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The Honourable Mickey Amery Minister of Justice and Attorney General Government of Alberta Dear Minister Amery, We would like to commend you and the Alberta Legislature for passing new legislative limits, safeguards and oversight on medical assistance in dying (MAiD). Alberta’s new legislation, Bill 18, the Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act, will help to promote life-affirming care and put in place safeguards to protect Albertans in vulnerable circumstances.

Hon. Michael S. Kerzner Solicitor General of Ontario George Drew Building 25 Grosvenor St. Toronto, ON M7A 1Y6 Dear Minister, We are deeply concerned to hear about the changes to the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario’s MAiD Death Review Committee. The Globe & Mail reports the call for new members of the MDRC is limited to those “interested in supporting MAiD practice” (“Ontario shifts role of MAiD committee from oversight to guidance,” April 14, 2026). It is troubling t

This article comes from Read directly: https://www.faithtoday.ca/Magazines/2024-Sept-Oct →en français The ability of a Christian hospital to maintain its Christian ethic is now facing a legal challenge in British Columbia. Providing medical care is a consistent characteristic of Christian expression throughout Church history. In Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity (Johns Hopkins, 2009), historian Gary Ferngren concludes that when a church was planted in the Roman E