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There is debate about whether a health-care worker can ethically participate in both palliative care and the MAID program. (Shutterstock)

May 17, 2023

MAID’s evolving ethical tensions: Does it make dying with dignity easier than living with dignity?

Alessandro Manduca-Barone, University of Lethbridge; Julia Brassolotto, University of Lethbridge, and Monique Sedgwick, University of Lethbridge

Bill C-7 has created ethical tensions between MAID providers and palliative care, between transparency and patient privacy, and between offering a dignified death rather than a dignified life.

Preliminary research into the Chess for Life Program in Alberta, Canada, shows that youth who are sentenced to chess instruction after committing non-violent crimes are learning useful life skills. (Shutterstock)

May 23, 2018

Judges sentence youth offenders to chess, with promising results

Monique Sedgwick, University of Lethbridge; Jeffrey MacCormack, University of Lethbridge, and Lance Grigg, University of Lethbridge

In Alberta, an alternative initiative sees youth who commit non-violent crimes sentenced to 25 hours of chess instruction with a University of Lethbridge professor.

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