MAiD

Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevent Coalition breaks down the statistics on the EPC estimated 90,000 MAiD deaths.

The furtive establishment of a stand-alone, private euthanasia house in Victoria, B.C., has sparked criticism from pro-lifers and exposed yet another way in which medical assistance in dying (MAiD) is spreading throughout the country.

With the second reading debate for Bill C-218 expected before the Christmas recess — MPs last scheduled sitting day is Friday, Dec. 12 — advocates against expanding the Canadian assisted suicide regime are urging the successful passage of this legislation tabled by Conservative Tamara Jansen in June.

A grassroots fundraising campaign launched Sept. 30 by Life Care Network is aiming to give a 50-year-old man with a rare neurological disease the care he says he is being denied.

Dylan McGuinty Jr. has a vision of a coalition that could strike “a grand bargain” to pave the way for more traditional palliative care options in a Canada increasingly embracing euthanasia.

Each day in her role as executive director of Canadian Physicians for Life (CPL), Nicole Scheidl is energized and inspired by “seeing the impact of the education we’re doing” and “talking to physicians in the trenches actually making a difference.”

It takes deep digging to find out what Canada’s permissive euthanasia regime is costing B.C. taxpayers, but the figures are there, buried in the 514-page Medical Services Commission Payment Schedule.

Register staff take a closer look at the homelessness crisis across Canada as well as the recent report by Cardus on MAiD.

Packed with statistical data points, a new research report from the non-partisan Cardus think tank starkly suggests the reality of the Canadian medical assistance in dying (MAiD) regime for vulnerable populations has been significantly more outsized than predicted in the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that decriminalized euthanasia.

Coincidentally, three days before the Cardus think tanks’ From Slippery Slope to Sheer Cliff: MAiD's Impact on Canada Aug. 14 webinar event, a major U.S. magazine outlet published an in-depth exposé with the following headline in huge bold text: “Canada is killing itself.”