medical assistance in dying

A Calgary father has asked the courts to review his 27-year-old daughter’s medically assisted suicide approval, saying she suffers from autism and should not qualify. A publication ban on the ...

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montreal says it is considering its options after a palliative care home the ...

[FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW] Since medically assisted suicide was first legalized in Canada in 2016, it has become the ...

If medical assistance in death (MAID) had been available to Lia Milousis when she was suffering from depression ...

Disability rights organizations are calling on Ottawa to pass legislation that would exclude those suffering solely from mental ...

Ottawa is for the second time postponing a planned expansion of the medical assistance in dying (MAID) regime, ...

Commentary There used to be such a thing in Canada as “two solitudes.” It defined the intellectual and ...

Dan Quayle chose assisted death after he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer and was unable to receive chemotherapy ...

Commentary It goes by the almost innocuous name of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID): it’s MAID in Canada. ...

The question remains as to what extent addicts may fall under the 'mental illness' eligibility criteria as MAID ...

Quebec had the most MAID deaths in 2022, followed by Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta, according to the ...

Canada is moving ahead to make it legal for those suffering from mental illness to use MAID to ...

Commentary Fix mental health care first. That’s a key takeaway from new poll results, which found that 82 ...

Bill C-314 would have amended the Criminal Code to prevent MAID from expanding its coverage to those whose ...

A recent survey found most Canadians don’t support forcing religiously affiliated health-care facilities to provide medical assistance in ...

A private member's bill to halt the expansion of Canada's medical assistance in dying (MAiD) regime to those ...

Two women who have suffered from mental illness recently joined a physician at the parliamentary press gallery in ...

Commentary For the past decade, activist groups have been spreading the news about the so-called "right to die" ...

As the number of deaths through medical assistance in dying (MAiD) continues to rise in Quebec, the head ...

A Vancouver woman is claiming she was offered the option of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) by a ...

A disabled single mother from Ontario is contrasting how fast she was able to start the process for ...

A new Quebec law that mandates palliative care facilities to provide medical assistance in dying has drawn criticism ...

One day before the annual March for Life in Ottawa kicks off, members of the Campaign Life Coalition ...

A total of 27 federal inmates in prisons across Canada have applied for medical assistance in dying (MAID) ...

Conservative MP Ed Fast says he will be introducing a private member's bill that seeks to repeal the ...

Commentary In 2021, Parliament set up a special committee of MPs and senators to study the issue of ...

Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay says there is "no evidence" that medically assisted death was ever offered unprompted, ...