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Ce que l'Ontario nous apprend sur la pratique de l'« aide médicale à mourir » et l'urgence d'une refonte - Fondapol Cet article examine de manière critique les pratiques avérées relatives à l’« aide médicale à mourir » (AMM) en Ontario, telles qu’elles sont documentées par le coroner en chef de l’Ontario dans les r...

Ce que l'Ontario nous apprend sur la pratique de l'« aide médicale à mourir » et l'urgence d'une refonte
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Texte original en anglais publié par @trudolem.bsky.social dans la Revue canadienne de bioéthique en octobre 2025.

Ontario family calls for changes after their 26-year-old son received MAID in B.C. | Globalnews.ca “He didn't have the items necessary to qualify for MAID and quite frankly, the system failed him," Joseph Caprara, Vafaeian's stepfather, said.

#track2 #MAiD
New Canadian media coverage of Kiano Vafaeian’s death, w his mother Margaret Marsilla speaking out
▶️ Global News globalnews.ca/news/1164410...
▶️ @theglobeandmail.com ( @mikehager.bsky.social ): www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
W Randall White @trudolem.bsky.social Isabel Grant +

Safeguard failures in Canada’s MAiD system Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) regime was introduced in 2016 and expanded in 2021. Within its framework, euthanasia accounts for almost all cases. MAiD operates through two legal pathways...

Safeguard failures in Canada’s MAiD system
( Défaillances des balises de protection du système canadien d’aide médicale à mourir )
Des cas de l'Ontario, à lire via @bmj.com Supportive & Palliative Care.
Merci Ramona Coelho @trudolem.bsky.social et David Shannon
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Dossier Mediapart sur l'AMM au Québec, extraits choisis De retour au boulot (bonne année 2026!), beaucoup d'actualités à revisiter dans les prochains jours. J'ai d'abord pris connaissance aujourd'hui d'un intéressant dossier du quotidien de presse en ligne...

Dossier Aide médicale à mourir @ccoqchodorge.bsky.social @mediapart.fr: Annie Le Bel, Georges L'Espérance, Lucie Poitras, @trudolem.bsky.social, Stephen DiTommaso, Linda Gauthier, Ariane Gauthier-Tremblay, Pier-Luc Turcotte, Sandra Demontigny & Félix Pageau.
Extraits
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Our Top 5 Stories of 2025 | U of T Magazine - U of T Magazine What resonated most with readers this year – from big ideas and personal journeys to research that touches everyday life Read More

Nice to see a piece written by good colleague @trudolem.bsky.social and me in @utoronto.ca Magazine was one of the "Top 5 Stories of 2025"...important that people engage and learn about this complex topic.
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Pharmaceutical governance system for costly drugs through human rights due diligence The obligations and responsibilities of governments and drug companies to increase access to costly new drugs should be grounded in international human rights, write Trudo Lemmens and colleagues Pat...

Our @bmj.com article on #humanrights & high-priced medicines is out. We argue that using a human rights due diligence framework can promote equitable access to medicines for rare diseases. W Kanksha Ghimire, @katperehudoff.bsky.social J. C. Kohler, E. Low & N. Persaud www.bmj.com/content/391/...

If you read the article I trust that you will appreciate that the article discusses particularly the latest dementia report, but also earlier reports and raises broader issues with respect to our MAID law, policy and practice.

My recent article in the Canadian Journal of Bioethics on Ontario MAID Death Review Committee reports, in particular on #MAID for Dementia, reveals minimalistic capacity evaluations, questionable informed consent procedures, stretching legal criteria… #euthanasia www.erudit.org/en/journals/...

What Research Scandals? Welcome to the Bioethics Memory Hole : The Hastings Center for Bioethics It is striking how many notorious cases of abuses of human research subjects go almost entirely unmentioned in the bioethics literature.

“Bioethicists owe a debt to historians who excavated the research scandals of the past,…[but] you can see them at medical institutions everywhere, including your own….you may be repelled by what you see.” @carlelliott.bsky.social www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc...

False hope, fabricated data: No public notice after UBC uncovered serious misconduct in medical study | CBC News A celebrated Vancouver researcher used fabricated data and hid evidence of infected wounds to falsely claim his patented skin treatment could heal years-old bed sores in a matter of weeks, according t...

"A joint investigation by CBC News and the Investigation Journalism Foundation has uncovered a case of serious academic misconduct at the University of British Columbia, including allegations of falsifying results collected in a human trial." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... By @bethanylindsay.bsky.social

Trudo Lemmens

Jotwell Health:
Trudo Lemmens, The Dangers of Regulating Inducing Death as a Medical Practice, JOTWELL (October 16, 2025) (reviewing Jennifer Hardes Dvorak, Is Assisted Dying Really a Matter for Medical Regulation?, 53 J. L. Med. & Ethics 1 (2025)), health.jotwell.com/the-dangers-....

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“Using starvation as a method of warfare is explicitly prohibited under Article 54 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions and is defined as a war crime under Article 8(2)(b)(xxv) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.3 These (1)

@who.int staff residence in Deir al Balah was attacked 3 times today as well as its main warehouse

2 WHO staff & 2 family members were detained. 3 were later released, while one staff remains in detention.

WHO demands the immediate release of the detained staff & protection of all its staff. #Gaza

"These eugenicist modes of thought persist and recur, even into visions of the future like those of transhumanism, where thinkers can envision changing the human body into that of an angel but still fail to imagine a bathroom stall wide enough for the wings."

Should we expand eligibility for MAID? - Alberta Views The purpose of MAID is to allow patients who are approaching death to ask healthcare providers to end their life in exceptional circumstances

Quite ironic to be called ‘a bioethical theorist’…. albertaviews.ca/should-we-ex...

Overall extraordinary that leaders in Canadian nursing profession are so gung-ho on ending patient lives w #euthanasia as a medical intervention and either do not know what the law is/was and what is happening, or misrepresent it, and respond with ad-hominem claims…

Note the remarkable rejection of all potential problems w Canada’s expansive #MAID #euthanasia regime, demonstrably false claims (i.e. that return to 2016 regime would mean ‘people can only get it hours or days before dying’) & ad hominem claims

Donna Wilson and Trudo Lemmens, Author at Alberta Views

“Should we expand eligibility for MAID?” Read my @albertaviews
exchange with Nursing Prof Wilson who says #MAID #euthanasia must be expanded ‘because people want it’. I argue we need to focus on protection, not promote death further as therapy… albertaviews.ca/author/donna...

A Landmark Book on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada,
New Federal Bill #C218, Conferences & Press Review
On this eve of Canada Day, our newsletter
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#cdnpoli #qcpoli #CanLit #palliativecare
cc @medwma.bsky.social @trudolem.bsky.social @psych-md.bsky.social

Livre événement sur l’aide médicale à mourir au Canada
nouveau projet de loi fédéral #C218 et revue de presse
En cette veille de la Fête du Canada, notre infolettre
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#polcan #polqc #soinspalliatifs
cc @medwma.bsky.social @trudolem.bsky.social @psych-md.bsky.social

"Netanyahu must preserve the radical right-wing fantasy of ethnic cleansing in Gaza for political survival. For this, he needs the war to continue," Who can as self-respecting person still trivialize this?

RIP Alasdair MacIntyre, a towering figure the likes of which this world rarely produces. Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that his influence extended far beyond his scholarship:

Another clear sign of the pernicious impact of the normalization of #euthanasia as therapy for all forms of suffering in Canada… Time for federal & provincial governments to act and take concerns seriously & to follow recommendations of UN Committee Rights of P w Disabilities

RAPLIQ_ exposes hate-speech on Quebec radio suggesting #euthanasia #MAiD as 'solution' for persons w severe intellectual disabilities. Time f authorities & media to act & denounce... @‪le985fm.bsky.social we expect apology & action (via @vivredignite.bsky.social ) rapliq.org/en/accomplic...

Psychiatric evaluation is not required, nor do 3 medical professionals have to review a request in Canada’s MAID system . You may want to read the reports or the article before claiming all is well

In @uoft.bsky.social Magazine, w/ my brilliant & insightful UofT Fac of Law colleague @trudolem.bsky.social

magazine.utoronto.ca/opinion/risk...

Timely given UnitedNations CRPD recently entreating 🍁 to repeal Track 2 expansion (...& to not euthanize Canadians for mental illness and addictions!)

Ontario Chief Coroner reports raise concerns that MAID policy and practice focus on access rather than protection Recent reports from the Chief Coroner for Ontario reveal that Canada’s MAiD law, policy and practice focuses on promoting access to death, rather than protection.

NEW by @trudolem.bsky.social

"The newly released reports appear to confirm what is argued in several chapters in our recently co-edited volume, Unravelling MAiD in Canada: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide as Medical Care..."

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UnravellingMAiD UofTLaunch YouTube video by Karandeep Gaind

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Thrilled to share video of our successful "Unravelling MAiD" book launch, with my co-editors Ramona Coelho & @trudolem.bsky.social, that we held at @uoft.bsky.social Faculty Club this past week on April 15. We've generated a transcript with synchronized cc for accessibility

youtu.be/-udwv3xhOAU

Due to Ohio SB1 the University of Toledo is eliminating majors in Disability Studies, Women’s & Gender Studies, Africana Studies, Asian Studies, Middle East Studies & more.

Toledo was one of few places where undergrads could major in disability studies.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Unravelling MAiD in Canada - Faculty Club launch. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Unravelling MAiD in Canada - Faculty Club launch. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Looking forward to book launch
At the UofT faculty Club tomorrow with co-editors Ramona Coelho & Sonu Gaind. Huge thanks to all co-authors. We will livestream Apr 15, 6:15ET, you can register for that here us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...