Euthanasia

B.C.'s Delta Hospice looks to Alberta for ‘sanctuary hospice’

Terry O'Neill · August 8, 2025

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.

B.C. MAiD regime high on errors, lax on enforcement

And reluctant to do anything about it

Terry O'Neill · August 1, 2025

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.

I am so thankful to be alive. Support Bill C-218

Catholic Register Staff · July 24, 2025

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

Mental illness MAiD pushback growing: MP

Bill takes aim at expanding physician-assisted death for mental health

Quinton Amundson · July 22, 2025

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 blog post on growing international concern about Canada’s euthanasia laws

Catholic Register Staff · June 26, 2025

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

French bishops launch unprecedented campaign to oppose 'assisted dying' bill

Caroline de Sury · May 23, 2025

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.

B.C. hospice group to intervene in MAiD case

Delta Hospice Society battles forcing medically assisted death on it

Quinton Amundson · April 25, 2025

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-lifers laud UN saying Canada’s MAiD law discriminates

Terry O'Neill · April 17, 2025

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.

On MAiD, ‘things have not gotten better’

Quinton Amundson · April 16, 2025

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 bishops affirm stance against MAiD

Quinton Amundson · March 18, 2025

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