Reaction to the Drummond report

For the second straight night, Toronto mayoral candidates Olivia Chow and Brad Bradford are taking part in a debate, this one with a Scarborough-centric focus. Now made up of six wards with over 620,000...

OTTAWA — The federal government will not allow people suffering solely from a mental illness to access medical assistance in dying, but it does plan to decriminalize advance requests for people who are at risk of losing their capacity to consent.

OTTAWA — Canadian Justice Minister Sean Fraser and Health Minister Marjorie Michel announced two major decisions for the "path forward" in medically assisted dying on Wednesday. Fraser said the government has decided not to proceed with expanding MAID to people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness. He also said the government would table legislation to allow people to give advance consent to MAID if they are suffering from an incurable illness that will take away their capacity to give consent later.

A 60-year-old woman from Richmond Hill has been identified as the victim in a Vaughan hit-and-run as York police urge the driver involved to turn themselves in. The woman, who police say was a live-in...