Paul Tuns: On Oct. 30, Quebec’s 2024-2025 Report on the Commission of End-of-Life Care was released, revealing that 1 in 15 deaths in the province is through Medical Assistance in Dying. “The Commission notes that MAiD is in increasing demand and occupies an important place in the public sphere in Quebec,” the report states. The report covers April 1, 2024 to March [...]
Canadians divided on abortion, euthanasia, not so much on divorce, contraception Paul Tuns: On Oct. 16, Research Co. released the results of their online poll on what behaviours Canadians find morally acceptable from abortion and euthanasia to marital affairs and gambling. With the exception of pedophilia, there was significant support for most immoral behaviours and majority support for many of them. While [...]
Josie Luetke: Last month, I shared how Campaign Life Coalition, with the help of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, is legally challenging the rules barring abortion victim photography or any “signs or banners that display explicit graphic violence or blood” on Parliament Hill. Our hearing date, originally scheduled for Oct. 2, has been postponed, but since I last wrote, the respondents, [...]
From the editor’s desk: From the editor's desk On pages 14 and 15 of this issue we have book reviews of three giants of mid-20th century conservatism: William F. Buckley, Frank S. Meyer, and James Burnham. All three were at the founding of National Review, a magazine that has shaped U.S. conservatism since its founding 70 Novembers ago in 1955. [...]
Interim Staff: On Oct. 16, the Uruguay Senate passed a euthanasia law which permits a medical professional to kill an adult patient but does not permit assisted suicide in which a patient self-administers a lethal dose of a deadly medication. The vote was carried 31-20, supported by the governing left-wing coalition government of President Yamandú Orsi. The South American country lower house, [...]
Paul Tuns: Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, estimates that in 2024 there were “about 16,500” euthanasia deaths, bringing the total to 76,800 since Medical Assistance in Dying was legalized in 2016. With numbers steadily increasing each year, Schadenberg estimates that about 90,000 patients have been euthanized when you include this year’s numbers which will not be available until [...]
Paul Tuns: Inclusion Canada’s Krista Carr said she hears weekly from people with disabilities who are tentative accessing public health care because of concerns about being pressured into Medical Assistance in Dying. During testimony before the parliamentary Finance Committee, Krista Carr, CEO of Inclusion Canada, a disabilities group, told MPs that she is aware of Canadians who are concerned about [...]
Paul Tuns: The National Post reported that woman in her late 80s was killed by euthanasia after “a family member brought forward a request for an assisted death.” The woman, identified only as Mrs. 6F in a recent coroner’s committee report, was subsequently killed by medical staff after a MAiD provider, the Post reported, “deemed the woman had given her final expressed [...]
Paul Tuns: Ontario’s MAID Death Review Committee (MDRC) released its fifth report on August 25 which revealed that a number of euthanasia deaths may not conform to regulations governing the practice of Medical Assistance in Dying, with patients killed due to hand tremors that caused psychological suffering, untreated obesity, and voluntary cessation of eating and drinking. The MDRC is a body of [...]
Paul Tuns: Just 11 days after Charlie Kirk was killed, his widow Erika Kirk addressed the nationally broadcast memorial service with words of grace: “My husband, Charlie, he wanted to save young men just like the one who took his life … On the cross, our Savior said: ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’ That young man—that young [...]
Paul Tuns: Despite it being against federal law, last year Quebec expanded Medical Assistance in Dying to people with dementia who could request to be euthanized in an advanced directive while they are competent to do so for a time when they may lack the capacity to consent to be killed by a health care practitioner. Quebec’s euthanasia law permits “persons suffering [...]
Paul Tuns: In an interview with the New York Times, Canadian children’s author Robert Munsch, 80, said that he has been approved for Medical Assistance in Dying at a later date when his mind begins to deteriorate due to dementia. The author of more than 70 books that have sold nearly 90 million combined copies, including Angela’s Airplane, Love You Forever, and [...]
From the editor's desk One of the necessary ingredients to reversing tanking fertility rates is restoring the vaunted place of motherhood and one way to do that is to make life easier for moms and families. Katherine Boyle, general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, tweeted some policy ideas on how to accomplish this: “Here’s some super easy things states [...]
UN agencies use AI to spy on youth UN agencies are targeting adolescents around the world—India, Eastern and Southern Africa, the Philippines—by spying on them for their attitudes towards contraception, abortion access, and sexual identity. The agencies target youth with information to change their traditional, family views on these controversial issues. UNFPA (United Nations Fund for Population Activities) works in more [...]
From the editor’s desk Paul Tuns: From the editor's desk Kevin Yuill writes about the eugenic roots of the euthanasia movement in Spiked: “This campaign of involuntary euthanasia, known as Aktion T4, cost tens of thousands of lives. According to the Nazis’ own record, at least 70,000 disabled people were put to death, although some sources suggest that the figure [...]