{"id":2897,"date":"2018-08-24T14:10:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T14:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2018-10-23T19:53:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T19:53:31","slug":"webcast-archive-recap-of-summer-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/2018\/08\/webcast-archive-recap-of-summer-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Webcast archive: Recap of summer news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1180\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Qby0NrAi-A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this episode of\u00a0<em>Euthanasia &amp; Disability<\/em>, Amy Hasbrouck, Christian Debray, and Taylor Hyatt discuss:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Webcast mission: accomplished and ongoing<\/li>\n<li>Recap of news from the summer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please note that this text is only a script and that our webcast contains additional commentary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEBCAST MISSION: ACCOMPLISHED AND ONGOING<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Welcome to a new season of our webcast. One of the goals we had when we launched Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet in 2013 was to create a collection of information, in English and French, about the disability rights-based opposition to assisted suicide, euthanasia and other ending-of-life practices.<\/li>\n<li>One part of that effort has been our webcasts.\u00a0 For five years now we\u2019ve been doing weekly webcasts, in English and French, on the stakes for people with disabilities of laws and policies that allow euthanasia and assisted suicide.\u00a0 Also, since 2015, we\u2019ve been sending the script to our subscribers, as a way to keep in touch and make the text accessible for people who don\u2019t hear.<\/li>\n<li>We followed the adoption of the euthanasia laws in Qu\u00e9bec and Canada, euthanasia of ineligible people in Qu\u00e9bec, the failure to properly monitor the practice across the country, and continuing efforts to widen eligibility criteria.\u00a0 We\u2019ve also tried to explain, in simple and accessible language, complex and important topics in the field of ending-of-life ethics.\u00a0 Over five years we\u2019ve produced about 350 30-minute webcasts.<\/li>\n<li>Hopefully the webcasts will serve as an helpful resource for advocates, researchers, and anyone who wants more information \u00a0about assisted suicide, euthanasia and related topics.\n<ul>\n<li>All of our videos are available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMxJd8vID7g4pB7ugZOxbuw\/videos?flow=grid&amp;view=0&amp;sort=dd\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMxJd8vID7g4pB7ugZOxbuw\/videos?flow=grid&amp;view=0&amp;sort=dd<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A list of video topics by date can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/pd919jw9kikxv2x\/onlinedisctopicslist.docx?dl=0\">https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/pd919jw9kikxv2x\/onlinedisctopicslist.docx?dl=0<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The text of our webcasts can also be found online at our Facebook page and on the website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>RECAP OF NEWS FROM THE SUMMER<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This week, we\u2019ll be doing a quick recap of the most important assisted suicide-related news that broke over the summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In June:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/employment-social-development\/programs\/accessible-people-disabilities\/act-plain-language-summary.html\">Accessible Canada Act<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0was tabled just before we took our summer break.\u00a0<a href=\"\/tvndy?p=2829\">Taylor and Amy wrote a blog<\/a>\u00a0outlining a few of the problems with the bill; we\u2019ll talk about them in more detail on next week\u2019s webcast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In July:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TVNDY submitted comments for\u00a0<a href=\"\/tvndy?p=2882\"><strong>a consultation on palliative care<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0held by the federal government. We submitted a paper describing the impact of palliative care on ill and disabled people, specialized training needed for caregivers and health care providers, problems in accessing palliative care and ways to provide that care in a person-centred way.<\/li>\n<li>On July 10, <strong>Daniel Pilote<\/strong>, a resident of a long-term care facility in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, along with the Conseil pour la protection des malades,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/local-news\/citing-shameful-long-term-care-patients-rights-group-seeks-500m-class-action-suit-report\">filed a class-action lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>against the Qu\u00e9bec government over the deplorable and dangerous living conditions in Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s nursing homes.\u00a0 The lawsuit lists 22 examples of living conditions the plaintiffs find unacceptable; everything from problems with food, inadequate staffing levels to poor hygiene and a lack of air conditioning.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Robert Latimer\u00a0<\/strong>asked Canada\u2019s Justice Minister for a\u00a0<a href=\"\/tvndy?p=2841\">new trial, or a pardon<\/a>\u00a0of his murder conviction for killing his disabled daughter Tracy in 1993. Taylor wrote a blog on the\u00a0<a href=\"\/tvndy?p=2862\">sense of kinship she feels with Tracy<\/a>, and what it was like to grow up hearing Tracy\u2019s name in the news. She was also interviewed for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/news\/canada\/robert-latimers-request-for-clemency-is-a-slam-dunk-no-does-ottawa-get-that\/\">an article in Maclean\u2019s Magazine<\/a>. In addition, TVNDY is working on a letter to the Justice Department explaining the reasons we believe the request should be denied.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Health Canada<\/strong>\u00a0released the final version of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazette.gc.ca\/rp-pr\/p2\/2018\/2018-08-08\/html\/sor-dors166-eng.html\">its regulations to monitor euthanasia and assisted suicide<\/a>. \u00a0Unfortunately, they didn\u2019t take many of TVNDY\u2019s suggestions or critiques into account. The regulations still reduce complex information to checkboxes or drop-down menus when reporting assisted suicide and euthanasia, which don\u2019t provide a complete picture of the reasons behind the requests. Instead of detailed demographic information, Health Canada relies on postal codes, as well as information submitted to the federal government through other channels (like tax records and census forms). Again, this doesn\u2019t say much about the external pressures and life circumstances that make assisted suicide seem attractive.\n<ul>\n<li>The health minister emphasizes that \u201cinvestigating instances of non-compliance with the eligibility criteria and procedural safeguards \u2026 falls outside of the scope of the federal monitoring regime,\u201d and is up to local law enforcement.\u00a0 So much for the \u201ccarefully-designed system (for assisted suicide and euthanasia) imposing stringent limits that are scrupulously monitored and enforced\u201d called for by the Supreme Court.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Roger Foley \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>the London, Ontario man who has lived in his local hospital for two years after being provided with inadequate and even dangerous home care services \u2013 has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/health\/chronically-ill-man-releases-audio-of-hospital-staff-offering-assisted-death-1.4038841\">released audio and video footage<\/a>\u00a0of doctors offering assisted suicide as the \u201csolution\u201d to his problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In August:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A bill<\/strong>\u00a0that would have legalized assisted suicide throughout\u00a0<strong>Australia\u00a0<\/strong>was\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/leyonhjelm-s-assisted-suicide-bill-narrowly-defeated-in-senate-20180815-p4zxps.html\">defeated in the country&#8217;s Senate<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 by two votes, after two senators who were initially in favour of it changed their minds. Pat Dodson, a senator from the Labor party who opposed the bill, mentioned that the introduction of legal assisted suicide would only add to the biases and systemic disadvantages faced by Indigenous Australians.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dutch doctor\u00a0<\/strong>who slipped a sedative into coffee given to a woman with dementia, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/07\/25\/dutch-doctor-reprimanded-asking-family-hold-euthanasia-patient\/\">asked the woman&#8217;s family to hold her down<\/a>\u00a0so her euthanasia procedure could be completed, was \u201creprimanded\u201d \u00a0last month by the Dutch board that investigates medical complaints. This is the first time that a practitioner has been reprimanded since the Netherlands\u2019 euthanasia law was passed in 2002. According to local news reports, \u201cthe public prosecutor will announce after the summer if the doctor will face criminal prosecution.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n   ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThis week, we discuss news from the summer, including Daniel Pilote&#8217;s lawsuits, new audio clips released by Roger Foley, and Robert Latimer&#8217;s request for a new trial or a pardon of his murder charges.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/2018\/08\/webcast-archive-recap-of-summer-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Webcast archive: Recap of summer news&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/2018\/08\/webcast-archive-recap-of-summer-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Webcast archive: Recap of summer news&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[174,121,127,130,196,118],"class_list":["post-2897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-webcast-archive","tag-daniel-pilote","tag-euthanasia-disability","tag-health-canada","tag-latimer","tag-roger-foley","tag-webcast","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3375,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions\/3375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}