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Kiano Vafaeian should be alive. Claire Elyse Brosseau is alive. In Canada, that difference may have less to do with a clear medical standard than with geography. The Canadian pro-euthanasia movement has spent years assuring the public that their Medical Assistance in Dying [MAiD]came with safeguards. Including: two independent assessors and that the person asking for death be facing grievous and irremediable suffering. They promised that mental illness alone was to remain excluded. The promise was simple: vulnerable people would be protected, and despair would not become a channel to death. Then came Kiano. Kiano was born March 14, 1999....

Do not ask me about euthanasia. I am not interested. I was contacted by a woman who called us on behalf of her elderly Aunt who was receiving treatment in a hospital in London Ontario. The Aunt wanted to know if there was anything that could be done to stop the MAiD team from asking her if she wanted MAiD. The woman told me that her Aunt was asked, if she wanted euthanasia twice, in a pretty persuasive manner, and she said NO. The woman told me that her Aunt was very upset because the person in the bed next...

Senior Fellow Susan Martinuk argues Canada’s MAiD program has exceeded its ethical limits. With expanding criteria, alarming error rates, and insufficient oversight, she urges a critical reassessment of current policies before further expansion in 2027.Thousands of errors and questionable MAiD cases expose serious cracks in Canada’s safeguards Ten years after Canada legalized medical assistance in dying (MAiD), the safeguards Canadians were promised are looking increasingly shaky. Troubling cases and serious questions about oversight should give Canadians reason to pause before the system is expanded again. Since 2016, there have been more than 100,000 MAiD deaths and Canada has gained an...

An astonishing number of Canadians are leaving. The reasons why are clear. Like many Americans, I have a lot of affection for Canada. My stepmother was a Canadian, and she embodied a lot of what makes Americans fond of our northern neighbors. She was polite, intelligent, cultured, and conscientious. But these days something is not right up there. How do I know this? All you have to do is look at some simple statistics. Last year, roughly 150,000 Americans chose to leave the United States. Canada has more exact statistics on emigration. It says that 120,640 Canadians left Canada. The...

A Canadian grandmother was euthanized, despite having reaffirmed her opposition to it two months prior. Now, her family is speaking out. Key Takeaways: * Brigitte "GG" Stegemann had been living in a care home for two years; her granddaughter, also named Brigitte, had legal power of attorney and was routinely contacted for medical decisions. * Five months before her death, Stegemann was diagnosed with untreatable Stage IV stomach cancer. * After three months, Stegemann was asked about Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD), which she said she ardently opposed due to her Christian faith. * Staff reportedly had discussions with her...

A paper published by the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that Canada should take advantage of the bumper crop of corpses produced by its euthanasia policies and begin harvesting them for organs. The organs would be taken from the euthanasia volunteers while they are sedated, but still alive. Canada’s National Post reported on Thursday that the paper has caused a stir in the Canadian bioethics community because the organ-harvesting proposal might turn a horrified public away from Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), the Canadian euthanasia program. But the proposal also follows the logic of euthanasia to its ultimate conclusion,...

On May 27 an article by Brian Williams and Sharon Kirkey that was published by the London Free Press on May 27, 2026 reported on the euthanasia deaths by Dr James MacLean. Dr James MacLean is one of the few doctors to be sanctioned for unprofessional conduct related to his euthanasia deaths. One of the complaints included a euthanasia assessment that was done at a Tim Horton’s coffee shop while another concerned a “botched” euthanasia death whereby MacLean declared the man dead, when he wasn’t dead… Sharon Kirkey wrote a difficult article that was published by the National Post on...

When Canada legalized medical assistance in dying (MAID) in 2016, the public debate focused largely on one situation: people facing the end of life and suffering intolerably. For many Canadians, that remains their understanding of the law today. But Canada’s MAID framework has evolved significantly since then. In 2021, Parliament expanded the law through Bill C-7, creating two pathways for assisted death. The first pathway applies to people whose natural death is imminent and expected soon (reasonably foreseeable). The second — known as “Track 2” — allows separate access to MAID for individuals with disabilities who are not dying. This...

Claire Brosseau survived multiple suicide attempts. Now, she wants the Canadian health care system to help facilitate her death. Brosseau is seeking what The New York Times referred to as “medical aid in dying” (MAID), “an end-of-life option that allows certain eligible individuals to legally request and obtain medications from their physician to end their life in a peaceful, humane, and dignified manner,” according to Death With Dignity, an advocacy group. At age eight, Brosseau made a journal entry that she wished to die. At age 14, her lifestyle included drinking, doing drugs, and having sex while a student in...

A stunning report out of Canada reveals a physician is now under investigation over the death of a man he met outside a coffee shop.It seems the man was depressed and had been diagnosed with a bowel disease, so the doctor took him to a hospital to be given assisted suicide.According to a report at the Daily Mail, James MacLean, the physician, now is under mandatory clinical supervision for six months.He's accused of improperly delivering Canada's assisted suicide program, Medical Assistance in Dying, to that man and another."MacLean was investigated after he approved Thomas Dillon, who had Crohn's disease, for...

CALGARY — One elderly woman was convinced that her life was soon going to change forever, as the Canadian grandmother expressed excitement after hearing that her family was preparing to hire a MAID. Betty Martin, an 80-year-old woman who lives with her son and his family, was delighted to overhear the family discussing their plan to pay for a MAID to come "take care of" some business at their home. "This will change my life!" Martin said after hearing the news. "My goodness, I bet I'll never have to wash another sink full of dishes ever again. I was worried...

A London, Ont., doctor who assessed a patient with inflammatory bowel disease and a history of mental health issues for MAID outside a Tim Hortons location and later personally drove the man to the place his life was ended has agreed to a minimum six months’ supervision.

A Catholic priest said that while seeking treatment for a hip injury at a Canadian hospital, medical workers twice offered him the option of assisted suicide, despite knowing that he was religiously and morally opposed to the practice. Fr. Larry Holland, 79, fractured his hip after falling in his bathroom on Christmas Day 2025 and subsequently went to Vancouver General Hospital to seek treatment for his injury, The B.C. Catholic, the official media outlet of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver, first reported. However, despite the priest’s assertion that his condition is not and never was fatal, he says a...

Nearly 34 years after 270 people, including 190 Americans, died in the mid-air bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the Libyan intelligence officer accused of building the explosive device has been taken into custody by the United States to face justice, federal officials told ABC News. Abu Agila Mas'ud will face criminal charges in the United States for his suspected role in the deadliest terror attack on British soil....

A senior who went to Vancouver General Hospital for a diagnosis and treatment after experiencing sudden pain was offered euthanasia by a doctor – before the woman had even been asked what was wrong with her. “I am 84 years old, and a year ago, an amazing thing happened,” Miriam told Amanda Achtman, the founder of the Dying to Meet You Project. “When I got out of bed one morning, I was suddenly in excruciating pain, so much so that my daughter came running in from another room.” “She called an ambulance,” Miriam said. “Off I went to the Vancouver...

Canada will soon mark a grim milestone: 100,000 deaths via the country’s assisted suicide or Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program. The program is due to “celebrate” its tenth anniversary on 17 June, having claimed the lives of more than twice the number of Canadians who died in World War II (42,042). The latest figures show 15,767 Canadians were killed by the government in 2024, or more than 5% of deaths that year. That works out at 45 Canadians a day. The figure has increase significantly year on year. In 2021, 9,842 Canadians were killed by the government. As The...

Canada is set to pass a grim milestone in its medically-assisted suicide program with a total of 100,000 citizens projected to be euthanized by the government before its 10th anniversary on June 17. The Great White North’s MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) program will soon cross the sickly six-figure threshold, according to The National Post. Ottawa’s most recent data shows 15,767 Canadians were euthanized by the state in 2024 — 5.1% of all deaths in the nation that year. Rachel Fournier, who has requested medical assistance in dying, looks out a window at a palliative care center. About 45 Canucks...

Canada performed thousands of same-day assisted suicides, as it was revealed one elderly woman was killed despite withdrawing her request the day before. The medical assistance in dying (MAiD) program was approved in 2016 and has since been expanded to include requests from patients whose deaths are 'not reasonably foreseeable,' and will soon include those with mental illness. More than 200 people in Ontario alone chose to die within 24 hours of their approval in 2023, a 2024 Ontario report found, The Free Press first reported. Of the 219 deaths, 30 percent of them chose a same-day procedure. In 2024...

A family has accused Canada's laws of 'killing the disabled and vulnerable' months after their son, who suffered from seasonal depression, died by assisted suicide. Kiano Vafaeian, a 26-year-old blind man with Type 1 diabetes, died in December using Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, which allows patients with 'grievous and irremediable' medical conditions to request a lethal drug. Eligibility was expanded in 2021 to include people with chronic illnesses, disabilities and, pending parliamentary review, potentially individuals with certain mental health conditions. Vafaeian faced mental health struggles stemming from a car accident at 17, and according to his mother,...

An elderly woman was euthanized within hours of her husband claiming she changed her mind after insisting she wanted to live. Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying laws allow patients to request a painless death if an assessor agrees their terminal condition meets certain requirements. Patients often wait weeks, but it can happen the same day the application is lodged if judged to be medically urgent by a MAiD provider. But a report by the Ontario MAiD Death Review Committee raised concerns that safeguards were being eroded that led to questionable deaths. One case study was that of a woman in...