Afternoon front page: Canada urged to abandon plans for psychiatric euthanasia; slowing the runaway MAID train; and more (opens original article in a new tab)

A Canadian committee recommends excluding mental illness as a sole condition for medical assistance in dying, citing concerns over misuse, while police seize contraband from an Indigenous land factory.

• Special joint committee recommends amending Criminal Code to exclude mental illness as sole condition for MAID eligibility
• Committee claims MAID is being misused as 'death on demand' rather than last resort
• Police in Ontario seized $10 million in contraband cigarettes and a handgun from a factory on Indigenous land