4+ hour, 42+ min ago   (577+ words) Canada’s state broadcaster recently published an article on Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children, ages 5, 3, and 8 months. In its Sept. 1 article, CBC News does not ask how a just and humane society should treat the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (279+ words) A special joint committee of senators and MPs studying the issue has concluded that Canada’s Criminal Code should be amended to “indefinitely exclude” people with mental illness alone from being eligible for physician-assisted death. “MAID was meant to be a…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1666+ words) Some would-be mothers reported doing free social media promos for clinics in exchange for lower fees. One woman travelled to Brazil, where costs were cheaper Fertility Inc. is a multi-part series by the Investigative Journalism Bureau that delves into the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1700+ words) In the United Kingdom and United States, public registries offer up success rates for individual clinics. Canada has no such requirement Fertility Inc. is a five-part series by the Investigative Journalism Bureau that delves into the Wild West of the…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (662+ words) ‘We're here to call upon Parliament to enact legal protection for all human beings from conception until natural death’ OTTAWA — A wide range of speakers took the stage on Thursday afternoon in Ottawa for the annual National March for Life…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (486+ words) OTTAWA — Leaders of Canada’s largest pro-life group warned on Wednesday that eligibility for medical assistance in dying, or MAID, is poised to expand dramatically in less than a year if legislative action is not taken to halt the change. Speaking…...

5+ mon, 2+ day ago   (170+ words) Perhaps one of the most controversial issues in Canada is MAID, or medical assistance in dying. There are people who feel that it’s being offered too readily in cases where death may not be an appropriate course, and others who…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1130+ words) Dutch doctors report that requests for MAID on mental health grounds ‘have risen sharply, with a disproportionate increase among young adults and, more recently, minors’ Four-and-a-half years after he was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, a Dutch teen was euthanized…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (390+ words) Most countries, Scotland included, likely don't realize just how dysfunctional, unserious and lazy Canada is. Across the pond in Edinburgh, meanwhile, members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) voted 69 to 57 against legalizing medically assisted suicide even for terminally ill, mentally competent…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (548+ words) Danielle Smith's plan reinforces the ethical principles that coercive influences to die should never drive MAiD eligibility Alberta’s Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act signals a fundamental policy and ethical correction: medical assistance in dying must remain an…...