As we prepare to celebrate New Year’s Eve, I’d like to look back on some legislation passed earlier this year (in 2015). The Quebec Government put in place a process under which competent adults can set out their own advance medical directives (AMDs). Advance medical Read More …

This is fantastic news! The Government of Quebec has just passed legislation to permit terminally ill patients to request an assisted death. This has been a long time coming, and follows from recommendations made by Québec’s Select Committee on Dying with Dignity.(1) This Committee held Read More …