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Author: Alex Robinson
Publication Date: April 20, 2026 - 04:00
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Unpublished Opinions
Should public servants apply for early retirement incentives or volunteer to be laid off?
April 20, 2026
I'm a 50-year-old public servant with 20 years of service who received a workforce adjustment (WFA) notice in the latest round of letters. I'm intrigued by the early retirement incentive (ERI), but my union is saying to hold off on applying to the program. Read More
Unpublished Newswire
On March 17, 2021, Parliament passed Bill C-7, which repealed the “reasonable foreseeability of natural death” criterion to allow medical assistance in dying (MAID) for people who might otherwise live naturally, if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 The exclusion was to be repealed automatically two years later but was deferred by Parliament to 2024 and subsequently deferred again to March 17, 2027.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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