Unpublished Newswire

The town of Neskantaga is under a 29-year boil water advisory. The water problem has left many with mental health issues, including anxiety and a loss of trust.

A coalition of disability rights groups says it is launching a Charter challenge against a part of Canada’s law on medical assistance in dying.The group, which also includes two individual plaintiffs, argues that what’s known as track two of the MAID law has resulted in premature deaths.Under the law, patients whose natural deaths are not reasonably foreseeable but whose condition leads to intolerable suffering can apply for a track-two assisted death.