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News Update: 8:00am, Thursday, September 17th, 2026

News Update: 8:00am, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
News Desk
Sep 17, 2026 | 8:10 AM

It's Thursday, September 17th. Good morning. Friday's tomorrow. It's 17 right now in Brantford, 17 in Hamilton, 16 in Kitchener. Gas up 6 cents to $1.90. I'm Stacey Englehart. Well, don't fill her up today. Looks like gas prices could drop another 10 to 12 cents for tomorrow. 911 is back up and running. According to reports, police services across the province said there were 911 outages overnight in most of the GTHA, but it has since been restored. Well, if this is confirmed, it could be one of the largest ever exposures of government-issued ID in North America. The RCMP looking into reports, 10s of millions of driver's licenses belonging to people in Canada and the US. is being sold on the dark web. The FBI began investigating September 2nd after a journalist reported he discovered the dark web was selling millions of driver's licenses. He even found his own. the flights weren't expensive enough, expect them to go up 20% if this happens. Ontario's Premier said he supports the Prime Minister's plan to privatize some of Canada's biggest airports, including Pearson. The Prime Minister said the Feds would keep ownership of the land and assets and reinvest into smaller airports. A one-year pause on new data center projects has been approved in Mississauga. City Council voted unanimously in favor of a moratorium. Lawmakers are currently grappling with how to respond to the noise concerns, energy concerns, and water concerns with the new wave of data centers. And OpenAI has disclosed 6 reports on unexpected or concerning behavior in artificial intelligence models. The company is introducing a new framework to track and disclose incidents of what it's calling misalignment. It includes models acting without authorization or evading oversight. Here's another fun fact about AI. They don't necessarily give you real facts. They're designed to predict patterns. They call it a hallucination. Light 92 sports, baseball yesterday, the Jays with a critical 5-1 win over Detroit to try and keep their playoff hopes alive. Now they are off today and start up a weekend series in Texas tomorrow. The Canadian Soccer Championship semifinals, Montreal doubled Vancouver 2-1 and advances to play Hamilton at the championship game next month. Tonight in the NFL, it's the Bills home opener. They host Detroit at 8.15. And the Kitchener Rangers start their season tomorrow. They'll face Owen Sound at the odd. Light 92 weather, slight chance of showers otherwise cloudy and warm, a humidex close to 30. Clear near midnight tonight, a low of 11, tomorrow morning showers, tomorrow afternoon sunshine, and a humidex close to 30. Right now it's 17 in Brantford, 17 in Hamilton, it's 16 in Kitchener. I'm Stacey Englehart.