2026 marks the tenth anniversary of right to die legislation in Canada, a decade that has been fraught with legal challenges to expand the requirement that patients wanting MAID should be actively dying to include those with irremediable mental illnesses and dementia. Have we gone too far? Are the “vulnerable” at risk?  Is all suffering equal, or does only physical suffering count? The author of the bestseller, A Good Death: How to Make the Most of Our Final Choices, Sandra will decode the legal and political challenges faced by ordinary patients, including Sue Rodriguez, Jean Truchon, and Claire Brosseau, all of whom sacrificed privacy to challenge laws they believed were unjust.

There has never been an individual who has had such a profound effect on PEI.  Rev.  MacDonald travelled across the province preaching.  His preaching was so powerful and passionate that people were “awakened”. The people in the Orwell area were central to his ministry. He is buried in the Orwell Head cemetery.

How Islanders have historically cared for people with mental health issues has evolved considerably over the past century and a half. Today, Islanders can access a comprehensive spectrum of mental health services that include — but also go far beyond — the asylum/mental hospital.  This history of mental health care will highlight information on Andrew Macphail’s father who was a supervisor at the PEI Hospital for the Insane.