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Publication Date: January 28, 2026 - 04:00
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Why solving cold case killings just got much harder for police
January 28, 2026
Police cold-case units face a new challenge in solving decades-old killings. With the world's largest storehouse of genealogy information, Ancestry.com, now banning law enforcement from using its data without obtaining a court order, it is much harder for police to build family trees based on crime-scene DNA and zone in on suspects via their distant relatives.
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January 29, 2026 - 07:17 | Alex Robinson | Ottawa Citizen
Toronto residents, emerging from homes banked by snow after a record-breaking 56 centimetres fell in one day Sunday, have a new thing to complain about. But if they are upset that someone else has taken a street parking spot that they’ve shovelled out, they would be wise to take the advice of one of the city’s litigation lawyers: “The snow melts, but the neighbours stay.”
Clearing a space on the street does not give you the rights to it, says Laya Witty, a lawyer with Singer Kwitner, in an interview.
Toronto police Const. Cindy Chung confirms that “the law treats all public streets...
January 29, 2026 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
More than 60 per cent of Ontario hospitals were in the red at the end of the 2025 fiscal year, and many, including some of the largest in the country, have turned to banks to cover their costs, spending millions of public dollars on loan interest payments, the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) has found.
More than half a billion dollars were logged by hospitals in annual operating deficits by the end of March, 2025, despite an Ontario law requiring hospitals to plan for a balanced budget each year.
As of March 2025, Ontario hospitals owed banks more than $66 million.
Among...
January 29, 2026 - 07:00 | Investigative Journalism Bureau | National Post
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