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Author: Adriana Fallico
Publication Date: April 13, 2026 - 14:49
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4 cancers to make up nearly half of new Canadian cases in 2026: study
April 13, 2026
That comes as a separate study published in the same journal found those who survive cancer as teens or young adults also face a higher risk of getting cancer again later in life.
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On March 17, 2021, Parliament passed Bill C-7, which repealed the “reasonable foreseeability of natural death” criterion to allow medical assistance in dying (MAID) for people who might otherwise live naturally, if intolerably, for decades. The bill also excluded from eligibility people with mental illness as their sole underlying medical condition. The exclusion was to be repealed automatically two years later but was deferred by Parliament to 2024 and subsequently deferred again to March 17, 2027.
Mohamad Elfakhani is the chief of psychiatry at the London Health Sciences Centre,...
April 29, 2026 - 06:30 | Kevin Andrew Heslop | Walrus
NEARLY 300 participants descended on the Banff Centre for the National Summit on Artificial Intelligence and Culture in March. Co-hosted by the federal government, and set among the surreally beautiful Rockies, it was the first gathering of its kind in Canada, convening a who’s who of cultural heavyweights—from the CBC to the National Film Board, from the Royal Ontario Museum to the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec—with artists, journalists, policymakers, technologists, coders, parliamentarians, and entrepreneurs. Organizers even found room for a circus troupe. The dining...
April 29, 2026 - 06:29 | Carmine Starnino | Walrus
Good morning. Ottawa’s spring economic statement includes new funding, deficit updates and a few spending surprises. More on that below, along with the King’s U.S. state visit and courting favour with Eritrea. But first:
April 29, 2026 - 06:16 | Josh O’Kane | The Globe and Mail
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