- December 9, 2016: Health minister Barrette presents Bill 130; a bill that would require doctors to perform hospital duties or risk facing a disciplinary committee. Read more
- December 5, 2016: Eddy Lang has cared for the sick and injured in hospital emergency rooms in Montreal and Calgary, and he doesn’t hesitate for a second when asked which city has fared better in dealing with the ER crisis. Read more
- November 29, 2016: A report accidentally released to the National Assembly reported troubling practices in the provinces CHSLDs. Read more
- November 29, 2016: According to the latest publicly available data, 28 requests for assisted suicide were administered in Estrie in 2016 to date. Read more
- October 27, 2016: The Commission on end-of-life care published their first annual report of activities where it was announced that there had been 262 cases of euthanasia since September 1st. It mentioned having examined 198 cases within which 21 were problematic: Among them, 18 cases concern the independence of the second doctor, 2 cases mention a problem with the end-of-life criterion, and 1 case raises questions about whether the patient was actually suffering from a serious and incurable disease. Read more
- October 21, 2016: The International Congress on Palliative Care was held in Montreal, where speakers voiced their concerns about the future of palliative are in Quebec. According to them, the arrival of euthanasia exposes the palliative care milieu in Quebec to a risk of “fracture and implosion,” because of the increasing pressure to “penetrate the aid to die in its environments of care. Read more
- September 30, 2016: The annual report of The Quebec Ombudsman criticized the fact that bureaucracy has suffered less than vulnerable cutbacks in public services and that it is therefore the most vulnerable who pay the price of austerity. Read more
- September 29, 2016: Canadian Bishops are attacked in the media for having wrongly considered the possibility to deny a religious funeral in some cases of euthanasia – even though to this day, no directive has been given in this respect. Read more
- September 22, 2016: Unions representing the staff of the Bas-Saint-Laurent health facilities denounce the considerable deterioration of the quality of services following the health cuts. Read more
- September 21, 2016: Confusion still surrounds the differences between the federal law and the Quebec law on euthanasia and assisted suicide. The minister Gaétan Barrette warns Quebec doctors who risk applying the federal law C-14 that they risk getting in trouble with the law. Read more
- September 19, 2016:Patients and unions denounce the Quebec government on conducting another consultation of nursing homes instead of making concrete efforts to improve the lives of patients. Read more
- September 19, 2016: The commission charged with observing the application of the law on euthanasia in Quebec is accused again by the same euthanasia doctors who question its impartiality due to the presence of opponents of euthanasia within its board of directors. Read more
- September 10, 2016: On the occasion of the 14th World Day of suicide prevention, the Association québécoise de prévention du suicide notes that 1100 Quebecers take their own lives every year, or 3 people per day, and that the situation stagnated despite prevention campaigns. Read more
- September 9, 2016: The commission charged with observing the implementation of the law on euthanasia in Quebec is accused of being too proactive by euthanasia doctors. Read more
- August 30, 2016: considering the increasing number of Quebecers who kill themselves by fasting because they are ineligible to euthanasia, the Collège des médecins du Québec announced that it is preparing a "practical guide" to help doctors accompany their patients who will die of hunger and thirst. Read more
- August 17, 2016: La Maison Albatros is publicly singled out because of their refusal to euthanize a patient electing instead to transfer him to a hospital in Trois-Rivières, as provided by the law. Read more
- July 24, 2016: Inauguration of a palliative care unit at the Verdun Hospital in Montreal. Read more
- July 23, 2016: Quebec doctors who practice euthanasia must proceed by ignoring the directions of Health Canada which has still not approved the protocol for administration of products used in cases of euthanasia. Read more
- July 18, 2016: The Quebec government adopts new ministerial directives to make the practice of euthanasia in Quebec in line with federal law. Read more
- July 13, 2016: A doctor from Montreal files a lawsuit before the Superior Court of Quebec to challenge the Quebec law that legalized euthanasia. Read more
- July 7, 2016: Six month after the law regarding end-of-life care came into effect, publicly-released data shows that requests for euthanasia exceeded estimates and that the 166 people euthanized in Quebec represents about twice the amount that experts anticipated. Read more
- July 4, 2016: The Physicians’ Alliance against euthanasia publishes an open letter to Véronique Hivon to denounce her attack against the MUHC accusing her of wanting to impose euthanasia in palliative care. Read more
- June 29, 2016: Véronique Hivon asks Health Minister Gaétan Barrette to intervene and force the MUHC Palliative Care Unit to perform euthanasia in their unit . Dr Barrette responds that he wants to quell the resistance .
- February 29, 2016: A communication campaign is launched by the Government of Quebec on end of life care. Link to the message
- February 16, 2016: The media report a dozen official euthanasia cases in Quebec since the entry into force of the law. Read more
- January 15, 2016: The Supreme Court of Canada agrees to exempt Quebec from the four-month extension it granted the Federal government to adopt a law on assisted suicide. Thus, the Quebec euthanasia law, which came into force on December 10, 2015, is formally approved by the Supreme Court of Canada. Read more
- January 14, 2016: Media outlets report first official case of euthanasia in Quebec
- January 4, 2016: The Quebec Court of Appeal stated that the Criminal Code provisions that still prohibit "medical aid in dying" can not, by themselves, prevent the entry into force and implementation of euthanasia in Quebec since they were declared invalid by the Supreme Court of Canada in the Carter decision. Read more
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