Sources
Official Canadian reports on its MAiD programme:
- The first interim report (June to December 2016)
- The second interim report (January to June 2017)
- The third interim report (July to December 2017)
- The fourth and final interim report (January to October 2018)
- The first full report (November 2018 to December 2019)
Before the law changed
- Long read in the Globe & Mail about the successful campaign to legalise euthanasia in Canada
- Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians statement on MAiD in 2015, pre Carter decision
The slippery slope
- The Council of Canadian Academies (commissioned by the government to study euthanasia in under-18s, advance requests, and psychiatric conditions)
- CTV News report on the case of Alan Nichols, a depressed man suddenly given MAiD without his family’s knowledge
- Globe & Mail report on rapid rise in children, teenagers and parents requesting MAiD from paediatricians
- Globe & Mail long read on Mary Wilson, a test case for MAiD among dementia patients
- Canadian Paediatric Society report on MAiD in children under 18
- CTV News report on the Quebec court ruling which struck down requirement to be terminally ill
- Washington Post article on man who is being forced to choose between MAiD, paying $1800 a day to stay in hospital, or being discharged back into the abusive and neglectful carers
- Canadian Medical Association Journal article exploring risks for disabled people when requirement to be terminally ill for MAiD is removed
- Article in The Conversation explaining risks of expanding MAiD to psychiatric patients
- Long report by Conscience Laws on the role of the Canadian Medical Association in the MAiD debates
- Guardian article on woman campaigning to allow advance decisions for MAiD