Paul Tuns: On Sept. 7, the Quebec government announced that it would allow advanced directives for Medical Assistance in Dying, when Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette directed Crown prosecutors’ offices to not file charges against doctors and nurses who carry out the procedure. As of October 30, patients will be able to make advance requests for the procedure before their condition renders [...]
Paul Tuns: The Sarco suicide pod, designed by infamous Australian euthanasia activist Philip Nitschke, is being sold in the United Kingdom and the Daily Mail newspaper reported that Peter and Christina Scott will become the first people to die by assisted suicide in the pod and that they intend to die together at the same time. Meanwhile, Swiss police arrested several people [...]
Paul Tuns: Rebel News’s Sheila Gunn Reid reported that Veterans Affairs Canada attempted to hide its paper trail relating to case workers who suggested that veterans access Medical Assistance in Dying. Gunn Reid, who obtained the more than 1200 pages of documents by filing access to information requests, published her findings at Rebel news on August 20. She revealed that nearly a [...]
Paul Tuns: Professor Christopher Lyon published a study titled “Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying System can Enable Healthcare Serial Killing” in HEC Forum – HEC stands for HealthCare Ethics Committee -- concluding that Canada’s euthanasia law enables serial killers within the health care system. Lyon, who teaches at the University of York in the United Kingdom and whose 77-year-old father was killed [...]
Gideon Spevak: A Canadian war veteran is coming out and condemning, in no uncertain terms, the Canadian government’s euthanasia agenda. Kelsi Sheren, an artillery specialist and a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, served on the front lines at 18 years of age. She is now the CEO and Founder of Brass & Unity, a brand dedicated to rehabilitating veterans who struggle [...]
Leire Douros: Tracy Polewczuk of Quebec was born with spina bifida, a birth defect that causes weak bones. Recently she told CTV that twice she was told of her eligibility to be euthanized despite not initiating the topic herself. Several years ago, Polewczuk suffered an accident which caused her leg to break. She hasn’t been able to heal properly which requires her [...]
Paul Tuns: New Cardus report says that medicalized killing of patients is now ‘routine’ According to Alex Schadenberg, there were approximately 15,280 euthanasia deaths in 2023 and a total of more than 60,000 from when so-called Medical Assistance in Dying was legalized in Canada in 2016 through to the end of last year. Based on data released from Alberta, B.C., Manitoba, Nova [...]
By J.M. Glover: Dermot Kearney: Pro-life hero Dr. Dermot Kearney, a British Catholic cardiologist who spoke at the National March for Life in May, has been honoured for his work on the medical abortion pill reversal (APR). (See The Interim, June 2024.) In April, he received the Anton Neuwirth Prize for the Protection of Life Award in Slovakia “for providing medical care [...]
Paul Tuns: Two Bloc MPs are sponsoring Bill C-390, which if passed, would expand Canada’s euthanasia law to permit so-called advanced directives. Sylvie Bérubé (Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou) and Luc Thériault (Montcalm) held a press conference on May 22 to announce that they have introduced C-390, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (provincial medical assistance in dying framework), to permit provinces to allow advanced [...]
Paul Tuns: Last month, the CBC reported that Normand Meunier, a 66-year-old tetraplegic, requested “medical assistance in dying” following a hospitalization during which he developed severe bedsores. In January, Meunier arrived at the hospital in Saint-Jérôme, Que., with a respiratory virus. Meunier, who suffered a debilitating spinal cord injury in 2022 that left his arms and legs paralyzed, had his third respiratory [...]
Paul Tuns: On April 8, the Vatican released a document affirming the dignity of every individual, condemning abortion, euthanasia, surrogacy, human trafficking and transgenderism, as well as poverty, violence, war, sexual abuse, and poor treatment of migrants and prisoners. The document, Dignitas infinita, was released by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) and written by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, [...]
Interim Staff: Justice Colin Feasby ruled that a 27-year-old autistic woman who lives with her parents can die by euthanasia. The woman, identified only as M.V., has no other health issues and lives with her parents. Her father objected to his daughter being euthanized and won a temporary injunction on Jan. 31 that prevented the woman from being euthanized as the court [...]
Paul Tuns: CBC Radio Canada reported that there was a 17 per cent increase in euthanasia deaths in Quebec in 2023 compared to the year before, with an official reported total of 5686 Medical Assistance in Dying deaths. Radio Canada reported that “the increase is less significant than those observed in previous years,” when there were annual increases of 40-45 per cent. [...]
Paul Tuns: On Feb. 27, the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition was joined by pro-life groups and legal and medical experts for a protest against the expansion of euthanasia to people suffering solely from mental illness. Although the Trudeau government tabled Bill C-62, pausing the expansion of so-called Medical Assistance in Dying to people whose sole condition is a mental illness for three years [...]
Alex Schadenberg, Special to The Interim: Based on euthanasia data from Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta, I predict that there were approximately 16,000 Canadian euthanasia deaths in 2023 and more than 60,000 euthanasia deaths since legalization. There were 13,241 Canadian euthanasia deaths in 2022. The Quebec Commission on End-of-Life Care released its Eighth Annual Report which indicated that there were 5211 reported euthanasia deaths [...]