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In the news today: Chow re-elected, MAID bill tabled, Eurovision finalists named
The federal government plans to bar MAID for mental illness alone and add advance-request safeguards as the law’s eligibility date nears.
- On Monday, Toronto voters re-elected Mayor Olivia Chow to a second term, handing her a commanding double-digit victory over challenger Brad Bradford in what polls had suggested would be a tight race.
- Chow's campaign success rested on her track record, including a deal to upload city expressway costs to the province, stricter rules for bad-faith evictions, and reduced 911 wait times.
- In separate federal news, Liberals announced today that the government will restrict medical assistance in dying for mental illness while introducing provisions for advance directives allowing patients with degenerative conditions like ALS to consent to assisted death.
- "Rigorous safeguards" will govern these advance requests, according to Department of Justice officials, protecting patients who lose capacity due to degenerative illness before an assisted death can occur.
- Parliament Hill must pass the proposed bill before March 17, the deadline on which people with mental illness as their sole underlying condition would otherwise become eligible for MAID.
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L 71%
C 29%
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