MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

An 83-year-old Canadian grandmother was euthanized under the country’s Medical Assistance in Dying program on July 10, 2026, despite having previously declined it because of her Christian faith and without providing what her family describes as a final verbal confirmation of consent.

Brigitte Stegemann, known lovingly to her family as “GG,” died by lethal injection at The Pearl (formerly E.J. McQuigge Lodge), a long-term care facility in Belleville, Ontario, where she had lived for the previous two years.

h/t Patti Jo

The government system to euthanize Canadians is running into problems with the language of killing.

From Newfoundland to Alberta, physicians are instructed to erase the state’s role in nearly 100,000 MAiD killings. British Columbia alone tells the truth. The question is why everyone else has chosen not to.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has instructed physicians completing death certificates for patients who die by Medical Assistance in Dying …

A 49-year-old B.C. woman who documented her experience with young-onset Alzheimer’s disease has died after she was approved for medical assistance in dying (MAID).

Rebecca Luna, a mother of two from Victoria, B.C., died at approximately 1:15 p.m. on July 25, according to a post on the TikTok account where she described the disease and what it was doing to her to more than 97,000 followers. She called herself a young-onset Alzheimer’s and MAID advocate.

No sooner had France passed its law authorising euthanasia than a borderline case emerged in the press, bearing witness to the deadly spiral into which the country is being drawn. It undoubtedly illustrates the concerns of those who had been warning of a gradual shift in decision-making power towards the medical profession.

A paper published by the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that Canada should take advantage of the bumper crop of corpses produced by its euthanasia policies and begin harvesting them for organs.

The organs would be taken from the euthanasia volunteers while they are sedated, but still alive.

Carney’s China pals harvest organs from prisoners. Our elites are demented evil beings.

h/t patthedog

A new paper is reviving the idea of “death by organ donation” — retrieving organs from MAID patients while they are sedated and unconscious but still alive.

Current law prohibits it, due to the long-standing dead donor rule, or DDR, which holds that people must be dead before organs can be removed (the “Death Requirement”) and that doctors must not kill a person by means of procuring his or her organs (the “Don’t Kill Rule”).

Hundreds of MAID cases in British Columbia in 2024 involved reporting errors and “compliance concerns” that resulted in practitioners receiving “education” on the criminal law and professional standards governing MAID, according to an internal B.C. government document.

The findings are bolstering calls for stronger, independent oversight of the country’s assisted death regime.

THE relentless and now catastrophic decline of Christianity in Britain, which amounts to its virtual disappearance, has not been thrust upon the Church as some dreadful form of persecution. The Church has willed its own destruction; a final catalyst applied by our monarch who has formally abdicated his authority as Defender of the Faith. But the Church itself has been complicit in its own obliteration. It has co-operated enthusiastically with the forces which sought its destruction.

Health professionals in B.C. made 2,807 errors while managing more than 4,000 euthanasia cases in 2024, according to documents from the provincial health ministry.

The B.C. oversight unit for medical assistance in dying (MAID) identified 2,807 cases that required government “follow-up” from at least 4,169 MAID cases handled that year, according to the documents first obtained by the news outlet Canadian Catholic News through a freedom of information request.

It is said that when Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he paused for a few seconds before replying: “I think it would be a very good idea.” It was an amusing response even if it was a bit unfair. There was once such a thing as Western civilization; but the fact is, it is more or less behind us now. To speak of “civilization” in the context of modern Europe is to hide behind a fancy word. Deep down we all know it, even if it’s hard to admit: the game is up.

Mark Carney’s government will, come fall, face the pivotal task of deciding how to respond to a parliamentary committee recommendation to bar medical assistance in dying for patients with mental illness.

Justice Minister Sean Fraser has promised to review the newly released report from the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying. He also intends to read dissenting opinions. Four senators want the government to refer the matter to the Supreme Court of Canada.

The guy who messed up both immigration and housing is now going to play God.

We have some confusing notions of autonomy in this country when it comes to issues around medical assistance in dying (MAID). Some are of the view that people should be allowed to do what they want with their bodies no matter what, and that the state should have little to no role in decisions of life and death. But there is an important difference between letting people do what they want to themselves, and allowing some people to euthanize others who may be in a vulnerable state. It is not paternalistic to try to protect those people, and for the state to err on the side of life where there are questions of capacity, coercion and consent for an act for which there is no going back.

A special parliamentary committee is recommending that the federal government “indefinitely exclude” people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness from applying for medical assistance in dying (MAID).

In a report tabled in the House of Commons Wednesday, the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (AMAD) recommended that the government “amend the Criminal Code” to add this exclusion.

The 88-page report — which comes on the 10-year anniversary of MAID being legalized in Canada — reviews whether the country is ready from a clinical, health systems and regulatory perspective based on expert testimony.

When medical assistance in dying (MAID) became law in 2016, advocates of the policy celebrated. People now had the right to ask their doctor to end their lives to avoid suffering and spare their loved ones the agony of watching them die a slow and possibly undignified death. This was argued as the most basic of human rights: the right to control one’s own destiny.

The debate was between those who believe only God can decide when we die, and those who believe people should have the right to control their own destiny. Ultimately, the law of land permitted physicians to end the life of a patient, as long rigid criteria were met.