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This letter was originally published in the French newspaper La Presse (>>), on December 10, 2016.

At the beginning of November, physicians from one of Montreal’s hospitals received a letter from the Professional Services Directorate, in which they were told of the “need [for] additional physicians for medically assisted death.”

Already, the friendly tone of the letter asking for the “help” of refractory physicians for euthanasia markedly contrasts the political discourse of the past months. However, the pleading tone of ...

The following letter was published online on the National Post on November 1, 2016.

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Re: ‘Dad Got The Death He Wanted,’ Brian Hutchinson, Oct. 29.

I have a patient who is 92, lives alone, and is becoming more and more lonely and anxious as she gets frailer. Her son lives in another Canadian city, her daughter in the U.S. Her daughter and son-in-law looked around for a solution, and found a good one. They’re moving back to Canada, not ...

Catherine Ferrier, physician in the Division of Geriatric Medicine of the McGill University Health Centre, and president of the Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia, raises troubling concerns in an article published in IMPACT ETHICS.

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The Ottawa rally opposing euthanasia and assisted suicide, organized by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, the Physicians Alliance against Euthanasia and Living with Dignity took place as planned, yesterday, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

Hundreds of people had traveled to Ottawa, while a number of speakers took the stage both to denounce Bill C-14 and to reaffirm their opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide.

All speakers (spokespersons of human rights organizations, MPs and members of the Senate) reminded the federal government ...