Anna Mehler Paperny

Scoop: The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by people from 19 countries banned from travel to the United States earlier this year, halting green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people.

More coming soon.

Nurses say they were blindsided by Toronto police plan to end mental health crisis teams Those involved in mobile crisis intervention teams told the Star they were not consulted about the possible program end in 2026.

Co-responder teams - pairing cops with health workers/civilians - are far from perfect. But until you can aggressively divert mental illness calls away from police, they play a vital role. Toronto may be ending its iteration. www.thestar.com/news/gta/nur...

The rationale behind the Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement is that asylum-seekers should apply for refugee status in the first "safe" country they arrive in. Safety debate aside, the U.S. is no longer accepting asylum claims - should Canada keep sending hundreds of people a month to the U.S.?

A year after al-Assad’s fall, celebration turns to fear and division Last December’s elation in Damascus has vanished as religious minorities are scared to speak out against Ahmed al-Sharaa’s new regime

One year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, many Syrians are again living in fear.

Where the Sunni majority bore the brunt of the Assad regime's crimes, now it's the country's minorities who are being persecuted.

Can the country unite? Or will sectarian divisions tear it apart?

My report

Well deserved. This book is essential.

Yes hello we took months to ask you to reword your request but you can't reword it to include the elapsed time this is government transparency at work.

If there's anything we've learned it's that mental health and addiction are a one-time problem that's easily solved.
(This is Calgary but could be anywhere)

Could defuse the deemed consent challenge, which the government fought for years. Are there more pending?

I missed the part of BC's involuntary care bill that would remove the bit of the Mental Health Act deeming people hospitalized against their will to have consented to treatment. Advocates have been fighting that for years. www.leg.bc.ca/parliamentar...

Globe editorial: Dignity for the mentally ill cannot be deemed a nuisance British Columbia, at last, is abandoning the draconian practice of deeming consent to treatment by some mentally ill patients

"there is nothing compassionate about the assumption of incapacity." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

The Legal Consequences of Pete Hegseth’s “Kill Them All” Order A former military judge on the Trump Administration’s contradictory—and likely unlawful—justifications for its Caribbean bombing campaign.

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‘This is the new slavery’: Migrant farm workers underpaid, abused and injured - Investigative Journalism Bureau Harvesting cannabis in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley as a migrant labourer in 2023, Maria recalls being surprised when her boss invited her and two friends for dinner at his home in the nearby mo...

"This is the new slavery": The humans feeding you are subject to abuse and, tied to employers, have little recourse when harms take place. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/this-is... via @ijbstories.bsky.social

Brave or foolhardy. Thanks so much.

Alberta’s move to open private billing unlikely to increase capacity, physicians say Experts concerned that few physicians will be enticed by Alberta’s ‘dual practice’ surgery model

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Thanks so much

Those are my winter mitts! Took em to Saskatoon for a few days, wore em in TO, and they served me well. But can you easily reach brakes and gear-shifters with them?

Black-and-neon Pearl Izumi lobster claw.

I really like these but they won't do the trick 10-15 degrees below where we're at now.

I am not a winter cyclist any more. I do not plan to bike through snow and sleet. But I'm not ready to call it a season. What lobster claws are people using for sub-zero temps?

National Guard shooting suspect radicalized in US, homeland secretary says U.S. authorities believe the Afghan immigrant accused of ambushing National Guard members in Washington, D.C., was not radicalized until after he came to the United States, Homeland Security Secretary...

US authorities believe the Afghan immigrant accused of ambushing National Guard members was not radicalized until after he came to the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Sunday www.reuters.com/world/us/nat...

For the purposes of assisted death, people whose deaths aren't deemed imminent but who are suffering from a physical condition causing them grievous and irremediable suffering are on a secondary track involving additional assessments and a waiting period.

Arguably, yes! But not in the eyes of Parliament or the Supreme Court. Fuzzy demarcation at best.

MOU Problems While intended to heal the rift in Canadian unity, the agreement between federal and Alberta provincial governments risks leaving the country even more divided

If you're hankering after smart memo-of-understanding thoughts, @stewartprest.ca has you covered: stewartprest.substack.com/p/mou-proble...

Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88 Winning an Oscar for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love, he captivated the hearts of audiences for more than six decades.

oof. www.bbc.com/news/article...

16,499 Canadians got assisted death last year. For 95.6% of them, their deaths were deemed "reasonably foreseeable." www.canada.ca/en/health-ca...

Trump Pauses All Asylum Applications and Halts Visas for Afghans

NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...

Gaza death toll crosses 70,000 since Israel-Hamas war began, Gaza Health Ministry says They Were Raised in the Heart of the Settler Right. Now They're Determined to Revive Israel's Left. IDF Kills Three Suspects in Gaza Strip Who Crossed the Yellow Line. Gaza Death Toll Since October 7 ...

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.

This story. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Talked to Matt Galloway about getting brain surgery and how bananas it is that so many people endure debilitation without access to evidence-based care. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Box A of Ontario's Form 1 for involuntary hospitalization includes the box "plans to watch the NDP leaders' debate."

important update to Ontario's involuntary hospitalization regime:

Guilbeault should just show up at tonight's NDP leader's debate.