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The majority of Canadians are unaware that mental illness eligibility for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) is due to take effect in March 2027, a new poll has found. The data compiled by the non-profit Angus Reid Institute comes from an online survey conducted between May 7 and 11, 2026, among a representative sample of 1,803 Canadian adults. It showed that 56 per cent of respondents did not know about the scheduled expansion of mental illness as a sole condition for MAID before completing the survey. The survey also found that just 37 per cent of Canadians had been following the...
June 3, 2026 - 07:00 | Ellie Hutchings | National Post
Doctor-assisted death is portrayed as a rapid, peaceful and comfortable death, yet potential complications are a recognized risk that some experts worry are not being fully discussed with people as a routine part of obtaining informed consent. The possibility of “failed MAID” was highlighted last week in media reports of the 2024 death of Bradley Stewart, an Ontario man who resumed breathing after being pronounced dead by a London, Ont., family doctor and MAID provider — a traumatic experience his siblings who witnessed his mishandled death are still recovering from. The doctor, James...
June 3, 2026 - 07:00 | Sharon Kirkey | National Post
A new discount storefront is set to open near Toronto's Yorkdale Mall on June 18th, and another at Windsor's Tecumseh Mall in July.
June 3, 2026 - 06:44 | | CBC News - Canada
A Relic. Several years from now, I wonder if these two words might describe the very paragraph you are reading right now, a collection of sentences drafted painstakingly by a human author. It underwent multiple iterations—editorial notes included—before the final version confronting you. I struggled through word and sentence permutations until they felt acceptable, capturing the muscle and musicality I’ve come to believe characterizes my “voice.”
This next paragraph, on the other hand, was generated by ChatGPT: fluent, orderly, and almost indecently quick. It arrived with polish...
June 3, 2026 - 06:30 | Sheldon Fernandez | Walrus
Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said he is hopeful after a meeting with United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in Washington. LeBlanc was speaking a day after sending a letter to the United States and Mexico recommending that the three countries renew the continental trade pact.
June 3, 2026 - 06:29 | | The Globe and Mail
Good morning. PEI is dealing with millions of dead oysters as two diseases ravage its supply – more on that below, along with Iran’s soaring inflation and the high-tech World Cup. But first:
June 3, 2026 - 06:11 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
