An ethnopharmacological survey was used to compare the medicinal plants most frequently recommended by herbalists, naturopaths, and other traditional practitioners in Moroccan and Canadian socio-economical settings. Striking differences in traditional pha
Saskatchewan Labour History Workshop The Canadian Committee on Labour History is pleased to announce plans for the annual labour history workshop. The organizing committee is led by Lorne Brown and Don Kossick, and the event is co-sponsored with the Saska
La Bibliothèque de référence virtuelle se veut une source en ligne d'information thématique, fiable et facile d'accès, principalement axée sur l'information canadienne
The Historical Photographs Subject Index provides access to the entire collection of over 87,000 accessioned photographs. Prints of some of the images may be viewed in the 131 albums of display prints in the public area
La base de données de l'IPMC comprend tout près de 30 000 entrées d'articles datant de la fin du XIXe siècle à aujourd'hui. Cinq cents journaux, bulletins et revues publiés au Canada dans le domaine de la musique y sont consignés
Sarah Van Norman is working on a Masters of Philosophy in Ethnic and Racial Studies. What's her dissertation topic? The working title is "The esoteric underpinnings of hand knitting in late modernity: An auto ethnographic exploration into knitting circles among university students in Canada".
The Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS) is a membership organization of more than 260 graduate schools that conduct post-baccalaureate professional and academic degree programs to educate persons for the practice of ministry and for teaching and research in the theological disciplines. The Commission on Accrediting of ATS accredits the schools and approves the degree programs they offer.
The Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry is a network of scholars and clinicians within the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, devoted to promoting research, training and consultation in social and cultural psychiatry.
Canadian authorities on Thursday sent armed paramilitaries wearing camouflage and carrying high-powered rifles to clear out a group of anti-fracking protesters who’ve blockaded a gas exploration site since Sept. 30, area media reported.
Die indigenen Gemeinschaften Kanadas haben die Wälder nicht nur geschont, sondern sogar deren Qualität verbessert - ganz im Gegensatz zum militärisch-kapitalistischen Komplex des Westens.
Marcia Angell was an editor of the most prestigious medical journal in the world for two decades. She currently gives monthly lectures on ethics to faculty at Harvard Medical School. And she served on a panel that gave advice on medical issues to the White House. But Dr. Angell’s credentials were challenged, Wednesday, in the Supreme Court of British Columbia when a lawyer for the federal Department of Justice tried to prevent her affidavit from being entered in a case concerning physician-assisted suicide.
The words of a man who died in agonizing pain and those of his wife, who wept helplessly at his bedside for days while his life slowly ebbed, were read into the court record during the emotional opening of a right-to-die case. With a dozen lawyers in attendance, a packed public gallery inside and a crowd of placard-waving protestors opposed to change on the Supreme Court of British Columbia steps outside, lawyer Joseph Arvay started dramatically by reading the affidavits of Peter Fenker, and his wife, Grace.
Russel Ogden has seen enough people end their own lives to convince him that a planned and fully accountable suicide is a right all Canadians should have. This week in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Mr. Ogden and the Farewell Foundation For The Right To Die will be fighting both the provincial and federal governments to make “self-chosen death” a legal option.
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association says it wants to challenge Canada's assisted-suicide laws alone. The BCCLA represents four plaintiffs seeking to change Canada's assisted-suicide laws, including a dying woman who won the right to have her trial expedited because her health is failing. Gloria Taylor suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. On Wednesday, a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled Taylor's trial should be heard in November because of the woman's rapidly deteriorating condition. A similar lawsuit is simultaneously being brought forward by the Farewell Foundation. The group's co-founder Russell Ogden is lobbying to join the BCCLA's lawsuit if its own challenge is struck down. Ogden argues testimony from his application should be part of the civil liberties association's case because it's unfair to assess the quality of either challenge.
People who might never have known who their biological mother or father was will have that opportunity now that a B.C. Supreme Court judge has declared unconstitutional the legislation that denied donor offspring the same rights as adoptees. The ruling will make British Columbia the first province in Canada to ban anonymity for sperm and egg donors.
A US nurse has been convicted of aiding the suicides of an English man and a Canadian woman after seeking out depressed people online and urging the two to kill themselves. William Melchert-Dinkel, 48, was prosecuted over the hanging death of Mark Drybrough and the death of Nadia Kajouji, who leapt into a river. Prosecutors say he posed as a female nurse, advising them on suicide.
Subsequent to an intensive three-year period of reflection, the CMQ is revealing its perspective and conclusions today regarding end-of-life care and euthanasia. The CMQ embraces the point of view of the patient who is confronting imminent and inevitable death. In such a situation, the patient looks to their physician and generally requests that they be able to die without undue suffering and with dignity. Neither surveys, nor attorneys, nor politicians can properly advise the physician and the patient facing this situation. In the majority of cases, the patient and their doctor find the appropriate analgesia that respects the ethical obligation of physicians not to preserve life at any cost, but rather, when the death of a patient appears to be inevitable, to act so that it occurs with dignity and to ensure that the patient obtains the appropriate support and relief.
SOMERVILLE, Margaret A., 1942-, Consent to Medical care: A Study Paper prepared for the Law Reform Commission of Canada, Ottawa: Law Reform Commission of Canada, 1980, viii, 186 p. (series; Protection of Life Series; Study Papers), ISBN: 0662104528 Part 1: i-viii and 1-103
Ms. Francine Lalonde moved that Bill C-384, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (right to die with dignity) be read the second time and referred to a committee: Mr. Speaker, I first introduced a private member's bill on the right to die with dignity in June 2005 . . . In fact, I introduced this bill so that people would have a choice, the same right to choose that people in other countries have. My conviction has grown stronger, and that is why I am introducing an amended bill on the right to die with dignity, Bill C-384. Briefly, it amends the Criminal code so that a medical practitioner does not commit homicide just by helping a person to die with dignity if the person continues to experience severe physical or mental pain without any prospect of relief or suffers from a terminal illness.
TORONTO - A physician owes a duty of care to a female patient and not to a child she may conceive in the future, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday as it dismissed a lawsuit against an Ontario doctor filed on behalf of a child born with disabilities. Recognizing a duty of care by a doctor to a future child of a patient would affect the doctor's existing legal obligation, which is to the patient, a three-judge panel ruled in a unanimous decision. "Imposing a duty of care on a doctor to a patient's future child in addition to the existing duty to the female patient creates a conflict of duties that could prompt doctors to offer treatment to some female patients in a way that might deprive them of their autonomy and freedom of informed choice in their medical care," Justice Kathryn Feldman wrote on behalf of the three-judge panel.
The first-hand experiences of physicians from coast to coast vividly illuminated a paucity of available palliative care, a simmering health-care crisis in Canada as the baby boomer generation enters old age. The association's members had come together on Tuesday to debate whether to revise the current CMA policy on euthanasia and assisted death. The session ended with an overwhelming vote — 90 per cent — in favour of an advisory resolution that supports "the right of all physicians, within the bonds of existing legislation, to follow their conscience when deciding whether to provide so-called medical aid in dying." The CMA defines "medical aid in dying" as, essentially, euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide.
At its policy convention in Calgary this week, the Canadian Medical Association was poised to debate one of the most emotionally charged and ethically perilous issues in medicine: doctor-assisted death. But physicians got bogged down in semantics, in lengthy discussions about the appropriate language to use to describe hastening death at the end of life, and deferred real debate to a later, unspecified date and another unspecified time.
For some, it comes down to a matter of consent. For others, it’s standard practice or at the very least, one that needs to be more widely adopted to expand the tiny pool of organs now available for transplantation. And for still others, it’s a matter of weighing what’s in a patient’s best interest. Such are the thorny ethical issues surrounding the notion of elective ventilation, the practice of placing comatose patients who are near death on mechanical ventilation until they’re brain dead and their organs can be recovered. The great risk, albeit small, to the patient, is that he might not progress to brain stem death as expected, potentially leaving him in a persistent vegetative state − wherein he is able to breathe on his own but has no evidence of higher-brain activity − or a similar condition. Much of the debate surrounding the ethics of elective ventilation stems from “confusion over what is considered to be in the best interest of the patient,” says Eike-Henner Kluge, professor
Thirteen vials of donated sperm should be divided among two women whose same-sex relationship has fallen apart, says a British Columbia judge who concluded sperm should be treated the same as any other type of property in a spousal dispute. The case involves two women, identified in a court judgment only by their initials, whose eight-year relationship ended in 2006.
A Toronto-based Web developer “boot camp” that charged a tuition for an intensive nine-week course in computer programming has shut down its operations while under investigation by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU).
In its first year of operation, Lansbridge University is fending off critics who say that, as a for-profit institution, it doesn't deserve grants from the Canadian government.
Kris Neiser lost $3,000 of his hard-earned tuition money to a private career college that shut down abruptly last fall after it operated illegally in plain sight of the provincial government for nearly two years, according to the Ontario ombudsman.