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Before she saw an oncologist, a packet on her end-of-life options arrived in the mail

Air Force Veteran With Stage 4 Cancer Got a MAID Packet Before She Saw an Oncologist in Canada

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M.A. Rothman

By M.A. RothmanSeptember 29, 2026 · 5 min read
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Kristin Logan, a U.S. Air Force veteran with stage 4 ovarian cancer, says that before she ever spoke to an oncologist in Canada, she got a packet in the mail laying out her “end of life options.” She told that story on Newsmax’s Sunday Agenda on Sept. 27, 2026, alongside her husband, Donovan James, in a segment on cancer patients leaving Canada to get treatment in the United States.

Logan is a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen. She says she had to cross the border repeatedly to stay alive, and that the system she escaped is one Americans should not want to copy.

Months of delays, then a packet

Logan’s fight with the British Columbia health system first became public in November 2023. Global News reported then that the Campbell River mother had told her doctor about extreme bloating, trouble breathing and rib cage pain about six months before she was diagnosed. An emergency room visit that September found fluid in her lungs, and a later scan of her abdomen and pelvis pointed to cancer.

She was given a stage 4 diagnosis and, by her account, promised immediate treatment. At an October appointment she was told surgery carried a three-to-four-month wait list. Doctors ordered chemotherapy, but weeks later she was told there was no record of her ever being referred for chemo. “This is a very aggressive form of ovarian cancer, so we didn’t have that time that we lost,” she told Global News at the time.

On Newsmax, she described what arrived in the middle of all that. “After months of delays and misdiagnoses, when I was finally told, yeah, this looks like stage four ovarian cancer, you know, before I even spoke to an oncologist, I get that packet in the mail telling me about all my end of life options,” Logan said.

Her husband described the tone. “It’s always an offer, isn’t it? And that’s the Canadian way,” he said. “It’s always this nice, passive way of saying things and using kind words like dignity and dying.” In his telling, patients who just want ordinary care wait so long, and are denied so many treatments, that by the end “the only choice is medical assistance in dying because now it’s too late to treat anything. And then they offer it to you.”

She left to save her life

Because she is an American citizen and a veteran, Logan had a way out most Canadians don’t. In 2023, Global News reported that she had been getting treatment in Washington state for several months, care she credited with keeping her alive. “I would not be having this conversation with you, I would not be here anymore without a doubt,” she said then. “This cancer is lethal.” Her family started a GoFundMe to cover the cost, and for a time she was separated from her husband and daughter, who stayed in Campbell River.

On Newsmax, she put it more bluntly: “I ended up actually having to flee Canada three separate times to save my life with this cancer. Two of which inside six months under severe medical duress.”

She also took her case to the top. When Global News first reported her story, B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix said he could not comment on the specifics of her case but acknowledged that “the health-care system doesn’t always get it right.” Later that month, in an open letter to Dix reported by Global News, she wrote: “Our healthcare system isn’t tripping over minor hurdles; it’s plummeting off a cliff.” Responding to the letter, Premier David Eby admitted the province’s cancer care was falling short: “We have had to go to the United States and retain a private clinic to deliver cancer care to people, who shouldn’t have to do that.”

Think about that. The premier of British Columbia conceded that his own government was sending cancer patients to America, and one of those patients still had to cross the border on her own to get the care she needed.

One in twenty

Logan’s story lands in a country where assisted death is now routine. Health Canada’s sixth annual report on medical assistance in dying counted 16,499 assisted deaths in 2024, 5.1 percent of all deaths in Canada, and more than 76,000 since legalization in 2016. Cancer was the most commonly reported underlying condition among patients whose deaths were considered reasonably foreseeable.

Her husband cited that one-in-twenty figure on air and gave his own explanation for it. “Being a Canadian myself, let me tell you, it’s because they waited too long. A lot of those people could have been treated, but they just waited too long,” she said. “They couldn’t stand the suffering anymore.”

MAID is presented as a choice. But for a woman with an aggressive cancer, a lost chemo referral and a months-long surgical wait, a mailed packet about end-of-life options doesn’t feel like a neutral choice. It feels like the system has already decided.

“That depends on how you vote”

Asked what she would say to Americans who think this is only Canada’s problem, Logan didn’t hedge. “Well, that depends on how you vote. And that depends on the kind of systems that you’re allowing to be set up in your states,” she said. “I mean, anytime you have the government in charge of anything, how do you imagine it’s going to be better?”

She also had an answer for people who say they would rather wait than go bankrupt: “You wait with something like this aggressive… cancer that I have, you’re dead. So then you don’t have to worry about your bills either.”

The warning is aimed at the United States, where assisted suicide is legal in 13 states plus Washington, D.C. Dr. Jennifer Miller of Yale School of Medicine, who appeared later in the same segment, noted that U.S. laws require a terminal prognosis and that the drugs be self-administered, while in Canada a clinician can administer them. Laura Echevarria of National Right to Life, also on the segment, warned that American laws have already loosened over time. And Logan’s story shows it doesn’t take a law change to steer patients toward death. A waiting list that runs longer than the cancer does the same thing.

Kristin Logan’s end-of-life options showed up in her mailbox before an oncologist showed up in her life, and she had to cross the border to stay alive.

Editor’s note: This article covers Kristin Logan’s 2023 cancer diagnosis and treatment, which drew renewed attention after her Newsmax interview in September 2026.

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