Paul Tuns: The Archdiocese of Montreal is suing the Quebec government because the government is unwilling to provide a euthanasia exemption for St. Raphael Palliative Care Home. In late 2023, the St. Raphael Palliative Care Home and Day Centre signed an agreement with the archdiocese guaranteeing that St Raphael’s would provide palliative end-of-life care but would never commit euthanasia. In June 2023, [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey I remember finding it so ironic seeing a Planned Parenthood poster in Rory Gilmore’s dorm room, given that there would be no Rory Gilmore—and no Gilmore Girls television show for me to watch—had Rory’s mom gone to Planned Parenthood when she got pregnant at 15. There is no story to tell when you’re dead. [...]
Paul Tuns: The left-leaning Canadian magazine The Walrus published a lengthy article on the pro-euthanasia lobby group Dying with Dignity Canada (DWD Canada) illustrating its influence on the government. Written by Miranda Schreiber, “The lobby group that owns the conversation around assisted deaths,” the 3400-word in-depth report provided what Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, called “important information about [...]
Alex Schadenberg, Special to The Interim: On January 8, I published an article titled: Assisted suicide bills must be defeated in at least 10 U.S. states. Now the assisted suicide lobby are stating that they are sponsoring assisted suicide bills in at least 16 states. The current states with a new bill are: Florida, Indiana, Missouri, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia, [...]
Paul Tuns: Following pressure to not change its medical standards that would severely restrict the conscience rights of doctors, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA) backed down from a proposal to require doctors to make an “effective referral.” Currently, doctors and nurses are not required to participate in or be complicit in abortion, euthanasia, birth control, or so-called gender-affirming [...]
Paul Tuns On Nov. 30, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops released a statement reiterating the Church’s unequivocal moral teaching against euthanasia and assisted-suicide, reminding Catholic health care facilities that they cannot be complicit in so-called Medical Assistance in Dying. The statement, “On the Non-Permissibility of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide within Canadian Health Organizations with a Catholic Identity,” noted that “Catholic dioceses [...]
Paul Tuns On Dec. 13, it was announced that the Trudeau government may once again delay the expansion of euthanasia to people suffering solely from mental illness. In March 2021, Parliament passed Bill C-7, which expanded euthanasia to those whose natural death was not reasonably foreseeable as well as to those suffering solely from mental illness. The law’s liberalization of the euthanasia [...]
Paul Tuns Statistics Canada released its analysis of death in 2022 and found that for the third consecutive year, life expectancy for Canadians fell with the average Canadian living to 81.3 years in 2022, a full year less than the life expectancy registered three years earlier in 2019. Globe and Mail health columnist Andre Picard wrote, “a one-year loss in life expectancy [...]
Paul Tuns On Nov. 24, Dan Quayle (not the former U.S. vice president) opted to be medically killed after he was unable to access timely chemotherapy for an aggressive form of esophageal cancer. On Oct. 7, he had been told that chemotherapy might prolong his life by a year. He was kept waiting for chemotherapy for ten weeks in Victoria General Hospital. [...]
10. Women facing biological men in competition After the trans-identified Lia Thomas, a biological male, competed and won the 500-yard collegiate freestyle swimming competition in 2022, governing bodies of various sports have been forced to consider their policies of permitting biological males to compete against girls and women. World Athletics, formerly the International Amateur Athletic Federation, which governs track and field, began [...]
Paul Tuns: An Angus Reid Institute poll released on Oct. 17, shows 58 per cent of Canadians believe religiously affiliated healthcare centres should not be required to provide euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide compared to just 24 per cent who said such healthcare centres should be forced to provide Medical Assistance in Dying. Nearly one in five (18 per cent) were unsure. In June, a Vancouver [...]
Interim Staff: The American Medical Association (AMA) upheld their opposition to assisted suicide and euthanasia at the organization’s House of Delegates interim meeting in Maryland, Nov. 10-14. Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, called the AMA’s decision to maintain its opposition to euthanasia “a huge win” and bioethics expert Wesley Smith said, “the death agenda can be stopped.” Delegates [...]
Paul Tuns: Health Canada released the Fourth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying (2022), with data showing that there were 13,241 assisted deaths in Canada, the seventh consecutive year of increased euthanasia deaths, representing 3.3 per cent of all deaths in the country. Amanda Achtman, an anti-euthanasia activist, tweeted, “An average of 36 people are now being euthanized every single day [...]
Rory Leishman: Nothing can better illustrate the theological degradation of the mainline Protestant churches than their pathetic twists and turnings in their conceptions of murder and assisted suicide. As originally enacted, Section 14 of the Criminal Code provided that anyone who unlawfully kills another person can be found guilty of murder, even if the victim begged to be killed. However, under the [...]
Interim Staff: On Oct. 13, the Society of Canadian Psychiatry (SocPysch) issued a 13-page brief on Medical Assistance in Dying and mental illness calling for an indefinite pause on expanding eligibility for euthanasia and assisted-suicide to patients suffering solely from mental illness. The organization’s board of directors said the expansion for eligibility which takes effect next March was rushed into and failed [...]