Ontario backs off doctors' conscience rights court battle
OTTAWA – Ontario doctors who are suing the Ontario physicians’ college over conscience rights received good news Nov. 8 when the province of Ontario dropped its intervention on behalf of the college.
End-of-life care requires good planning
If vacations, weddings, babies and football games are important enough to require planning, why don’t we plan for sickness, frailty and dying?
EDMONTON – At what point does a health care provider become complicit in the act of medically-assisted death?
Canada falls short in palliative care access
A grim picture of Canadians dying amid the noise and bustle of hospital acute care wards, unable to access quality palliative care, emerges from the first-ever comprehensive, national assessment of palliative care by the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
CORNWALL – Canada’s Catholic bishops aim to have palliative care resources available in every parish to help Catholics grapple with suffering and dying under a regime of legal euthanasia.
New federal government rules to monitor euthanasia and assisted suicide are opaque and weak at a time when legally induced deaths are rising at alarming levels, warn several organizations.
Coalition marks 20 years in euthanasia fight
Charles Lewis: Here’s one way we can care for our sick
The grim truth is that legalized euthanasia is not going away. This is not giving up but stating a hard truth.
Euthanasia isn’t palliative care, Canadian bishops say
OTTAWA – Canada’s Catholic bishops are urging the federal government to maintain a clear distinction between palliative care and the practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide so institutions are not forced to become “an accomplice” in causing an intentional death.
Euthanasia film strikes a raw human nerve
OTTAWA – Kevin Dunn first met Aurelia in the Netherlands at a conference on euthanasia for young people.
Belgium euthanized three children in the past two years
With an $11.6-million donation, Toronto’s St. Joseph’s Health Centre will create one of the largest, most advanced and most comprehensive palliative care units in Canada.