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• 3 Ontario businesses fined $450K for hiring illegal workers

  04-04-2025 21:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  Three Ontario businesses were fined after a CBSA investigation uncovered the illegal employment of over 700 foreign nationals, with several workers removed for criminality.
  
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• Spring camping season in Saskatchewan has begun

  17-05-2025 01:06 via globalnews.ca
  In anticipation for the May long weekend, folks are packing up their cars and heading out to the lake for the start of spring camping season.
  
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• Spring camping season has begun

  17-05-2025 01:06 via globalnews.ca
  In anticipation for the May long weekend, folks are packing up their cars and heading out to the lake for the start of spring camping season.
  
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• Rare whale washes up on Vancouver Island, in possible 1st sighting of species in B.C.

  17-05-2025 00:14 via cbc.ca
  'Na̱mg̱is First Nation says it is 'deeply concerned' about the temperate-water Bryde's whale being found dead so far north.
  
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• Cows loose on Ontario highway cause delays for drivers heading to cottage country

  17-05-2025 00:06 via globalnews.ca
  
  Around 2:30 p.m., Ontario Provincial Police reported cows on Highway 400 between Highway 9 and Aurora Road, with the farm animals causing heavy delays in both directions.
  
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• N.S. missing kids: Search to resume in scoured area 2 weeks after disappearance

  16-05-2025 23:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  Lilly and Jack Sullivan, aged six and four, were reported missing on the morning of May 2 from their home on Gairloch Road in Lansdowne Station.
  
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• Judge to decide fate of ex-world junior players in sex assault trial after jury discharged

  16-05-2025 23:07 via cbc.ca
  
  In an unexpected turn, Justice Maria Carroccia discharged the jury after several jurors alleged one of the defence teams had been making fun of their appearances. Carroccia said she concluded the jury could no longer be impartial, and so she will hear the trial alone and render a judgment..
  
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• Firefighter saves 3 sleeping brothers as brush fire destroys home on Sask. First Nation

  16-05-2025 23:04 via cbc.ca
  
  Three young men escaped with just the clothes on their backs after a firefighting friend broke down their door and got them out of their burning home on Okanese First Nation.
  
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• Cows run loose on highway north of Toronto, causing traffic chaos, police say

  16-05-2025 22:09 via cbc.ca
  
  Several cows are running loose on Highway 400 in northern King Township after being spooked by thunder Friday, causing significant traffic delays, Ontario Provincial Police said. 
  
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• Ontario boosts autism budget to $779M, advocates question where money is going

  16-05-2025 22:04 via globalnews.ca
  
  Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy's budget, tabled Thursday, contains two lines on the Ontario Autism Program, including touting the new funding.
  
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• Restaurants celebrate as Michelin hands out 10 stars in 1st-ever Quebec guide

  16-05-2025 21:50 via cbc.ca
  
  The chef of Canada’s second-ever restaurant to be awarded two Michelin stars called it a ‘big step’ toward promoting Quebec culinary culture, as more than 100 of the province’s restaurants were recognized or recommended in the inaugural Michelin Guide for Quebec.
  
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• Amazon, worker union before Quebec labour tribunal over warehouse closures

  16-05-2025 21:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  Some 1,700 employees lost their jobs following Amazon's sudden termination of its Quebec warehouse operations months after workers at a Montreal-area facility unionized.
  
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• Cody Fajardo excited to be part of Edmonton Elks camp: ‘I feel like a rookie again’

  16-05-2025 21:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  Cody Fajardo won Grey Cups with the Toronto Argonauts in 2017 and the Montreal Alouettes in 2023.
  
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• Preventing vehicle ramming attacks an 'urgent challenge,' says Vancouver mayor

  16-05-2025 21:25 via cbc.ca
  
  Vancouver police recently purchased a $410,000 mobile vehicle barrier system, but say it would not have been deployed at the Lapu-Lapu Day street festival had it been available because the event's risk assessment didn't call for it.
  
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• Students in Ontario school district uncomfortable using washrooms in schools, study suggests

  16-05-2025 21:07 via globalnews.ca
  
  A large portion of students at a school board in eastern Ontario do not feel comfortable using the bathroom facilities at their schools, with constant vaping being one reason.
  
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• 'Maybe they were going to kill me,' Valeria Marquez said minutes before being shot

  16-05-2025 20:42 via nationalpost.com
  Some of the last words of Valeria Marquez, the Mexican influencer who was shot and killed Tuesday during a TikTok livestream in her beauty salon on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico, were: “Maybe they were going to kill me. Were they going to come and take me away, or what? I’m worried.” On Thursday, CBS News quoted Denis Rodríguez, a spokesperson for the Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office, which is investigating the murder. Rodríguez told the broadcaster
  
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• Unwanted threesome with wife lands Ontario iron worker behind bars for sexual assault

  16-05-2025 20:32 via nationalpost.com
  An Ontario iron worker who tried to have a threesome with his highly intoxicated wife after she passed out has been sentenced to three years in prison. The 40-year-old man is identified only by initials in a decision from Ontario’s Court of Justice. “The defendant’s moral blameworthiness is high,” Justice Joseph De Filippis wrote in his recent decision. “He had been aware for years that the victim opposed participation in these sexual acts. That the defendant’
  
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• Pierre Poilievre will be allowed to keep living at taxpayer-funded Stornoway, Andrew Scheer says

  16-05-2025 20:23 via nationalpost.com
  Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is expected to continue living at Stornoway with his family while he seeks a seat to return to the House of Commons. Poilievre lost his Ottawa-area Carleton seat in the federal election last month and is no longer recognized as the official leader of the Opposition in the House. It was initially unclear if Poilievre would remain at the taxpayer-funded residence, which has been reserved for the leader of the Opposition since 1950. Former Conservative lead
  
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• 10/3 podcast: Carney’s cabinet, lack of budget raise questions for Canadians

  16-05-2025 20:21 via nationalpost.com
  Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberal government are looking to set a new course after what some saw as an unlikely election victory late last month. But his new cabinet selections, and the fact his government won’t be tabling a budget have left a lot of political watchers scratching their heads. National Post columnist Tasha Kheiriddin joins the show to discuss the biggest looming challenges for the Carney government, what to make of his cabinet picks, and what Canadians can take aw
  
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• Canada Post ‘effectively insolvent’ as strike looms. Report suggests fixes

  16-05-2025 19:58 via globalnews.ca
  A report looking into the dispute between Canada Post and the union representing its workers recommended eliminating daily door-to-door mail delivery.
  
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• Experts point to anomalies in 'unprecedented' case of missing N.S. children

  16-05-2025 19:44 via cbc.ca
  Two weeks after two young siblings vanished without a trace from a rural Nova Scotia community, experts are pointing to anomalies in what they say is an unprecedented case that deviates from the typical markers of a missing children investigation.
  
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• Court to determine if Tim Hortons Roll Up to Win class action can proceed

  16-05-2025 19:33 via globalnews.ca
  An authorization hearing is set to take place to determine if a proposed class action related to a 'Roll Up to Win' contest error will go ahead.
  
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• Ontario investing $38 million to revamp Wasaga Beach

  16-05-2025 19:06 via globalnews.ca
  Ontario announced it will invest nearly $40 million to help revitalize Wasaga Beach.
  
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• Teen girl who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in fatal Toronto swarming sentenced to probation

  16-05-2025 18:57 via globalnews.ca
  
  The girl entered a surprise plea in February as she and another teen were being tried for second-degree murder in the death of 59-year-old Kenneth Lee. 
  
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• Trial for ex-world junior players now before judge alone after jurors accused defence of making fun of them

  16-05-2025 18:44 via cbc.ca
  
  Justice Maria Carroccia has discharged the jury at the trial of five former Team Canada world junior players in London, Ont. The trial will now proceed before a judge alone, meaning determining the guilt or innocence of the accused men will be up to Carroccia.
  
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• Cross-border shopping: How is surtax collected on U.S. goods at the Canadian border?

  16-05-2025 18:43 via nationalpost.com
  
  The Canadian government has imposed 25 per cent tariffs on certain imported goods from the United States. This could affect Canadians with travel plans that include crossing the border for the Victoria Day long weekend. Upon returning home, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) said in a news release that Canadians should be prepared to declare “everything you have with you upon entry into Canada,” adding that travellers who are driving are responsible for everything inside their
  
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• Girl who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in fatal swarming attack sentenced to probation

  16-05-2025 18:25 via cbc.ca
  A teen girl who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a deadly group attack on a homeless man in Toronto has been sentenced to 15 months of probation, with the judge taking into account time she has already spent in custody and the "unlawful" strip searches she underwent.
  
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• Ford's former top staffer broke lobbying rules: integrity commissioner

  16-05-2025 17:59 via cbc.ca
  
  Ontario's integrity commissioner says a former top staffer to Premier Doug Ford broke lobbying rules. Amin Massoudi now runs Atlas Strategic Advisors, but previously served as Ford's principal secretary until 2022.
  
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• Former top Doug Ford staffer broke lobbying rules, integrity commissioner says

  16-05-2025 17:45 via globalnews.ca
  
  Amin Massoudi now runs Atlas Strategic Advisors, but previously served as Ford's principal secretary until 2022.
  
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• Jury discharged, judge alone will determine fate of 5 ex-world junior players in sexual assault trial

  16-05-2025 17:04 via cbc.ca
  
  We're back at Superior Court in London, Ont., to bring you the latest updates from the trial of five former world junior hockey players.
  
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