A Globe and Mail reporter investigating allegations of political interference at Alberta’s provincial health authority has been targeted by an anonymous account on X, which posted surreptitiously obtained photographs of her in public settings and described her private movements.

Pictures of Calgary correspondent Carrie Tait meeting two women, who are former political staffers in the government of Premier Danielle Smith, were posted earlier this month by an account calling itself The Brokedown.

Details about the photographs were also posted beforehand by a podcaster, who made references in a video to a meal that Ms. Tait attended. He confirmed to The Globe that he was supplied with the photographs in advance of their posting on X. Separately, someone disguised a phone number to look like Ms. Tait’s mobile number to make calls to multiple people.

The soldiers charged in connection with an alleged terrorist conspiracy had been under restrictions that limited their access to army bases and equipment, and none of the weapons, ammunition or explosives in their alleged arsenal originated from the Canadian military, the Department of National Defence says.

The statement from the DND on Monday morning did not say where those items, which were seized as part of the RCMP-led investigation that led to four arrests last week, came from.

After her breast cancer was detected in the fall of 2023, Martine Riopel’s weekly routine started every Monday morning with a visit to her local hospital in rural Quebec for blood tests. Then, she and other patients chatted while they waited for their physicians at the oncology ward.

It was during one of those chats that she heard about the hospital’s plans to close its emergency department in the evenings. “People were stressing about it and it stressed me, too,” she recalled. “I said to myself, ‘No way.’”

A company selling night-vision devices says it parted ways with a Canadian soldier right after police raided his home, 18 months before he was charged this week in connection with an alleged terrorism case.

Corporal Matthew Forbes, 33, from Pont-Rouge, Que., faces 11 criminal counts, including unauthorized possession of firearms and military-grade night optical devices. The RCMP arrested him Tuesday along with three other men from the Quebec City area who were charged with facilitating terrorism.

Some of the kinds of tactical gear that the RCMP alleges was in the hands of the soldiers arrested in Quebec is highly restricted and is generally inaccessible to individuals, experts say.

On Tuesday, the Mounties arrested and charged four men in connection with an alleged terrorist plot. Two are active non-commissioned army officers, one is a former soldier and the fourth a former cadet instructor.

Canada’s national police have arrested four men, including two active members of the Canadian Forces, alleging that they diverted items from the military in hopes of using them to create an extremist militia and take over a plot of land north of Quebec City.

Marc-Aurèle Chabot and Raphaël Lagacé of Quebec City, along with Simon Angers-Audet from nearby Neuville, were each charged with one count of facilitating terrorism.

A woman has been charged in connection with the death of an elderly man after a medication dispensing error in a Northern Ontario long-term care residence.

Michelle Biglow, 62, faces a count of criminal negligence causing bodily harm, the Ontario Provincial Police said in a statement Monday.

The name of the woman charged by the OPP matches that of a registered practical nurse who resigned from the College of Nurses of Ontario on March 28 of this year.

Good morning. Burnout since the onset of the pandemic has led to hospital staff shortages across the country, with rural communities hit the hardest. More on that below, updates to our reporting on tuberculosis, ticks and tennis. But first:

Today’s headlines

• U.S. Congress passes Trump’s signature $4.5-trillion One Big Beautiful Bill Act
• Russia hammers Kyiv in its largest missile and drone barrage since the war in Ukraine began
• Sparks from an RCMP vehicle mishap ignited a fire now threatening Lytton, B.C., stirring painful memories

This project aims to document every instance in which a hospital emergency department (ER) in Canada closed its doors – temporarily or permanently – since 2019. For each closure, The Globe and Mail captured the ER’s name, start and end times, and the reason for the disruption.

Explore the interactive map below to browse ER closures across Canada, as compiled by The Globe and Mail.

An audit by Newfoundland and Labrador’s Auditor-General says it has uncovered “strong indications of potential billing fraud” by a travel nurse company retained by Newfoundland and Labrador to provide temporary health care staff.

The report was released Wednesday by Denise Hanrahan, who has been investigating contracts between private vendors and the health sector. The supplier is only identified as “Agency A” but details about it match those of Canadian Health Labs, a Toronto-based staffing company. Newfoundland and Labrador paid CHL a total of $73-million for two nursing contracts.