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Publication Date: May 7, 2026 - 04:00
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New OC Transpo chief Rick Leary leaves behind 'adversarial' history with Toronto unions
May 7, 2026
Past and present union leaders say Rick Leary's tenure heading the Toronto Transit Commission was bad for morale. But the new head of OC Transpo is promising to forge a collaborative relationship with labour in the nation's capital.
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Ontario lawyer Gavin McNeill Grant impregnated a 17-year-old Crown ward, showed off pictures of her in lingerie to his coworker, and assaulted two women, including a client-turned-girlfriend, according to a decision of Ontario’s Law Society Tribunal. In all, Grant, who worked as a criminal lawyer in Owen Sound, Ont., engaged in what two provincial Law Societies called a pattern of sexual, drug and physical misconduct involving at least six females, including underage girls. While complaints about Grant’s sexual misconduct began as early as 2014, it took until June 2017 before a...
May 13, 2026 - 06:45 | Investigative Journalism Bureau | National Post
A British Columbia judge has sentenced a fraudster to two years less a day of house arrest for bilking an “extremely vulnerable” client out of $155,800 that he frittered away on gambling. Kenneth David Derksen, a former consultant at Investors Group Financial Services Inc., pleaded guilty last year to fraud over $5,000 for sending the money to himself in e-transfers from the accounts of a client, John Boellaard, who was out of the country, and at some points hospitalized in Thailand. Derksen sent himself the money in amounts between $300 and $3,000, from his client’s retirement and...
May 13, 2026 - 06:30 | Chris Lambie | National Post
“Leak” once had a singular meaning: danger, even death, as a ship floundered, water rushing in. By the mid-nineteenth century, the word caught up with politics, signalling a different kind of peril: the seepage of government secrets through strategic disclosures by officials or whistleblowers.
Key points
Breaches of confidentiality are often the source of media-reported government scandals
Leaks may not always be true or credible, and the rush to publish stories can overwhelm verification efforts
Journalistic best practice is to remain skeptical, consider witness credibility, and...
May 13, 2026 - 06:30 | Wesley Wark | Walrus
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