‘Religious right’ remark angers critics
OTTAWA -- Changes that would open up Canada’s legally-sanctioned euthanasia system have been approved by a two-to-one margin by MPs in the House of Commons, but some MPs who voted against the changes say the government unfairly maligned religious Canadians during debate over the contentious issue.
Editorial: Second thought
The race towards expanding assess to assisted suicide continues on Parliament Hill despite all the common-sense pushback.
‘Negligible’ savings from assisted suicide, report says
OTTAWA -- A fiscal analysis of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) system shows that making access to an assisted suicide easier could save Canada’s health-care system up to $149 million a year.
B.C. hospice loses appeal, mulls next step
VANCOUVER -- The Delta Hospice Society is considering an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada after a B.C. Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal of a lower court ruling that the society did not act in good faith in launching a mail-in vote proposing changes to its constitution and accepting some applications while denying others.
Bishops ‘deeply troubled’ as Bill C-7 marches on
OTTAWA -- The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has questioned why the federal government is not putting more effort into improving care for Canadians rather than making it easier for Canadians to legally commit suicide.
Peter Stockland: What’s the rush on Bill C-7?
A mad push appears to be on to get the federal government’s MAiD legislation out of committee and into the House of Commons for rapid passage.
Expanded MAiD worries Canadians: survey
OTTAWA -- A new public opinion poll indicates Canadians are not as supportive of major changes to the federal MAiD (medical assistance in dying) system as the federal government claims.
Peter Stockland: Outrage drowns in the Kool-Aid
It’s been clear to me for nearing a decade that the vast majority of my fellow journalistic worker bees have drunk the Kool-Aid on MAiD.
Dutch cardinal: Euthanasia for children continues 'slippery slope'
MANCHESTER, England -- Proposals to amend Dutch law to allow the euthanasia of children represent the latest descent down the "slippery slope" of the killing of patients by doctors, a cardinal said.
Charles Lewis: Here’s why we need to oppose euthanasia
I would not blame you if you sighed in frustration at yet another column about euthanasia. You may think others and myself have made the point repeatedly.
Editorial: Put on the brakes
Religious leaders across Canada are making a valiant attempt at slowing down this speeding train called Medical Assistance in Dying, and we can only hope their appeal is not falling on entirely deaf ears.
MAiD ‘nothing less than murder’: faith leaders
OTTAWA -- Canada’s Catholic bishops have joined with religious leaders nationwide to denounce the federal government’s plan to make it easier to obtain a medically-assisted suicide.
Cathy Majtenyi: Fratelli Tutti sounds alarm on dignity
The timing of the photo op couldn’t have been better. A defiant, COVID- sick Donald Trump popping out of hospital to wave to his supporters from a vehicle, putting the driver and security detail in extreme danger, illustrated so perfectly one of Pope Francis’s key concepts in his latest encyclical, Fratelli Tutti , On Fraternity and Social Friendship.
Canadian religious leaders condemn Bill C-7
Religious leaders across Canada have expressed their concern and opposition with the recently reintroduced Bill C-7 which would expand access to medically assisted dying.