The Catholic Register Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:00:28 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Wife alleges Quebec doctor let her husband die /item/25944-wife-alleges-quebec-doctor-let-her-husband-die /item/25944-wife-alleges-quebec-doctor-let-her-husband-die

OTTAWA – A Catholic woman has filed a complaint with a Quebec health agency alleging that her husband was denied antibiotics to treat a bladder infection after doctors determined it was better to let him die because he had cancer.

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ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) Canada Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:34:07 -0400
Judge puts Quebec euthanasia law on hold /item/21378-quebec-euthanasia-law-on-hold /item/21378-quebec-euthanasia-law-on-hold

MONTREAL - QuebecƵapp right to die legislation has been put on hold.  

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Canada Wed, 02 Dec 2015 10:45:36 -0500
Medical aid in dying ‘a catastrophic idea’ /item/21357-medical-aid-in-dying-a-catastrophic-idea /item/21357-medical-aid-in-dying-a-catastrophic-idea

MONTREAL - After 30 years in palliative care medicine, Dr. Bernard Lapointe is adamant that regardless of what the law says he will never euthanize a patient. He is among thousands of law-abiding Quebec doctors who are facing some of the most difficult days of their professional careers as the province hurtles towards Dec. 10 and the legalization of euthanasia.

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Canada Sun, 29 Nov 2015 11:00:10 -0500
More time needed to define assisted suicide, conference told /item/21196-more-time-needed-to-define-assisted-suicide-conference-told /item/21196-more-time-needed-to-define-assisted-suicide-conference-told

MONTREAL - As Canada moves toward legalized assisted suicide starting in February, Quebec will jump the gun and become the first province to permit doctors to euthanize patients beginning next month.

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Canada Tue, 03 Nov 2015 13:08:12 -0500
‘Death kits’ prepared for Quebec doctors /item/20801-death-kits-prepared-for-quebec-doctors /item/20801-death-kits-prepared-for-quebec-doctors

OTTAWA - When news leaked Sept. 1 that the Quebec government is preparing “euthanasia kits” for doctors, it came as no surprise to the head of a physicians’ group that opposes euthanasia.

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ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) Canada Wed, 02 Sep 2015 10:41:46 -0400