It started, Michael McLeod’s defence lawyer said, with “a white lie.” It’s ended up in a London courtroom where five 2018 Team Canada junior hockey players are on trial over sexual assault allegations that David Humphrey called “preposterous.” Humphrey, the first of the five defence legal teams to give a closing argument, described the 27‑year‑old […]

A local childcare provider says she’s getting the runaround when it comes to subsidized rates through the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) system.  “There are no spaces left to expand (under the CWELCC system) according to what the government divvies up to every county,” Joan Finlay, owner of Unique Minds Childcare Inc. in […]

A second jury has been dismissed and the case will be proceeding by judge alone at the sexual assault trial of five players from Canada’s championship-winning 2018 world junior hockey team.