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Canada risks ‘suicide contagion’ if euthanasia is approved for mental illness, psychiatrist warns
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Rates of suicide in jurisdictions that have legalized doctor-assisted death “have risen much faster after it was legalized than before,” psychiatrist Dr. John Maher warned a special joint parliamentary committee. “Suicide contagion is a well-proven reality. Don’t pretend that it won’t happen in Canada.”
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Mark Carney says deal with U.S. on CUSMA ‘will take some time’
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“It’s not a case of the United States dictates the terms, we have a negotiation,” the prime minister said on Wednesday. Yesterday, Canada’s chief trade negotiator Janice Charette said she would like to see “mutuality” from the U.S. in recognition of concessions Canada has already made.
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FIRST READING: University founded to memorialize dead white men now rejecting white men for jobs
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Memorial University in St. John’s, founded as a “living memorial” to the outsized number of Newfoundland men killed in the First World War, currently has five academic job postings advertised as exclusively for “women; 2SLGBTQIA+ people; Indigenous peoples; racialized persons; and persons with disabilities.”
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Terry Newman: Pro-terror event held at government-funded community centre in Montreal
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Three days prior, two government departments and the centre’s administration were warned that the event celebrating convicted terrorists posed a serious risk of promoting hatred and glorifying terrorism, but none of them responded, Newman writes.
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Man who immigrated to Canada fled the country one day after he was convicted of sex assault
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“The trial concluded at 6:18 p.m. on October 30, 2025, and at some point the following day, the offender left the country,” the judge wrote. The Indian-born man was sentenced in absentia to seven years in prison for sexual assault and extortion on a woman he was in a relationship with.
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