The article has more in depth discussion than the excerpts that I've pulled here, please give it a read if you are curious

VANCOUVER - Maya Cassady was just two months away from graduating high school with honours when she obtained her mental health records through a freedom of information request.

Just hours after reading the contents, which included doctors' ponderings about a diagnosis, the 17-year-old took her own life.

It was March 30, 2023. Since Maya's death, her mother, Hilary Cassady, has become an advocate for youth mental health, raising flags about young people using FOIs to access their charts — and risking misinterpreting the contents.

Cassady said she believes Maya concluded her mental health condition was untreatable, after reading terminology about her case that was never discussed with either of them.

And while the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of B.C. said the head of a health authority could block the release of documents deemed potentially harmful to a recipient, it said it would "not be possible" to screen all requests.

Cassady said the emergency room psychiatrist who saw Maya on the visit that was the subject of her request did not even know she had sought the records.

In most of B.C.'s health authorities, including Vancouver Coastal Health where Maya was treated, people can request their medical records without the consent of a legal guardian starting at age 12.

Cassady said she was unsure when her daughter made the FOI request, but believes she collected it from the family mailbox the same day she died.

The request, Cassady said, focused on a four-day stay at Lions Gate Hospital in February 2023 after an acetaminophen overdose that a doctor believed was an "impulsive" suicide attempt by Maya.

Cassady said her daughter's friends reported seeing her reading the FOI documents and Googling terms on her ferry commute to school from Bowen Island, off West Vancouver, and again during her spare period later that morning. She died later that day.

"She had given up hope when she felt that her diagnosis was untreatable — that was the response when she Google searched some of the terminology in the report," Hilary said of her daughter.

She said she drew that conclusion after looking at her daughter's phone in the days after her death, trying to piece together her state of mind. She said one of the last search results that showed up in the teen's phone browser was that her symptoms were "untreatable."

"That is etched in my brain," she said of the word, sure of what she saw but noting that she has not been able to duplicate the search results since.

Cassady said her daughter searched, "Is persistent depressive disorder lifelong?" She also looked up terms, including "axis II traits" and "bd-ii," which most commonly refers to bipolar II, her mother said.

The chart also classified the girl's "admitting diagnoses" as "chronic dysthymia vs unspecified depressive disorder," and said the teen was "not acutely suicidal."

Cassady said Maya had been diagnosed with major depressive disorder but neither of them had been informed of most of the other terms included in her chart, including the working theory she may have undiagnosed borderline personality disorder.

Carney is a @#$%ing disgrace. 'Elbows up?!' More like jerk off capital and #$% over everyone else

“I hope people today feel a lot more confident that Canada works than they did a couple of days ago,” Smith told her convention Friday. Boos rang out from the Edmonton Expo Centre seats — the kind that partisans normally direct at mention of the other guys, not their own leader and the notion that this country can work.

Then, not long after the first round of boos Smith received, she got them again for replying to Rath’s remarks that she advocates the halfway-there idea of “an independent Alberta within a united Canada.”

Oh uh, It looks like someone is losing control of the monster they helped create.

Susie had come to Saskatchewan from North Carolina three months earlier, chasing the promise of healing offered by Dayan Goodenowe and his Dr. Goodenowe Restorative Health Center in Moose Jaw. It’s a private, unregulated facility that claims “a 100 per cent success rate in stopping the progression and in restoring function of people with ALS.”

Goodenowe maintains that every person who enrolls in the program offered at the centre leaves in better condition than when they entered.

In her desperation, Susie put her home up for sale to pay the $84,000 US fee.

But former Goodenowe employees say that as her condition worsened, Goodenowe centre management left Susie to fight for her life on her own — she had to hunt for an American hospital that would install the feeding tube and find a way to get there.

One of those workers, who ended up quitting her job at the Goodenowe centre as a result of how Susie was treated, concluded, “these people had been taking advantage of vulnerable clients like Susie.”

In its original form it restored status under the Indian Act to a limited group of 3,000 to 5,000 people affected by historic enfranchisement provisions, including individuals who gave up their status voluntarily to keep their children out of residential schools or to vote in federal and provincial elections.

Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) Minister Mandy Gull-Masty has a deadline of April 2026 to fix the law.

But after hearing from 57 witnesses, the Senate Standing Committee on Indigenous Peoples amended the bill.

Their changes go far beyond the scope of Nicholas, aiming to resolve broader discrimination by ending the second-generation cutoff altogether.

The amendments would also eliminate the “unknown paternity” clause, which currently denies status to children of status mothers if the father is unnamed.

It’s official, the Vancouver Whitecaps have one more game left in their Cinderella season.

The only thing that stands between them and the MLS Cup? Only Inter Miami and one of the greatest soccer players of all time.

Even though they entered the MLS Western Conference Final as underdogs, the Whitecaps scored early and never looked back.

It didn’t matter that they were missing MLS Defender of the Year Tristan Blackmon, or that they were still battling through injuries, much like they have all season.

The Caps put their foot on the gas early and were rewarded with their first MLS Cup Final berth in team history after defeating San Diego FC 3-1.

“To be part of this group is amazing, Thomas Müller said after the win. “This group deserves so much.”

CBC News article for context

Any eligible Canadian resident who purchased packaged bread for their personal use — including bagged bread, buns, rolls, bagels, naan, English muffins, wraps, pita and tortillas — between 2001 and 2021 can claim compensation from the national settlement reached with Loblaw Companies Limited, and parent company George Weston Ltd. 

Forms can be found online at CanadianBreadSettlement.ca for those living anywhere in Canada outside of Quebec as of Dec. 31, 2021, and at QuebecBreadSettlement.ca for those living within that province on that date. Claims have to be submitted by Dec. 12, 2025, both websites note.

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While the price-fixing allegations targeted other major grocers, including Sobeys, Walmart, Giant Tiger and Metro, only Loblaw and its parent company have agreed to a settlement. The others have denied the allegations.

Intro from the article:

Earlier this year, I was invited to travel to Los Angeles to talk about Canadian music as an export commodity. I was to speak alongside folks discussing music from Sweden and South Korea. This seemed like a fun idea at the time.

As a long-time music journalist and a jury foreperson for the Polaris Prize, I take Canadian music pretty damn seriously. Thirty years ago, I remember staying up late to see the Tragically Hip on Saturday Night Live—introduced by Dan Aykroyd in a shirt emblazoned with “CANADA.” I wasn’t even that much of a fan, but there was something in me that wanted to root for a Canadian band attempting to make it in the United States of America.

In population and pop culture power, Canada is dwarfed by our neighbours to the south, but we’ve been able to punch above our weight for some time. From long-standing legends like Joni Mitchell, Oscar Peterson, Neil Young, and Céline Dion to more recent luminaries like Carly Rae Jepsen, the Weeknd, Tanya Tagaq, and, of course, Drake, it’s not hard to think of iconic musical Canucks. My initial plan was to discuss the successes and shifts, the history and trajectory, of our varied and successful music industry.

But then US president Donald Trump indicated that he wanted to get his hands on the True North Strong and Free. I knew that Trump’s fifty-first-state talk was being taken dead seriously when Canadians started booing the American anthem. As people told me I shouldn’t cross the border, and politicians started acting like hockey coaches entering a third period down by a couple goals, I realized that my lighthearted plans for the presentation needed to change.

Canada has been neglecting our (excellent and varied) music scene for the past decade. A post-pandemic evaluation of the government’s Canada Music Fund revealed that revenues are down: album sales fell by nearly 74 percent between 2015 and 2021. And according to data from the City of Toronto, live music venues are disappearing, with the city shuttering 15 percent of these spaces between 2020 and 2021.

There was an increase in pandemic-related support funding, but also a concern that this funding is nothing but temporary. In addition, the Department of Canadian Heritage, which is responsible for significant amounts of music funding related to production, touring, and more, has plans to cut $64 million in grants and contributions by 2026/27. The Canadian Live Music Association raised the alarm around funding last year, calling for an increase in resources to provide support to music production, touring, festivals, and venues. Long-standing Canadian content regulations mandate contributions from broadcasters that go to initiatives that provide financial support for musicians, but airplay quotas that provide essential visibility for artists have become difficult to police in the internet age amid the rise of streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music.

At least the recently announced budget did extend a temporary two-year increase to the Canada Music Fund, offering $48 million over the next three years—there was also an unexpected announcement of funding to fuel a potential run for the Eurovision song contest.

With the US vocalizing threats to Canada’s sovereignty, cheering for Canadian music is less about hoping for our favourite artists to break through in America—it’s direct engagement in resistance. If we are all going to get those elbows up and fight a cultural war, we need to mobilize and strategize and consider what it really means to support music that is made in our own backyards.

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