Canada wants people facing dementia to authorize euthanasia before they lose the ability to consent. The government is proposing advance requests for diagnosed conditions that will eventually impair decision-making, while planning to delay eligibility based solely on mental illness indefinitely. The difficult question comes later: what happens when the person who signed the request can no longer understand it, or appears to resist? A decision made years earlier could become the basis for ending a vulnerable patient’s life. The proposal puts the meaning of consent at the center of Canada’s next expansion.

Your energy bill carries the cost of a country that struggles to build. Pipelines and transmission projects can spend years fighting through reviews, lawsuits and shifting federal demands. A bipartisan proposal would shorten those delays and make permits harder to undo when administrations change. Reform also needs a clear answer about who pays: expanded federal transmission authority can shift the costs of one state’s energy choices onto customers elsewhere. Faster construction should deliver more affordable power, with honest accounting that keeps households from inheriting somebody else’s bill.

Texas school districts say declining immigrant enrollment threatens their state funding. Taxpayers should look at the costs as well as the lost revenue. Fewer students can reduce the state’s education bill, even when districts struggle to adjust their expenses. The costly part is what cannot shrink quickly: buildings, debt and budgets planned around continued growth. Enrollment declines have several causes, but the larger lesson is clear. Districts that count on migration to sustain expansion can leave taxpayers financing commitments long after the projected students stop arriving.

The familiar story of the Great Depression blames the Federal Reserve for failing to pump enough money into the economy. A competing explanation points to the easy credit that came first: cheap money encouraged investments that could not be sustained by real production and savings. Once those weaknesses surfaced, another flood of money could not rebuild what had been lost. The warning reaches beyond the 1930s. Central banks can expand credit, but they cannot make every investment sound or turn borrowing into lasting prosperity.