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Religious leaders across Canada are making a valiant attempt at slowing down this speeding train called Medical Assistance in Dying, and we can only hope their appeal is not falling on entirely deaf ears.

OTTAWA -- CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp Catholic bishops have joined with religious leaders nationwide to denounce the federal governmentöÏÓãÊÓƵapp plan to make it easier to obtain a medically-assisted suicide.

OTTAWA - A Nova Scotia man got what he wanted — a medically assisted death — just one day after his estranged wife lost her bid to block him from using CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp medical assistance in dying (MAiD) system.

OTTAWA -- A Nova Scotia appeal court has cleared the way for an elderly Nova Scotia man to kill himself with the help of a doctor.

OTTAWA -- A legal battle between an elderly married couple in Nova Scotia over the husbandöÏÓãÊÓƵapp wish to kill himself with medical aid has become a rallying cry for anti-euthanasia organizations in Canada.

VANCOUVER -- The B.C. Court of Appeal has agreed to hear the case of the Delta Hospice Society, which is trying to keep assisted suicide out of its Irene Thomas Hospice.

OTTAWA -- The federal Liberals are vowing to pass changes to CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp assisted suicide law before a court-imposed deadline even though if they will be in the position to make changes remains to be seen.

The number of medically-assisted deaths in Canada rose by more than 25 per cent in 2019 and made up two per cent of all Canadian deaths last year, Health CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp first annual report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada found.

The board of the Irene Thomas Hospice hoped faith alone could stop the onslaught of MAiD at the 10-bed palliative care facility on VancouveröÏÓãÊÓƵapp southeast edge.

A Quebec court has agreed to allow the federal government to put off making changes to CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp medically-assisted suicide law until mid-December.

VANCOUVER -- The Delta Hospice Society is considering appealing a B.C. Supreme Court decision blocking its members from voting to change its constitution in an effort to keep assisted suicide out of the facility.

OTTAWA -- The federal government is now conceding it can’t change the rules around assisted suicide before a court-imposed deadline of July 11.

On the doorstep of what would become the COVID-19 crisis of spring 2020, a wise woman I encountered called me out on the distinction between hope and expectation.

Among the many stories of illness and death wrought by COVID-19 comes the tragic case of Jean Truchon.

In 2006 I was home for about a month recovering from back surgery. It was the first time in my life I was so confined. I was literally staring at all four walls … and what I saw was not pretty.