Reading Time: 4 minutes A UN report is critical of Canada’s poor MAID safeguards for people with disabilities and their lack of access to viable MAID alternatives
Tag: Suicide
Faith leaders oppose changes to MAID law
Reading Time: 3 minutes ‘Imposing the intentional taking of human life as a solution to human suffering is unacceptable for a civilized society’
Isolation will bring epidemic of domestic violence, suicide
Reading Time: 4 minutes Did anyone think about how many people will die as a result of the unnatural conditions forced upon us?
Canada mishandling mental illness crisis
Reading Time: 4 minutes Thousands of patients are on wait lists. Meanwhile, the human and economic costs of mental illness keep rising
Palliative care suffers because of MAID
Reading Time: 3 minutes “It is easier and cheaper for the government to provide euthanasia rather than continue with palliative care”
Politically-correct euphemisms obscure the truth
Reading Time: 3 minutes Terms such as physician assisted dying or assisted suicide make lies sound truthful and murder respectable
Health authority threatens to shut down hospice for not providing assisted suicide
Reading Time: 3 minutes A B.C. private hospice must drop its refusal to provide medical assistance in dying (MAID) for qualifying patients in its care. Or else
Canada needs a comprehensive child and youth mental health strategy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Mental health illnesses can often be prevented from developing, or becoming more severe, by offering help to young people
Community-based programs can help reduce male suicide
Reading Time: 4 minutes In Canada, men account for three out of every four suicides – with seven men dying by suicide every day – but our support programs fall short
The high cost of pathological gambling
Reading Time: 3 minutes Are the profits from government sponsored gambling worth the cost in human lives, broken relationships and misery?