In the News… About those Recommendations 23 Mar 2023 Hello readers. Because I have not yet been able to bring myself to the task of explicating the AMAD Committee final report's 23 Recommendations, this week's blog post is the…
Thoughts and Ideas Gaslit! 6 Mar 2023 What I intended to write about this week was the report. By that I mean the final report of the joint committee whose hearings were intended, at least in part,…
Uncategorized Thoughts on a Slippery Road 7 Feb 2023 I recently dug up this old post from my travel blog, written in May, 2016 -- about a year after the Carter decision, before the Feds passed Bill C-14. Someone…
In the News One Action you can Take 21 Jan 2023 Hello readers, and Happy New Year 2023! It seems that the issues raised by MAID have finally reached the mainstream media and for that we are grateful. CBC's Fifth Estate…
Uncategorized A Hopeful Sign 17 Dec 20225 Jan 2023 This week, Justice Minister Lametti announced that his party will apply for an extension on the deadline for inclusion of mental illness in the MAID regime. Let's just take a…
Uncategorized They’re Finished Listening … 2 Dec 2022 The "Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying" wound up its "Statutory Review of the Provisions of the Criminal Code Relating to Medical Assistance in Dying and their Application"…
Uncategorized ACEs AND MAID 23 Nov 2022 What are ACEs, you ask? I'm so glad you did. Keep reading! (There's a really helpful video coming up ...) Last time around, I wrote about the need for research…
Uncategorized Research! 12 Nov 202212 Nov 2022 I recently asked a disabled friend of mine, how can LWD actually help? What does your community need? Her answer was swift and sure: RESEARCH!! I must admit, I was…
Uncategorized We Raised our Voices. Will You? 2 Sep 202223 Sep 2022 LWD's submission presented online to the Special Joint Committee in late August is copied below. We are sharing it here with our readers in hopes that each of you will…
Uncategorized System Failures 21 Aug 202222 Aug 2022 The Third Annual Federal MAID report offers some statistics about last year's Track 1 deaths -- i.e. the "reasonably foreseeable natural deaths" [RFND's] for which MAID was originally legalized --…