Canada euthanasia report - massive problems with reporting errors.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

On July 8, 2026, we published an article explaining that Canada had approximately 17,700 reported euthanasia deaths in 2025 representing a 7.3% increase in killings from 2024 and representing about 5.6% of all deaths.

Our article reported that the British Columbia (BC) Health Authority released its 2025 euthanasia data indicating that there were 3189 reported euthanasia deaths in BC in 2025 which was up by 6.3% from 3000 in 2024.

We also shared similar data, in that article, from Alberta, Ontario and Nova Scotia.

 

Petition: Canada's euthanasia law needs a complete review (Link). 

Since then more 2024 BC euthanasia data was obtained by Terry O'Neill, a Catholic researcher in BC, showing massive errors with euthanasia (MAiD) reporting in BC. O'Neill obtained further data from the BC MAiD Oversight Unit, a department of the BC Health Authority.

According to the BC 2024 euthanasia data there were 4169 requests for euthanasia resulting in 3000 reported euthanasia deaths.

The data indicates that the MAiD Oversight Unit reported 2,807 errors with 51.9 per cent of “MAiD case outcomes” requiring corrective “follow-up.” The report said that “follow-up” means obtaining missing information or clarifying existing information.

That means that in BC, there were 3000 reported 2024 euthanasia deaths with 51.9% of those deaths required some type of follow-up, with some of the euthanasia reports having multiple reporting errors.

When examining the errors in the BC report one notices that:

• 22.7% MAiD outcome form had eligibility criteria errors,
• 14.9% prescriber form, errors in safeguards (assessments),
• 10.9% had missing forms,
• 9.4% MAiD outcome form eligibility criteria errors,
• 8.3% receipt of the written request error
• 6.4% Administration of MAiD error,

There were many more categories of errors that were less common.

 

Similar concerns about reporting errors exist in Canada's biggest province, Ontario.

On November 12, 2024; we published a commentary on Alexander Raikin's research published in The New Atlantis that we titled: Ontario: At least 428 non-compliant (MAiD) euthanasia deaths.

On November 18, 2024; Alexander Raikin's article: A quarter of all Ontario MAiD providers may have violated the Criminal Code. Does Anyone Care? was published by The Hub. Raikin's article is based on the same research that led to his earlier article, except that his most recent article adds significant historical context to the issue.

After publishing these articles several people emailed us stating that compliant or non-compliant, all euthanasia deaths involve the killing of a human being and are inherently wrong. I agree.

Euthanasia (MAiD) is about poisoning a person to death. Further to that, the law provides Canadian doctors and nurse practitioners complete legal immunity from the law for homicide, when the "safeguards" are followed. When the legal parameters of the law are not followed, the doctor and nurse practitioner can be prosecuted.

Nonetheless, there have been no prosecutions in Canada and Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons (Provincial bodies) have not removed even one medical license in Canada, even for the worst cases.

EPC urges the government to consider the many stories associated with our euthanasia law that have been publicized world-wide and recognize that the law needs to be reviewed.

Petition: Canada's euthanasia law needs a complete review (Link).

Health Canada regulations require doctors to offer euthanasia.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Terry O'Neill has done significant research into the Health Canada Model Practice Standard for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). MAiD is an acronym of euthanasia. Canada legalized euthanasia in June 2016 by creating an exception in the Criminal Code to homicide.

If you have a story of feeling coerced to euthanasia contact Alex Schadenberg at: alex@epcc.ca

In his article that was published in the BC Catholic on November 7, O'Neill points out:

"Health Canada recommendation that would require doctors and nurse practitioners to raise the possibility of euthanasia with patients they believe might be agreeable to — and eligible for — Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)."

In response to the Health Canada Model Practice Standard, Dr Will Johnston, a family physician and leader of Euthanasia Resistance BC stated:

“Whoever is in charge of ‘Death Canada,’ as I’ll call them, seems to have forgotten the promises that were made to the medical community when euthanasia was first proposed — that no one would be forced to become complicit in it,”

“And now they’re simply reneging. They’re violating that promise by insisting on compelled speech.

Dr Will Johnston

Johnston further told O'Neill:

“The very process of a doctor notifying suggestible people, potentially suggestible people, of suicide-by-doctor validates it and is an inducement to consider it,”

“So you’re actually, by your questioning, by your exposition of the availability of euthanasia to this person, influencing their value system to consider euthanasia,”

“It becomes a type of self-fulfilling prophecy — that you’re going to recruit people into a euthanasia mindset by describing in approving terms the availability of this outrage against decency.”

Alex Schadenberg (myself) told O'Neill that I knew about the Health Canada Model Practise Standard and I was saddened, shocked and angry about it.

Alex Schadenberg

O'Neill further reported:

Schadenberg said that initiating MAiD discussions is already common because euthanasia is widely perceived as a medical treatment for the chronically ill and elderly.

“In fact,” he said, “because the intention of MAiD is to kill the patient, it is the very opposite of medical treatment.”

O'Neill then comments on my experience with doctors coercing people towards euthanasia:

He said he believes every major hospital in Canada now has a MAiD team responsible for informing patients about euthanasia availability. “That’s why I’m getting so many phone calls from patients complaining they are being ‘pestered and pestered’ to succumb to MAiD.

“Some of the MAiD teams are very sales-oriented,” Schadenberg said. “They can’t understand why you don’t want it.”

I then urged Federal or Provincial governments to bring forth legislation or regulations to prohibit this type of coercion. O'Neill reported:

He said the issue is serious enough to warrant legislation making it an offence for any medical practitioner to initiate a discussion of MAiD.

“We’re simply seeing too many people who feel pressured and coerced to agree to MAiD,” Schadenberg said. “It has to stop.”

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition regularly receives calls asking us how to get the MAiD team to stop asking them if they want MAiD.

If you have experience with feeling coerced to euthanasia contact Alex Schadenberg at: alex@epcc.ca

Delta Hospice continues working toward a euthanasia-free hospice.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Terry O'Neill reported for the BC Catholic on August 6, 2025 that the Delta Hospice Society, that has existed in Delta BC, for more than 30 years, is now be seeking to purchase property in Alberta in order to establish a euthanasia-free hospice.

O'Neill interviewed Angelina Ireland who is the executive director of the Delta Hospice Society who stated:

“We are actively looking for a property, and we have the money — hundreds of thousands of dollars — to buy,” Ireland said in an email interview. “It is a desperate situation in this country, and the Delta Hospice Society has been stalled, stonewalled, abused, and vilified long enough.”

A B.C. location remains the society’s first choice, but Ireland has been unable to get assurances from B.C.’s NDP government that it would not force the society to allow euthanasia in the proposed hospice.

The British Columbia Ministry of Health defunded The Delta Hospice Society and expropriated their hospice building in 2021 because the Delta Hospice Society refused to provide euthanasia (MAiD) on their premises.

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition supports the goal of the Delta Hospice Society to establish and operate euthanasia-free hospices.

British Columbia lacks oversight of it's euthanasia regime.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

An investigative report by Terry O'Neill that was published by the BC Catholic on July 21, 2025 uncovers a shocking lack of oversight of the euthanasia (MAiD) law in British Columbia (BC). The investigative report was carried-out by O'Neill who uncovered the information by filing multiple freedom of information applications.

O'Neill begins his article by pointing out a position of the BC MAiD "oversight" committee:

At the same time, oversight should provide opportunities for education or warning depending on the severity of an infraction, as overly strict or severe use of referrals to law enforcement or professional colleges may discourage physicians or nurse practitioners from providing MAiD despite the high demand.

O'Neill writes:

A B.C. Catholic investigation has uncovered systemic failures in the province’s euthanasia program, including thousands of paperwork errors among the 2,767 MAiD (medical assistance in dying) deaths recorded in 2023, a lack of public reporting of violations, and an oversight unit led by the same health official responsible for delivering MAiD in B.C.

Leading critics of Canada’s permissive legalized-euthanasia regime call the findings “staggering” and “stunning,” saying the newly disclosed British Columbia government documents show a lack of effective oversight of (MAiD) in the province.

O'Neill then quotes me (Alex Schadenberg) as saying:

“It’s an actual life-and-death issue,”

“And what we’re seeing in B.C. is evidence that the scales have been tipped in favour of death.

Trudo Lemmens

O'Neill explains how he obtained the information and points out that the BC MAiD oversight committee has not published any public reports. O'Neill questions the oversight of the committee:

The unit is led by social worker Sara Bergen, whose biography states that she also heads the overall administration of MAiD in British Columbia. This dual role is, in itself, cause for concern, says Trudo Lemmens, professor and Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy at the University of Toronto. Lemmens also serves on Ontario’s independent MAiD-oversight body, which operates under the auspices of the province’s chief coroner.

Lemmens told O'Neill that

“Somebody combining the organization of a practice with the oversight of a practice is unhealthy,”

O'Neill reports on his exchange with the BC Ministry of Health.

The Ministry of Health said in an email reply that the province’s MAiD Oversight Unit does not investigate wrongdoing but reviews documentation submitted by practitioners to ensure compliance with federal and provincial safeguards. While the unit may follow up to clarify missing or incomplete information, it does not determine misconduct or impose disciplinary action.

In rare cases, the ministry said, the unit may refer concerns to a health professional’s regulatory college or to law enforcement. Such referrals, it emphasized, “do not represent allegations of misconduct.” Police referrals are reserved for “the most serious compliance issues,” including significant deviations from eligibility or safeguard requirements, or cases where a deliberate breach of statutory obligations is suspected. Practitioners are not notified of referrals to police to protect the integrity of potential investigations.

The ministry also confirmed that Sara Bergen, who leads the MAiD Oversight Unit, serves concurrently as the provincial Director of MAiD. In that role, she oversees the strategic direction of MAiD policy and its implementation across the health system, including coordination with regulators, care providers, and service delivery agencies.

Remaining questions about the outcome of past referrals and details of disciplinary action, the ministry said, would need to be submitted as Freedom of Information requests.

O'Neill explains the MAiD oversight committee's response to infractions of the law.

Among the problematic information contained in the 28-page FOI release is a “briefing decision note,” written by an unidentified bureaucrat, which argues that the oversight unit should not be overly strict in reporting infractions of MAiD-delivery protocols to professional colleges or the police.

“… Overly strict or severe use of referrals … may discourage physicians or nurse practitioners from providing MAiD despite high demand,” states the November 2023 memo, addressed to Stephen Brown, deputy minister of health.

Brown approved the note’s concluding recommendation to establish a new “weighted criteria model” for judging practitioner infractions.

Christopher Lyon

O'Neill asks Christopher Lyon, a Canadian who teaches at UK’s University of York to respond. Lyon's comments:

“This is staggering,”

He said the memo essentially gives permission to “Unlawfully kill someone, but we won’t enforce it because it might discourage practitioners from playing loose with the law.”

Lyon said the province should be “very concerned” about what’s driving an apparent high demand for euthanasia rather than working out ways to address it.

Trudo Lemmons also responded to O'Neill with shock.

Lemmens too was shocked by the bureaucrat’s reasoning that MAiD is too popular to worry about rules. “Indeed, [it’s] stunning to state that so explicitly.”

O'Neill outlines the data:

The FOI document also contains a spreadsheet showing that, in 2023 alone, the oversight unit found 2,833 “reporting issues” and “completion errors” in the paperwork for 2,767 MAiD deaths and for 1,041 cases in which MAiD was applied for but not completed.

Nevertheless, since 2018, the unit has made only 22 referrals to regulatory bodies for possible disciplinary action and just two referrals to law enforcement for potential criminal charges, according to an unattributed declaration appended to the end of the FOI document. The statement concludes by saying the referrals “represent less than 0.2 per cent of the total number of cases of MAiD reviewed by the unit.”

Isabel Grant

O'Neill spoke to Isabel Grant, a law professor at the University of British Columbia who responds:

“It was alarming to read about the error rate in MAiD assessments in B.C.,” Grant said in an emailed statement. “Looking at only one indicator—errors around the eligibility requirements—we see an error rate of 4.9 per cent. When we are talking about close to 3,000 deaths, that is a very high number.”

Grant said that when the cost of a mistake is a potential wrongful death, society should not tolerate such a high error rate. “Couple this with the concern raised in the report that we cannot have an ‘overly strict’ referral to law enforcement or professional colleges … [and] we can see the approach of the British Columbia government to MAiD deaths—err on the side of making MAiD accessible, not on the side of compliance with the Criminal Code,” she said.

The government’s approach is especially troubling, Grant said, considering “we are talking about exemptions from Canada’s murder and aiding-suicide laws.”

O'Neill examined public records and found no records related to concerns with MAiD in BC:

The B.C. Catholic examined seven years’ worth of public disciplinary records of the College of Pharmacists of B.C., the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C., and the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives and was unable to find any record of disciplinary action related to MAiD. Likewise, there are no public records of any criminal charges related to a professional’s handling of MAiD.

Curiously, there is no public record of the lone disciplinary case for which the FOI papers provided any detail. The case is described in a three-page “Ministry of Health Decision Briefing Note” drafted in January 2021. It outlines the case of a B.C. doctor, whose name is not disclosed, who filed a report to the oversight unit that “failed to include a second assessment concluding eligibility, as required under federal law.”

As well, the briefing note reported that the oversight unit “also identified additional issues with the physician’s documentation of this case, which contravene the College of Physicians and Surgeons MAiD Practice Standards.”

“… The absence of a second independent opinion is exacerbated by an apparent disregard of an assessment of ineligibility,” the note states. It concludes by recommending that the oversight unit refer the case to both police and the doctors’ college “for appropriate investigation.” It is not known whether Deputy Minister Brown acted on the recommendation.

A spokesperson for the doctors’ college said that privacy concerns prevent it from releasing information about any referrals from the MAiD Oversight Unit.

A spokesperson for the nurses’ college said a B.C. Catholic request for follow-up information on disciplinary matters would be treated as an FOI application and be answered by the end of August.

However, the B.C. government did make that very information available in 2023 in response to an FOI request by Dr. Deborah Cook, a Member of the Order of Canada inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame last month.

The government response lists two B.C. referrals to law enforcement—one in 2019 and the other in 2021—related to breaches of Section 241.2 of the Criminal Code of Canada, which sets out the eligibility criteria and safeguards for medical assistance for MAiD. The document does not say which professions were involved in the criminal referrals.

In addition, the single-page document to Cook listed three referrals to the pharmacists’ college, two to the nurses’ college in 2019, and 15 to the doctors’ college from 2019 to November of 2023. The unit found that in four of the doctors’ cases and in the two nurses’ cases, the medical assessor had concluded that a patient was eligible for MAiD even though the assessment “did not find they met all individual eligibility criteria.

Alex Schadenberg

O'Neill ends his article by quoting from his conversation with me:

Schadenberg said the apparent lack of disciplinary action or criminal charges is further evidence that B.C.’s MAiD oversight is ineffectual, despite the Supreme Court of Canada’s Carter decision, which led to the 2016 legalization of MAiD, carrying a requirement for stringent oversight.

Schadenberg remarked that prosecuting such crimes will always be frustratingly difficult because “any witness on the other side is dead.”

Indeed, “it’s like the perfect crime,” he said. “You don’t get into trouble, and anybody who could effectively complain about it is dead.”

O'Neill has opened up a can of worms that has forced him to seek more information through freedom of information requests. The story will continue.

In October 2024 the Ontario MAiD review committee released a report that uncovered 428 non-compliant MAiD deaths from 2018 - 2023.

Catholic hospital answers MAiD onslaught with authentic medical care.

This article was published by Terry O'Neill on his blog on June 20, 2025.

Terry O'Neill

By Terry O'Neill

As I reported earlier this month, the B.C. government and its operatives at Vancouver Coastal Health have relentlessly forced euthanasia facilities into or near several Catholic spaces in the Metro Vancouver area.

Given the Catholic facilities’ pro-life beliefs, this can only be seen as a grave incursion. It’s certainly one that has profoundly upset many of the faithful.

But what are the consequences within those facilities? How deeply has this fatal infection reached? And how rigorously has Providence Health Care, the Catholic medical-care agency, been able to maintain its pro-life principles?

The answers I recently received to these questions give me some hope, and I’ll will share them below. First, though, a quick review.

Door from St Paul's
to the Shoreline Space

My original story found that a Vancouver-Coastal-operated Medical Assistance in Dying facility on the campus of the Providence-operated St. Paul’s Hospital has been operating since January 6 of this year. It’s called the “Shoreline Space” and is attached, with no intervening corridor, to a wall of the hospital. See photo.

To my eyes, it’s a carbuncle—a death chamber facilitating homicide and, in doing so, performing a function that is exactly the opposite of the medical care to which St. Paul’s is dedicated.

Shoreline Space

My story also disclosed how I had discovered, through a freedom-of-information application, that Vancouver Coastal is planning to impose a 2,800-square-foot MAiD facility on the new St. Paul’s, which is scheduled to open in 2027. No agency—not the B.C. government, Vancouver Coastal, Providence, or the Archdiocese of Vancouver (which oversees Providence)—has ever announced this.

And finally, my story reported that Vancouver Coastal has established MAiD rooms in the same buildings as two Providence-operated hospices. Providence does not own those buildings.

The story has now received international coverage. Alex Schadenberg, of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, featured it on his blog. The Canadian Catholic News website carried my story. Campaign Life Coalition carried the news on its Facebook page. Two pro-life websites, lifenews.com and liveaction.org, reported on it. And, finally, anti-MAiD firebrand Kelsi Sheren wrote about on her Substack space.

My reporting on MAiD was sparked five years ago by acquaintances who told me that, while in hospital, they had been pestered by hospital staff about accepting MAiD, even though they weren’t dying.

I was shocked and launched an investigation into what the MAiD-delivery policy was at one large, public health agency, Fraser Health. My freedom-of-information request found that its policy was that MAiD is supposed to be a patient-led process.

But, clearly, if hospital staff were pestering patients about MAiD, such a policy isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

Moreover, I discovered that at Fraser Health hospices, staff are instructed to inform every incoming patient that, among the services they were entitled to, was a cocktail of deadly drugs. The policy led to the resignation of at least one doctor.

I also learned that at least one Australian health agency maintains a policy prohibiting staff to initiate any discussion about euthanasia. This, I believe, should be the policy everywhere.

Hospital patients are in a vulnerable state. They’re sick, often elderly, and sometimes harbouring feelings that they are being a burden on their families.

Suggesting MAiD to such patients can be misinterpreted as recommending it. And when the question is asked over and over again, day after day, patients will undoubtedly feel pressured.

With all this in mind – the imposition of MAiD at Providence and the must-mention MAiD policy of Fraser Health – I asked Providence how exactly it handled requests for MAiD and whether it had a policy about initiating discussions about MAiD.

I am happy to report now that a Providence spokesperson, Shaf Hussain, very promptly sent me a detailed policy statement on how staff should respond to a request for MAiD.

But, I responded, does Providence allow its staff to actually initiate a discussion about MAiD?

“To clarify, no, we don’t proactively mention MAiD as an option to consider,” Hussain wrote. “We never initiate an offer of MAiD. If a patient enquires about it, we contact the VCH MAiD team. From PHC’s perspective, we ensure the patient is provided information about all [non-MAiD] end-of-life options, so the patient can make an informed decision.”

Hussain then quoted from a policy document that further explained the policy:

“A person can ask a member of their care team about MAiD if it is something they want to explore.” The document states. “Assessments for MAiD eligibility will be conducted by two doctors and/or nurse practitioners. A health authority MAiD care coordination service, like the [Vancouver Coastal] Assisted Dying Program, leads arrangements for assessment.

“To assist with making an informed decision, both the care team at PHC and the MAiD assessors will discuss the person’s medical condition with them. They will also discuss services and treatments that are available to relieve suffering.

“Services and treatments may include adjusting a current treatment plan, engaging palliative care services, community support services or other options. A person does not have to accept any of these services, but it is legally required for a person requesting MAiD to be offered care options to address the person’s suffering.”

All this is good to know—good that Providence is adhering to authentic, pro-life medical care in the midst of a very difficult situation.

Let's pray that Providence is able to sustain and grow its admirable pro-life policies and practices. After all, it's a life and death matter.

Previous articles on this topic:

• Vancouver euthanasia clinic imposed on Catholic hospital (Link).
• Euthanasia clinic forced onto Catholic hospital is now operational (Link). 
• They built a death chamber at a Catholic hospital. You paid for it (Link).

They Built a Death Chamber at a Catholic Hospital. You Paid for It

This article was published by Kelsi Sheren on her substack on June 17, 2025..

This Is Not Medicine. It’s Modern Extermination. Inside the St. Paul’s Death Chamber in a Catholic Hospital.

Kelsi Sheren

By Kelsi Sheren

Hey! Look over here!

Your taxes are building eugenics facilities!

St. Paul's hospital in BC has just installed a new killing centre. Now servicing BC patients' the government has decided are to expensive to actually care for. A Recent decision by the British Columbia government to forcibly establish MAiD killing centres adjacent to the Catholic operated St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver represents where Canada is at when it comes to helping its citizens. This is a unprecedented shift in Canada’s healthcare practices, raising profound ethical, religious, and societal concerns.

These new locations popping up across the country are designed for effective and fast killing. A one stop shop for death.

You come in and you never come out. This is Canadian health care…. so they say.

St. Paul's Hospital

In June 2023, pro death cult advocates significantly escalated their pressure campaign, utilizing the tragic case of Samantha O'Neill as leverage. If you haven’t heard of this case, let me give you the Coles notes. Samantha O’Neill had requested to be killed at St. Paul's Hospital, but in alignment with its longstanding Catholic ethical stance against euthanasia, the hospital transferred her compassionately to St. John's Hospice.

Instead of recognizing this action as a respectful accommodation of religious ethics and patient choice, the pro death cults of Canada leveraged intense media scrutiny to insist that Catholic hospitals should directly provide euthanasia, I.E. DEATH. They framed transfers as inhumane and insensitive. Just a quick side bar, I think killing someone is more inhumane and insensitive then moving some one, but I digress.

Shoreline Space

Naturally the weak BC government gave into the pressure and public controversy. By December 1, 2023, it expropriated land from Providence Health, the Catholic entity overseeing St. Paul's, and proceeded rapidly to construct a dedicated killing facility, now known as the "Shoreline Space." This facility, described as utilitarian and starkly institutional, sits discreetly (INTENTIONALLY) within an interior courtyard of the existing St. Paul's Hospital.

Hidden behind security fencing and gates, and shielded from public awareness. As do all bad things happen, hidden away from prying eyes and in the dark.

This structure symbolizes a horrific new reality: killing administered covertly yet deliberately close to faith-based medical institutions dedicated to preserving life.

Even more alarming is the government’s intention to replicate this controversial approach. Detailed investigative reporting by independent journalist Terry O'Neill uncovered evidence that planning for yet another killing facility is already well underway at the new St. Paul's Hospital, currently under construction at False Creek Flats. This new facility, expected to open by 2027, just in time for the new expansion of MAID in the mentally ill. This side example of health care will further embed killing in a setting historically committed to life-affirming care.

Internal emails and documents obtained through freedom-of-information requests reveal extensive logistical planning to ensure seamless integration of killing services, including specific requirements regarding proximity to the pharmacy, emergency services access, and even parking logistics.

The graphic and chilling reality extends beyond St. Paul's Hospital. O'Neill’s reporting has shown that Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) already operates MAiD facilities within buildings housing Catholic-run hospices, May’s Place and St. John Hospice, despite Providence Health’s explicit, longstanding prohibition against killing. Providence Health, constrained by contracts and lease agreements, remains powerless to prevent these facilities from operating so intimately close to their hospice patients, creating a profound ethical conflict and confusion for staff, patients, and families alike.

Grafeneck castle

Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, highlights the chilling historical parallels to Germany's notorious Aktion T4 euthanasia program. Specifically, he references Grafeneck Castle, initially a compassionate Lutheran care facility forcibly expropriated by the Nazi regime to become the first euthanasia killing center. The similarities in governmental overreach, forcible land expropriation, and ethical disregard raise uncomfortable and necessary historical comparisons.

Vancouver physician Dr. Will Johnston further underscores the severity of these actions, characterizing the imposition of euthanasia-killing facilities into traditionally life-affirming spaces as an expression of governmental totalitarianism. Johnston argues that such policies demonstrate not inclusion or respect for diversity, but a dangerous intolerance toward those with conscientious objections, effectively marginalizing religious and ethical convictions from healthcare delivery.

The pro-death cult are jumping up and down, bragging at their events that they finally broke the only religious safe guard we had left. (This is true I have an audio recording I made while at one)

Louis Brier nursing home.

This is not the first either. “Dr” Ellen Wiebe has broken these rules before. She attempted to defend herself against allegations of "sneaking in and killing someone" at an orthodox Jewish nursing home. “

“The Louis Brier Nursing Home in Vancouver has issued a formal complaint with the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons against Dr. Ellen Wiebe after she granted 83-year-old Barry Hyman's request to die at the facility he calls home."

Long story short, she went in and MAIDED a man in a Jewish nursing home.

“Dr’s” like her don’t see why this is completely unacceptable.

As Canadians, we need to stop hiding behind what’s happening here and with this disturbing trajectory, we need to stand up. Why aren’t we urgently questioning our politicians and asking why all our tax dollars are going to perfecting and facilitating killing centres but not hospitals.

Why are we adding more locations to increase death and not health care?

Why are we not asking our community how they feel about people being brought into a hiding building, never to come out again?

Why are we standing by as Canada becomes the eugenics capital of the world.

Why are we allowing these pro death cult bullies to come after our only remaining religious strongholds??

Ill tell you why we aren’t, because the dark is scary.

It’s terrifying if I’m being honest, because these people and this government have made it clear that they don’t actually want to help people, they want to remove the “burdens” from our society. They want to cut out the vulnerable and those who can no longer protect themselves, those whose families have given up on them due to overbearing medical costs or care giver burnout.

Canada showed its hand when it began prioritizing death over life by building facilities specifically for killing and cutting funding for those needed for healing.

And now we will begin eradicating anyone who even looks a little ill, because if you are not lonely enough, desperate enough, poor enough, sick enough or mentally unwell yet.

Give it time, the way this country is going.

It’s only a matter of time.

LINKS:

https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2025/06/euthanasia-maid-unit-forced-onto-st.html

https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2025/05/vancouver-death-clinic-imposed-on.html

https://bccatholic.ca/news/catholic-van/government-taking-property-from-st-paul-s-hospital-to-deliver-maid

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.4477708/doctor-accused-of-sneaking-in-and-killing-someone-at-jewish-nursing-home-says-she-did-nothing-wrong-1.4477714

Euthanasia clinic forced onto St. Paul’s in Vancouver is now operational.

And a second one is planned for new hospital.

By Terry O'Neill, an independent reporter who lives near Vancouver.

Euthanasia facility at St. Paul's

A British Columbia (BC) government ordered euthanasia (MAiD) facility on the downtown Vancouver campus of the Catholic-operated St. Paul’s Hospital is now fully operational.

My half-year-long investigation into the impact of the NDP government’s MAiD-imposition edict has also uncovered the fact that planning is underway for another euthanasia facility, also to be operated by the provincial government’s Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, to be forced onto the site of the new St. Paul’s on False Creek Flats, currently being built three kilometres east of the existing hospital.

Previous article: Vancouver Euthanasia Clinic Imposed on Catholic Hospital (Link).

As well, I have learned that Vancouver Coastal is now operating MAiD rooms in the same buildings that house two Catholic-run hospices in Vancouver, and that the hospices were powerless to block them.

All those Catholic facilities are operated by Providence Health Care, which is controlled by the Archdiocese of Vancouver. Providence has long maintained pro-life policies which prohibit abortions and euthanasia from being performed on its premises.

Alex Schadenberg

The imposition of MAiD units alongside Catholic facilities has left Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, with deep concerns.

“This is incredibly sad news,” Schadenberg said in an interview. “It’s sad that the unit is now operational. And I’m also incredibly saddened by the fact that the new St. Paul’s will also have a euthanasia clinic attached to it.”

The provincial government forced the euthanasia facility onto the current St. Paul’s site in November 2023 in response to relentless death-on-demand activism and mainstream media pressure.

The utilitarian-looking structure, which Vancouver Coastal built at an undisclosed cost, is sited in an interior courtyard of St. Paul’s, which was founded 131 years ago by the Sisters of Providence.

The laneway-home-sized structure opened on January 6 of this year, a Vancouver Coastal spokesperson said in an email dated April 17. 

“The new space provides patients with options for specialized end-of-life care in a way that supports and respects them, their loved ones, and health-care providers,” he said.

Called the “Shoreline Space,” the MAiD facility is attached directly to courtyard-facing exterior wall of the western section of the hospital’s Providence Building. Public access to the facility from the courtyard is blocked by a gate and a two-metre-high, black chain-link fence.

Pedestrians using the nearby Thurlow Street entrance to the hospital are given no hint of what the green-metal-clad facility is used for, although the fence, multiple security cameras, and floodlight fixtures suggest something needing high security.

Inside the hospital, patients and families walking through a ground-floor corridor would have no idea of what is behind a locked door with a sign reading: “Shoreline Space. Vancouver Coastal Health.”

The current St. Paul’s will close in a few years, but MAiD will apparently continue on the campus of the new hospital.

Vancouver Coastal emails, which I obtained through a freedom-of-information application, show that the health authority has now launched a planning process to insert a euthanasia facility at the new St. Paul’s, which is currently undergoing finishing work in advance of its planned opening in 2027.

No agency—the B.C. government, the Ministry of Health, Vancouver Coastal Health, Providence Health, or the Archdiocese of Vancouver—has announced that the new St. Paul’s is being forced to accommodate a MAiD facility.

Yet, the text of a Nov. 15, 2024, email from Laurel Plewes, operations director of Vancouver Coastal Health’s “Assisted Dying Program,” to Jennifer Chan of Providence Health Care (PHC) shows that such planning is taking place.

Under the subject heading, “Preliminary VCH requirement for MAiD space at the new SPH [St. Paul’s Hospital],” Plewes wrote: “Here is a list of preliminary requirements, subject to refinement and additions.”

That list, in bullet form, reads as follows:

• Internal 2800 sq feet.
• We suspect PHC requirement will still remain, and VCH agrees, that the pathway must allow for patients to remain in their PHC bed.
• 5 min or less travel time from pharmacy located in SPH.
• Ramp or ground-level entry—ramp is not included in square footage above.
• Require connections for sewage, water, electricity, and IT connections similar to what is listed in previous partial agreement.
• At least two parking spots for staff, easy access for transfer van.
• Physical address to support emergency services knowing where to go.

Most emails I received in response to my FOI request were almost completed redacted, but one, entitled “Future Planning: MAiD spaces,” was sent by Vancouver Coastal’s Nina Dhaliwal, a “senior project manager,” to four of her colleagues on Nov. 27, 2024.

It describes the need to connect all the parties to ensure that “future planning for MAiD spaces” is being done efficiently. Dhaliwal also asks whether “the MAiD team” had an “SOA” (presumably meaning Service-Oriented Architecture) and a “Functional Program.”

Although the email does not specifically mention the new St. Paul’s, Vancouver Coastal released it to me in response to a request for the texts of communications regarding the possible construction of a MAiD unit at the new hospital.

Neither Vancouver Coastal nor Providence Health has commented in response to questions about MAiD facilities at the new and old St. Paul’s.

Grafeneck, May 2024.

On issue of MAiD being forced into areas operated by Christian facilities, Schadenberg said the situation reminds him of the Nazis’ 1939 conversion of a Lutheran-run care home at Grafeneck, Germany, into a euthanasia facility for physically and mentally disabled Germans.

“Sadly, it appears that history is repeating itself,” Schadenberg said. “I know it’s not an exact parallel, but I find it very upsetting.”

Providence Health’s service contract with the provincial government guarantees that it can prevent abortions and euthanasia from taking place within Providence facilities. Instead, patients seeking such procedures are discharged from Providence and transferred to a Vancouver Coastal facility.

Pro-euthanasia groups criticized the arrangement as soon as MAiD was legalized in 2016, and then ramped up pressure when, as revealed in a May 2022 B.C. Catholic story, the B.C. branch of Dying with Dignity Canada launched a multi-platform public-relations campaign aimed at forcing the B.C. government to amend the service agreement in order to compel Providence to allow MAiD.

Dying With Dignity called the “forced” transfer of patients to MAiD-allowing facilities “cruel and unusual.”

The pressure peaked the following year when news media seized on the case of a Vancouver woman, Sam O’Neill, whose family complained that she was forced to transfer from St. Paul’s to access MAiD. In response, the B.C. government announced what observers called a “workaround” or “end-run” solution in November 2023.

The arrangement called for the province to take land at the St. Paul’s campus to create a “clinical space” for MAiD to be performed. The space would be staffed by Vancouver Coastal’s health-care professionals and was to be connected by a corridor to St. Paul’s Hospital.

“Patients from St. Paul’s Hospital accessing MAiD will be discharged by Providence Health and transferred to the care of Vancouver Coastal Health in this new clinical space,” the release said. The MAiD chamber was originally scheduled to open in August 2024.

Archbishop J. Michael Miller was quoted at the time as saying the directive “respects and preserves Providence’s policy of not allowing MAiD inside a Catholic health-care facility,” and the new patient-discharge and transfer protocols would be consistent with existing arrangements for transferring patients at other Providence facilities.

But that did not end the matter. In June 2024, Ms. O’Neill’s mother, Dying with Dignity Canada, and a doctor launched a lawsuit against Providence, Vancouver Coastal, and the provincial government, alleging that they had denied Ms. O’Neill her a constitutional right to access MAiD.

They seek to have MAiD conducted within all provincially funded facilities, such as those of Providence Health Care, which relies on provincial funding for its operating costs. Providence owns the hospitals.

In its formal response to the claim, Providence not only described the St. Paul’s arrangement, but also disclosed that, at the May’s Place and St. John hospices that it operates, “patients who choose to receive MAiD are provided with MAiD by a VCH healthcare provider in a space operated by VCH which is located down the hall from the Providence operated hospice rooms in the same building that houses the hospice.”

But that does not mean MAiD is actually being performed within a Catholic facility, said Shaf Hussain, a communications officer with Providence.

St John Hospice

Hussain said in a May 30 email to me that both St. John Hospice and May's Place Hospice are in buildings and on lands that are not owned by Providence.

“Regarding St. John Hospice: I believe the building is owned by the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller, the land is owned by [the University of B.C], and the whole building is leased by VCH,” Hussain said.

“Since September 2013, Providence has been operating a 14-bed hospice in the building and continues to do so. In 2021, VCH took some space in the building for its Vancouver Community palliative programming. A room in that space is used for MAiD.”

May's Place Hospice

As for May's Place, “Providence doesn't own the building; we lease the space on one of the floors from its owner and operate a six-bed hospice in that space,” he said. “VCH also leases space in that building from the owner; this space, which they use for MAiD, is separate and away from our hospice operations.”

On issue of MAiD being performed adjacent to Catholic facilities, Schadenberg said the situation reminds him of the Nazis’ conversion of a Lutheran-run care home at Grafeneck, Germany, into a euthanasia facility for physically and mentally disabled Germans.

“Sadly, it appears history is repeating itself,” Schadenberg said. “I know it’s not an exact parallel, but I find it very upsetting.

Dr Will Johnston

Vancouver’s Dr. Will Johnston, who heads the Euthanasia Resistance B.C., said he believes that the B.C. government’s decision to force MAiD into previously life-affirming, medically positive spaces is a form of totalitarianism.

“This is another example of zealots who won’t allow the population any freedom from euthanasia,” Johnston said. “They obviously control the provincial government ... I think it’s totalitarianism, and it shows none of their claimed virtues of inclusion and diversity.”

Previous articles on this topic: 

• Vancouver Euthanasia Clinic Imposed on Catholic Hospital (Link).
• Euthanasia lobby pressures British Columbia government to force Catholic hospitals to provide euthanasia (Link).
• British Columbia government to build killing centre next to Catholic hospital (Link).