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Assisted dying expansion delay not based on mental health stereotypes: minister – National

Canada’s justice minister is rejecting charges that the federal government is perpetuating mental-illness stereotypes by delaying a planned expansion of medical assistance in dying. Arif Virani says allowing access to …

Poilievre vows no MAID mental illness expansion if he wins next election – National

by Vera Ward

The Liberals have delayed expanding medical assistance in dying for mental illness until after the next election. But if Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wins, he says he will scrap the …

Ottawa ‘weighing options’ on further delay to expand assisted dying rules – National

by Vera Ward

The federal government is considering whether to pause its original plan to broaden the rules that govern medically assisted dying so they include patients whose only underlying condition is a …