Canada’s State-Sponsored Suicide, Now Available At Your Local Drive-Thru
By: Andrew Kooman
June 01, 2026
Canada’s ‘Dr. Death and Donuts’ practices at the same clinic as my family physician. My own child has been treated by him.
The double-double is a quintessential coffee order in the Great North. Every morning, Canadians go through the drive-thru at Tim Hortons, the coffee shop on virtually every street, and order it. Two creams, two sugars.
But there’s a new double-double up North: death and donuts. The National Post reported this week that a London, Ontario doctor provided a euthanasia assessment outside a Tim Hortons then drove the patient (who suffered from inflammatory bowel disease and a history of mental health issues) to the facility where a doctor ended his life.
The National Post also reported that the same doctor, James MacLean, breached protocols when he failed to give one of the three drugs used in the cocktail that ends patients’ lives. MacLean didn’t bring the neuromuscular-blocking drug with him that paralyzes the body — including the muscles used to breathe. “The patient resumed spontaneously breathing again after initially being pronounced dead, and after MacLean had already left the home.”
This story strikes close to home, quite literally. It’s not solely because I’ve lost family members to medical assistance in dying (MAID). Nor is it because doctors have offered MAID to members of my community who didn’t request it and now fear the health centers meant to give them care.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/01/canadas-state-sponsored-suicide-now-available-at-your-local-drive-thru/
