Thursday, July 2, 2026

Canadian government gives $289,226 to euthanasia podcast.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has produced many excellent youtube video's that are available online.

Kathy Kortes-Miller
Thanks to researcher Patricia Maloney, who is an expert at filing government freedom of information (FOI) requests we have learned that Dr. Kathy M. Kortes-Miller, School of Social Work, at Lakehead University received $289,226 from the Canadian government for a series of podcasts titled: Disrupting Death; An examination of Canadian Experiences with Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD).

Maloney wrote:
I listened to five episodes. It is a pro-euthanasia podcast, as one would expect. (Maybe other episodes will be more neutral and or against MAID but somehow I doubt it.)

$289,226 is not the only money given by the federal government to promote euthanasia.

Kortes-Miller has featured people who oppose euthanasia in her series.

In May 2023, Patricia Maloney uncovered that CAMAP, received $3,287,996 in funding from the Canadian government in 2021.

CAMAP is the Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers which is the group that provides training and advocacy for doctors and nurse practitioners who are assessing and providing MAiD (euthanasia).

In September 2025, Kelsi Sheren pointed out that Health Canada was funding CAMAP's new Canadian Journal of MAiD, in their attempt to further normalize killing.

Kortes-Miller's podcast series was featured in the second issue of the Canadian Journal of MAiD.

The Canadian Journal of MAiD planning committee (Link).

Patricia Maloney will continue by researching:
  1. What other grants that promote and celebrate MAID are likewise hidden in the Open Government database?
  2. What are the chances that the government would also fund an anti-MAID podcast?

Thank you Patricia for you continual research. 

3 comments:

  1. Did the EPC and Patricia Maloney fail to notice that Ramona Coelho was a guest on the Disrupting Death podcast in March 2026? So was the Ontario coroner in Oct 2024, as welll as, health justice advocate Naheed Dosani in April 2026. Did anyone of you listen to any of the episodes from people with lived experience so you could maybe open your minds up to the perspectives beyond your own narrative?

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    1. Ontario's coroner argued against putting MAID on the death certificate, as what would be the purpose of that, he asks. He says that because the MAID deaths are reported elsewhere, so it is only necessary to put the underlying health condition on the death certificate. Yet if a person dies of suicide that IS put on the death certificate along with the underlying health condition. So clearly then, why don't we handle MAID in the same way--include MAID AND the underlying cause on the death certificate?https://www.publications.gov.on.ca/store/20170501121/Free_Download_Files/301834.pdf He then goes on to compare MAID to abortion, in that someone could get the name of the doctor, and his life could be in danger. Not correct. There is no way to get the name of the doctor when doing freedom of information requests on abortion. I know as I won my case in Ontario in 2017 on accessing abortion info. The same would go for an FOI on MAID--impossible to get that information about the doctor.

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  2. Trying to kill two birds with one stone here:

    French Senate opponents say that the projected French law, does not merely enable the death of those who are dying, but of those who wish to die. Actually, however, as we see in this Canadian article, these French critics (like so many in the US and Canda also) have not yet figured out the half of it.

    This is not about what patients want at all. It is about public patient liquidation policy. The whole notion of "choice" is just dust in our eyes.

    Congratulations, and many thanks to Patricia Maloney for exposing the smoking gun, of ministerial bankrolling of the death lobby.

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