Tag Archive: palliative care


Changing Canadian attitudes toward euthanasia

Institute of Marriage and Family Canada eReview – November 17, 2010
Changing Canadian attitudes toward euthanasia: A recent Environics poll commissioned by Life Canada suggests diminishing support for legalized euthanasia
By Derek Miedema, Researcher

The Ottawa Citizen – September 8, 2010
Quebec opens hearing into euthanasia
By Charlie Fidelman, Postmedia News

Last June, Roland Rouleau waited until his wife left the house before firing an old hunting rifle twice into his stomach. But it wasn’t suicide, said Sylvie Coulombe, Rouleau’s partner, at the public hearings held by a special committee on dying with dignity in Montreal. “It was voluntary euthanasia because he could no longer stand the pain,” Coulombe said. “He needed to find a way to act before becoming a complete prisoner of his body.”

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Parliamentarians in Ottawa who are concerned about the threat of euthanasia and assisted suicide have formed a multi-party committee on Palliative and Compassionate Care (PCPCC). The committee is co-chaired by Conservative MP Harold Albrecht (Kitchener-Conestoga), Liberal MP Michelle Simson (Scarborough Southwest) and NDP MP Joe Comartin (Windsor-Tecumseh).

July 16, 2010

ChristianGovernance delivers Brief to Quebec’s Dying with Dignity Committee

RUSSELL – ChristianGovernance today delivered its Brief to Quebec’s Committee on Dying with Dignity. Today was the deadline for submitting Briefs.

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