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At 72, Dr. Ellen Wiebe devotes half her practice to medical aid in dying. It’s the last work she’s prepared to give up Dr Ellen Wiebe is pictured at her office in Vancouver B.C. on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. Dr. Ellen Wiebe has never shied away from speaking publicly about the act of ending someone’s … Read more

Once landfilled and ignored, the city’s incinerated sewage sludge is now prized for its fertility. “Developing this is important, because we’re replacing chemical fertilizers that have to be produced in factories,” said Carole Fleury, head of processes and laboratories at the Jean-R.-Marcotte wastewater plant in east Montreal.Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette At the bottom … Read more

Judith Campbell Exner, the Los Angeles socialite whose affair with President John F. Kennedy embroiled her in decades of vilification as the first to shatter the Camelot myth, has died. She was 65 when she died Friday at City of Hope hospital in Duarte, and had spent the last decades of her life battling both … Read more

There’s no reason to believe Kirby Dach won’t be ready for training camp after serious knee injury — but can he stay healthy next season? Canadiens’ Kirby Dach, left, celebrates a goal with his teammates during a game in 2022. Dach needs to prove he can stay healthy, Stu Cowan writes. Photo by Allen McInnis … Read more

Mas Fujita and his brother Yuki have worked at Sakuraya, the oldest mochi shop in Gardena, since their father started the business in 1960. There’s never a line, yet they almost always sell out. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Sakuraya is just a mochi shop in Gardena, if you listen to owners Mas … Read more

For Jewish voters in France, the election is ‘a choice between the plague and cholera’ Covering an entire classroom wall in a Tunisian synagogue in Belleville, an immigrant haven on the slopes of northeastern Paris, are the names of 1,100 Jewish children who were arrested by French police, deported to Auschwitz and killed by the … Read more