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An ethical clash

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A majority of respondents to a 1995 Maclean's/Medical Post/Angus Reid survey feel that Canada should allow physician-assisted suicide. Despite this, activists who favor legalizing the practice have made little headway. Mary Jane Fogarty was convicted of assisting her friend's May 1994 suicide.

Surveys, Assisted suicide, Public opinion, Euthanasia, Medical ethics

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Tobacco's top guns

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The tobacco lobby is fighting hard to block Health Minister David Dingwall's regulations that would ban all tobacco advertising. Many arts and sports groups would like the regulations blocked as well because they stand to lose millions if the ban is implemented.

Regulation, Licensing, and Inspection of Miscellaneous Commercial Sectors, Tobacco farms, Tobacco, Tobacco Farming, Advertising Regulation, Laws, regulations and rules, Advertising, Tobacco industry, Corporate sponsorship, Advertising law

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The changing campus: universities across Canada are altering their shape and substance in unprecedented ways

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The idea that every Canadian should have access to colleges and universities in the 1960s helped create programs that meet the needs of various groups of people. Several programs from different universities are evaluated.

Services, Universities and colleges

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