A woman who sought psychiatric help at a hospital in Canada said staff made her feel “worthless” by suggesting she end her life through the national healthcare system's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program as the country seeks to expand eligibility to people suffering from mental illnesses.
On an early December day in 2017, employees of The Orillia Packet and Times arrived at work to find the doors locked. After 147 years, the daily paper was closed.
The future of newspapers in Canada is in jeopardy if the government doesn’t quickly pass Bill C-18, publishing executives told Senate hearings into the Online News Act this week. A second panel made up of digital entrepreneurs, however, said that online news media will be in jeopardy if Google and Facebook stop their free link distribution service, rather than pay to provide it under the bill.
A doctor who oversaw hundreds of patients looking to hasten their deaths through Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying Program (MAID) worries that the program has gone too far.
A doctor who oversaw hundreds of patients looking to hasten their deaths through Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying Program (MAID) worries that the program has gone too far.