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Joceyln Downie

Jocelyn Downie is a professor in the faculties of law and medicine at Dalhousie University. She has advised several official committees on assisted dying, such as the Canadian Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. Prof. Downie presented a lecture on assisted dying on Parliament Hill on Feb. 23 as a part of the Big Thinking lecture series hosted by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

What critics of feds’ bill on medical assistance in dying overlook

  • Given the swirl of misinformation about changes to Canada’s law on medical assistance in dying, Canadians could be forgiven for thinking that we are
Opinion | BY JOCEYLN DOWNIE | February 24, 2021
The Speaker's parade enters the Senate Chambers on Nov. 4, 2019. The process of getting to Bill C-7, the MAID legislation currently before Parliament, has actually been lengthy. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

What critics of feds’ bill on medical assistance in dying overlook

Opinion | BY JOCEYLN DOWNIE | February 24, 2021
  • Given the swirl of misinformation about changes to Canada’s law on medical assistance in dying, Canadians could be forgiven for thinking that we are

What critics of feds’ bill on medical assistance in dying overlook

Opinion | BY JOCEYLN DOWNIE | February 24, 2021
  • Given the swirl of misinformation about changes to Canada’s law on medical assistance in dying, Canadians could be forgiven for thinking that we are
The Speaker's parade enters the Senate Chambers on Nov. 4, 2019. The process of getting to Bill C-7, the MAID legislation currently before Parliament, has actually been lengthy. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Why we need to remove the uncertainty around assisted dying

  • HALIFAX, N.S.—“I have advanced bone cancer and am suffering intolerably. How can I get physician assisted suicide?” “I have end stage ALS and am
News | BY JOCEYLN DOWNIE | February 29, 2016

Why we need to remove the uncertainty around assisted dying

News | BY JOCEYLN DOWNIE | February 29, 2016
  • HALIFAX, N.S.—“I have advanced bone cancer and am suffering intolerably. How can I get physician assisted suicide?” “I have end stage ALS and am

Why we need to remove the uncertainty around assisted dying

News | BY JOCEYLN DOWNIE | February 29, 2016
  • HALIFAX, N.S.—“I have advanced bone cancer and am suffering intolerably. How can I get physician assisted suicide?” “I have end stage ALS and am
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