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Justice Lynn Smith

Don't Speak Legalese? Here's What the Assisted Suicide Ruling Really Means

Ron Skolrood | Posted 08.18.2012 | Canada Politics
Ron Skolrood

British Columbia Supreme Court Judge, Madam Justice Lynn Smith has released her reasons for judgment in the ground-breaking physician-assisted suicide case. In her view, a complete ban on physician-assisted suicide was a disproportionate response and a more appropriate response would be to maintain an almost-absolute prohibition but with a stringently limited and carefully monitored system of exceptions.

The Right To Die?

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 08.14.2012 | Canada

VANCOUVER - A group challenging Canada's laws against doctor-assisted suicide is expected to get an answer Friday from the B.C. Supreme Court.The B.C....

B.C. Doctors Patients Push For Death With Dignity

CP | Terri Theodore, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.06.2011 | Canada

VANCOUVER - A woman who watched her husband die a gruesome death, only to discover she too had lung cancer is one of several patients and physicians a...