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June 23, 2026 - 07:19 | | CBC News - Ottawa
The surge in children and teens identifying as transgender and seeking gender-affirming medical interventions has been rapid and dramatic, but how many will stop or reverse their gender transition remains unknown. According to a new Canadian study, only 2.9 per cent of teens referred to one of four specialized paediatric gender clinics clinics detransitioned — changed back to their original gender identity — over a median follow-up of 2.4 years. The authors said the findings suggest gender identity among teens is stable, detransition “uncommon” and that the results “may offer...
June 23, 2026 - 07:00 | Sharon Kirkey | National Post
A judge defended the one-day sentence he handed a carjacker who stole a Toronto driver’s Mercedes at gunpoint, blaming the man’s jailers for failing the community. Jaiden Robinson, who spent 809 days (two years and 79 days) in pre-trial custody, pleaded guilty in the Ontario Court of Justice to robbery with a prohibited weapon for a March 2024, mid-afternoon carjacking at the Shops at Don Mills. Both the Crown and Robinson’s lawyer recommended he get the mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison. “Some decry what they call the court’s catch-and-release approach to criminal...
June 23, 2026 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
Ask Rebecca is smart, honest advice to readers’ questions about life, family and relationships by columnist Rebecca Eckler. Got a question for Rebecca? Submit it anonymously on the form here. You can also send an email to NPadvice@postmedia.com. Dear Rebecca How can my wife and I reunite with our grandchildren? Our son married his wife a few years ago and have brought two beautiful babies into the world. Unfortunately, due to tensions between my wife and my daughter-in-law, we have not yet met our second grandchild. We can tell that our son is struggling with feeling caught in the...
June 23, 2026 - 06:30 | Rebecca Eckler | National Post
The story we tell ourselves about capitalism is that it’s a free market system in which firms slug it out for the privilege to sell us an apple or a mid-sized sport utility vehicle. Doesn’t it sound nice? In this fairy tale, competition is the stuff of magic. It has a disciplining function, keeping the sellers sleek, honest, and incentivized to innovate. Prices go down, quality goes up. Everybody wins.
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Companies throughout Canada use property controls to keep competing businesses from certain locations
By exercising this control, dominant firms shape both markets and the...
June 23, 2026 - 06:30 | David Moscrop | Walrus
Canada is moving toward stricter immigration and asylum rules. Bill C-12, passed in March, limits refugee claims, speeds up removals and case closures, and gives the government broader authority to pause or alter visa, study permit, and work permit processing. It builds on earlier measures, including the 2002 Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States—which was expanded in 2023 and requires asylum seekers to seek protection in the first safe country they reach, barring those who arrive from the US at official land crossings from claiming refugee status in Canada.
In other...
June 23, 2026 - 06:29 | Diary Marif | Walrus
