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MAiD

  • Death on Demand? Wesley J. Smith Explains the Assisted Suicide Movement
    Death on Demand? Wesley J. Smith Explains the Assisted Suicide Movement
    "When a country or a state legalizes assisted suicide or euthanasia, it can no longer call itself anti-suicide..."
    November 12, 2024BY Jan Jekielek
  • Father Asks Court to Stop 27-Year-Old Daughter’s MAID Death, Review Doctors’ Sign-Off
    Father Asks Court to Stop 27-Year-Old Daughter’s MAID Death, Review Doctors’ Sign-Off
    A Calgary father has asked the courts to review his 27-year-old daughter’s medically assisted suicide approval, saying she ...
    March 12, 2024BY Chandra Philip
  • Archdiocese Looks at Legal Options After Quebec Court Denies MAID Exemption at Church-Funded Palliative Care Home
    Archdiocese Looks at Legal Options After Quebec Court Denies MAID Exemption at Church-Funded Palliative Care Home
    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montreal says it is considering its options after a palliative care home the ...
    March 8, 2024BY Chandra Philip
  • Quebec Judge Won’t Exempt Church-Supported Palliative Care Home From MAID Law
    Quebec Judge Won’t Exempt Church-Supported Palliative Care Home From MAID Law
    A Superior Court judge has denied a request from Montreal's Roman Catholic archdiocese for an exemption to a ...
    March 7, 2024BY The Canadian Press
  • Anti-Euthanasia Coalition Calls for Mental Illness Support, Halt to MAID Expansion
    Anti-Euthanasia Coalition Calls for Mental Illness Support, Halt to MAID Expansion
    If medical assistance in death (MAID) had been available to Lia Milousis when she was suffering from depression ...
    February 27, 2024BY Chandra Philip
  • Conrad Black: The State Is Promoting Suicide in Canada With Its Assisted Death Law
    Conrad Black: The State Is Promoting Suicide in Canada With Its Assisted Death Law
    Commentary The steady increase in recourse to the Canadian euthanasia program, known as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), ...
    February 19, 2024BY Conrad Black
  • Catholic Church Challenging Quebec MAID Law in Court on Religious Freedom Grounds
    Catholic Church Challenging Quebec MAID Law in Court on Religious Freedom Grounds
    The office of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Montreal has filed a legal challenge against Quebec's end-of-life legislation, ...
    February 6, 2024BY The Canadian Press
  • Ottawa Delays MAID Expansion by Three Years Amid Health-Care Readiness Concerns
    Ottawa Delays MAID Expansion by Three Years Amid Health-Care Readiness Concerns
    The federal government has announced it will postpone for three years its expansion of the medical assistance in ...
    February 1, 2024BY William Crooks
  • Timeline of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada
    Timeline of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada
    Ottawa is for the second time postponing a planned expansion of the medical assistance in dying (MAID) regime, ...
    January 31, 2024BY Chandra Philip
  • Provinces Call on Ottawa to Pause Expansion of Assisted Dying Eligibility
    Provinces Call on Ottawa to Pause Expansion of Assisted Dying Eligibility
    Most of Canada’s provinces and territories have notified the federal government that they are not ready to respond ...
    January 30, 2024BY Chandra Philip
  • Abortion Group That Helped Deny Summer Jobs Funds to Pro-Life Groups Now Working With ‘Dying With Dignity’ to Do the Same for MAID Opponents
    Abortion Group That Helped Deny Summer Jobs Funds to Pro-Life Groups Now Working With ‘Dying With Dignity’ to Do the Same for MAID Opponents
    The head of a pro-abortion group has written to MPs to have employers opposed to assisted suicide disqualified ...
    January 18, 2024BY Jennifer Cowan
  • Alberta Regulator Says Doctors Don’t Need to Refer Patients for Services They Object to Morally
    Alberta Regulator Says Doctors Don’t Need to Refer Patients for Services They Object to Morally
    Alberta’s College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPSA) is moving away from forcing doctors and health care professionals to ...
    January 12, 2024BY Chandra Philip
  • Ottawa Open to Further Pause of MAID Expansion, Justice Minister Says
    Ottawa Open to Further Pause of MAID Expansion, Justice Minister Says
    The federal government has said it is considering whether to extend a pause on expanding assisted dying rules. ...
    December 15, 2023BY Chandra Philip
  • StatCan Says Mortality Totals Don’t Include MAID Deaths Because WHO Hasn’t Classified the Procedure
    StatCan Says Mortality Totals Don’t Include MAID Deaths Because WHO Hasn’t Classified the Procedure
    A report by Health Canada says there were 13,241 deaths last year due to MAID, which would have ...
    December 12, 2023BY Matthew Horwood
  • BC Family Says 52-Year-Old With Cancer Not Able to Get Chemo Opted for MAID
    BC Family Says 52-Year-Old With Cancer Not Able to Get Chemo Opted for MAID
    Dan Quayle chose assisted death after he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer and was unable to receive chemotherapy ...
    December 7, 2023BY Chandra Philip
  • EXPLAINER: How Canada’s Courts Have Propelled Assisted Suicide Laws
    EXPLAINER: How Canada’s Courts Have Propelled Assisted Suicide Laws
    A 2015 ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada and a decision by Quebec’s Superior Court in 2019 ...
    November 14, 2023BY Tara MacIsaac
  • ANALYSIS: Is Assisted Death Being Extended to Drug Addicts in Canada?
    ANALYSIS: Is Assisted Death Being Extended to Drug Addicts in Canada?
    The question remains as to what extent addicts may fall under the 'mental illness' eligibility criteria as MAID ...
    November 1, 2023BY Tara MacIsaac
  • EXPLAINER: The Upcoming Expansion of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying Law
    EXPLAINER: The Upcoming Expansion of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying Law
    Canada is moving ahead to make it legal for those suffering from mental illness to use MAID to ...
    October 23, 2023BY Matthew Horwood
  • Majority of Canadians Don’t Support Forcing Religiously Affiliated Hospitals to Provide MAID: Survey
    Majority of Canadians Don’t Support Forcing Religiously Affiliated Hospitals to Provide MAID: Survey
    A recent survey found most Canadians don’t support forcing religiously affiliated health-care facilities to provide medical assistance in ...
    October 17, 2023BY Chandra Philip
  • Recovered Mental Health Patients Decry MAiD for the Mentally Ill as MPs Debate Bill
    Recovered Mental Health Patients Decry MAiD for the Mentally Ill as MPs Debate Bill
    Two women who have suffered from mental illness recently joined a physician at the parliamentary press gallery in ...
    October 7, 2023BY Lee Harding
  • A Suicidal Patient Meets a Health-Care System With Little to Offer
    A Suicidal Patient Meets a Health-Care System With Little to Offer
    Commentary For the past decade, activist groups have been spreading the news about the so-called "right to die" ...
    September 7, 2023BY Susan Martinuk
  • Assisted Death Now a ‘Very Frequent’ Procedure in Quebec, Oversight Body Warns
    Assisted Death Now a ‘Very Frequent’ Procedure in Quebec, Oversight Body Warns
    As the number of deaths through medical assistance in dying (MAiD) continues to rise in Quebec, the head ...
    August 15, 2023BY Isaac Teo
  • Vancouver Woman Offered Euthanasia After Seeking Help for Suicidal Thoughts
    Vancouver Woman Offered Euthanasia After Seeking Help for Suicidal Thoughts
    A Vancouver woman is claiming she was offered the option of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) by a ...
    August 10, 2023BY Matthew Horwood
  • Doctors, Hospices Grapple With New Quebec Law Forcing Palliative Facilities to Offer MAiD
    Doctors, Hospices Grapple With New Quebec Law Forcing Palliative Facilities to Offer MAiD
    Quebec physician Bruno Gagnon is feeling squeezed out of his decades-long palliative care career due to his moral ...
    July 13, 2023BY Tara MacIsaac
  • Bioethicist Alarmed New MAID Guidance Could Encourage People to Die to Give Organs to Loved Ones
    Bioethicist Alarmed New MAID Guidance Could Encourage People to Die to Give Organs to Loved Ones
    New policy guidelines for medical assistance in dying (MAID) in Canada suggest patients be allowed to donate their ...
    June 28, 2023BY Tara MacIsaac
  • Quebec Forces Palliative Care Homes to Offer Assisted Suicide
    Quebec Forces Palliative Care Homes to Offer Assisted Suicide
    A new Quebec law that mandates palliative care facilities to provide medical assistance in dying has drawn criticism ...
    June 13, 2023BY Lee Harding
  • 27 Federal Inmates Have Applied for Assisted Suicide Since 2016 Legalization, Say Feds
    27 Federal Inmates Have Applied for Assisted Suicide Since 2016 Legalization, Say Feds
    A total of 27 federal inmates in prisons across Canada have applied for medical assistance in dying (MAID) ...
    April 26, 2023BY Peter Wilson
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