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The federal election campaign has so far focused on cost of living and the trade war. Health care – an issue that touches the lives of every Canadian – was notably absent from the leaders’ debates, although the Liberals, Conservatives and NDP have made a number of promises on that front in recent days, including to add more family doctors.Last week, The Globe and Mail hosted a webcast panel – Election 2025: Steps to heal Canada’s health care system – to discuss the current landscape, possible solutions and what to look for when casting your vote on April 28.
April 23, 2025 - 07:00 | Kelly Grant | The Globe and Mail
A pair of best friends from Prince Albert, Katrine Sinclair and Charlie Lastowsky, were injured in a car accident while crossing the street in Las Vegas, Nevada.
April 23, 2025 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
Good morning. Mark Carney’s arrival on the election stage has been years in the making – more on that below, along with the top contenders to become the new pope and a break for Toronto’s bike lanes. But first:Today’s headlinesThe Conservative election platform pledges $75-billion in tax cuts and referendums before future tax hikesFive former Canada world junior hockey players plead not guilty in their sex-assault trialChina says its ’door is wide open’ to talks after Trump suggests a tariffs U-turn
April 23, 2025 - 06:44 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
In his 1977 classic “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song),” Billy Joel sings about a young grocer who is working too hard to save up for “a house out in Hackensack.” Today, if Anthony were Canadian, he’d likely need to be a lawyer or banker to have much hope of buying his own home. And he wouldn’t get a house so much as a duplex or a condo.
In a recent poll, respondents cited the cost of living as the most important factor when deciding how to vote in the upcoming federal election, outpacing Canada’s relationship with the US. For respondents aged eighteen to forty-four, housing affordability...
April 23, 2025 - 06:30 | Lauren Heuser | Walrus
Even before his first day as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis was a notable pontiff. He was the first pope from the Americas, and the first in almost 600 years to succeed a pope who stepped down (rather than die), as Benedict XVI did in 2013.
That unusual transfer of power became the subject of a 2019 movie, The Two Popes, starring Anthony Hopkins as Benedict XVI, and Jonathan Pryce as the future Francis; his pre-papal name was Jorge Mario...
April 23, 2025 - 06:00 | Chris Knight | National Post
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s top health official under U.S. President Donald Trump, has vowed to solve what he calls an “autism epidemic,” but the rising number of diagnoses is largely due to a loosening of what counts as autism, according to an eminent psychiatrist who led the task force that expanded the criteria 30 years ago.
Before then, classic autism “always presented itself by age three with incapacitating cognitive,...
April 23, 2025 - 06:00 | Sharon Kirkey | National Post
