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Author: Kelly Grant
Publication Date: February 23, 2026 - 05:00
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Ottawa to halt funding for tests to detect deaths from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
February 23, 2026
The federal government is scrapping a program that performed autopsies on the brains of people suspected of having Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the fatal neurodegenerative disorder that came to public prominence during the mad cow crisis of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
The agency says there are 45 of these boxes still operating across the country where Canadians can drop off tax returns, payments and other documents.
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A Nova Scotia politician says “intimate images” of him and his wife obtained by criminals were distributed without consent after he turned down demands for payment.
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