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Author: Nicholas Kohler
Publication Date: March 19, 2026 - 17:18
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'I wouldn't hurt anyone': Woman charged with first-degree murder denied bail
March 19, 2026
Erin Lynn Mackie, 40, one of three people charged with first-degree murder in the 2023 homicide of Robbie Thomson, has been denied bail. Read More
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Good morning. As war in the Middle East extends into the fourth week, it also spreads across the region. More on that below, along with a new defence bank and a major top court hearing. Let’s get to it.
March 23, 2026 - 06:40 | Sierra Bein | The Globe and Mail
Nearly two decades ago, when a teenager named Jordan Manners was shot and killed at C W Jefferys Collegiate Institute in northwestern Toronto, it sparked broad public condemnation. Something had to be done to address the scourge of youth violence. No one else should die or get hurt going to school. Fast-forward to the present. A fourteen-year-old is charged with murdering two men outside of his school in Etobicoke; a group of teens in Hamilton fatally stab a classmate; in Scarborough, eighteen-year-old Jahiem Robinson is shot by a classmate four years his junior.
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March 23, 2026 - 06:30 | Kunal Chaudhary | Walrus
Four-and-a-half years after he was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, a Dutch teen was euthanized at his request.
The boy, aged between 16 and 18, had described his life as “joyless.” He’d struggled with anxiety and mood-related problems, and where he fit in, in the world. Oversensitive to stimuli, “every day was an ordeal he had to get through,” according to the latest annual report from the Netherlands’ regional euthanasia death review committees. “In the final weeks before his death, he lay in bed the whole time.”
Despite his young age, his doctor had “no doubts whatsoever...
March 23, 2026 - 06:00 | Sharon Kirkey | National Post
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