Creating barriers to medical assistance in dying for people with mental illness is discrimination

Recently declassified federal cabinet documents show Canada could have been a very different place for women seeking abortions and the doctors who provide them if then prime minister Brian Mulroney ha...

Committee Report No. 1 - AMAD (45-1) - Parliament of Canada

The government’s intention to bar those requests sends a message to mentally ill Canadians that they don’t have autonomy over their own death while every other grievously ill person does

A local physician who specializes in palliative care says she's concerned any time a single group is singled o...

TORONTO, ON — The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) is concerned by the federal government’s announcement to introduce legislation to indefinitely exclude people whose sole underlying medica...

This week, media headlines and social media posts claimed a Canadian woman was approved for medical assistance in dying because she lost her ability to cook. The claim stems from

And its advance request plan does too little

Justice Minister Sean Fraser just announced the federal response to the Parliamentary Committee’s recommendation to indefinitely exclude those suffering with a mental illness as their sole medical con...

Legislation will allow people with illnesses that will strip them of decision-making capacity to be approved for medical assistance in dying at a later date.

Religion does have a place in health care, but only when it applies to respecting rights, not denying them

This Wednesday was National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada.