Category: Delta Hospice Society

Barbara Kay: Weasel Words and the Slippery Slope of Assisted Death

Commentary Misleading language is a friend to tyrants, for whom it works as a placebo against public unrest. In Russia, the charged words “war against Ukraine” are forbidden. Russians must use the more soothingly anodyne “special military operation.” Ideologues are also masters of the weasel-word craft. In the domain of euthanasia, a concept tainted with…


BC Hospice Society Opposed to MAiD in Palliative Care Faces Momentous Vote at AGM

Having lost its 10-bed hospice due to B.C. government regulations, the Delta Hospice Society (DHS) will soon face what it expects to be a fierce confrontation at its annual general meeting as it attempts to adopt an explicit anti-euthanasia stance on its way to building a new private facility. “This AGM is the ultimate showdown…


‘Death Is Becoming an Industry,’ Says Euthanasia Opponent as Medically Assisted Deaths in Canada Rise

Recently released statistics and anecdotal accounts have caused anti-euthanasia activists increased concern, as they believe medically assisted death is not only permitted, but encouraged. Medically assisted deaths in Quebec rose to 2,426 in the year ending March 31, an increase of 37 percent over the year before, and represented 3.3 percent of all deaths. The…


‘It’s Wrong’: BC Hospice VP Decries Looming Closure of Facility

A Vancouver-area hospice is closing due to its refusal to offer medically assisted death, and its hospice society vice-president says the process of how things came to this point “feels very violating.” The Delta Hospice Society (DHS) had a 35-year lease and a service agreement with the Fraser Health Authority to operate a 10-bed hospice….


‘It’s Wrong’: BC Hospice Executives Decry Looming Closure of Facility

A Vancouver-area hospice is closing due to its refusal to offer medically assisted death, and its hospice society vice-president says the process of how things came to this point “feels very violating.” The Delta Hospice Society (DHS) had a 35-year lease and a service agreement with the Fraser Health Authority to operate a 10-bed hospice….