Some early NDP leadership polling.

The government of Canada is adamant — with certain, shifting caveats — that it has not allowed arms shipments to Israel since January 2024, and yet Israeli import data and publicly available shipping records appear to contradict that claim.

The data was uncovered by a group of researchers from four NGOs: World Beyond War, the Palestinian Youth Movement, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East and Independent Jewish Voices.

They found entries in the database of the Israel Tax Authority that show Canadian goods continuing to enter Israel, described by the Israeli government as military weapon parts and ammunition.

"This report lays bare, without a doubt, the true extent of Canada's ongoing material support for Israel amidst this genocide," said Yara Shoufani of the Palestinian Youth Movement at a news conference in Ottawa on Tuesday morning.

Drug User Liberation Front founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum are back in court arguing their compassion club members’ constitutional rights were violated by part of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

The pair were arrested in October 2023 after running a compassion club for about a year. During that year they bought heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine off the dark web, worked with Vancouver Coastal Health to rigorously test the drugs for purity and potency, accurately labelled the drugs and sold them at cost to their 47 compassion club members.

The idea was that if a person knew the purity and potency of the drugs they were putting into their body, they could accurately dose themselves without taking too much and overdosing, even if they wanted to get really high, Nyx said on Thursday in court.

In Canada, anyone who is charged with a criminal offence has the opportunity to challenge the law they’re accused of breaking as unconstitutional, in what’s known as a constitutional challenge. The challenge is being heard by the provincial court of B.C.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is limiting the use of its 973 Chinese-made drones to non-sensitive operations, stating the devices present "high security risks, primarily due to their country of origin."

Chinese drones make up about 80 per cent of the federal police force's fleet of 1,230 remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS), which are used to monitor the Canada-U.S. border and in various police operations.

In a written response to the national security committee of the Senate, the RCMP said replacing the drones would cost over $30 million, approximately $35,000 per device. The high cost is related to the fact that non-Chinese drones are nearly twice as expensive, the RCMP said.

The search for the remains of Ashlee Shingoose has officially begun at Brady Road landfill in Winnipeg, Premier Wab Kinew says.

"I hope we will be able to bring ... her home soon," Kinew told reporters at an unrelated news conference on Monday, after taking part in a ceremony with Shingoose's parents and her sister at the landfill to mark the start of the search.

Shingoose, originally from St. Theresa Point Anisininew Nation, was identified in March as the previously unknown victim of a serial killer also convicted in the deaths of Morgan Harris, 39, Marcedes Myran, 26 — both originally from Long Plain First Nation — and Rebecca Contois, 24, a member of O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation.

Members of Unifor Local 200 met Sunday to ratify the company’s final offer. That means the plant closure plan is irreversible, says John D’Agnolo, Local 200 president. The roughly 160 unionized workers there have the option to leave now, or stay until the plant closes.

He says that workers voted 89 per cent in favour of the deal on Sunday.

Premier Doug Ford has said the provincial government will protest the closure by pulling Crown Royal off its shelves at the LCBO next year. The union urged the province to "fight like hell" to keep the plant open.

But D’Agnolo says he believes the closure was always a done deal.

Algoma Steel says it has issued 1,000 layoff notices to workers at its plant in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.

"As part of the closure of its blast furnace and coke making operations, Algoma has made the difficult decision to issue approximately 1,000 layoff notices today, effective in 16 weeks on March 23, 2026," reads an emailed statement from the company.

"This transition is necessary to protect Algoma’s future in the face of these extraordinary and external market forces, and we will continue to advocate for a competitive and fair trading environment for Canadian steel."

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.”