
March 13, 2026 - 06:01 | | CBC News - Canada
Rushed, incomplete assessments, families kept in the dark, loved ones driven to choose MAID because of unbearable suffering.
A new study adds to growing evidence that Canadian families’ experiences with doctor-assisted death are deeply mixed, with some describing the experience as raw, traumatic and surreal — including sometimes oddly “cheerful” providers — and others describing caring and compassionate deaths for loved ones who’d “had enough.”
Canada’s assisted-death law focuses on the rights and autonomy of people to choose when to end their lives.
But many families told the...
March 13, 2026 - 06:00 | Sharon Kirkey | National Post
After years of record-high immigration to Canada, significantly fewer immigrants were accepted into the country last year, a rare non-pandemic drop since 2015 when Justin Trudeau was elected prime minister.
There were 19 per cent fewer immigrants to Canada in 2025 than in 2024; that reflects a total of 393,530 new immigrants compared to 483,655 the year before, according to the latest federal government data.
It is Canada’s lowest level of immigration since 2020, when COVID greatly reduced international travel, and deviates from a decade-long pattern of accelerating increases.
The...
March 13, 2026 - 06:00 | Adrian Humphreys | National Post
Minister Todd McCarthy confirmed this week he would amalgamate the province's 36 conservation authorities into just nine, something he aims to achieve in the next year.
March 13, 2026 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Ottawa
March 13, 2026 - 06:00 | Alex Bozikovic | The Globe and Mail
After a months-long fight with his landlord, Shannon Lucas accepted a $40,000 payout to move out of the North Bay, Ont., townhouse where he lived for eight years, but says he would give it all back if he could stay.
March 13, 2026 - 06:00 | | CBC News - Canada

