Policy

Health Minister Mark Holland introduced legislation this morning that would delay the change until well after the next federal election, scheduled for 2025.

A parliamentary committee reported Monday that the health system is not ready for the assisted dying regime to include people whose only condition is a mental illness.

The study analyzed data over a five-year period on all patients in Quebec who received MAiD and who were referred for possible organ donation.

Federal Health Minister Mark Holland recently said he’s hearing concerns about readiness from provinces before the change takes effect in March.

A joint committee of parliamentarians has been studying whether the healthcare system is prepared for the change, and those findings are expected next week.

The province said providers can continue to offer needle exchange services.

Saying a child is a gift and ‘never the basis of a commercial contract,’ he called for a global ban on surrogacy ‘to prohibit this practice universally.’

Studies of prognostic accuracy show psychiatrists are wrong half the time. I have cared for patients struggling with chronic suicidality; patients I worried might one day take their lives.