Bill C-51: The Devil is in the Details

 By Andrew Bennett, Senior Fellow and Law Program Director at public policy think tank Cardus In June of this year, Justice Minister Jody Wilson tabled in the House of Commons new omnibus legislation to amend the Criminal Code and Department of Justice Act. For most, such occasions as this merit about

The Puzzle of Physician-Hastened Death

 Physician-hastened death is a puzzle, and one that, despite its complexity, we as a society have been tasked to assemble. Some of its pieces are so different from one another, and it is hard to imagine how they might fit into a cohesive whole. And yet, by June 6th -

Dying Badly in Canada

 Canadians now have a right to medically hastened death, but no right to quality palliative care A few days after the Supreme Court of Canada overturned the prohibition against doctor-assisted suicide, I received a note from a wonderful colleague of mine saying that her closest friend’s 53 year old son