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A man convicted of ripping off a rival’s gold chain in Toronto over a $100 debt and slashing his face with a knife has convinced a jury that he stabbed his victim to death in self-defence and will serve just 21 more months behind bars, though the judge said a longer sentence could “easily be justified.” A jury in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice convicted Tamar Enoch Cupid last fall for the 2023 robbery and aggravated assault of Ifeanyichukwu Gabby Oseke in the Knob Hill Plaza, but found him not guilty of manslaughter. The jury “accepted, or at least had a reasonable doubt as to...
June 26, 2026 - 08:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
Service on Line 1 of the O-Train is being slowed by a damaged overhead wire between uOttawa and Lees stations discovered overnight, according to OC Transpo.
June 26, 2026 - 07:37 | | CBC News - Ottawa
School may be out for summer, but for a considerable number of students that won’t make a huge difference to the time spent in classrooms. Chronic absenteeism, defined by experts as missing more than 10 per cent of school days, or about two instructional days per month, rose sharply during the pandemic but has stubbornly refused to come down, a trend seen throughout the Western world. To combat the problem, the Ontario government announced a plan in April that would tie attendance to grades — in secondary schools only, so far. Paul Calandra, the province’s education minister, said...
June 26, 2026 - 07:00 | Scott Stinson | National Post
June 26, 2026 - 07:00 | | The Globe and Mail
A Saskatoon teacher who just turned 38 — the same age her mother died from leukemia — marked the milestone by running 1,500 kilometres in a month, crossing Saskatchewan north to south. She reached the finish line at the Canada-U.S. border Thursday.
June 26, 2026 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
Dubbed “Crackberry” by ardent users—Webster’s New World College Dictionary proclaimed it the Word of the Year in 2006—the impact and influence of the BlackBerry device in the early 2000s could be found everywhere. It featured in pop song titles and explicit rap lyrics; Kim Kardashian was a loyal user; former United States president Barack Obama famously said he was “clinging” to his BlackBerry and that they would have to “pry it out of [his] hands” when he entered office.
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After BlackBerry’s mobile business faltered, the company pivoted to cybersecurity and software
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June 26, 2026 - 06:30 | Solarina Ho | Walrus
