Euthanasia

The never-say-die Delta Hospice Society is now looking to Alberta in its efforts to establish a secular, euthanasia-free “sanctuary hospice” and escape the pro-MAiD agenda of the B.C. government.

A B.C. Catholic investigation has uncovered systemic failures in British Columbia’s euthanasia program, including thousands of paperwork errors among the 2,767 MAiD (medical assistance in dying) deaths recorded in 2023, a lack of public reporting of violations and an oversight unit led by the same health official responsible for delivering MAiD in the province.

A submission from the “True Story Contest” sponsored by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.

Tamara Jansen can sense the growing momentum around Bill C-218, the Right to Recover Act, in the short time since holding a July 9 press conference to raise the public profile of legislation to stop the expansion of assisted suicide to those with mental illness.

Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, blogs on growing international concern about Canada’s euthanasia laws drawing only shrugs or silence from the federal Liberal government. The Register has edited the text for brevity

With France poised to vote on a controversial "assisted dying" bill, the country's Catholic bishops have launched an unprecedented public campaign urging Catholics to speak out.

Delta Hospice Society (DHS) is now authorized to present key contentions and evidence in an ongoing lawsuit trying to forcibly compel faith-based health-care facilities to provide assisted suicide to palliative care patients by stripping away these organizations’ transfer authority.

Pro-life voices are welcoming a United Nations report citing the need “to ensure the right to life for persons with disabilities” in the face of Canada’s growing MAiD culture.

Saskatoon Bishop Mark Hagemoen said the Saskatchewan bishops' recent pastoral letter on assisted suicide issued is an acknowledgment and response to the realities that have emerged since 2017. “Eight years later things have not gotten better.”

Saskatchewan's bishops are poised to unveil a new document about euthanasia on March 25.