Good morning. The federal government plans to bar access to medical assistance in dying on the sole basis of mental illness while providing an opening for those already eligible for MAID to request it in advance. More on that below, along with Mark Carney’s Person of the Year prospects and Terry Fox on the silver screen.

The Liberal government is again reshaping Canada’s medical assistance in dying regime to close the door to those whose sole underlying condition is mental illness. At the same time, Justice Minister Sean Fraser announced that coming legislation will include measures to legally allow for advance requests for patients who will lose cognitive capacity to be able to consent to the procedure later.

The context: The Liberals faced pressure to make a decision on MAID for mental illness on two fronts. The law that currently bars access to it expires March 17. As well, a Conservative private member’s bill that proposed amending the Criminal Code to bar those with mental disorders from accessing MAID was up for a vote in the Commons. Fraser said the government felt it important to declare its position in advance of that vote.

The significance: The debate over who should be able to request a medical practitioner’s help to end their lives is one of the most fractious in Canada. The government has twice paused access on the basis of mental illness over concerns about the readiness of the health care system.

From the archives: The faces of MAID: Family and friends of Canadians who chose to die tell the stories of their loved ones.

Vancouver International Airport is poised to become the first of the country’s large airports privatized by the federal government, as Ottawa’s advisers offer British Columbia Indigenous groups an opportunity to be minority investors, four sources say.

The plan: Along with Vancouver’s airport, Ottawa intends to sell concessions to run all or part of the airports in Calgary, Montreal and Toronto. The federal government, which wants Indigenous investment as part of a reconciliation strategy, will retain ownership of the assets, a structure that is common in Europe and Australia.

Opinion: A private airport concession need not be the bogeyman some think it is, Jordan Eizenga and Tim Murphy write.

Ottawa pulled its sponsorship of Disinfo2026, an anti-disinformation conference that features panels talking about the U.S. as a foreign-interference threat, citing discomfort with how some panels are framed.

The event: Disinfo2026 is an annual conference on countering disinformation, with this year’s taking place in Lithuania this week. The Lithuanian government said it also withdrew its sponsorship and the EU’s diplomatic service did the same, participants told The Globe.

The dissent: The U.S. State Department in an e-mailed statement criticized the conference for proposing that the country is a source of foreign interference and manipulated information. It declined to say whether Washington raised concerns about Disinfo2026 with Canada and European countries.

Serving Thanksgiving dinner for four this weekend will cost $35.72, about three dollars more than last year, if you buy a humble seven-pound turkey and basic side dishes, a Dalhousie University study found. The Globe set out to price a more generous, cost-conscious spread at a variety of midtown Toronto grocery stores.

The experiment: The goal was to get a sense of what it costs to put a holiday dinner on the table for six, with a larger turkey, familiar sides and a couple of desserts, while testing whether shopping around to save is worth the extra effort. Ultimately, the spending gap at different stores came down to the cost of the bird.

Food for thought: Forget about turkey – stuffed cabbage can be the breakout star of your Thanksgiving table.