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.
When is it enough?
This question has often run through my head. Maybe it’s the question everyone living with chronic illness asks themselves at certain times. Which is to say, “What is a good life? What is a life worth living?”
For 40 years I’ve lived with Type 1 diabetes. There have been good years and bad years. Complications, some challenging, most manageable, built up over time. Then, four years ago I developed long COVID. Diabetes was plenty to manage. Long COVID’s neurological effects took living with disability to a whole other level. It was, at times, too much.
What does it look like when a country starts to die?
We can see it plainly when the death is catastrophic: when a nation succumbs to a hostile takeover, or to the forces of tyranny, corruption or lawlessness.
But what about when the soul of a nation starts to atrophy, slowly, in a manner that’s nearly undetectable at first? Maybe it starts with just a little ache – the niggling kind you can ignore when you’re out and about during the day. But when it’s nighttime and you’re alone, you wonder if that little ache might signal something far more pernicious.
According to LifeSiteNews, Ontario doctor James MacLean was given just six months’ probation by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) for scoping out and assessing a man outside a Tim Hortons coffeehouse and then personally driving him to his medically assisted death by fatal injection. He will be allowed to continue to practice under state supervision for those six months and after that is free to do what he does.
Instances of euthanasia — solicited, coerced, and delivered without permission — are becoming ever more common in the Great White North.
A 45-year-old Thomas Dillon, who suffered from Crohn’s disease, was medically euthanized in Canada by a doctor who deemed him fit to die after a quick assessment at a Tim Horton’s restaurant.
Canadians remain broadly supportive of the country’s original assisted dying law, but new polling suggests support weakens sharply when eligibility is expanded to include people who are not near death or those seeking MAiD for mental illness alone.
A new Angus Reid Institute survey released Monday found 77% of Canadians still support the original 2016 Medical Assistance in Dying framework, which applied to people whose deaths were reasonably foreseeable and who were suffering from a severe and irremediable condition.
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In response to a shocking MAiD case going viral — one Republican candidate running for US senate says the US should stop all trade with Canada until it trashes its euthanasia practice.
Mark Lynch, a Republican candidate for South Carolina, reacted to a story publicized on X, which reported on a London Ontario man, Thomas Dillon, who was assessed and approved outside a Tim Hortons for MAiD.
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