Euthanasia

March has gifted Canadian culture of life advocates with hope in the form of the Archdiocese of Toronto’s Help Not Harm campaign and the Alberta government’s sweeping euthanasia reform bill.

Scottish Catholic bishops welcomed Parliament's decision to reject the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill March 17.

The Archdiocese of Toronto's new Help Not Harm campaign urges members of Canada's largest Catholic community to oppose the March 17, 2027, plan to expand euthanasia access to individuals solely living with mental illness.

With Canada on the precipice of surpassing 100,000 euthanasia deaths in the coming weeks, the federal government has revived the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) on March 10.

Legislation to legalize assisted suicide in the United Kingdom appears headed for collapse, but local measures are advancing -- drawing sharp criticism from Catholic leaders.

A timely warning in the latest newsletter of Canadian Physicians for Life.

Conservative MP Garnett Genuis tabled Bill C-260, a new piece of legislation that would prevent people in positions of authority from initiating conversations about medical assistance in dying (MAiD) with individuals who haven't requested it.

Vancouver Archbishop Richard Smith’s January 8 letter to parishioners urging support for a bill to protect those with mental illness from medical assistance in dying.

Thinking on the current crossroads that many find themselves facing as the inevitable end-of-life decisions await them, Larry Worthen loathes the truth that dying in a country that promotes assisted death has come to render many of the faithful's final days a mere quiet crisis of conscience.

The mother of a Vancouver woman who was transferred from St. Paul’s Hospital to another facility for medical assistance in dying testified Tuesday that the doctors and nurses at St. Paul’s were “wonderful,” but said the transfer itself was “very, very quick”.