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The Supreme Court of Canada gave the federal government one year to write an effective law on physician-assisted suicide. This is not enough.

Among others things, we request  the federal government to invoke the notwithstanding clause and to establish a Royal Commission to study how best to respond to the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in the Carter case.

We must ensure that any response from the government will not abandon people and will protect ...

As you know, in July 2014 Living with Dignity and the Physicians' Alliance against Euthanasia filed a motion in the Superior Court, District of Montreal, to seek to have declared invalid all the provisions of An Act concerning end-of-life care dealing with  "medical aid in dying".

Following the catastrophic decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Carter legalising physician-assisted suicide, and as we do not know how the federal government will react, we examined ...

One of the risks related to the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide is that prognosis aren't always correct. While modern medicine is able to relieve pain, it isn't always possible to predict the exact course of an illness or the outcome of an accident.

We've recently learned of a man who survived a serious motorcycle accident, and spent several weeks in a coma afterwards. His physicians were saying there was little ...