AMAD Committee | Preventing MAID for Mental Illness Here at CPL, we have been closely monitoring the parliamentary committee hearings studying MAID for mental illness. It has been excellent to hear so many witnesses speaking against the expansion and insisting on better suicide prevention strategies rather than MAID. We are pleased to report that the

The Tony Kerigan Memorial Prize Inspired by the legacy of a beloved CPL Member, we have created the Tony Kerigan Memorial Prize to encourage ethical reflection within our Canadian Physicians for Life community. Healthcare practitioners (in training, active, or retired) are eligible to submit an ethical case for discussion by our conference’s expert panel.

  Ethics Education is Crucial — Here’s how you can be a part of it  As a physician who is new to practice, this Symposium was invaluable to me. In addition to giving me a forum to discuss and contend with challenging topics, it provided me with new friendships and connections across Canada. I leave

The Ethics School Medicine has always been about more than technique. At its heart, it is a moral practice—one that requires not just clinical skill but wisdom, virtue, and a deep understanding of what it means to care for another human being. That is why we are so excited to announce the launch of

The Virtues of Resistance Participants will explore how professionals across diverse backgrounds mounted resistance, navigated ethical dilemmas, and responded with civic courage during the Nazi period. The purpose of encountering these ethical exemplars together is to nurture our moral imagination and to grow in the virtues of resistance amid our own circumstances and in

An analysis of the NY Governor’s assisted suicide op-edLast week, the Governor of Illinois signed assisted suicide into law.This week, the Governor of New York announced that she will do the same.She also wrote an op-ed that shows a tragic distortion of moral reasoning.First, Gov. Kathy Hochul begins by saying: “Our founding fathers established a vision of