Afternoon front page: The mystery of the disappearing Mountie; doctors consider retrieving organs from living MAID patients; and more

A portrait of RCMP Supt. Joe Atherton shows his braid and aiguillettes over his right shoulder, indicating his role as an aide to someone of high rank — in this case, Vincent Massey in the mid-1950s. Photo by Courtesy Atherton family

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It’s Thursday, July 23. Here are the top stories we’re following today.

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An RCMP legend and why it took decades to solve the mystery of the missing Mountie

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Supt. Joe Atherton was a devoted husband and uncle, dedicated to the RCMP. When the decorated officer died in 1988, two men took his ashes — which then vanished.

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With legalized euthanasia, organ donation has entered a “completely different landscape,” one doctor says. Photo by Adobe Stock

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‘Death by organ donation’: Doctors raise possibility of retrieving organs from MAID patients while they are still alive

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Retrieving organs from MAID patients before they die might improve the quality of donor organs, but it also risks eroding public trust in MAID and organ donation.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney listens to a reporter’s question during the final news conference at the First Ministers meeting in Charlottetown, P.E.I., on Thursday July 23, 2026. Photo by Tim Krochak/Postmedia

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After contradiction, Mark Carney says he could have ‘explained better’ the terms of U.S. bridge deal

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The agreement does not include a provision that allows Canada to account for its debt-servicing costs before splitting the revenue with the U.S., contrary to what Carney had said earlier.

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The failure of elbows up Carney

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Columnist Michael Higgins takes a critical look at Prime Minister Mark Carney’s dealings with Trump, and the major gap between rhetoric and reality. The tough talk and “elbows up” strategy has been followed by concessions and signs of weakness that have made Canada more vulnerable.

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In this file photo taken on June 5, 2021, a teddy bear sits beside a lantern and mementos outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Photo by COLE BURSTON/AFP via Getty Images

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Michael Higgins: It’s not reconciliation when law societies exaggerate anomalies as ‘graves’

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Higgins interviews B.C. lawyer Jim Heller, who ended up in a legal battle with the province’s law society after he asked that it refer to residential school anomalies as “potential” graves. People who question the anomalies “would almost certainly find themselves in the crosshairs of the law should ‘denialism’ of residential schools get into the criminal code,” Higgins writes.

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