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December 22, 2025 - 14:00 | | CBC News - Canada
Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers say they have reached tentative agreements. The agreements cover both the Urban Postal Operations and Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers bargaining units.
December 22, 2025 - 13:26 | | The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail wanted to find out how the Canadians most severely affected by the thalidomide tragedy were faring, a decade after the federal government finally stepped up to correct this historic negligence with a financial support program. This documentary is a result of hours of interviews with more than a dozen people on what their lives are like now.The money has indeed made difficult days easier for the thalidomide survivors, providing financial security, the ability to renovate their homes, pay for help and show kindness to themselves – even as many suffer with chronic pain,...
December 22, 2025 - 12:08 | Erin Anderssen | The Globe and Mail
Ranjit Rowal, the first Canadian resident to be convicted in the FBI’s probe of Ryan Wedding’s alleged cocaine empire, moved drugs for the organization “under threat and fear,” a United States District Court judge recently found. In August, three months before the Federal Bureau of Investigation unsealed a bombshell indictment against Mr. Wedding and more than a dozen other alleged accomplices, Mr. Rowal pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiring to distribute illegal drugs. That included a failed plot, authorities say, to transport 350 kilograms of cocaine on behalf of the Wedding...
December 22, 2025 - 11:48 | Sara Mojtehedzadeh | The Globe and Mail
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December 22, 2025 - 11:40 | Aaron Hutchins | Ottawa Citizen
A former university football player who sexually assaulted two women has been sentenced to just two years in prison because he is black and was feeling intense pressure around the time of the attacks, the judge said.
Omogbolahan Jegede, 25, had choked one of the women almost into unconsciousness.
“It should be noted that but, for the contents of the Impact of Race and Culture Assessment (IRCA), the pre-sentence report and all the mitigating factors surrounding Omogbolahan (Teddy) Jegede, this sentence would have been much higher,” Justice Frank Hoskins said in his Nova Scotia...
December 22, 2025 - 11:10 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
