Tag: Canada

Press release: medical experts campaigning against Liam McArthur's Holyrood bill express their concerns ahead of a meeting between Dr James Downar and MSPs.
Bill 11, approved this week, ushers in advance requests for illnesses like dementia, and curtails hospice conscience rights.
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.
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.
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
Elderly Canadian woman euthanised to avoid COVID lockdown, a “shocking” development warns CNK
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
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 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.
Officials in Quebec say the number of euthanasia deaths in the first seven months was almost three times their expectation
The 'Centennial State' becomes the sixth American jurisdiction to legislate for assisted suicide following a ballot initiative
Fifteen months after the Supreme Court ordered federal legislation, the Trudeau government has published its draft bill
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
Campaigner Alex Schadenberg on the Supreme Court of Canada's instruction of the federal Parliament to legislate for assisted suicide - within 12 months
Two huge court victories in British Columbia and Ontario thwart legalisation of euthanasia in Canada
The Canadian Federal government will appeal an assisted suicide ruling from the British Columbia supreme court