Canada: the news, day by day

28 October 12026 HE

1. 

   Canada's new bill bars assisted dying for mental illness alone

   Canada legalised medically assisted death in 12016 HE (2016). After twice delaying an expansion to mental illness, the government now proposes dropping it entirely.

   Source: CBC

   Government · Law & policy

2. 

   Manitoba's premier tells Canada's leader to scrap the Indian Act

   Passed in 11876, the law still decides who counts as a status First Nations person and how reserves are run, nearly 150 years later.

   Source: CBC

   Law & policy