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By Dave Andrusko When last we wrote about Hassan Rasouli, the Supreme Court of Canada had upheld a decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal, which concluded that Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre had to go through a legally established futile care administrative...
By Dave Andrusko National Right to Life News Today has already published five stories on two important euthanasia-related court cases in Canada. But what took place—or, what didn’t take place—October 10 and October 18 is so important I want to be sure everybody...
In a 5-2 decision the Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a lower court decision that doctors must obtain consent from patients or substitute decision-makers before withdrawing life-sustaining treatment where such a decision is anticipated to result in the death of the...
By Alex Schadenberg, executive director Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The following article was written by Sun Newspaper Columnist, Michele Mandel and published in the Toronto Sun on December 7, 2012 under the title: Sunnybrook doctors' ability to cut off life...
By Alex Schadenberg, executive director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The Globe and Mail, one of Canada's national newspapers, published an editorial Thursday entitled: “The Supreme Court is right to hear life-support case” The Rasouli case asks the question--who...
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Editor’s note. This is excerpted from a post on Mr. Schadenberg’s blog. On May 17, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled against a motion from the family of Hassan Rasouli, asking the Supreme Court to...
By Alex Schadenberg, executive director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition An article concerning the Rasouli case that was written by Lisa Priest and published Wednesday in the Globe and Mail under the title: Vegetative Patient now able to give 'thumbs up,' fueling...
By Alex Schadenberg, executive director Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Television station CTV W5 has produced an exposé on the Rasouli case and other cases where the doctors have unilaterally and without consent decided to withdraw treatment from a patient. (See...
By Dave Andrusko Jonathan Sher writes for the London (Ontario) Free Press and has covered medical disputes that make their way into public view. In that capacity Sher has written about both “Baby Joseph” and Hassan Rasouli. In an analysis piece he wrote Monday, Sher...
Editor’s note. The following appeared on the blog of Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition back in July. It gives a fuller explanation of the decision made by the Appeals Court of Ontario in the case of Hassan Rasouli. The Supreme...