Afternoon front page: Steven Guilbeault to resign as Liberal MP; claims of hostility against Jewish employee at Canadian tech company; and more

Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault participates in a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on April 30, 2026. Photo by HYUNGCHEOL PARK /Postmedia

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It’s Tuesday, May 26. Here are the top stories we’re following today.

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Steven Guilbeault to resign as Liberal MP over the government’s environmental policies

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A source confirmed that the former environment minister is leaving due to his disagreement over the Carney’s government’s climate policies and will make the announcement to the Liberal caucus on Wednesday morning.

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Amanda Rafael: “I was confused how these people can be my friends one day and then the next day hate me with a capital H.” Photo by Supplied

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Canadian tech company faces allegations of targeted hostility against Jewish employee

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Amanda Rafael said her disconnect from colleagues at Lightspeed Commerce came immediately after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks: “They knew I was Jewish and they knew that I am a Zionist.”

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Miles of unused pipe, prepared for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, sit in a lot outside Gascoyne, North Dakota, on Oct. 14, 2014. Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images

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FIRST READING: Here’s how quickly they’re building pipelines everywhere else

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Barring further delays or cancellations, Canada might be able to begin operations on a West Coast oil export pipeline by 2034. That’s more than 28 years after such a project was first proposed — a glacial pace unknown to any other major oil producer.

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An investigation by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario into two public complaints made against Dr. James MacLean concluded that he “did not meet the standard of practice of the profession, displayed a lack of judgment and that his conduct exposes or is likely to expose patients to harm or injury in five out of twenty charts reviewed.” Photo by Adobe Stock

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Ontario man dies of MAID after being assessed outside Tim Hortons

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In a second case, Dr. James MacLean failed to administer one of three drugs used in assisted deaths and the patient resumed spontaneously breathing after being pronounced dead.

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A Basque police officer charges a member of the Global Sumud Flotilla upon their arrival at Bilbao airport on May 23, 2026. Photo by Idurre ETXABURU/AFP via Getty Images

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Beryl Wajsman: The double standard of outrage over treatment of flotilla activists

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“A world that condemns Israel for detaining and deporting activists but shrugs when Spanish police beat them is not defending human rights. It is singling out the Jewish state for special opprobrium. And that, by any honest name, is antisemitism masquerading as foreign policy,” Wajsman writes.

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