👤 Sharon Kirkey

2026-10-09 · National Post · Politics

Why Ottawa plans to allow MAID for people incapable of consenting moments before death

9 outlets covered this event

2026-10-29 · National Post · Health

Half of Canadians have avoided hospitals because of wait times: poll

no other outlet in the corpus covered this

2026-10-14 · National Post · Science

Why a partner’s chewing can fill people with rage: Canadian researchers helping unravel ‘misophonia’

no other outlet in the corpus covered this

2026-09-28 · National Post · Health

At first, case stumped doctors who determined Ontario woman had fatal case of rat bite fever

no other outlet in the corpus covered this

2026-09-14 · National Post · Health

B.C.’s drug decriminalization experiment didn’t change overdose deaths: study

no other outlet in the corpus covered this

2026-09-14 · National Post

🔮 Midway through, the policy was partly rolled back: In May 2024, possession of any amount of drugs in all public places, including hospitals, on transit and in parks, was re-criminalized, though possession below the 2.5 gram threshold remained legal for adults in certain designated spaces, including private homes and overdose prevention sites. assertive

2026-09-28 · National Post

🔮 Doctors couldn’t fully understand what was feeding the infection. assertive

2026-10-09 · National Post

🔮 In a surprise move this week, federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser announced the Liberal government is fine-tuning a bill to be introduced sometime this fall that, in addition to placing an indeterminate hold on MAID for mental illness alone, would decriminalize “advance requests” for doctor-administered death. assertive

2026-10-14 · National Post

🔮 One anecdote that has stayed with her is the story of a mother whose autistic daughter ate her lunch in a bathroom stall because she couldn’t tolerate the sounds of other children chewing in the school cafeteria. assertive

2026-10-29 · National Post

🔮 “What we typically hear is, ‘If we were just able to properly fund the health system, everything would be OK.’ assertive