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A Quebec Court judge has determined that the 34-year-old woman from LaSalle who abandoned her three-year-old daughter in June was not criminally responsible for her actions.
Judge Bernard St-Arnaud made the decision following a brief hearing held Monday at the Valleyfield courthouse.
The judge heard a summary of the facts of the evidence and was presented with a report from a psychiatrist who examined the accused at the Philippe-Pinel Institute following her arrest.
The psychiatrist found that the woman, whose name...
September 15, 2025 - 14:08 | Postmedia News | National Post
The Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses is warning of a 'significant' impact on small businesses that rely on flyers for marketing as fears of another strike loom.
September 15, 2025 - 14:07 | Sean Boynton | Global News - Canada
OTTAWA — Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault hopes the government will increase minimum campaign periods because so many people are voting early that Elections Canada is struggling to keep up.
In a retrospective of the spring federal election, Perrault said Monday that a record 44 per cent of voters cast their ballots before voting day on April 28, 2025.
In other words, gone are the days when most voters waited until election day to cast their ballot.
Though he celebrated the fact the election saw the highest participation rate in 30 years (68 per cent), Perrault...
September 15, 2025 - 13:59 | Christopher Nardi | National Post
A Baltimore Orioles broadcast personality was in contrition mode Sunday after casting doubt on some Canadian fans’ baseball IQ during a game against the Toronto Blue Jays two days earlier.
“I hope that they will accept my sincere apology for what I said on the air the other day,” Orioles colour commentator Brian Roberts said during a Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) afternoon broadcast and
shared to X by Luke Slabaugh.
“I definitely...
September 15, 2025 - 13:56 | Kenn Oliver | National Post
A former Toronto cop who resigned at 40 to study law “was willfully blind to fraudulent activity” when he helped scammers trying to launder $1.7 million, according to a decision from Ontario’s law society tribunal.
It heard that Ganesh Balaganthan, who spent 14 years in the Toronto Police Service before travelling to England to study law, failed to properly check out his first client, who hired him to draft a joint venture agreement aimed at laundering part of a $2.1 million haul that had been scammed from the City of Surrey, B.C.
“We conclude that the respondent was inexperienced...
September 15, 2025 - 13:52 | Chris Lambie | National Post
Frosh Week is over for the Ottawa Senators. Read More
September 15, 2025 - 13:50 | Bruce Garrioch | Ottawa Citizen
