Canada’s expansion of Medical Assistance in Dying has made it a global focal point — with a staggering “one in 20 deaths in ...

Canadians with disabilities are disproportionately dying by medical assistance in dying (MAiD) despite official reassurances about strict safeguards. Since legalization, we have seen a lonely Ontario ...

Canada’s MAID law, which expanded the right to die to people without a terminal illness, raises ethical and medical dilemmas. By Katie Engelhart In 2023, one out of 20 Canadians who died received a ...

Paula Ritchie wasn’t dying, but under Canada’s new rules, she qualified for a medically assisted death. Was that kindness or cruelty? “I cannot get through a day,” Paula had said at an assessment for ...

The euthanasia conference was held at a Sheraton. Some 300 Canadian professionals, most of them clinicians, had arrived for the annual event. There were lunch buffets and complimentary tote bags; ...

In 2016, Canada legalized medical assistance in dying (MAID) for adults with a severe and irreversible illness, disease or disability. Social media posts sharing photos of a pamphlet referring to MAID ...

The legalization of medical assistance in dying (MAID) in Canada has led to disproportionately high rates of premature deaths among vulnerable groups, according to a recent Cardus Health report.

For years, advocates of legalizing physician-assisted suicide have recited a comforting refrain: Don’t worry, they assure skeptics worried about the dangers of allowing doctors to prescribe lethal ...

Cardus Health, an organization that aims to foster a social system that supports natural death and helps institutions care for patients approaching the end of life, conducted the report. According to ...