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TUESDAY May 20, 2014 The Central Okanagan’s Best-Read Newspaper www.kelownacapnews.com
Assisted suicide advocacy legal fight carries on
Kevin Parnell
STAFF REPORTER
The mother of a late West Kelowna woman who was the first Canadian to win the right to doctor-assisted suicide says her daughter is with her every step of the way and she is committed to continuing the fight that Gloria Taylor was waging when she passed away. Anne Fomenoff spoke about her daughter Gloria at a press conference held on Monday by the B.C. Civil Liberties Association as the association begins its landmark journey to the Supreme Court of Canada, which will hear arguments on doctor-assisted suicide for the first time in 20 years in October. “I am so proud of my daughter and we are continuing the struggle for compassion and choice in Gloria’s name,” said Fomenoff at press conference in Vancouver. “I feel that Gloria is here with me every day. I am sure she is sitting at this table. I can hear her encouraging me and saying, ‘Go for it Mom.’” The B.C. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that the Criminal Code of Canada provisions against assisted dying were unconstitutional. The federal government then appealed and the B.C. Court of Appeal overturned the lower court’s ruling in late 2013. The BC Civil Liberties Association then appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada which will hear oral arguments in the case beginning Oct. 14, 2014. Fomenoff says her daughter believed in Canadians’ right to choice. “She fought a courageous battle. She believed all Canadians had the right to die peacefully. She wanted to die on her own terms. She did not want to die inch by inch, suffering in her own body.” Taylor suffered from ALS but died suddenly at the age of 64 from an infection. Jason Taylor, a Kelowna resident and Gloria’s eldest son, also spoke at Monday’s press conference. “This is a case is about choice. My mother strongly believed that all Canadians should have the right to decide how much suffering to endure at the end of life, based on their own values and beliefs. “It doesn’t make any sense that it’s legal to commit suicide, or to ask a doctor to disconnect a ventilator, but it’s a crime for a doctor to help someone like my mother to die at peace, without suffering, surrounded by the comfort of family and friends.” It has been 20 years since Canada’s highest court looked at the issue of doctor-assisted suicide when it heard the Sue Rodriguez case and dismissed a challenge to the law in a 5-4 decision.
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ON TOUR…Members of the Kelowna band Family warm up a crowd of close to 2,000 on Monday afternoon at City Park on the
Red Bull Tour Bus stage as part of the Hometown Tour, a five-city cross Canada tour featuring bands playing in front of their home-town crowds. Monday’s concert featured the bands Family, Hunting and the headliner Yukon Blonde, the Kelowna group that is making a name for itself on the music scene. The free concert tour began in Victoria on the weekend and will also stop in Winnipeg, Ottawa and Montreal with the Red Bull Tour Bus able to convert from bus to a stage venue within an hour.
Development would change the face of Peachland Kathy Michaels STAFF REPORTER
Peachland residents will get a chance to ask questions about a development that’s expected to double the town’s population in the next couple of decades.
The District of Peachland will hold a public hearing tonight (Tuesday, May 20) on the New Monaco project, which once completed will add 2,600 to 2,800 new homes to a 125-acre parcel at the junction of Highway 97 and Highway 97C.
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