Assisted Dying Bill Canada

• Psychiatrists more open to assisted dying for people with mental illnesses: survey

  Canadian psychiatrists' attitude toward medical assistance in dying for people with mental illnesses appears to have undergone a sea change over the past five years.

  Canada

  Mar 20, 2021
  
• Canadian senators to vote on assisted dying bill Feb. 17 as deadline looms

  Senators, who began final debate Monday, will begin dealing with the amendments to Bill C-7 on Tuesday.

  Canada

  Feb 8, 2021
  
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• Canadian Senate committee accepts assisted dying bill but amendments still to come

  The Senate's legal and constitutional affairs committee accepted the bill Wednesday in a matter of minutes, without amendment.

  Canada

  Feb 3, 2021
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• Federal government asking court for 3rd extension to revamp assisted dying bill

  The request for an extension came Friday after the Conservatives held up passage of Bill C-7 for two weeks in the House of Commons.

  Canada

  Dec 11, 2020
• Bill to amend law on assisted dying in Canada reintroduced 2 months before court deadline

  The government has until Dec. 18 to amend the law to comply with a Quebec court ruling last fall, which found it was unconstitutional to allow only those whose natural death is ``reasonably foreseeable'' to be able to get medical help to end their suffering.

  Canada

  Oct 5, 2020
• Bill on assisted dying to be reintroduced Monday amid upcoming court deadline

  For those deemed to be near death, the government is proposing to drop the requirement that a person must wait 10 days after being approved for an assisted death before receiving the procedure.

  Canada

  Oct 3, 2020
• New challenge launched against Canada’s assisted dying bill

  Canada's physician-assisted dying law is being challenged in court just days after it came into force.

  Canada

  Jun 27, 2016