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Federal Government Takes Action on Physician Assisted Dying

August 14, 2015

A lot has happened since CARP hosted an ‘Adult Conversation on Medically Assisted Dying’ - a televised forum that ...

Next step in assisted suicide: Ensuring it can be done humanely

February 11, 2015

The Supreme Court of Canada, in lifting the legal impediments to physician-assisted death, expressed clearly what ...

Four issues surrounding the Supreme Court ruling on assisted death

February 11, 2015

A Supreme Court of Canada ruling that cleared the way for doctors to help competent, grievously ill adults end their ...

The right to Choose is Law; there’s still room for political leadership

February 11, 2015

  The Supreme Court of Canada has pronounced on the quintessential issue of our generation – whether we can ...

Our laws have not kept pace with Canadian views on assisted death

October 18, 2014

Editor's Note:  This author was a guest panelist on CARP's  medically assisted dying panel which will be televised ...

Physician-assisted death and euthanasia in Canada: should it be legal or banned?

August 9, 2014

When Canadians saw the video from Donald Low pleading for physician-assisted death, it sparked a nationwide ...

MP promotes debate on physician-assisted death

June 27, 2014

The e-mail was just one of thousands that have arrived in Steven Fletcher’s inbox since the Winnipeg MP embarked ...

Quebec passes landmark end-of-life-care bill

June 6, 2014

Act respecting end-of-life care, Bill 52, allows terminally ill patients to choose death Terminally ill patients in ...

The Middle-Aged Guide to Growing Up: Hurry Sundown

October 18, 2013

I’m a Boomer, and my grade 4 class was cancelled and sent home when we learned JFK had been shot. I saw Lee Harvey ...

Let’s Talk Tough Questions: Assisted Suicide Update and Some Breaking News

October 5, 2013

“Death belongs to the dying and to those who love them,” Sherwin B. Nuland in How We Die: Reflections on ...