Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Simon Houpt
Publication Date: July 23, 2025 - 19:42
Hockey Canada, NHL could clear or sanction players after sexual-assault verdict
July 23, 2025
On Thursday, the five former Canadian world junior hockey players charged with sexual assault after a 2018 celebratory gala in London, Ont., will learn their fates at the hands of the criminal justice system.
But that won’t be the final word: Both the National Hockey League and Hockey Canada still have matters to resolve with the men. Each organization conducted its own parallel investigation into the allegations, but when police laid charges in February, 2024, the league and national sport organization held off making any final determination until the end of the trial.
Two people, including a three-year-old, died in separate drownings in Ontario on Saturday. Ontario Provincial Police are investigating after emergency services were called to Mille Roches Beach in Long Sault around 5:45 p.m. regarding a child with no vital signs. Police say off-duty medical professionals were attempting to resuscitate the child who was rushed to the hospital and later pronounced dead.
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In a very civil tone, the mayor of Windsor, Ont., is asking the fresh faces in the Mark Carney-led Liberal government to butt out of city planning. Mayor Drew Dilkens especially wants to see an end to Trudeau-era affordable housing mandates from Ottawa that don’t serve his community.
“They were just hell-bent on putting forward this really left-principled version of what housing should be,” Drew says of the conditions imposed on cities under the $4-billion housing accelerator fund launched in 2023 by then federal Housing Minister Sean Fraser.
Unlike most other big cities in Canada,...
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