Carstairs proud of advocacy for dying – Winnipeg Free Press

Retired senator to receive Order of Canada Friday

OTTAWA — Retired Manitoba senator Sharon Carstairs will join the Order of Canada on Friday, without skipping a beat in her decades-long advocacy for palliative care.

“There is a better way, and we have the ability to provide that better way,” Carstairs, 75, said Wednesday.

Though born to a Nova Scotia family, Carstairs became a prominent Manitoban and the first woman to lead an official Opposition in a Canadian legislature, under the provincial Liberals.

But she takes the most pride in helping more Canadians die in comfort.

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