Canadian News Media Coverage of Medical Assistance in Dying, 2020-2024

367 English-language Canadian news articles from 2020 to 2024, collected via Factiva for a critical discourse analysis. The dataset was created by Danielle Landry and is hosted on the Borealis Harvested Dataverse. It was last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Conducting discourse analysis based on the rhetorical representation of MAID and mental illness.
• Training NLP models for media sentiment or framing detection based on news article texts.
• Studying temporal trends in Canadian media coverage of a specific medical-legal policy.
• Comparing journalistic language across different news sources on a sensitive socio-medical topic.

Strengths

• Defined temporal coverage from 2020 to 2024.
• Specific article count of 367 news items.
• Clear research methodology (critical discourse analysis) and collection tool (Factiva) are documented.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is limited to English-language Canadian sources, which may not represent national discourse in other languages.

Provenance

Source

Borealis Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Collected via Factiva for a critical discourse analysis project.

Time Range

2020 to 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-02 04:11:31; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada