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Author: Isaac Callan
Publication Date: April 17, 2026 - 06:00
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Some Ontario inmates missing for months, despite minister claiming immediate reprehension
April 17, 2026
After Global News revealed jails in Ontario had accidentally released more than 150 inmates over the past five years, the government vowed to 'get to the bottom' of the issue.
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On March 17, 2021, Parliament passed Bill C-7, which repealed the “reasonable foreseeability of natural death” criterion to allow medical assistance in dying (MAID) for people who might otherwise live naturally, if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 The exclusion was to be repealed automatically two years later but was deferred by Parliament to 2024 and subsequently deferred again to March 17, 2027.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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