MPs ENDURE LATE NIGHTS TO TRY AND PASS ASSISTED DEATH BILL BEFORE JUNE 6TH...
The governing Liberals in Ottawa are working extra long hours to get the doctor assisted death bill passed before the Supreme Court’s extended deadline of June 6th. MPs have been debating late into the...
View ArticleLIBERALS CUT SHORT DEBATE ON PROPOSED ASSISTED DYING LEGISLATION
This didn’t go over well with opposition members of parliament. The Trudeau Liberals have cut short a debate on their proposed new law on medically assisted dying. The Liberals used their majority...
View ArticleSENATORS URGED TO CALL FOR CHANGE TO DOCTOR-ASSISTED DYING BILL
Canada’s senators have heard an emotional appeal to reject the Trudeau government’s medical assistance dying legislation the way it reads now. It came from Maureen Taylor, an assisted dying advocate...
View ArticleMARTIN SAYS “GET IT RIGHT”
Former Prime Minister Paul Martin would rather the Trudeau Government deliver good and proper “Doctor Assisted Death” legislation, than rush to meet an arbitrary deadline imposed by the Supreme Court...
View ArticleALBERTA, NWT BISHOPS ISSUE GUIDELINES REFUSING SOME ASSISTED DEATH FUNERALS
In what’s believed to be a first in Canada, the Catholic Bishops of Alberta and the Northwest Territories have issued guidelines that say priests should refuse funerals for some who died with a...
View ArticleWINDSOR MAN, 27, SEEKS DOCTOR-ASSISTED DEATH
Ottawa says the current law protects people with mental illness. Adam Maier-Clayton disagrees. (Catrina Franzoi) And if it’s not changed soon, the 27-year-old business school grad’s contemplating...
View ArticleDYING WITH DIGNITY GROUP: HEALTH BILL COULD DENY RIGHT TO ASSISTED DEATH
The group ‘Dying With Dignity Canada’ is alarmed about a provincial health Bill 41, that the organization believes, if passed unchanged, would further empower publicly funded hospitals to deny or...
View ArticleQUEBEC CONTEMPLATES DOCTOR-ASSISTED DEATH FOR DEMENTIA PATIENTS
The province of Quebec is looking at permitting those with Alzheimer’s and dementia to make advance requests for doctor-assisted death. Health Minister Gaetan Barrette is forming a group of experts...
View ArticleONTARIO ASSISTED DEATH SERVICES LETTING DOWN GRIEVOUSLY ILL AND SOME DOCTORS:...
Ontario’s Health Minister is promising to set up a coordinating service for doctor assisted death later this year. But in the meantime, healthcare providers on both sides of the debate say Ontario’s...
View ArticleASSISTED DEATH LAW CHALLENGE GETS SECOND PLAINTIFF
A constitutional challenge to the Trudeau government’s restrictive law on assisted dying has been bolstered with the addition of a second plaintiff. Robyn Moro, a 68-year old B.C. native, suffers...
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