YORKTON — Saskatchewan NDP MLA Aleana Young says documents obtained through Freedom of Information legislation show no funding has been allocated for a proposed new hospital in Yorkton over the next three fiscal years. Speaking in Yorkton, Young said records received from the Saskatchewan Health Authority contradict statements from the Saskatchewan Party government that money […]

Montreal police Chief Fady Dagher is set to address city officials and take questions from the public as he provides an update on a scandal at a station in a multicultural neighbourhood in the northern part of the city. Police announced in June that they had dismantled a 16-member patrol unit at the Montreal-Nord station […]

Last week, The Bancroft Times wrote an update on the new library build, North Hastings Inspiration Place, that is steadily nearing completion in the downtown core, with a projected opening date of spring, 2027. In this piece, library board member and Bancroft Councillor Val Miles said that Faraday Township had not contributed $35,000 in operating […]

A recording at the heart of a dispute between Gananoque Mayor John Beddows and other town officials has been preserved, the town has confirmed, as that dispute was headed to the council table. Gananoque council was scheduled to meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday to consider Mayor John Beddows’ July 31 open letter, in which the […]

Manitoba’s health minister said the government is working with cybersecurity experts following a ransomware attack at the province’s largest hospital, while the union representing nurses is concerned about security risks for its members.  Shared Health, the body that manages health care in the province, announced on Monday that it was dealing with an attack affecting […]

EASTERN UKRAINE (AP) — The commander leading Ukraine’s drone war says his country’s recent strikes in Crimea are the first phase of a campaign aimed at rendering the peninsula — illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 — unusable as a staging ground for Russian forces. Maj. Robert “Magyar” Brovdi, one of Ukraine’s most prominent commanders […]

Local residents in a multicultural neighbourhood in Montreal may not be the only ones looking for answers about a scandal at their local police station. The police have shared little public information about the investigation since June 12, when Montreal Police Chief Fady Dagher announced police had disbanded a 16-member patrol unit in Montréal-Nord over […]

Frantz Jean-Jacques remembers feeling hopeful after coming out of a meeting more than a decade ago with the commander of a police station in a multicultural neighbourhood of Montreal. Over a dozen local residents attended, including a number of young men who shared troubling stories about their own interactions with police. They came to denounce […]

Internal Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) records obtained through Ontario’s Freedom of Information (FOI) process show ministry officials approved the expansion of Atura Power’s Napanee Generating Station despite acoustic modelling that predicted one startup operating scenario would exceed the applicable provincial noise criterion before proposed mitigation measures were implemented. The records provide […]

Lawyers and organizations working on environmental issues and migrants’ rights are concerned about changes to the access to information Act proposed by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government. One of the amendments that concerns them most is the restriction on access to certain documents deemed “ephemeral,” which could include emails. “To categorically start excluding records from […]

The federal government is working on a project that would map out areas of Canada that lack local news coverage. “Canadian Heritage has recently engaged a team of independent industry experts to develop a local news directory — a multi-phase, multi-year project that will ultimately measure the extent and spread of news deserts and areas […]

A group of concerned residents invited members of the community to a public meeting to discuss the proposed boundary adjustment involving the Brantford Municipal Airport on Tuesday, August 4, 2026. Although the airport is currently owned and operated by the City of Brantford, the lands currently fall within the boundary of the County of Brant. […]