Tag: Canada

Caution urged as MSPs hear from Canadian doctor

Press release: medical experts campaigning against Liam McArthur's Holyrood bill express their concerns ahead of a meeting between Dr James Downar and MSPs.

Quebec expands euthanasia law

Bill 11, approved this week, ushers in advance requests for illnesses like dementia, and curtails hospice conscience rights.

Canada: yes to minors, mental illnesses on hold

Canadian Parliamentarians have recommended that euthanasia be made available to children, two weeks after the Government bowed to pressure and postponed expansion to those with mental illnesses.

Prue and Danny’s Death Road Trip

Channel 4 follows television chef and prominent 'assisted dying' advocate Prue Leith on a journey to North America with her MP son, Danny Kruger, Chair of the All-Party Dying Well Group.

WATCH: MPs hear expert testimony from Canada

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dying Well (with which CNK works) hosted “Lessons from Canada: Evidence from Palliative Care, Psychiatry and Law” on 23 May 2022

Euthanasia to escape lockdown in Canada

Elderly Canadian woman euthanised to avoid COVID lockdown, a “shocking” development warns CNK

Widening Canada’s euthanasia law set to save $149m

As Canada considers how to enact court-ordered extension of its euthanasia law beyond those whose deaths are reasonably foreseeable, analysts estimate increased deaths will see significant savings

Denying conscience – the Canadian experiment

Recent reports from Canada reveal a worrying trend of doctors being pressurised and bullied into participating in Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD, the Canadian euthanasia programme).

Quebec: two years in

Quebec legislated for euthanasia months before the Supreme Court-mandated federal legislation came into being. After just two years, comparisons are being made with the Belgian experience.

Quebec exceeds expectations

Officials in Quebec say the number of euthanasia deaths in the first seven months was almost three times their expectation

Colorado accepts assisted suicide

The 'Centennial State' becomes the sixth American jurisdiction to legislate for assisted suicide following a ballot initiative

Canadian Government E&AS bill out

Fifteen months after the Supreme Court ordered federal legislation, the Trudeau government has published its draft bill

Disabled Canadians react to court

Canadian student Taylor Hyatt lives with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, and was one of many disabled people to express grave concerns over the 6 February Supreme Court of Canada ruling concerning assisted suicide

Canada ruling ‘irresponsible’

Campaigner Alex Schadenberg on the Supreme Court of Canada's instruction of the federal Parliament to legislate for assisted suicide - within 12 months

Court victories in Canada

Two huge court victories in British Columbia and Ontario thwart legalisation of euthanasia in Canada

Canadian Federal government will appeal assisted-suicide ruling says justice minister

The Canadian Federal government will appeal an assisted suicide ruling from the British Columbia supreme court

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