September 2019 has been an extraordinary month for medical assistance in dying (MAiD), with two major developments only seven days apart. As a result, more Canadians with grievous and irremediable medical conditions will be able …
Read MoreThe good news is that Health Canada has approved Mifegymiso for sale in Canada. Mifegymiso is a combination of drugs that, taken together, cause what’s called a medical abortion. Medical abortion can be preferable to …
Read MoreIn a mere 18 words, the federal government has introduced an amendment to Canada’s medical assistance in dying legislation that is discriminatory, stigmatizing and simultaneously overbroad and impermissibly vague and arbitrary. Furthermore, it is logically incoherent and takes …
Read MoreOn April 14, 2016, Canada moved one step closer to establishing its system for legally permissible assisted dying. The federal government introduced Bill C-14, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code and to Make Amendments …
Read MoreMs. S. was a 56-year-old woman with advanced multiple sclerosis. In June 2016, when her suffering became intolerable and her state of decline was advanced as a result of her incurable medical condition, she asked …
Read MoreWhen complex and controversial draft legislation is processed rapidly, significant potential implications of the bill – and any amendments made to it – can be missed. Unfortunately, this is precisely what happened with the federal …
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic has forced health-care policy-makers across the world to face the same gut-wrenching question: if critical care wards become overcrowded, to whom do we give potentially life-saving resources and whom do we deny? Once …
Read MoreOn October 5, 2020, the federal Minister of Justice introduced Bill C-7 to amend Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) legislation. Parliament will debate this bill over the coming weeks, aiming to bring the legislation …
Read MoreThe 2019 federal election just got more complicated, as the issue of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) has been thrust back into the news and onto the desks of government. In a landmark decision released …
Read MoreTwo developments at Health Canada recently came crashing together in an illuminating way: the adoption of Risk Management Plans in the drug approval process and the approval of Mifegymiso, commonly referred to as the abortion …
Read More(This article has been translated into French.) Should people with mental illness as their sole underlying medical condition be allowed to have access to medical assistance in dying (MAiD)? That’s a question in front of Parliament right now. …
Read MoreWhen the federal government introduced Canada’s medical assistance in dying legislation back in 2016, there was swift and fierce backlash against one of the eligibility criteria – a person’s natural death had to have become …
Read MoreLast September, a Quebec Superior Court judge struck down key provisions in the Quebec and federal laws on medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in what’s known as the Truchon and Gladu case. These set out …
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