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When Perry MacDonald heard that Canadian author
Robert Munsch had requested
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) after his diagnoses with dementia and Parkinson’s disease, it touched a nerve.
Munsch recently explained to the New York Times that...
September 24, 2025 - 06:00 | Chris Knight | National Post
Christopher Hampson, who died in London, England on Aug. 30, one week before his 94th birthday, started his career in Montreal, his hometown, and found success as an international business executive. His first job was with CIL, known as Canadian Industries Limited when he joined the firm as a chemical engineer just out of McGill University.The company itself had a complex history, and that profoundly affected Mr. Hampson’s career path. CIL, best known today for selling paint, was founded in 1910 as Canadian Explosives Limited, owned jointly by Nobel Industries, with headquarters in...
September 24, 2025 - 06:00 | Fred Langan | The Globe and Mail
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September 24, 2025 - 05:00 | Doug Menary, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Sun
John Rustad, the leader of British Columbia’s official opposition, says questions about his grip on the B.C. Conservative Party are behind him, and he issued a call to the province’s business community to start fundraising. Mr. Rustad asserted control this week when he passed a leadership review with a 70-per-cent approval rating from party members, and promptly expelled a high-profile member of his caucus, Elenore Sturko, for working behind the scenes to unseat him.
September 24, 2025 - 05:00 | Justine Hunter | The Globe and Mail
If Jerry Tardieu runs to be the next president of Haiti, he will, by his own admission, be vying to take the reins of a “ghost state.” The 58-year-old businessman and former congressman for the once-prosperous Port-au-Prince suburb of Pétion-Ville rattles off the disturbing statistics of national collapse: more than a million internally displaced people, six million without enough to eat, 85 per cent of the capital under the control of gangs, five years of severe economic contraction. The country’s last elections were in 2016; no elected officials remain in office.
September 24, 2025 - 04:45 | Eric Andrew-Gee | The Globe and Mail
A consultant advising Alberta’s health authority on its use of private surgical centres simultaneously worked for a company vying for a contract to operate such a facility, according to a confidential report obtained by The Globe and Mail. Jitendra Prasad, a former procurement official with Alberta Health Services, represented Alberta Surgical Group in negotiations with the health authority in the summer of 2022, while he was paid by AHS to advise it about contracting with such private providers, the report states.
September 24, 2025 - 04:10 | Carrie Tait | The Globe and Mail
