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 ...

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

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 ...

Gaye O’Neill, mother of Samantha O’Neill, is pictured outside of the BC Supreme Court, with Sam's father, Jim, at her side. (Ben Nelms/CBC - image credit) Proceedings got underway in B.C. Supreme ...

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 ...

Dying With Dignity Canada is among a group of plaintiffs bringing a Charter challenge against the B.C. government, Vancouver Coastal Health and Providence Health Care.

As families fight to avoid forced patient transfers from faith-based hospitals that refuse to perform medical assistance in ...

“Participants in this study provided nuanced accounts of the care and thoroughness that characterized these assessments and how they made the complex legal and moral decisions when reviewing an ...