CANADA

Ontario passes assisted dying law

Xavier Symons | 19 May 2017 | Comments

tags: canada, conscientious objection, euthanasia, ontario

Doctors worry about conscientious objection

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Canadian car crash victim gets compensation to pay for a surrogate mother

Michael Cook | 13 May 2017 | Comments

tags: canada, surrogacy, surrogate motherhood

The first such payment in Canada

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Canadian surgeons harvesting organs from euthanised patients

Michael Cook | 25 March 2017 | Comments

tags: canada, euthanasia, organ donation euthanasia

Dozens of patients in Ontario have already donated organs and tissue

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Almost 450 Quebec patients were euthanised last year

Xavier Symons | 18 March 2017 | Comments

tags: canada, euthanasia, maid, quebec

Requests for euthanasia doubled in Quebec in the second half of 2016.

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Canada passes genetic ‘anti-discrimination’ law

Xavier Symons | 10 March 2017 | Comments

tags: canada, discrimination, genetic testing, human rights, privacy

Canada has passed a new law that prevents corporations from demanding genetic information from potential employees or customers.

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Ontario doctors back out of euthanasia

Michael Cook | 04 March 2017 | Comments

tags: canada, euthanasia

Both for moral and legal reasons

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Should Quebec’s Alzheimer’s patients be eligible for euthanasia?

Michael Cook | 25 February 2017 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, canada, euthanasia, quebec

A murder case sparks a debate

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Doctor-assisted suicide could save Canada $140 million a year, study suggests

Xavier Symons | 28 January 2017 | Comments

tags: canada, euthanasia, healthcare policy

Euthanasia now has a financial impetus.

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Canadian bioethicists call for organ donor euthanasia

Michael Cook | 14 January 2017 | Comments

tags: canada, euthanasia, organ donation euthanasia

Safeguards would be needed

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“Anti-psychiatry” gets official recognition at U of Toronto

Michael Cook | 14 January 2017 | Comments

tags: anti-psychiatry, canada, psychiatry

Creates controversy in Canada

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Euthanasia in Alberta seems to be accelerating

Michael Cook | 17 December 2016 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, canada, euthanasia

Nurses authorised to carry out euthanasia

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Euthanasia in Canada: looking back, looking forward

Xavier Symons | 19 November 2016 | Comments

tags: canada, euthanasia, law

Academics are calling on the Canadian government to monitor euthanasia.

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Quebec euthanasia deaths soar to three times expected figure

Michael Cook | 05 November 2016 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, canada, euthanasia, quebec

Even the province's health minister is surprised

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Canadian reproductive rights pioneer in disgrace over IVF mix-up

Michael Cook | 05 November 2016 | Comments

tags: canada, ivf, ivf mixup

Dr Norman Barwin is being sued by former clients

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The battle over conscientious objection continues

Michael Cook | 05 November 2016 | Comments

tags: canada, conscience, conscientious objection, udo schuklenk

Leading editor responds to his critics

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Nurse charged with eight counts of murder

Xavier Symons | 29 October 2016 | Comments

tags: canada, euthanasia, murder, nursing homes

A 49 year-old Canadian former nurse has been charged with the murder of 8 elderly nursing home residents.

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Canada moves toward legal surrogacy

Michael Cook | 01 October 2016 | Comments

tags: canada, quebec, surrogacy, surrogate motherhood

Times have changed, says Quebec Minister of Justice

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For some Canadian women, surrogacy is sacred

Michael Cook | 25 June 2016 | Comments

tags: altruistic surrogacy, canada, commercial surrogacy, surrogacy

Getting in touch with your inner earth mother goddess