Parliamentary committee is now recommending a permanent pause on the program’s expansion

After years of troubling reports of Canadians being offered assisted suicide for conditions that may be treatable, including depression, and amid one of the fastest increases in assisted suicide deaths anywhere in the Western world

After years of troubling reports of Canadians being offered assisted suicide for conditions that may be treatable, including depression, and amid one of the fastest increases in assisted suicide deaths anywhere in the Western world, a Parliamentary committee is now recommending a…

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