Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Karen Howlett
Publication Date: June 19, 2025 - 21:31
Judge points to ‘tainted’ process in Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital bidding process at Bondfield trial
June 19, 2025
The judge presiding over the trial of two men facing criminal fraud charges stemming from the $300-million redevelopment of Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital says the bidding process was “tainted.”Vas Georgiou, former chief administrative officer of St. Michael’s, and John Aquino, the former president of Bondfield Construction Co. Ltd., are each charged with two counts of fraud over $5,000. Both men have pleaded not guilty.
A closure motion the government passed to limit debate says the House won't adjourn Friday until debate wraps up on Bill C-5 and it clears the chamber.
June 20, 2025 - 07:05 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
The first heat wave of Summer 2025 is about to hit Eastern Canada, with temperatures climbing to the mid-30s early next week. Add the humidity from a wet spring and it will feel even hotter.
We’d better get used to it, as it is signalling “a torrid summer ahead,” says David Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada.
“We rarely go a year without a heat wave,” he says, “but this will be the first one and people have to learn how to deal with it again.”
The high pressure system will settle over southern and eastern Ontario as well as southern Quebec. It...
June 20, 2025 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
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This story was originally published by our friends at Narratively as “Dozens of Infants Died Mysteriously at a Top Children’s Hospital—I Wanted to Know Why.” It has been reprinted here with permission.
Kevin Garnett was furious. He shouted and banged his fist against a wall inside Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, demanding to know why his son had died.
The boy, Kevin Pacsai, had been born just twenty-five days earlier with a head of dark hair like that of his twenty-one-year-old father. His mother,...
June 20, 2025 - 06:30 | Leigh Kamping-Carder | Walrus
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