Vancouver area hospice is asking the government to reconsider their proposal to give up $750,000 a year in funding so that it not be required to violate its mandate of care and compassion for patients by providing Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) at its facility. The health authority’s demand is unnecessary, the hospice contends,

OTTAWA – Health Canada confirmed yesterday that RU-486 has been approved for use in Canada. It is a two drug combination that causes an abortion and is used during the first trimester of pregnancy. “No drug is without risk, but the risks associated with RU-486 are well known,” says Dr. Laura Lewis, an Ontario

The National Post recently published a great article by Sean Murphy on the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario's new "effective referral" policy: What we seem to have here is not merely a series of unfortunate events, but a pattern of conduct strongly suggestive of a narrow and fixed ideological bias. Why such an

Mark Penninga, Special to National Post | January 27, 2014 The euthanasia debate will come to a climax in the coming year, as the Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear an appeal of the Carter case from the B.C. Court of Appeal. It was a little over 20 years ago that the Supreme

Roe v. Wade – a shot across the border By Paul Ranalli, MD Editor’s note. Dr. Ranalli is a neurologist at the University of Toronto. January 20, 2014 Canada, Roe v. Wade A comparative history of abortion law between Canada and the United States reflects, in many ways, the behavioural characteristics of our two peoples,

For Immediate Release: Canadian Physicians for Life comment on RU-486 (mifepristone) November 28, 2013 The potent anti-hormone RU-486 has caused the deaths of millions of unborn children worldwide. We are saddened that any number of the smallest preborn Canadian children could soon be added to that list of deaths. RU-486 can and has been used