Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Quebec “legalized” euthanasia in 2014, even though the federal prohibition wouldn’t be struck down by the Supreme Court until a year later, and the new parameters for the procedure not passed until a year after that. In 2019, a Quebec Superior Court ruling declared unconstitutional the requirement that one’s natural death be [...]
Mary Zwicker: Arrests have been made and a criminal case opened following the use of a “suicide pod” to end the life of an American woman deep in the Swiss woods. Swiss authorities are considering the possibility of charging the perpetrator with “intentional homicide.” The October Interim reported on the “Sarco” suicide pod and the death of Kate Connelly, a 64-year-old American [...]
Paul Tuns: Rita Marker, who Wesley Smith called “the great anti-euthanasia warrior,” died at the age of 83 on Oct. 30 after a long illness. Marker’s activism against euthanasia began in the mid-1980s after attending an international “right-to-die” convention in Europe. Smith said, “She was so alarmed by what she heard, she and her late husband and soulmate Mike Marker, formed the [...]
Paul Tuns: Diane Coleman, founder of the anti-euthanasia organization Not Dead Yet, died on Nov. 1 at the age of 71. Coleman, who was born with muscular spinal atrophy, a disorder that led her to use a wheelchair by the age of 11 and which doctors predicted would prevent her from reaching adulthood, founded Not Dead Yet in 1996 to show opposition [...]
Paul Tuns: Alexander Raikin published a report in The New Atlantis on Nov. 13, that reveals at least 428 Ontario patients who were killed by the country’s Medical Assistance in Dying regime that did not comply with federal law, or federal or provincial regulations. Raikin begins his report with the stark comment: “For years, there have been clear signals that euthanasia providers [...]
By J.M. Glover British Catholics fight against assisted suicide bill A recent CBC online story has reported that Russian On Oct. 16, British members of Parliament began debating a Labour bill to legalise assisted suicide. Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, released a pastoral letter to Catholics reminding them that “the evidence from every [...]
Meanwhile Dying with Dignity asks courts to extend law to mentally ill Paul Tuns: On Sept. 26, a coalition of disability rights organizations and two individuals filed a Charter challenge with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice opposing Track 2 of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) law, which provides euthanasia to people with a disability who are not terminally ill. The [...]
Paul Tuns: An Ontario coroner’s committee revealed that one in fifty euthanasia deaths in the province violated so-called safeguards to protect vulnerable patients and that they were not offered medical or social supports that may have encouraged people to eschew choosing Medical Assistance in Dying. The MAiD Death Review Committee is a 16-person committee of medical professionals, social workers, ethicists, lawyers, and [...]
Rory Leishman: Thanks to the appalling Medical Assistance in Dying laws mandated by the Supreme Court of Canada and enacted by the Trudeau Liberals and their NDP and Bloc Quebecois allies, Canada now has both the most and the fastest increasing number of euthanasia deaths in the entire world. More Canadians are killed every year by MAID than die of stroke. Yet [...]
Oswald Clark: West Virginia could outlaw euthanasia Voters in ten states will decide the fate of abortion laws after abortion advocates organized to get referenda on the issue on the ballot. The ten states are Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, and South Dakota. In Maryland and New York, the legislature voted to put the constitutional amendment on [...]
Paul Tuns: On Sept. 7, the Quebec government announced that it would allow advanced directives for Medical Assistance in Dying, when Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette directed Crown prosecutors’ offices to not file charges against doctors and nurses who carry out the procedure. As of October 30, patients will be able to make advance requests for the procedure before their condition renders [...]
Paul Tuns: The Sarco suicide pod, designed by infamous Australian euthanasia activist Philip Nitschke, is being sold in the United Kingdom and the Daily Mail newspaper reported that Peter and Christina Scott will become the first people to die by assisted suicide in the pod and that they intend to die together at the same time. Meanwhile, Swiss police arrested several people [...]
Paul Tuns: Rebel News’s Sheila Gunn Reid reported that Veterans Affairs Canada attempted to hide its paper trail relating to case workers who suggested that veterans access Medical Assistance in Dying. Gunn Reid, who obtained the more than 1200 pages of documents by filing access to information requests, published her findings at Rebel news on August 20. She revealed that nearly a [...]
Paul Tuns: Professor Christopher Lyon published a study titled “Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying System can Enable Healthcare Serial Killing” in HEC Forum – HEC stands for HealthCare Ethics Committee -- concluding that Canada’s euthanasia law enables serial killers within the health care system. Lyon, who teaches at the University of York in the United Kingdom and whose 77-year-old father was killed [...]
Gideon Spevak: A Canadian war veteran is coming out and condemning, in no uncertain terms, the Canadian government’s euthanasia agenda. Kelsi Sheren, an artillery specialist and a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, served on the front lines at 18 years of age. She is now the CEO and Founder of Brass & Unity, a brand dedicated to rehabilitating veterans who struggle [...]