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A Voice Unheard: The Latimer Case and People with Disabilities
(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.
Don't get depressed in Oregon
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.
Genereux Case Factum
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
Families across country feel Latimer ruling better protects life of people with disabilities
(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.