A woman in her 20s is recovering from serious but non-life threatening injuries after being stabbed downtown on Tuesday afternoon. Ottawa paramedics located the victim with stab wounds in the Rideau and Cumberland area around 4:45 yesterday afternoon. She was treated on scene before being transported to hospital in critical but stable condition. Ottawa police say officers responded to an intersection two blocks away at Cumberland and Daly, approximately 15 minutes earlier, for reports of a serious assault. Both intersections are now part of the same ongoing investigation. No arrests have been made.
An Ontario cabinet minister who represents a riding in North Toronto has promised to reimburse more than $16,000 in hotel expenses. Stan Cho, who serves as the minister of tourism, culture, and gaming, and represents the riding of Willowdale, has billed so-called special circumstances requiring hotel accommodation in Toronto on multiple occasions since 2023. Reports of the expenses prompted criticism from opposition parties, who called it an abuse of taxpayer dollars. In a statement, Cho said that his expenses met the criteria for special circumstances under the legislature’s rules for members, but his office did not provide an explanation for why he incurred the expenses. The legislature’s website gives a snowstorm as one example of an acceptable special circumstance where hotel accommodations can be expensed by an MP who lives within 50 kilometres of Queen’s Park.
One of the leaders of Alberta’s separatist movement has had his personal and professional bank accounts temporarily frozen. The accounts belonging to lawyer Jeff Rath were frozen as part of a legal dispute over millions of dollars in trust funds that a First Nation alleges were misappropriated. Tallcree First Nation Chief Rupert Meneen requested an urgent hearing last week after Rath failed to account for $6 million in retroactive charges to the First Nation’s trust account. The hearing was requested over concerns the funds would be “dissipated, transferred, concealed, or placed beyond reach” before the matter could be heard in the course of normal proceedings. The full matter will be heard in court later today, and it’s expected that the court will look at extending the temporary order.
