Applications Now Open for CPL Bioethics Symposium 2025! This June 5-7, 2025, Canadian Physicians for Life will host a Bioethics Symposium convening medical students, residents, and early practice physicians for an intensive socratic discussion seminar on “Exploring the Dignity of Difference.” Through a competitive application process, the cohort will be composed of top up-and-coming medical

Remember To Love On Monday January 27th, there was a federal roundtable on Advance Requests for euthanasia. Some of your colleagues participated. While I was speaking with one of the physicians who will be participating, she passed on a great analogy about advance directives. She said:  It’s like asking your child what they want to

Advocating for the Elderly According to the Government of Canada, abuse affects between 4 and 10% of older adults in Canada. Since only an estimated one in five incidents of elder abuse comes to the attention of those who can help, these figures are likely an underestimate. Older adults may suffer harm, including: physical

Remembering a friend: Albertos Polizogopoulos (1982-2024)At the end of last week, while the March for Life was taking place on Parliament Hill and in many cities across Canada, a dear friend of our community died.Albertos Polizogopoulos was general counsel to CPL for many years. He gave many of our students, physicians, and the organization overall

How then shall we live?Many of the public intellectuals of the day are very good at observing and diagnosing problems in our society but not many are capable of providing a real alternative vision that is both capable of capturing the public imagination and concretely feasible. One of the tough problems we are facing is

We Belong to One Another Isolation, anxiety, loneliness, addiction, abandonment, estrangement… These are just some of the issues that have consequences everyday– both for personal and public health. In an essay, author and poet Wendell Berry offers this diagnosis:  In fact, people use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull.