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Featuring weekly articles by LWD community members and/or Board members who have something to say.




				

About those Recommendations

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 work of another writer, the incredible Amy Hasbrouck who heads up Toujours vivant/NOT DEAD YET in Quebec. Complete with footnotes and specifics, this report goes…

Gaslit!

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, to gather input from the people affected by the change in Canadian law that allows doctor-assisted death for disabled people who are not dying. But…

Thoughts on a Slippery Road

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 else was driving and the road was not actually slippery. I was sitting in the back seat, alone with my laptop, my cats and my…

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