Unpublished Newswire
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long since spilled over into Canadian society, with regular street protests, encampments on university campuses and a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents. But one of the most unusual fallouts from the Gaza war is unfolding quietly in the rarefied world of so-called third-party parenting. At least two Canadian agencies that help individuals and couples find surrogate mothers to carry their prospective children say none of their surrogates will work with any of their many Israeli clients. Some of the women object to Israel’s invasion of the Gaza...
November 11, 2024 - 12:07 | Tom Blackwell | National Post
Nearly three years after Cindy MacKay’s death, her husband, 41-year-old Michael MacKay, admitted earlier this week to poisoning her. On Monday, MacKay pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was handed a life sentence, with no chance of parole for 10 years. In February 2020, MacKay dropped two of their three daughters at school before returning to their family farm in Meota, Sask. He then mixed strychnine into a drink of Gatorade and gave it to his wife. Cindy MacKay, 38, reported the drink tasted bitter, and didn’t finish it, but the poisoning symptoms soon set in, including...
November 21, 2023 - 15:03 | National Post Staff | National Post
July 26, 2021 - 04:01 | | CBC News - Canada
In a video and script given to the National Post, Mikhaila Peterson provides an update on her father, the author and professor Jordan Peterson, who is currently recovering from near death at a clinic in Russia. Hi everyone, it’s been months since we’ve given an update on Jordan and my family’s health and it’s time for one so here goes. The last year has been absolute hell for the Petersons. Dad was put on a low dose of a benzodiazepine a few years ago for anxiety following an extremely severe autoimmune reaction to food. He took the medication as prescribed. We weren’t aware that he...
February 7, 2020 - 17:34 | National Post | National Post
