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News Update, 8:00am, Friday October 17, 2025

News Update, 8:00am, Friday October 17, 2025
News Desk
Oct 17, 2025 | 8:27 AM
Canadian baseball fans are celebrating this morning after the Toronto Blue Jays' won again on the road.
The Jays managed to pull even at two games apiece, in their best-of-seven series with Seattle Mariners 
Game 5 is tonight in Seattle
It’ll be a little easier getting back and forth to Kitchener Waterloo from Toronto
Metrolinx is extending GO Train service.
The province announced the new go Train schedule starting November 23rd, would include four existing weekend trips that previously stopped at Mount Pleasant GO will now continue to the Kitchener station, while a weekday trip that stopped at Guelph Central GO will instead carry on to Kitchener.
A 3 car collision near Simcoe Wednesday, has claimed a life.
According to, Norfolk County OPP, A cement truck, a sedan, and an SUV collided at the intersection of Concession 13 Townsend and Blueline Road.
Officers say the 79 year old driver of the SUV, died at the scene.
2 other people are recovering in hospital.
Police are appealing to witnesses.
The federal government is set to outline plans to strengthen border security today. 
Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to tour a border crossing facility in the Niagara region, with a news conference soon after
The new bill includes several measures from the previous one that would expand the coast guard’s role, tighten the immigration and refugee system, enhance information sharing on sex offenders and introduce stronger controls on chemicals used to make illicit drugs.
The government is still moving ahead with contentious elements of the first bill that would give authorities new powers to access personal information and search mail.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is also rejecting calls from Ontario to push back at the U-S with new retaliatory trade measures.
Premier Doug Ford has called on Carney to hit the U-S hard if Canada can't reach a deal on trade.
But Carney told a news conference in Toronto yesterday that right now is the time to talk, instead.
 
Yesterday meanwhile, Prime Minister Carney laid out details on legislation coming next week that would make bail more challenging to get for violent and organized crime offences.
The federal Conservatives' justice critic says their new bill is a half-baked attempt to copy and paste his party's stance on crime.
 
Three people have been arrested in Ontario after an illegal border crossing  in, New Brunswick earlier this year. 
R-C-M-P say those arrested are all men in the GTA… who have all since been released from custody.
The Mounties say three people who were conspiring to bring people from China into Canada, with the end goal of smuggling them into the U-S as part of a larger network.
 
The leader of the Conservative Party of Canada is accusing the R-C-M-P leadership of covering up what he calls scandals involving former prime minister Justin Trudeau.
Pierre Poilievre told the YouTube channel Northern Perspective that many of the scandals of the Trudeau era "should have involved jail time."
Speaking to reporters in Toronto, R-C-M-P Commissioner Mike Duheme   dismissed the allegations. 
 
The superheroes were out McMaster Children’s Hospital last night, as young patients watched them rappel down the building.
The event involved Hamilton Police Services, with some officers dressed comic-book heroes, including Spider-Man, Batman and Superman.
The collaboration between Hamilton police, Hamilton Health Science’s Foundation retailer Spirit Halloween,  raises money for local hospitals.
 
Amazon is bringing more jobs to Brant County.
A new facility, will be built in the Rest Acres Road/Highway 403 corridor/
At over  200,000 square feet, it will serve as a last mile delivery station where packages received from Amazon are sorted and loaded onto delivery vehicles for final distribution to customers.
 Future applicants interested in career opportunities can visit…  hiring.amazon.ca.
A member of a legendary rock band has passed away.
Kiss founding member and lead guitarist, Ace Frehley has died at the age of 74.
Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley issued a statement saying they were devastated by his passing and claiming he is and will always be a part of KISS's legacy.