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MAiD
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, 2024
BY
Jan Jekielek
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, 2024
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Chandra Philip
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, 2024
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Chandra Philip
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, 2024
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The Canadian Press
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, 2024
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Chandra Philip
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, 2024
BY
Conrad Black
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, 2024
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The Canadian Press
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, 2024
BY
William Crooks
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, 2024
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Chandra Philip
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, 2024
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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
The head of a pro-abortion group has written to MPs to have employers opposed to assisted suicide disqualified ...
January 18, 2024
BY
Jennifer Cowan
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, 2024
BY
Chandra Philip
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, 2023
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Chandra Philip
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, 2023
BY
Matthew Horwood
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, 2023
BY
Chandra Philip
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, 2023
BY
Tara MacIsaac
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, 2023
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Tara MacIsaac
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, 2023
BY
Matthew Horwood
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, 2023
BY
Chandra Philip
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, 2023
BY
Lee Harding
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, 2023
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Susan Martinuk
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, 2023
BY
Isaac Teo
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, 2023
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Matthew Horwood
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, 2023
BY
Tara MacIsaac
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, 2023
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Tara MacIsaac
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, 2023
BY
Lee Harding
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, 2023
BY
Peter Wilson
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