October 9, 2014
Slippery Slopes In the last paragraphs of the CMA’s position paper on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (http://policybase.cma.ca/dbtw-wpd/Policypdf/PD14-06.pdf ) (Updated in 2014) the authors warn that […]
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September 9, 2014
Understanding the issues in end-of-life care. There is a great deal of current discussion of end-of-life care, standards are evolving, there is new legislation pending in […]
October 21, 2013
On the 18th of October the Supreme Court of Canada handed down its decision in the case of Hasan Rasouli. The Court was split 5-2 with […]
November 15, 2012
Ethics, personhood and the persistent vegetative state: New evidence, new obligations? A vegetative state is diagnosed according to the following criteria: (1) no evidence of awareness […]
March 31, 2011
The current development on this story is that Baby Joseph has been transferred to a US hospital where a tracheotomy has been performed. The longer term […]
February 23, 2011
Navigating tragedy(ies) The sad story of baby Joseph Maraachli and his family has captured headlines in Canada and throughout North America. The publicly available information is […]