PoliticsSteven Fletcher challenges Canada to a debate on assisted suicideTwo bills on euthanasia now tabled
HealthDoctors want the right to pull the plugThe battle between doctors and patients’ families over end-of-life care has just begun
OttawaThe right to die debate restartedSteven Fletcher on what he would do if he knew it wouldn’t get better
SocietyGloria Jean Taylor, 1948-2012A lifelong activist, she became the only Canadian to win the right to get a doctor’s help to die, after a legal battle in B.C.
OttawaThe federal government appeals BC’s assisted suicide rulingJustice Minister Rob Nicholson announces an appeal of the British Columbia Supreme Court’s ruling on assisted...
OttawaWho will advocate for euthanasia?Neither the government nor the official opposition seem interested in pursuing the recommendations of yesterday’s Royal Society...
GeneralOn the need to restart the debate on assisted suicideLee Carter and Hollis Johnson discuss death and chocolate in a Swiss clinic
Ottawa’A person’s right to choose is what is at the heart of this bill’Francine Lalonde’s private member’s bill on assisted suicide—previously discussed here —received its final hour of debate...
GeneralMaclean’s Interview: Bernice PackfordThe 95-year-old on why she wants to kill herself, despite being healthy, and why she thinks a doctor should be allowed to help