Winnipeg Free Press: Number of Manitobans using MAID levels off

November 20, 2025 —

The number of Manitobans who choose a medically assisted death appears to have plateaued. A Freedom of Information request by the Free Press found 188 people died in 2024, the second-lowest number since 177 used the program in 2019. Salina Pirzada, a PhD student in the Max Rady College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba whose thesis is about why patients request MAID, said the numbers have likely plateaued for now. “We saw strong growth in earlier years, but now the catch-up effect has dissipated. I think it is normal to see a bit of a plateau, but now it has gone down one year, I don’t know if it will continue to trend that way.”

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Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

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