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Publication Date: May 13, 2026 - 04:00
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Hyrox is coming to Ottawa and athletes are training at this 24/7 pop-up gym
May 13, 2026
Ottawa is set to host its first ever Hyrox fitness racing event from May 14 to 17, with 14,000 athletes registered to compete. CBC's Sannah Choi met with Hyrox athlete Kenny Caceros, who competed in the 2025 World Championships and has opened the Hybrid Training Pop-Up. It's a local gym where people can train 24/7 for the race.
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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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