Highlights of the Senate’s debate on assisted dying
’With Bill C-14, we are facing the most difficult and important area of the law that many of us will ever be forced to contend with as parliamentarians.’
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Nikki Wiart
Nikki is a writer whose head is in Ottawa, but whose heart remains in the Prairies. Her favourite topics to write about are agricultural policy, indigenous issues, and death culture—a group of interests her editors said was the strangest they’ve heard yet.
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