Katie DeRosa’s story about Samantha O’Neill’s horrific forced transfer from St. Paul’s Hospital to access medical assistance in dying (MAID) highlights the need to stop these transfers.
Alex Muir, North VancouverFor the first several years of my lengthy career criss-crossing the world’s oceans, I was employed on Liverpool-owned freighters trading between West Africa to Europe and North America. It was an exciting time, coming from a hard-scabble U.K. childhood, where food was rationed for a decade after the Second World War, and entering a world where many West African countries were achieving independence from colonial powers in Europe.
These thoughts crossed my mind when recently reading that between 35 to 40 migrants had drowned in a flimsy rubber dinghy that left the west coast of Morocco with about 60 people on board, bound for the Canary Islands about 100 kilometres away in the South Atlantic Ocean. Being part of Spain, the islands are a point of entry into Europe for asylum-seekers, but almost 600 drowned attempting the crossing last year alone.
While these asylum-seekers were drowning with minimal attention, the world’s media was focused on the search for an experimental submarine carrying billionaire adventurers to view the wreck of the Titanic in international waters of the North Atlantic. That story was leading every newscast for three or four days, as the drama gripped world attention.
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