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December 2023

Below you'll find many of our most recent posts, including selected articles from Faith Today. You can also select one of the options in the boxes to the top left of your screen to jump to other types of articles not included in the list below (e.g., Dispatches from Brian, EFC Updates, media releases, official statements, outgoing letters, research, etc.).

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Sanctity of Life
Church & Mission
Care for the Vulnerable
Religious Freedom
Family & Community
18 December 2023

Government considering delay of MAiD for mental illness

If nothing changes, people with mental illness as their only medical condition will be eligible for euthanasia on March 17, 2024. But new comments by the justice minister give hope for a delay.

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Sanctity of Life
Church & Mission
Care for the Vulnerable
Religious Freedom
Family & Community
11 December 2023

Psychiatrists rebut misconceptions about MAiD for mental illness

A group of Canadian psychiatrists has written about MAiD for mental illness, addressing the troubling inaccuracies in a recent journal article. This second group of psychiatrists tackles the...

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Sanctity of Life
Church & Mission
Care for the Vulnerable
Religious Freedom
Family & Community
06 December 2023

Life expectancy, cause of death and MAiD

When people die from MAiD, StatsCan lists their causes of deaths under the underlying illness, disease or disability that led to the request for MAiD. We need to ask for record-keeping that...

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