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Health Ethics Today Vol 33-1, September 2026

  • 29 September 2026

Doris Kieser to serve as Acting VPAD at St. Joseph’s College

  • 23 April 2026

Adjunct Member, Ireh Iyioha, UBC's inaugural UNESCO Chair

  • 31 March 2026

Understanding What Clinical Ethical Cases Are: A Review and Perspectives from a Canadian Collaborative Working Group

  • 16 March 2026

Arthur C. Clarke Foundation Honors NSS Member Austin Mardon

  • 25 November 2025

Members of the Dossetor Centre involved in applicable research

  • 16 October 2025

Austin Mardon Honoured by INSA for Lifetime of Global Scientific Contributions

  • 19 September 2025

Peter Brindley's and Matt Morgan's article in the BMJ - When doctors lose their faith in medicine

  • Peter Brindley and Matt Morgan
  • 28 August 2025

‘Two half-wounded people make a better whole‘: a couple's journey of faith and advocacy for mental health

  • 27 August 2025

Catherine Mardon & Austin Mardon Opinion: War of Independence Again

  • 20 August 2025

Heidi Janz Opinion: Alberta's clawback of federal disability benefits shameful

  • 3 July 2025

Gillian Lemermeyer project co-leader with UofA's AI + Health Hub

  • 20 May 2025

Alberta Court of Justice welcomes Tracey Bailey, KC

  • 15 May 2025

Medicine and MAiD

  • 12 May 2025

IIPL Peace Award to Catherine Mardon

  • 17 March 2025

Opinion: Community treatment orders can provide support with dignity

  • 4 March 2025

When COVID-19 Claims of ‘Revisionism’ and ‘Misinformation’ are Themselves Misinformed

  • 12 February 2025

Opinion: War on fentanyl is worth fighting

  • Austin Mardon
  • 5 February 2025

The hidden human cost of a 25% tariff: A public health crisis in the making

  • 22 January 2025

Opinion: Canada will not go quietly into the night

  • Austin Mardon
  • 22 January 2025

AMA Journal of Ethics article by Kathryn Dong and Katherine Duthie - How Should Risks and Benefits of Short-Acting Opioids Be Evaluated in the Care of Inpatients With OUD?

  • 1 July 2024

Austin Mardon recognized with honorary Doctorate from MacEwan University

  • 27 May 2024

Austin Mardon to receive honorary degree from Dalhousie University in Spring 2024 convocation

  • 25 April 2024

Austin Mardon honoured with the NASA Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Medal

  • 25 April 2024

New publication by Cameron Cattell, Elaine Hyshka, Brendan Leier & Cheryl Mack - Capacity, Rationality, and the Promotion of Autonomy: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Refusals of Care After Opiod Poisoning

  • 18 April 2024

Austin Mardon recipient of honorary Doctor of Laws degree from UBC

  • 2 April 2024

Eric Mathison discusses - Treatment Access Isn't the Main Issue for Mental Health

  • 10 March 2024

Health Ethics Today, Volume 31(1), February 2024

  • 29 February 2024

The Alberta government is trying to legislate how you raise your kids

  • 7 February 2024

Heidi Janz and Michelle Stack discuss - Here are some dos and don’ts to help tackle ableism

  • Michelle Stack and Heidi Janz
  • 30 January 2024

New publication by Heidi Janz - Plagued to Death by Ableism: What the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Expansion of Eligibility for MAID Reveal About the Lethal Dangers of Medical and Systemic Ableism in Canada

  • Heidi Janz
  • 7 December 2023

Austin Mardon elected Foreign Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences

  • 27 October 2023

New book explores Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying policies

  • 18 September 2023

Freedom of expression and the Jordan Peterson case

  • 24 August 2023

Respecting mental health and the law (part 2)

  • 4 August 2023

Respecting mental health and the law (part 1)

  • 3 August 2023

Opinion: Multi-pronged response to toxic drugs crisis must include safe supply

  • 9 June 2023

Unilateral Withdrawal, Technological Creep, and the Role of Proportionality in ECMO Policy

  • 23 May 2023

Health Ethics Today Volume 30(1), May 2023

  • 16 May 2023

AU honours mental-health advocate

  • 3 May 2023

Dr. Michael van Manen Reappointment: Chair in Bioethics

  • 12 April 2023

Begoña Errasti Ibarrondo Adjunct Appointment Expands Teaching and Research in Health Ethics

  • 27 February 2023

Has medical assistance in dying changed end-of-life care in the ICU? A qualitative survey of Canadian intensivists

  • 25 August 2022

In good hands: examining everyday nursing ethics through touch and technology

  • 12 May 2022

The best medicine? Humour can be a double-edged part of grieving

  • 10 May 2022

Opinion: Thoughts of family, history and my friend in her basement in Ukraine by Austin Mardon

  • 2 March 2022

Russian invasion of Ukraine 101: A brief history - Opinion co-authored by Austin Mardon

  • 28 February 2022

Health Ethics Today Volume 29(1), February 2022

  • 11 February 2022

James Mellet's and Mary Ellen Macdonald's publication: Medical assistance in dying in hospice: A qualitative study

  • 24 January 2022

Hastening Death in Canadian ICUs: End-of-Life Care in the Era of Medical Assistance in Dying

  • 22 January 2022

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