We got one more day before MPs skedaddles out of Ottawa, and one more day before Canada faces Qatar in Vancouver.

Anyways, here’s what we got on tap.

Speaking of World Cup, Minister of Women and Gender Equality and Tourism Rechie Valdez told iPolitics how the government plans to use FIFA as an opportunity to continue diversify trade and local businesses.

“Tourism is one of Canada’s great economic success stories, it creates jobs, it supports business and it brings new revenue into communities right across our country,” Valdez said in an interview with iPolitics on Wednesday.

The focus on legacy reflects a challenge that has followed major sporting events around the world. While World Cups and Olympic Games often generate billions in economic activity and attract millions of visitors, some host countries have struggled to translate that momentum into long-term growth.

Canada spent roughly over one billion dollars, including $473 million in funding from the federal government, to host the 13 matches, according to the latest Parliamentary Budget Office’s report.

Sydney Ko has more. 

Individuals with a mental illness as their sole underlying condition have so far been excluded from medical assistance in dying. That exclusion is set to end next March unless Parliament intervenes with legislation.

A committee of MPs and senators held hearings this spring to determine whether the country is prepared for that exclusion to end.

Most of the witnesses who testified urged the committee to permanently exclude people with psychiatric conditions from accessing MAID.

Many of them, including a number of psychiatrists, argued there is no consensus in the medical field on how to determine whether a patient has any prospect of getting better. That is a key condition for MAID eligibility — a patient must be suffering from a grievous and irremediable medical condition.

The Canadian Press has more. 

Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall says she plans to resign her seat in the House of Commons at the end of the summer.

Wagantall, who has represented the riding of Yorkton-Melville since 2015, previously said she would stay on until the next election.

In a statement posted to social media today, she says her time in office will end on Aug. 31 but offered no reason for the change of plans.

Wagantall says she supports Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and believes he will be the next prime minister.

She says her time in office has been sobering because of the overwhelming hardships imposed by the “unethical, regressive overreach of the Carney-Trudeau government.”

CP’s got this one too. 

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Elsewhere, Emmanuel Macron has said the whole of the G7, including the US, recognises “the territorial integrity of Ukraine” as he hailed a “re-synchronisation” of positions on the issue.

The French president welcomed a “very deep change in the US approach”, saying Donald Trump and all the leaders present at the G7 summit at Évian-les-Bains understood that Vladimir Putin was not interested in peace.

“President Trump, like all of us, simply acknowledged that there was no serious willingness on Russia’s part today to discuss peace,” he said.

Macron repeatedly emphasised a “shared commitment to making progress on this issue”, which he described as “a very profound shift and remobilisation of the G7”.

The annual G7 meeting brings together the leaders of the world’s biggest economies: the US, France, Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada and Japan.

The Guardian has more. 

Meanwhile, attorneys for Luigi Mangione will pursue a mental health defence at his upcoming murder trial in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, the judge overseeing the case revealed at a pretrial conference Wednesday.

Justice Gregory Carro ordered material be unsealed related to Mangione’s defence that he was extremely emotionally disturbed when he allegedly shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown in 2024.

Carro instructed Mangione’s attorneys to turn over to prosecutors the name of the mental health expert they relied on as well as any report they draw up related to a mental health defence.

Carro said defence attorneys need to let prosecutors know the “malady” that their expert says Mangione was allegedly suffering that may have led him to kill Thompson.

The judge instructed the defence team to do so quickly after prosecutors suggested they may try to delay the September trial date.

Read more from the Gothamist. 

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The Kicker

And finally, taking a break from updates about sports and what the future for small businesses hold, Toy Story 5 is coming out this weekend.

In an effort avoid spoilers, critics are calling it the most “traumatic” film for parents…

The film revolves around a child becoming attached to a tablet. Not to tie everything back to the Hill, but with this month’s unveiling of AI strategy, the safe social media bill and privacy law update — it’s like life imitate art or whatever the saying goes.

Here’s BBC’s movie review.