Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey The Canadian government, in consultation with “experts,” is presently determining “how MAID can be provided safely to those whose only medical condition is a mental illness.” In less than a year, on March17, 2023, they will become eligible for euthanasia, deceptively referred to as “medical assistance in dying,” even though the only [...]
Paul Tuns In February 2021, the British Columbia Ministry of Health defunded the Delta Hospice Society (DHS) and expropriated its ten-bed hospice building because it refused to participate in euthanasia killing. The Delta Health Authority took over its premises at the Irene Thomas Hospice in order to provide medicalized end-of-life killing last year, with NDP Health Minister Adrian Dix insisting it was [...]
Interim Staff: Two Windsor women were charged with murder after they killed a 79-year-old female family member that the accused say was an assisted suicide. Police did not release the names of the victim and the accused in order protect the integrity of the investigation, but the two women were identified as being 23 and 49 years of age, and both were [...]
Paul Tuns: The Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario released data showing that the number of euthanasia deaths in the province increased more than 30 per cent in 2021 compared to the previous year. The Chief Coroner reported 3102 deaths by euthanasia in 2021, up more from 2378 in 2020. For the month of December, there was more than a 50 [...]
Paul Tuns: Conservative MP Kelly Block (Carlton Trail-Eagle Creek) introduced a conscience rights private member’s bill in Parliament. If passed, Bill C-230, “An Act to amend the Criminal Code (intimidation of health care professionals),” would make it a criminal offense to compel a medical professional from taking part, directly or indirectly, in euthanasia or assisted-suicide or firing any such medical professional for [...]
Interim Staff The CBC reported on two London, Ont. funeral homes which are making an extra buck by renting out dedicated rooms where customers can have a medically induced death. The CBC reports that Northview Funeral Chapel owner Paul Needham started receiving requests from families looking for “a place to go” for the euthanasia “procedure” at the start of COVID lockdowns. Needham [...]
Josie Luetke Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey “Every woman in Canada has a right to a safe and legal abortion,” according to none other than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “Access to safe, legal abortion is a fundamental right of women, irrespective of where they live,” according to a 2006 publication from the World Health Organization. One of Campaign Life Coalition’s [...]
Every new annual provincial or federal report on the euphemistically named Medical Aid in Dying shows that the number of medicalized murders in the form of euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide grows by leaps and bounds. In October, Quebec’s euthanasia data revealed a 37 per cent increase (to 2426 euthanasia deaths) from April 2020 to March 31, 2021 compared to the previous year. [...]
Peter Baklinski Pro-life hospice president on why she’ll never surrender to euthanasia activists Angelina Ireland never could have imagined the battle she was about to face, when, two years ago, she became president of a palliative care society that ran a small 10-bed hospice for the sick and elderly in a small Canadian city. Angelina never could have imagined that she and [...]
Rory Leishman As rising numbers of critically ill COVID-19 patients threatened to overwhelm Saskatchewan’s intensive care units (ICU) wards last October, the Saskatchewan government called upon the Canadian military to airlift 19 of the province’s ICU patients to hospitals in Ontario. This was not an isolated incident. Earlier in the pandemic, critically ill COVID patients in some regions of Ontario also had [...]
Sarah Gangl: Health Canada’s recent report on g (MAiD) in 2020 reveals a dramatic increase in deaths in Canada, rising 34.2 per cent over 2019. A staggering 7,595 reported deaths in Canada last year can be attributed to assisted killing, accounting for 2.5 per cent of all deaths nationally. In total, Canada has officially counted 21,589 medically assisted deaths since the legislation [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Ahead of the National March for Life, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition executive director Alex Schadenberg and I gave a joint webinar on euthanasia and abortion. Attendees, hearing about how Canada has been without any restriction on abortion for over three decades and how Bill C-7 has transformed our euthanasia regime from bad to [...]
Alex Schadenberg: Euthanasia Prevention Coalition executive director Alex Schadenberg complains bill's terms are poorly defined. When Canada legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide (MAiD) in June 2016, a section of the legislation required the government to conduct a full five-year review of the legislation, starting in June 2020. Instead of conducting a full review of the law, the Canadian government decided [...]
Paul Tuns I want to bring to your attention three articles written about euthanasia over the last few days that are all very important. The first is the always pertinent Wesley Smith, at NRO, with an article titled, "Alzheimer’s Breakthrough and the False Compassion of Assisted Suicide." Smith notes: Alzheimer’s and other dementia patients are now in the cross hairs of the [...]
Paul Tuns: DutchNews reports that in 2020 there was a record 6938 officially reported euthanasia deaths in 2020, up from 6361 the year before, an increase of nine per cent. The number of euthanasia cases exceeded the previous peak of 6585 deaths in 2017. Each year, Regional Euthanasia Review Committees (RTE) analyze all official deaths by euthanasia to ensure that they meet [...]