Terry O’Neill

Terry O’Neill is a contributing writer for The B.C. Catholic in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Articles by Terry O’Neill

St. Paul’s Hospital, operated by Providence Health Care, has a MAID facility on its campus, operated by the British Columbia government’s Vancouver Coastal Health. Credit: Terry O’Neill

Euthanasia facility quietly opens at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver

Jun 23, 2025 / 07:00 am

A government-ordered euthanasia facility on the downtown campus of the Catholic-run St. Paul’s Hospital is now fully operational.

Members of the Sts’ailes First Nation at Holy Rosary Cathedral last year for the first Mass to integrate a First Nation language. A Cardus report presents the voices of Indigenous Canadians speaking about their faith and distinguishing it from the traditional spirituality they’re often associated with. Photo courtesy Nicholas Elbers, 2022

Report gives voice to Canada’s Indigenous Christians, highlights need for religious freedom

May 17, 2023 / 14:15 pm

A report presents the voices of Indigenous Canadians sharing their frustrations about society’s lack of awareness that almost half of them are Christians.

Richard Leskun says he was pressured repeatedly to put a do-not-resuscitate order on his wife Marilynn at Abbotsford Regional Hospital. Then staff offered to euthanize her. Courtesy of The B.C. Catholic

Canadian man says hospital staff ‘pressured’ him to euthanize his wife

Feb 7, 2023 / 15:10 pm

The widower is sounding the alarm over what he says is a shocking and dangerous bias in the medical system toward the promotion of death.