{"id":10447,"date":"2021-01-08T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10447"},"modified":"2021-02-05T16:29:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T00:29:52","slug":"maid-muscles-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10447","title":{"rendered":"MAiD Muscles In"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">B.C.\u2019s Delta Hospice Society being evicted, assets expropriated for refusing to allow euthanasia and assisted suicide<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.convivium.ca\/articles\/maid-muscles-in\/\">Convivium<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Peter Stockland<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Peter_Stockland\">*<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>You might think the middle of a global pandemic is less than an ideal time to disrupt the operations of a hospice where palliative care patients receive comfort as they approach death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If so, you would not share the apparent thinking of the B.C. government or its local Fraser Health Authority, which as of today has forced layoffs of staff at the Irene Thomas Hospice in suburban Vancouver. The dismissals are part of the eviction of the Delta Hospice Society that oversees the facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a conversation yesterday, DHS board President Angelina Ireland confirmed for me that the pink slips were to be given out this morning because the Society refuses to administer Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) on its premises. As of February 24, the DHS will have to relinquish the palliative care centre that it raised $9 million a decade ago to construct on Fraser Health Authority land. Its 35-year lease on the property will be nullified, and its other assets expropriated, Ireland says. . . 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