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Publication Date: December 10, 2025 - 12:49
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Quebec cracks down on organized crime, high-risk sex offenders and protests in new bill
December 10, 2025
Quebec's Public Security Minister Ian Lafrenière tabled a bill Wednesday aiming to create a public registry for high-risk sex offenders, prevent protests from taking place too close to the homes of elected officials and crack down on members of organized crime groups who show off their groups' logos or patches.
For the majority of Ottawa's city councillors, approving the Dunrobin battery energy storage system (BESS) was a no-brainer. Battery storage makes variable wind and solar power more practical. Sounds good. Allowing the project means that the battery company will give the city free money, even better. Best of all, the big and ugly BESS is out near Dunrobin and not visible from any of their wards. Read More
December 12, 2025 - 04:00 | Aaron Hutchins | Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — Most Canadians with a view say they don’t like the populist wave washing over much of the world, a new poll has found, even though a healthy chunk of respondents also said they support some of the same movement’s key pillars.
The poll, conducted by Pollara Strategic Insights, found that 28 per cent of respondents described themselves as either “frustrated” (10 per cent) or “angry” (18 per cent) with the concept of populist politics, while a smaller group (22 per cent) opted for the positive descriptors “excited” (four per cent) or “”comfortable” (18 per cent).
But 22 per...
December 12, 2025 - 04:00 | Simon Tuck | National Post
Back when I was a teenager, a private investigator sat in a parked car outside my family’s Westboro home for a few days, keeping watch on a house two doors away. Somehow, we knew why he was there: the recently estranged husband of the woman living at the surveilled address believed she was having an affair, and he’d hired the detective to find out. Read More
December 12, 2025 - 04:00 | Bruce Deachman | Ottawa Citizen
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