The policy that allows faith-based health-care providers to ban medical assistance in dying in their facilities is being tested now in B.C. Supreme Court. But transfers of MAID patients because the ...

Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) regime was introduced in 2016 and expanded in 2021. Within its framework, ...

Kiano Vafaeian died by MAID on Dec. 30 in a Vancouver funeral home. According to his family, his request for medical assistance in dying was approved and administered by Dr. Ellen Wiebe, one of Canada ...

How do health care professionals in Canada assess applicants for medical assistance in dying (MAiD)? A research article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) describes the careful approach ...

Canadian mom devastated after she says diabetic and blind son was euthanized under controversial law - Kiano Vafaeian, 26, ...

Expanding eligibility for medical assistance in dying to patients without a reasonably foreseeable natural death has raised procedural and ethical questions.

Margaret Marsilla wants a moratorium for those without terminal conditions after her mentally ill son flew to Vancouver to end his life ...

Current and former Ministry of Health officials took the stand this week to describe the origins of the province’s medical ...

The euthanasia conference was held at a Sheraton. Some 300 Canadian professionals, most of them clinicians, had arrived for the annual event. There were lunch buffets and complimentary tote bags; ...