Category: MAiD

Witness Urges Senate to Kill Medical Assistance in Dying Bill in Final Round of Committee Hearing

February 4, 2021
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Gabrielle Peters is a writer with disabilities who lives on one of the lowest incomes in Canada. She was admitted to a hospital in Vancouver following the onset of a rare autoimmune system disease in 2009. Soon after, her partner left her to become homeless after the disease made her unable to work. But she…

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

February 3, 2021
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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….

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

February 3, 2021
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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….

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We Need to Protect the Vulnerable, Not Facilitate Their Death

December 19, 2020
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Commentary In September 2019, one judge in one lower court in one province (Quebec) decided that a medically assisted death should be available to people who are not dying. Now, the federal government’s Bill C-7, if it passes, will change the law for all Canadians who are chronically ill or disabled—including those who in addition…

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