Unpublished Newswire
A man accused in a Toronto shooting that killed a bystander and cast a spotlight on supervised drug-use sites was found guilty of second-degree murder on Friday.Damian Hudson was charged after a stray bullet struck and killed Karolina Huebner-Makurat near one of the sites in the city’s Leslieville neighbourhood in 2023.
December 20, 2025 - 09:05 | Paola Loriggio | The Globe and Mail
A tense standoff in Welland, Ont., continued into a second day Saturday, after an officer was shot Friday during a confrontation at a former church occupied by a religious sect that has a history of disputes with the municipality.The shooting put people on high alert in a neighbourhood that includes the city’s main hospital, several schools, nursing homes and dozens of residences and businesses. The Welland County General Hospital and local schools were temporarily put in lockdown as a precaution, police said.
December 20, 2025 - 08:27 | Greg Mercer, Molly Hayes | The Globe and Mail
Show # 2 All Saints High School It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play Director: Shawna Pasini Sarah Devlin, Lead Critic Redeemer Christian High School Long before movies and screens, stories were shared aloud, and All Saints High School’s It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play reminded us why that tradition still resonates. […]
December 20, 2025 - 08:00 | Lois Kirkup | Ottawa Citizen
In the months after British Columbia’s catastrophic 2021 floods, the City of Abbotsford got to work on a plan to ensure it would never happen again.The city brought in a top engineering consulting firm and drafted long-term flood mitigation options that ranged from basic upgrades to a sweeping multibillion-dollar overhaul of flood protections in B.C.’s agricultural heartland. It engaged with farmers, First Nations and the general public, who highlighted priorities around preserving farmland, protecting buildings and food security.
December 20, 2025 - 07:15 | Andrea Woo | The Globe and Mail
The first person to get rich from the sweet products of maple trees was an American. George Clinton Cary was born in 1864 on a farm in Fort Fairfield, in eastern Maine, on the border of New Brunswick. As a boy of ten, Cary was already a budding farmer and had his own pair of steers. By age twenty-two, Cary was looking beyond the farming industry and became a travelling grocery salesman, moving goods by horse and buggy throughout Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
The legend of Cary’s start in the maple business began in the spring of 1886. Cary’s wagon, pulled by a team of horses, got...
December 20, 2025 - 06:30 | Peter Kuitenbrouwer | Walrus
The RCMP says it is actively investigating Ryan Wedding’s alleged criminal activities, in the hopes of laying criminal charges in Canada against members of the organization. In the wake of charges in the U.S. against Canadians allegedly tied to the Wedding organization, two senior Mounties told The Globe and Mail that they are continuing to pursue their own probe.
December 20, 2025 - 06:30 | Colin Freeze | The Globe and Mail
