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British Columbia’s top court has substituted a five-year prison sentence for house arrest for a Langley man caught with nearly $250,000 worth of ecstasy and fentanyl after his luxury car was seized as “an instrument of illegal activity.”
The Crown successfully appealed the conditional sentence of just under two years and three years of probation that a B.C. provincial court judge handed Kyle Robert Bird last November after the now 38-year-old was convicted of two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking. His 2013 Jaguar XF had already been seized under British Columbia’s...
September 2, 2025 - 16:30 | Chris Lambie | National Post
The Finance and Corporate Services Committee today approved the Proposed 2026 Budget Directions, Timeline and Consultations Process.
The City continues its Service Review to drive innovation, find efficiencies and savings, improve market competitiveness, and increase engagement amongst staff, elected officials, residents and other stakeholders. The 2026 Budget Directions build on this process and demonstrate the City’s responsibility to the community it serves by building a safe, reliable and affordable Ottawa.
The City plans to keep the property tax increase at no more than 3.75...
September 2, 2025 - 16:30 | City of Ottawa - Media Relations / Ville d'Ottawa - Relations avec les médias | City of Ottawa News Releases
Ontario Premier Doug Ford reacted angrily to news that spirits maker Diageo will close its Crown Royal bottling plant in Amherstburg, Ont., early next year, pouring out a bottle at a press conference and encouraging others to dump the whisky as well.
September 2, 2025 - 16:26 | | The Globe and Mail
The debate over free parking in a trifecta of near-Downtown communities has been going on for years. That would be various areas of Hintonburg, Wellington West, and Westboro. Despite studies showcasing a shortage of available parking spaces, along with a serious need to solve long-term parking dilemmas, councillors have decided to maintain free parking as far back as 2017. Starting today, that policy is being discontinued, as 697 parking spots are being turned into paid lots. But a crowd of shops, businesses, and restaurants along those areas are losing their patience, and today’s...
September 2, 2025 - 16:22 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
OTTAWA — Prospective federal NDP leadership candidates will have to raise $100,000 and amass 500 signatures from members — most of which cannot come from cisgender men — to be officially in the running,
according to rules that were released on Tuesday.
With the NDP leadership race now underway, candidates who are hoping to succeed Jagmeet Singh should be making themselves known in short order. The winner will be announced in Winnipeg as...
September 2, 2025 - 16:20 | Catherine Lévesque | National Post
The Alberta government is pausing its controversial order for the removal of books from school libraries that the province had deemed as sexually explicit content. In a brief e-mail to school boards and divisions Tuesday, Alberta’s Education and Childcare Minister Demetrios Nicolaides said the restrictions on books should be paused “until further notice.”
September 2, 2025 - 16:17 | Temur Durrani, Carrie Tait | The Globe and Mail
