Canada Assisted-dying

• Parliamentary review of assisted dying law held up by Senate wrangling over co-chair

  Four senators have been chosen to sit on the committee by three of the four Senate groups.

  Canada

  Apr 27
• 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
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• Collaboration between House of Commons, Senate on assisted dying bill praised by senator

  Gold said the government responded respectfully and thoughtfully to the Senate's amendments, rejecting two but building on three others.

  Canada

  Mar 15
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• Feds gets another month to expand access to assisted dying as bill stalls in the Commons

  Quebec Superior Court Justice Martin Sheehan agreed to give the government a fourth extension -- until March 26 -- to bring the law into compliance with a 2019 court ruling.

  Canada

  Feb 25
• Feds ask court to grant 4th extension to allow passage of assisted dying bill

  Justice Minister David Lametti is asking the court to give the government one more month -- until March 26 -- to pass Bill C-7.

  Politics

  Feb 19
• MPs must decide whether to accept or reject Senate amendments to assisted dying bill

  For now, Justice Minister David Lametti's office won't say if the Trudeau government is willing to accept any of the amendments.

  Canada

  Feb 14
• 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
• 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
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• Lametti questions Conservatives’ motives as debate over assisted dying bill drags on

  Conservatives have been talking out the clock on Bill C-7, which would expand access to medically assisted death to people who are suffering intolerably but not near death.

  Canada

  Dec 9, 2020
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• O’Toole says Tories are prepared to debate assisted dying bill around the clock

  Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole had served notice a few hours earlier that his party will continue to talk out the clock on Bill C-7.

  Canada

  Dec 8, 2020