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Testimony of Dr. Heidi Janz, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Manitoba and a disability rights advocate, to ParliamentƵapp Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, on Nov 22, 2022.

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Opponents of MAiD have a golden “window of opportunity” to change public opinion, but the trade-off is they can’t slam the door shut on those with differing views, warns veteran physician Dr. Peggy Gibson.

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The expansion of assisted suicide in Canada to those suffering solely from mental illness is being delayed by a year.

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The popular humour-satire site The Babylon Bee has been taking jabs at the Trudeau governmentƵapp promotion of “Medical Assistance in Dying” and at the moral absurdity of euthanasia itself.

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Dr. John Maher, president of the Ontario Association for Assertive Community Treatment and Flexible Assertive Community Treatment, addressing ParliamentƵapp Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying.

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Our paramount hope and prayer for 2023 is that the federal governmentƵapp pause in its rush to push medically assisted homicide brings sincere recognition of its folly on life issues generally.

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What happens to a society in which killing replaces care? What happens when ending a life is considered compassionate and the preserving of life cruel?

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The Catholic Civil Rights League and some Ontario doctors are advocating for the right to freedom of conscience and religion as the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) opened the floor for consultation on its Medical Assistance in Dying draft policy.

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After at least five years of signing petitions and writing about his opposition to doctor-assisted suicide, Port Coquitlam, B.C., family physician Dr. Kevin Sclater finally decided to act.

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In mere months, federal law will permit Canadians who are mentally ill to access the countryƵapp already permissive assisted-suicide regime on the sole grounds that they are suffering from a mental disorder.

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Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller says itƵapp a “sign of hope” that dozens of Canadian psychiatrists are opposing the federal governmentƵapp plan to introduce assisted suicide solely for mental illness next March.

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In the early 1970s there was a movie called Soylent Green. It starred Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson. It was the first film I saw that was a dystopian vision of the future. It took place in a New York City in which the population has exploded to the point of anarchy. In response, the state came up with a voluntary suicide program to lessen the crowding.

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As the CEO of the Mississauga Food Bank, Meghan Nicholls felt the pressing need to spread the word on how tough things are these days. 

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The Delta Hospice Society has launched an innovative, three-pronged counter-offensive against CanadaƵapp ever-more-permissive assisted-suicide law.

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When even the Toronto Star emits an editorial ululation against medically administered homicide, we know we’re at the event horizon of a national moral black hole. Forget slippery slopes. We’re in the gravitational pull of somewhere the light no longer shines.

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