Canada MAID

• Some Canadian nurse practitioners not being paid for MAID administration

  For the past year, Ellen Gretsinger, a nurse practitioner in Ontario's Niagara region, has been providing patients with medically assisted deaths - and not getting paid for it.

  Canada

  Nov 20, 2023
  
• Quebecers no longer seeing doctor-assisted deaths as last resort: oversight body

  'Medical aid in dying is not there to replace natural death,' said the head of the independent body that monitors the practice of doctor-assisted deaths in the province.

  Canada

  Aug 15, 2023
  
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• ‘Awful for patients’: Frustration grows over delay in assisted dying expansion

  The Liberal government's decision to expand medical assistance in dying to people with mental illness as a sole underlying condition has sparked a wide range of reaction in Canada.

  Canada

  Apr 9, 2023
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• Minors should be eligible for assisted dying, parliamentary committee says

  Canada's assisted dying laws should be expanded to include minors, a parliamentary committee has recommended in a new report tabled in the House of Commons Wednesday. 

  Health

  Feb 16, 2023
• Experts at odds over delay in expansion of medically-assisted dying system

  The federal government announced last week that it intends to legislate further delay in an update to the MAID law. It has not indicated for how long.

  Canada

  Dec 23, 2022
• Veterans Affairs agent at centre of assisted dying cases ‘no longer employed’

  A spokesperson for Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay's office confirmed the information Tuesday, after a protracted labour relations process was resolved this week.

  Canada

  Dec 20, 2022
• Veterans minister says he thinks all assisted dying talks now known, but isn’t certain

  In a year-end interview, Lawrence MacAulay confirmed the same veterans service agent was responsible for all four confirmed cases of discussions about assisted dying.

  Canada

  Dec 17, 2022
• Feds looking to delay expansion of assisted dying: ‘Need to get this right’

  'We’re seeking to move that time period back,' Minister of Justice David Lametti said on Thursday afternoon during a press conference.

  Canada

  Dec 15, 2022
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• Veterans affairs minister says no more assisted dying cases found despite new claims

  Lawrence MacAulay and his deputy said the department could not confirm the claims by retired corporal and Paralympian Christine Gauthier that she was offered MAiD.

  Canada

  Dec 5, 2022
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• Trudeau says assisted dying offers to veterans ‘unacceptable’ as cases mount

  Trudeau spoke a day after a paraplegic veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces shocked lawmakers by revealing she had been offered medically-assisted death by a VAC employee.

  Canada

  Dec 2, 2022