Unpublished Newswire

When we launched our regional bureaus last year, it was part of a broader effort to deepen our coverage of the most consequential stories unfolding across the country and to strengthen the role of local reporting in our national conversation. We began with three bureaus. This year, we are expanding again—and we are especially pleased to announce the launch of our Quebec desk. The timing could not be more important. With a provincial election scheduled for October 2026, we will be paying close attention to the political, social, and economic forces shaping the province over the next year...

A transgender woman convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of a 13-year-old Edmonton girl who was lured to a golf course, sexually assaulted, strangled, stabbed, then bludgeoned to death with a hammer, has lost her bid to stay in a women’s prison. Michelle Autumn, who identified as Michael Williams at the time of the killing, challenged her involuntary transfer from Grand Valley Institution for Women (GVIW) to Millhaven Institution, a male institution, in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice. “Regardless of whether the decision to involuntarily transfer (Autumn) from GVIW to...