Tag: Toronto
Baranyai: More than tariffs on voters’ minds
Of all the messages in this federal election – some bland, some spicy – the most refreshing is the grassroots campaign to save the CBC.
Mistrial upends Hockey Canada sexual assault trial, re-start underway
Just four days in, a judge has declared a mistrial and ordered a new jury be selected at the sexual assault trial of five players from Canada’s championship-winning 2018 world junior hockey team. While the decision may have caused the trial to slightly wobble, it hasn’t derailed it. A new jury panel had already assembled […]
If trustees are no longer in charge of the Thames Valley school board, who is?
Ontario education minister Paul Calandra has put the Thames Valley District school board – home to 84,000 students – under Queen’s Park supervision following a controversial three-day Toronto retreat by top officials last summer that cost $38,000. Investigators, auditing the board’s books, found a lack of financial oversight in the budgeting process led to a […]
London Knights star on being named OHL’s top defenceman: ‘Really cool’
Sam Dickinson had the best offensive season by a London Knights defenceman in franchise history. That 29-goal, 91-point performance in just 55 regular-season games earned him the Max Kaminsky Trophy as the OHL’s top defenceman Thursday. He followed Rick Green (1975-76), Brad Marsh/Rob Ramage (1977-78), Bob Halkidis (1984-85), John Erskine (1999-2000), Danny Syvret (2004-05) and […]
Legal arguments continue at Hockey Canada sexual assault trial
The sexual assault trial of five former Team Canada junior hockey players won’t be back before the jury until Friday.