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Publication Date: April 15, 2026 - 19:49
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Waymo is taking steps to get its robotaxis on Toronto streets. But roadblocks await
April 15, 2026
The autonomous taxi operator Waymo appears to be taking steps to break into the Canadian market, eyeing Toronto as a new testing ground for its self-driving fleet. But it may face technological, political and environmental roadblocks — including the harsh reality of Canadian winters — as it seeks to expand north.
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To Davis Schneider, his older brother Steven was "kind of like a Superman."
April 29, 2026 - 07:22 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
A Yellowknife judge has insisted a man who claimed to be Caucasian get a report meant for Indigenous offenders before he sentences him for breaking into a hotel. Jeremy Kuneyuna — who already has 90 convictions — appeared in the Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories recently to be sentenced for breaking into a hotel. “Mr. Kuneyuna states that he is ‘Caucasian’ and on that basis has provided no information relating to case specific factors relating to his background as an indigenous offender,” Judge Robert David Gorin wrote in an April 22 decision. “When I asked him about why...
April 29, 2026 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
On March 17, 2021, Parliament passed Bill C-7, which repealed the “reasonable foreseeability of natural death” criterion to allow medical assistance in dying (MAID) for people who might otherwise live naturally, if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 The exclusion was to be repealed automatically two years later but was deferred by Parliament to 2024 and subsequently deferred again to March 17, 2027.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
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