Unpublished Newswire
More than 10 years after his transnational cocaine smuggling plot crumbled and seven years after his arrest for orchestrating it, Ali Lalji has lost his epic campaign to stay out of prison.
Lalji, 37, was part of a sensational case that revealed abuse of the Toronto headquarters of the youth-oriented Vice Media to recruit interns, models and musicians as drug mules to smuggle bricks of cocaine glued into the lining of their luggage when they flew to Australia.
While five recruited mules — four Canadians and one American — languished for years in an Australian prison after they were...
April 9, 2026 - 16:27 | Adrian Humphreys | National Post
April 9, 2026 - 16:20 | Nicholas Jennings | The Globe and Mail
Transit Committee receives update on plan to restore Line 1 capacity
The Transit Committee was provided an update on the work to restore O-Train Line 1 capacity, as well as a status of the zero-emission bus program, a new bus-seat pilot...
April 9, 2026 - 16:17 | City of Ottawa - Media Relations / Ville d'Ottawa - Relations avec les médias | City of Ottawa News Releases
The Northlander train, which will run from Toronto to Timmins and on to Cochrane, was discontinued in 2012 and is on the verge of being returned to service.
April 9, 2026 - 16:13 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Ottawa
An Indigenous B.C. man who shot his sleeping wife in the head after a 17-hour drinking binge has been sentenced to under seven years for her death.
The sentence is far below the Crown prosecutor’s request for 16 years and is partially the result of the judge finding the defendant’s Indigenous heritage a significant mitigating factor.
Brent McCook, 28, was convicted last June of manslaughter arising from the unlawful discharge of a firearm that struck and killed Rochelle Poole, the mother of their two young boys, on Jan. 24, 2023, in Kwadacha, a remote Tsek’ehne First Nations...
April 9, 2026 - 16:04 | National Post Staff | National Post
Dubbed Claude Mythos, the software is part of the Claude AI family, an artificial intelligence model that can act like a chatbot and AI assistant, like ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.
April 9, 2026 - 16:03 | Adriana Fallico | Global News - Canada
