(18 November 1999) — This new book on the Latimer case is the first to be written by a woman with disabilities, resulting from polio and glaucoma; so the perspective offered is unique and challenges the ableist assumptions presented by most mainstream treatments of this case. The 176 page work is based upon analysis of court documents, media material, and extensive interviews with disability activists from across Canada.

• A Letter from Allan Rock: Minister of Health Speaks Out on Euthanasia
• The Fall Agenda
  • Community of Persons with Disabilities Seeks to Intervene in Latimer Appeal
  • Impact Study on Sentencing
  • Summer Cour

By Susan Martinuk

(3 March 1999) — This article is reprinted from the National Post, March 1, 1999

Two basic tenets that underlie arguments to legalize euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are an individual's right to self-determination and the easy establishment of safeguards to regulate these practices.

Court File Nos. C29797 & C29940

COURT OF APPEAL FOR ONTARIO

BETWEEN:

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN

Appellant/Respondent

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MAURICE GENEREUX

Appellant/Respondent

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COUNCIL OF CANADIANS WITH DISABILITIES

Intervenor

FACTUM OF THE INTERVENOR

(15 February 1999) — In an action the Saskatchewan Association for Community Living (SACL), calls appropriate, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal recently overturned a lower court's unprecedented two year sentence given to Robert Latimer for killing his daughter, Tracy, who had cerebral palsy. Latimer had been convicted of second-degree murder, but the judge created an exemption to the mandatory 10-year sentence and gave Latimer only two — only one of which to be served in prison.