It is Thursday, June 18. Here are the top stories we are following today.
Fatal Father's Day: The Man Who Fell 'Out of the Sky'
Writer Allen Abel explores a terrible tragedy on Father's Day 2024, when someone plunged from Toronto's Leaside Bridge onto a car passing below. The moment united two men in death — one a 76-year-old father and the other a son.
The Alarming Details Behind a 14-Year-Old's Random Murder of a Retired Teacher in Ontario
A doorbell camera video, the police investigation, and the boy's confessions captured the brutality and banality of 83-year-old Eleanor Doney's murder, and reveal the killer's disturbing obsessions. Images of the 14-year-old killer were captured on a neighbour's security video before and after the stabbing.
First Reading: Ontario Teachers Make Billions from SpaceX IPO
With both CEO Elon Musk and the Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan ranking as the largest Canadian beneficiaries of the SpaceX IPO (with stakes worth around $700 billion and $15.5 billion respectively), it is notable that both are firmly entrenched on opposite sides of the political spectrum, Tristin Hopper writes.
Poilievre Finally Gets Some Good Polling News — But It's Not About the Conservatives
The NDP's comeback, leaving the party just a stone's throw from its traditional support level of 15 to 20 per cent, is seen as one of the keys to the Conservatives closing the gap with the Liberals and finding a path to power.
New Supreme Court Appointment Coming 'Imminently' as Mark Carney Considers Two Top Applicants
Multiple government and judicial sources confirmed to National Post that the two candidates being considered are Glenn Joyal, chief justice of the Court of King's Bench of Manitoba, and Anna Loparco, a Court of King's Bench of Alberta judge.
