Last week, along with my associates Teresa Acs and Holly Allardyce, I attended an event presented by law firm WeirFoulds, titled Mind Over Matter: Living with a Healthy Brain. The session featured two “members” of the Women’s Brain Health Initiative (WBHI). WBHI is a charitable non-profit with a mandate to “provide education and fund research to combat brain aging diseases that affect women”. Lynn Posluns is the Founder, President and….

Canadians are well aware that in Carter v. Canada[i] the Supreme Court struck down the provision of the criminal code against physician assisted death (PAD). In its decision, the Supreme Court set out the circumstances in which PAD is appropriate: (1) The person affected clearly consents to the termination of life; and (2) The person has a grievous and irremediable medical condition (including an illness, disease or disability) that causes….