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Right here’s the newest on the Ford authorities’s doubtlessly contentious plans to broaden housing, testimonies portraying chaos amongst Ottawa police throughout the convoy and former pop-star Jacob Hoggard’s jail sentence.

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Doug Ford will override municipal zoning to permit extra housing throughout Ontario

With a view to enable for extra duplexes and triplexes throughout the province, the Ontario authorities will “speed up planning” in numerous doubtlessly controversial methods, Robert Benzie experiences. A confidential doc obtained by the Star reveals the Ford authorities will restrict the position of conservation authorities, work to pressure municipalities to approve extra housing development and restrict enter from the general public. Right here’s what it is advisable to know in regards to the authorities’s plans to construct “lacking center” housing.

Ottawa’s police chief warned he’d “crush” anybody who interfered together with his “Freedom Convoy” response, deputy testifies

Confusion, poor management and a failure to collect intelligence on demonstrators characterised Ottawa police’s response to the occupation of downtown Ottawa final winter, in keeping with paperwork and testimony from high-ranking officers. In the meantime, those that wouldn’t associate with the then-police chief’s plan had been warned they “can be crushed,” though there was no actual plan, Ottawa’s deputy police chief mentioned Thursday. Tonda MacCharles and Alex Ballingall report on how inquiry testimony is portray an image of an area police pressure in disarray.

Former pop-star Jacob Hoggard has been sentenced to 5 years in jail for a “manipulative and degrading” rape

The musician met an Ottawa girl on Tinder, charmed her and acquired her a prepare ticket to Toronto. However once they had been alone in a resort room, he modified, changing into a “psychopath,” the lady testified in courtroom. A choose discovered that the sexual assault that adopted “concerned a stage of manipulation suggestive of planning and deliberation,” and endlessly altered the sufferer’s life. “I consider (her). I settle for her proof in its entirety,” Superior Courtroom Justice Gillian Roberts mentioned Thursday. Alyshah Hasham experiences what was behind the choice for a five-year sentence.

Context: A jury discovered Hoggard, 38, responsible of the sexual assault inflicting bodily hurt of the Ottawa girl in her early twenties, however not responsible of groping a 15-year-old fan after a live performance and sexually assaulting her in a resort room after she turned 16.

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Toronto is likely one of the lowest-taxed cities for householders in Ontario. Right here’s how that leaves the town stretched to keep up or add companies.

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10 DOWNING STREET: British Prime Minister Liz Truss introduced her resignation on Thursday after solely 44 days on the job. As her Conservative Occasion launches a seek for its new chief, right here’s what may very well be subsequent for Britain.

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