Found it. It was Napu Boychuk an Inuit-Canadian boy who was a ballerina dancer who become quadrapelegic, I think. Edit: he got use of his arms partially and legs would move voluntarily at least, no idea where he is now. Hopefully he continues to progress with his movement and stuff and get the best care.
A number of factors weighed on their minds. The distance would prove challenging, and there was an obvious language barrier, although Boychuk had picked up some Spanish through dance. What mattered most, however, was ensuring Boychuk would receive the best care possible.
The children’s mother died of cancer in 2003, after having spent time in four or five different Toronto hospitals. Nothing was wrong with the doctors or nurses, Tuutalik said. The hospitals were just too big.
“When my mother was there, she was just a number. Not a human being, not a person, not a woman with cancer,” she said.
Cira Garcia hospital in Havana, in contrast, is small and intimate. The staff is made up of highly professional, well-meaning people. Tuutalik describes them as “angelic,” and in an interview with the CBC, Dan Boychuk said the level of care in Cuba is “second to none in the world.”
“He would never get his kind of care in Toronto,” he and Tuutalik wrote in Facebook post on Jan. 3.
Dan explained further in an email: “The Cuban health care system leads in medical care generally and there are many who come from Canada and other countries to have surgery, not only for spinal problems but a vast array of medical conditions.”
-bourgeois Canadian newspaper that's trying really hard to thread the needle between "socialized healthcare bad, but Canada better than Cuba"
Does anyone remember that antivax site called like Global Research Center or GR Initiative or something that would have like Michael Parenti and anti-imperialist articles posted next to anti-vax and other right-wing bullshit?
Edit: It was Globalresearch.ca "centre for research on globalization". It's an annoyingly common tactic.