Elder abuse is a growing concern in Canada, with data showing that reported cases have almost doubled in the past 10 years.
Continue Reading → More seniors face elder abuse in Canada
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A year since assisted suicide became legal, only a small number of physicians are willing to perform the procedure, and their numbers are shrinking. Taking a life is harder than they thought.
Continue Reading → How to End a Life
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The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled, Parliament has legislated and provinces have set up new systems. For most Canadians, the assisted suicide debate is last year’s news story. But Cardinal Gerhard Müller, head of the Catholic Church’s theological watchdog-agency, begs to differ.
Continue Reading → ‘Tragic’ euthanasia law must be fought, Cardinal Müller tells Canadian audience
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A Toronto doctor who once likened assisted dying to the Holocaust is no longer in charge of a federally mandated process to determine whether Canadians should be able to make advance requests for medical help to end their lives.
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With the passage of Bill C-14 last year, medically assisted death, or assisted suicide, has become a reality for physically ill patients with intolerable suffering and for whom death is “reasonably foreseeable.”
Continue Reading → Opinion: Treatment, not assisted death, for mentally ill people
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