Oct 07, 2025 | 8:00 AM
It's deadline day today in an emergency funding request from a cash-strapped tourist attraction in Niagara Falls, Ontario, to help care for its 30 remaining beluga whales.
The federal government recently denied export permits for Marineland to send the whales to an aquarium in China.
The park says it has no options left to move the whales -- and without financial help, it may have to euthanize them.
Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson calls the emergency funding request "inappropriate" and says Marineland is responsible for caring for the belugas.
Premier Doug Ford's plan to eliminate speed cameras is facing pushback from some of Ontario's school boards.
A statement released yesterday by four publicly funded school board associations, they support the use of automated speed enforcement tools.
Premier Ford has announced plans for his government to prohibit the use of speed cameras across the province, with new legislation expected.
Ford claims the cameras are a cash grab, but the school boards are asking Ford to refine their usage instead of scrapping them entirely.
"Freedom Convoy" leaders Tamara Lich (LEECH') and Chris Barber are expected to learn their sentences today, nearly four years after the protest movement that blockaded downtown Ottawa for several weeks.
In April, both Lich and Barber were found guilty of mischief, while Barber was also found guilty of an additional offence of counselling others to commit mischief.
The Crown asked for Lich to be sentenced to seven years in prison, and for Barber to be sentenced to eight years.
Defence attorneys for both Lich and Barber are seeking absolute discharges with no criminal records, arguing their clients have been punished enough by three and a half years of strict bail conditions.
Stacey Englehart
News Director Southern Ontario