Right To Die

• ‘Darker side’: Canada’s euthanasia laws a threat to disabled, experts say

  Human rights advocates say the country's regulations lack necessary safeguards and are prompting doctors to suggest the procedure to those who might not otherwise consider it.

  Health

  Aug 11, 2022
  
• Group opposes forced transfer of B.C. patients seeking medically-assisted deaths

  Dying With Dignity Canada says forced transfers happen when a patient makes an end-of-life choice but is being treated in a facility that forbids medical assistance in dying.

  Health

  Mar 7, 2022
  
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• 40-year-old Paralympic champ dies by euthanasia after years of spinal disease pain

  "It’s too hard for me now," Marieke Vervoort said in 2017 when addressing her plans to die through legal euthanasia.

  Lifestyle

  Oct 23, 2019
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• Montreal medical malpractice lawyer receives justice award in Quebec City

  Jean-Pierre Ménard's decades of legal advocacy include fighting to protect the rights of patients against the health-care system and medical malpractice.

  Canada

  Sep 24, 2019
• St. Martha’s Hospital remains firm on policy against medically-assisted dying

  The Sisters of St. Martha has an agreement with the Nova Scotia government, forbidding medically-assisted dying at St. Martha's Hospital in Antigonish.

  Health

  Jan 9, 2019
• Scott Thompson: Government says you can die, but they also say when

  Scott Thompson asks, What is the sense of giving those living with a terminal illness the right to die, and not allowing them to pick when?

  Nov 2, 2018
• British Columbians using right to die legislation

  In mid-June it became legal in Canada to request a doctor assisted death and several British Columbians have decided to take that path...

  Oct 5, 2016
• California woman holds party before ending life under new assisted-dying law

  The 41-year-old artist with ALS held the gathering before becoming one of the first to take a lethal dose of drugs under the state's new doctor-assisted suicide law.

  Health

  Aug 11, 2016
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• Doctor explains how she’ll proceed with assisted dying without a law in place

  The federal government's assisted dying law won't be in place in time for the Supreme Court's deadline, but a Vancouver doctor is ready to start assisting patients who have been waiting for months.

  Politics

  Jun 6, 2016
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• “The anguish I feel is soul crushing”: second Manitoban granted right to die

  A Manitoba woman with ALS has been granted the right to die by doctor assisted death.

  May 6, 2016