The B.C. government continues to pass on opportunity after opportunity to show country-wide leadership on physician assisted dying. E-mail your MLA today. Tell your representatives to speak out for patients' rights

The BC Humanist Association today called on BC Minister of Health Terry Lake to reverse his decision to refuse recommendations to guarantee access to assisted dying through the BC health care system. The all-party Select Standing Committee on Health had presented its recommendations on assisted dying regulations in BC following...

Yesterday the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada released a joint declaration opposing assisted dying. Michael Coren sums up their opposition in today’s Toronto Star: No to abortion, no to gay rights, no to euthanasia. Because [the Christian right] have lost the first two they are...

What happens when religious believers want to infringe on the rights of patients and healthcare practitioners? Right now, the answer is we don’t know - but it isn’t looking good.

A senior Liberal adviser has told CBC that Justin Trudeau's new Liberal Government is considering asking the Supreme Court for an additional six months delay in bringing forward legislation to comply with the Court's unanimous decision in February to end the prohibition on physician assisted dying. This would mean that...

On Saturday, I joined 30 supporters from Dying With Dignity Canada on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery to bring attention to the need to make physician assisted dying an election issue. Our past president and current Dying With Dignity board member, Sue Hughson led the rally. And I...

On February 6, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down the laws against physicians helping someone end their own life (assisted suicide) and actively ending someone's life at their request (consent to death). Individuals seeking help must have a grievous and irremediable medical condition (which may be due to illness, injury...

Today, the BC Humanist Association has responded to two consultations on how physician-assisted dying will be legalized in Canada. We are calling on the federal, provincial, and territorial governments of Canada to take a leadership role and ensure that safeguards for physician-assisted deaths do not unjustly impede access. Read our...

Ignoring the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision and the overwhelming majority opinion in Canada, today’s National Post View uses long debunked arguments to once again claim that legalizing assisted dying will result in a “slippery slope” to utter moral bankruptcy (or something like that, they don't actually say). Here I...

Religious leaders are lobbying to stop a private member's bill in the UK that would allow physician-assisted dying. Russell Blackford, Conjoint Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Newcastle, argues in this essay (originally published on The Conversation) that their arguments are little more than propaganda and provide a poor basis...