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A Toronto man found not criminally responsible for killing his own father with a hammer a decade back has been approved for 14 days of international travel even though he “continues to represent a significant threat to the safety of the public.”
Ari Da Costa, 30, had asked the Ontario Review Board for a 30-day leave to travel internationally so he could study mixed martial arts in Thailand. Instead, his psychiatrist suggested two weeks of travel might be a better bet.
“The treatment team would like to see some shorter ‘intermediate length’ trips prior to considering such an extended...
January 9, 2026 - 06:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
If this past year’s generational shift in the popular Canadian attitude to immigration can be pinpointed in hindsight on the calendar, it was somewhere around the beginning of November, when Canada’s population peaked and began to decline.
To be sure, the big inflection points on immigration had already passed, including the massive spike in the pandemic, driven by a wild gamble to increase temporary residents to juice the economy, followed eventually by the realization that this was putting impossible strain on housing and services, leading to large cuts in 2024 in the dying days of...
January 9, 2026 - 06:00 | Joseph Brean | National Post
A former acquaintance of Elston Bostock says the disgraced Winnipeg police constable had a reputation for being a "hookup" over a period of years, and would routinely "fairy dust" partiers with white powdered drugs.
January 9, 2026 - 06:00 | | CBC News - Canada
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January 9, 2026 - 05:00 | Doug Menary, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Sun
The federal government hasn’t crossed anything off its list of properties slated for housing development in Ottawa-Gatineau — though some projects did inch forward in 2025. Read More
January 9, 2026 - 04:00 | Ben Andrews | Ottawa Citizen
Another problem has been discovered with new anti-tank missiles to be used by Canadian soldiers in Latvia but the military is confident those can be solved by the time the final systems are delivered later this year. Read More
January 9, 2026 - 04:00 | David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Citizen
