A new peer-reviewed book, Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada: Key Multidisciplinary Perspectives has just been released. Derek Ross, Executive Director and General Counsel for Christian Legal Fellowship and Deina Warren, Director of Legal Affairs at the Canadian Centre for Christian Charities, contributed a chapter on “The Importance of Conscience as an Independent Protection.”

August 1 is Emancipation Day, as designated by Canada's House of Commons, marking "the actual day in 1834 that the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 came into effect across the British Empire".