Defeated

Lauren Burke-Sarabia ...

Over the past year, the Food and Drug Administration has done important work drawing attention to how food choices affect health. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. deserves credit for shining a light on food additives and America’s dependence on processed foods.

I’m a registered nurse and a mother. I applaud that work. But I also need to ask a hard question: Why aren’t childhood vaccines getting the same attention and urgency?  *** RFK Jr is right that clean food matters.  But so does keeping measles and whooping cough of kids' lungs ...

I’ve spent years in intensive care watching people of all ages fight respiratory illness. Even with experience, it’s brutal to see a patient cling to life through ventilators, intubation, or ECMO machines.

Why Johnny Still Can’t Read: The Curriculum Cartel Doesn’t Want Reform

Vince Bielski,  March 14, 2026   

Popular programs stay entrenched even after admitting flaws. Gatekeepers prefer familiar dogma over the hard work of changing course.

Half a century after the book “Why Johnny Can’t Read” sounded an alarm about the rise of illiteracy in the U.S., the problem has only gotten worse. A quarter of all young adults, many of them high-school graduates, are now functionally illiterate. Unable to read more than basic, short sentences, their prospects in today’s information economy are bleak.

This crisis gave rise to a movement that embraced the science of reading and produced a surprising success story in the Deep South, a region dogged by the highest rates of childhood illiteracy in the nation. State leaders and education reformers in Mississippi and Louisiana led a remarkable improvement in elementary reading scores that now rank among the highest in the nation.

The Most Dangerous Job in America Claims the Life of a 29-Year-Old Kentucky Amish Man

Erik Wesner

Logging workers have the highest fatality rate of any civilian job in the US, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The profession sees 110.4 fatalities per 100,000 workers – a rate more than double that of roofing (the third-deadliest occupation) and over 33 times higher than the national average for all workers.

Amish in many communities are involved in the lumber industry – both in logging, and in operating sawmills. And sadly, news has come that another Amish logger has lost his life, this time in an incident in Crittenden County, Kentucky. ...

Northern Cheyenne Tribe Reclaims Cultural Belongings from UM

Northern Cheyenne elders and cultural leaders traveled from the southeastern Montana reservation to UM to reclaim ownership of dozens of culturally significant items, recordings and documents in the university’s collections.

Inside the University of Montana’s Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, Donovan Taylor stretched his arms across a wooden conference table holding his phone, which was recording, up to two gray speakers. He furrowed his brow and closed his eyes as he listened to a 1968 recording of a Cheyenne love song. 

Next to him, Theresa Small, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council, leaned closer to the speakers and cupped a hand to her right ear, trying to hear the drums and singers through the lo-fi audio. 

Dr. Vernon Coleman

When I first started as a family doctor I had no appointments system. There was just me, an elderly receptionist and a consulting room. Patients arrived and were seen. It was simple. I preferred it. And so did my patients.

 No one had to wait to be seen.  Appointments systems are for hairdressers and dentists. Not doctors.

To read my article go to: www.vernoncoleman.com

Alex Schadenberg: Canada Will Surpass 100,000 Euthanasia Deaths.

Monday, March 2, 2026:  

We recently received the 2025 fourth quarter Ontario euthanasia report from the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario.  

The report stated that in Ontario there were 5303 reported euthanasia deaths in 2025 which was up from 4944 in 2024, which represented a 7.2% increase. This was up from 4641 euthanasia deaths in 2023 which represented a 6.5% increase that year. 

This indicates that the growth in euthanasia deaths is increasing, not stabilizing.

The report indicated that all Ontario MAiD deaths, in 2025, were clinician administered (euthanasia). In jurisdictions that legalize both euthanasia and assisted suicide, nearly all of the deaths are euthanasia.

Health Canada released the Sixth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada on November 28, 2025.

The 2024 report stated that there were 16,499 reported (MAiD) Canadian euthanasia deaths which was up by 6.9% from 15,427 in 2023.

The Dangers of Fake History: Did Crusaders Ruin “Five Centuries of Peaceful Coexistence” with Islam?

  RAYMOND IBRAHIM 

Increasing numbers of people have become wary of the dangers of Fake News. But what about the more subtle scourge of Fake History? Although far harder to expose than Fake News—requiring familiarity not merely with history, but with primary source texts—Fake History is arguably even more dangerous.

Unlike the “news,” which is ephemeral, causing its mischief in the present before quickly dissipating, the presumed lessons of history are concrete and long-lasting. People interpret current events through the prism of history; and if that history is fundamentally flawed, then everything they believe about the present will also be flawed. 

As a prime example of the dangers of fake history, take the historical writings of John Esposito, an award-winning professor of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author of more 35 books on Islam; editor-in-chief of numerous Oxford reference works, including The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World and The Oxford History of Islam; advisor to the award-winning PBS documentary Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet (2002); and, perhaps most notably, a go-to expert on Islam, certainly in his heyday after 9/11, when he was frequently called on to brief the State Department, FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security and various branches of the military. 

How Euthanasia Is Rewriting the Ethics of Medicine

Dr Ramona Coelho

The following letter by Dr. Ramona Coelho [pictured here] was published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in February 2026.  

Dr. Coelho is a Family Physician; a Senior Fellow of Domestic and Health Policy at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and a Member of Medical Assistance in Dying Ontario (MAiD) Death Review Committee (MDRC).   

Dear Editor,

Recent BMJ commentary has suggested that Canada’s assisted dying regime involves robust independent assessment and that coercion is not a meaningful concern[1], despite alarms raised by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities[2] and government oversight reports[3]. 

A key question is whether introducing assisted dying into medicine is adversely altering clinical practice. Assisted dying is often framed as patient autonomy. Yet this framing minimizes how Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) reshapes clinical reasoning, professional responsibility, and interpretations of suffering. Under Canada’s Criminal Code, MAiD is exempt from homicide and assisted suicide offences[4]. 

Community Service Officer Jane Dore stepped in to Protect the Elderly (Dore photo with bolded quotes halfway down the page)

SEATTLE — Seattle police are warning residents about a surge in roofing scams targeting elderly homeowners, after investigators uncovered 22 victims and nearly $932,000 in financial losses since April of last year.

The average victim is 76 years old. Scammers pose as roofers, show up uninvited at homes, and pressure residents into paying large sums for unnecessary or fraudulent work, in some cases deliberately damaging roofs themselves to manufacture a reason for costly repairs.

One North Seattle woman, Evelyn, a widow, nearly lost $34,000 to the scheme before a timely intervention stopped the payments.

"He was very well spoken, very nicely dressed. Loved his accent, which was Irish," Evelyn said of the man who came to her door.

He told her that her chimney "really was on the edge of destruction and needed to be taken down." Trusting his assessment, she handed over a $30,000 check and a $4,000 check.

Evelyn, whose husband David served in Special Forces in Vietnam and passed away two years ago, said she is still adjusting to navigating decisions without him.

Snowmobiler Dies in Avalanche near Montana-Idaho Border

Amanda EggertEnvironmental Reporter

aeggert@montanafreepress.org

A snowmobiler died in an avalanche near the Montana-Idaho border over the weekend. It is Idaho’s first avalanche fatality of the 2025-2026 season.

The slide occurred on Feb. 22 north of the Keg Springs trailhead in the Centennial Mountains near Island Park, Idaho, according to the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center.

In a Sunday evening Instagram post, the avalanche center wrote that it would be investigating the circumstances surrounding the avalanche — standard procedure for fatal avalanches — on Monday.

Beijing Uses Fake Western News Sites to Attack Falun Gong, Report Finds

Dozens of websites linked to Chinese companies have been used to push Beijing’s propaganda overseas while pretending to be legacy Western outlets, according to a report by Graphika, which specializes in research into foreign influence.

The websites copied design elements in order to fraudulently present themselves as such outlets as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and others. Aside from commercial and pro-China content, they also ran articles attacking Falun Gong, a faith group brutally persecuted by the regime of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the report said.

“We identified evidence that these companies and/or individuals leveraged these domains in contracts to promote the activities undertaken by [CCP-linked] entities,” the report said.

In Europe, the Assault on Churches Continues

By Hugh Fitzgerald

No, the stories about attacks on churches in Europe seldom contain the words “Islam” or “Muslim.” But everyone knows who is vandalizing the churches in Europe, breaking the altars and smashing the baptismal fonts, setting fires, stealing church silver, urinating and defecating in the chapels, in the pews, and on the floors. More on the latest horror — the setting of two fires at a historic church in Germany — can be found here:

“Arsonists set two fires at historic German Catholic church,” by Antonino Cambria, LifeSite News, February 16, 2026:

Arsonists set fires on both the altar and near the entrance front of the historic St. Peter Catholic Church in Huttenheim last month.

Did Air Bud's Husky Brother make it to the Olympics?

Published on February 18, 2026 06:57AM EST  

It sure looked that way during the women's cross-country team sprint qualifying race on Wednesday, Feb. 18, when a dog suddenly crashed the course as the 2026 Winter Olympians were finishing.

As members of Team Croatia and Team Australia crossed the finish line, a dog appeared, first looking at the cameras before realizing there were athletes on skis to chase.

"Anybody lost their dog?" the on-course announcers joked, after saying, "it's a fairly nice mutt there, not hindering anybody's progress. One of those moments you have to laugh about."

"But you know, better it happened now than during the group sprints, let's put it that way," they added.

After the racers slid to the ground in exhaustion, the dog went around to give them a sniff before heading off to the post-finish area with the other athletes and getting some good pets and belly rubs from the Olympics volunteers.

Full ‘Worm’ Moon Will Greet Spring With ‘Blood’ Moon Total Lunar Eclipse—What You Need to Know

Michael Wing, Editor and Writer,  

2/20/2026|Updated: 2/20/2026 

This winter has been bitter for many of us, so let’s talk about a traditional sign of spring appearing in the night sky next month—the “Worm Moon.”

Ushering in morning runs and perhaps some early gardening, the March full moon will signal getting outside more as the weather warms and daylight lengthens. For Native Americans, similarly, this full moon meant maple syrup flowing again and birds like geese and eagles returning.

It also signified beetle larva squirming in the bark of trees and worms wriggling in the thawing soil, thus tribespeople dubbed it the Worm Moon. The name was adopted by colonial explorers centuries ago and it stuck. It’s still used today.

On average, full moons in March don’t look terribly different from those in other months, but a total lunar eclipse next month will make this one exceptional. When the full Worm Moon falls on March 3, at 6:38 a.m. ET, the Earth’s shadow will cause it to darken and turn deep red. This is known as a “Blood Moon.”

From Hijra to City Hall: Islam, Migration, and the Rise of Mamdani

By Raymond Ibrahim, Feb 20, 2026 *

Twenty-five years after Muslim terrorists killed 2,800 people in New York City on September 11, 2001, a self-identified Muslim has, for the first time in that city’s history, become mayor.

What is the significance of this, and what does it really tell us?

On January 1, 2026, Zohran Mamdani — 35 years old, born in Uganda to Indian parents, Shia Muslim, former housing counselor and rapper (“Young Cardamom”), self-described democratic socialist — was sworn in as mayor of New York City. He has been described by many, including the President of the United States, as a “100% Communist Lunatic.”

Others accuse him of being a closet Muslim radical working to subvert New York to Islam. Their concerns are not unwarranted (not least since Shia Islam is notorious for internalizing taqiyya, a doctrine that promotes dissembling).

Washington Democrats Raid Police & Firefighter Pensions $4 Billion Pension Surplus to Fund Their Spending Spree, ALL REPUBLICANS VOTED NO

Washington State House Democrats have crossed a dangerous line. Billions stripped from those who serve — millions redirected to political pet projects.

In a brazen vote, they moved to siphon $4 billion out of pension funds meant for law enforcement officers and firefighters — the very people who risk their lives daily — to plug a deficit of their own making.

Every single Republican in the state House voted no.

Jesse Jackson has Died

Cooper Williamson

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the famed civil rights leader who marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and later ran for president, has died, his family says. He was 84.

He died peacefully on Tuesday morning, surrounded by his family, they said in a statement.

Jackson was hospitalized for observation in November, and doctors said he'd been diagnosed with a degenerative condition called progressive supranuclear palsy. He revealed in 2017 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which affects the nervous system and slowly restricts movement and daily activities. Jackson called it a "physical challenge," but he refused to let it prevent him from continuing his civil rights advocacy. His father, Noah Lewis Robinson Sr., also had Parkinson's and died of the disease in 1997 at the age of 88.

Long known for his activism and political influence, Jackson spent his life dedicated to pursuing civil rights for disenfranchised groups both in the United States and abroad.

Japan Endangered by Low Birthrates and Mass Migration

By Daniel Greenfield

A few months before his assassination, Charlie Kirk visited Japan and warned that mass migration was seeking to “replace and eradicate Japan by bringing in Indonesians, by bringing in Arabs, by bringing in Muslims”.

With over 100 mosques and over 400,000 Muslims already occupying Japan, even though 95% of Japanese voters oppose Muslim mass migration, a political explosion was bound to occur.

Now, Japanese voters have delivered a striking defeat to the forces of mass migration with a stunning win for Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, [pictured above] whom the media has already taken to describing as a ‘Trumpian’ figure for opposing mass migration, her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which won its largest victory to date, as did a number of other right-wing parties, including the one Kirk was addressing, demonstrating that voters were tired of mass migration.

A Convert from Islam to Christianity Issues a Sobering Warning.

February 10, 2026 by Robert Spencer 

Epoch Times Senior Editor Jan Jekielek recently interviewed Nissar Hussain at the International Religious Freedom Summit. Hussain has a great deal to tell the world about religious freedom, as he converted from Islam to Christianity and nearly lost his life for doing so, not in Iran, or Pakistan, or Afghanistan, but in the new, diverse, multicultural Britain that the left has bestowed upon a grateful world. Hussain told Jekielek that the situation in Britain is, in a word, dire, and it will be in the United States if we don’t wake up to reality regarding Islam and Sharia.

In a video that Jekielek posted on X Friday, Hussain recounts how Muslims reviled him and his family as “kafir,” “infidel,” “unbeliever,” and “Jew dogs.” Jekielek notes that this was not even close to all: “Men confronted him in the street, spat on him, and cursed him—in front of his young children.” Muslims also menaced Hussain’s life in various ways: “One night he woke up at 3am to see ‘seven foot flames shooting up’ from his car. His car was rammed and vandalized so often that insurance companies wrote him off as a walking liability and refused to insure him…. Young men hurled bricks and other missiles at his house at night repeatedly.” Hussain recounted that he felt as if “all hell broke loose…I was dead and buried.”

Days on End. "A New Day has Begun."

By Thomas D. Pearman* 

Time is all that counts.  I was seeing the musical ‘Cats’ - “Burned out ends of smoky days - street lamp flutters - and then it sputters - and a new day has begun.”  And a new day has begun.  It means not so much to seize a new day - and enjoy it - but that the passing of time is inevitable.  It was sung by the head actress - a cat- who had once been beautiful, glamorous and happy, but is now old, faded and knows she will die soon. 

We are all part of the steady progression of time.  We have come and we will go, just as people before us have come and gone, and just as people after us will come and go.  We will leave great marks, varying marks, or no marks at all as our time has passed.

The passing of time does not escape any of us.  One only has to look at photos of how we looked throughout our life.  It seems situations around us change greatly, and we look older, yet we remain the same person.  It is what is so painful.

It is the desire of wanting to break away from the prison of passing of time that makes us want to do something worthwhile, to strive for success.  It is this quest that will make us happy.  It will allow us to create happy memories as we look back - things we could accomplish - even though we may not be able to do these same things now.

Illinois City Hands Out $25K Cash Payments to Black Residents Under Racist Reparations Program

By Joshua Q. Nelson, Fox News, February 11, 2026:

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson shared a post on X Wednesday defending the City of Chicago’s Reparations Task Force and slamming Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Credit: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s X account.

Evanston, Illinois. will issue $25,000 to 44 residents in reparations payments, the City’s Reparations Committee has announced.

Established in 2019 and approved by the City Council in 2021, the program issues $25,000 direct cash payments to Black residents and descendants of Black residents who lived in Evanston between 1919 and 1969.

Evanston was the first city in the nation to pass a reparations plan, pledging $10 million over a decade to Black residents.

The payments are intended to cover housing expenses, Evanston official Cynthia Vargas told the Chicago Tribune.

Underground Bunker Discovered

Carlos Garcia

Residents of a previously serene Albuquerque neighborhood are criticizing city officials' response to the surge in crime allegedly related to renters that built an underground bunker.

The neighbors say there was a rise in stolen cars, stolen packages, and other nuisances after the newest renters moved in. Some of the incidents have been caught on video.

'There was concrete.  There were bricks inside.  It was pretty large.  That was built into the backyard of the house that led into the joining arroyo."*

The Esquibels have been in the neighborhood for several years but noticed the change in the last years.  "We moved here originally because we loved it."  Alandra Esquibel said to KOAI-TV.  We thought the location was great."

The Real Purveyors of Jim Crow

February 10, 2026

Allen West, February 13, 2026

Well, it is Black History Month, and true to form, Marxist leftists, like Sen. Chuck Schumer, need a tutorial reminder of just who the real purveyors of Jim Crow are. Last week, Schumer, a typical useful idiot, ranted, once again, that voter ID is a return to Jim Crow. Well, Schumer, a member of the Democrat party, should simply be reminded that it was his crew who gave us Jim Crow 1.0. Funny, this past Saturday I reached a milestone, my 65th birthday. Yes, I have crossed the Medicare river, not the river Styx.

It made me reflect upon something.

I was born 65 years ago on February 7, 1961, in a “Blacks only” hospital, Hughes-Spalding in Atlanta, Georgia. I grew up in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood, the same community that produced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was the cradle of the American Civil Rights movement. My birth was under the first wave of Jim Crow, courtesy of the political party of the jackass. However, before we even get to the Jim Crow history of the leftists, what came before that? Yes, immediately after the Civil War, the southern states, in refusal to fully capitulate, Democrats created what was called “Black Codes” from 1865 to 1867. These statutes encompassed labor control and vagrancy laws, which targeted homeless and unemployed Black individuals as a consequence of labor control measures. As a result, they faced arrest and social restrictions. The purpose of these “codes” was to establish a system of racial hierarchy; they served as a prelude to Jim Crow.

'Potentially Influential Government Officials' in Canada and China Were Paid Excessively by Pfizer

    Dr. Byram W. Bridle, 02/10/26

When I read the article, I found two details in the story to be particularly disconcerting.

First, I learned a new term. Apparently there are “potentially influential government officials (PIGOs)” that pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer target monetarily. This term bothers me and the purpose of the payouts seems to be at odds with conflict of interest policies that are supposed to be enforced in countries like Canada.

Second, alongside China, Pfizer targeted Canada’s PIGOs through a disproportionately large budget. The story focused on the fact that Pfizer may have committed fraud by targeting potentially influential government officials in China with a disproportionately large sum of money (“over ten times the amount of money”) compared to what was paid out to government officials in the United States. However, as a Canadian, I found the following facts to be of concern: