Unpublished Newswire

A rising number of students across Canada are struggling with bullying, poverty, and mental illness as they head back to the classroom. That’s according to the brand-new Raising Canada Report, commissioned by Children First Canada. It says more than 70 percent of Canadian youth between the ages of 12 and 17 have experienced bullying in the last year. Furthermore, over 13 percent of children were living in poverty by the end of 2024. And when we examine the data for teenagers, 1-in-5 say they’ve experienced cyberbullying in the past 12 months. We dig through the data in Hour 2...

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...