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News Update, 8:00 am, Thursday October 16th, 2025

News Update, 8:00 am, Thursday October 16th, 2025
News Desk
Oct 16, 2025 | 8:08 AM
The federal government is threatening legal action over Stellantis’s move from Brampton to the US, saying it doesn't "respect its obligations" to Canadians.
2 year ago, the company reportedly entered into an agreement with the Federal and Provincial governments that both would provide up to $15 billion in performance incentives — contingent on a set of conditions.
The plant was shut down early last year to revamp it.
Close to 3thousand employees were expecting to return to work this year to build the new Jeeps.
Stellantis wouldn’t say how many millions or billions it already received from tax payers.
A 20 year old from the US has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to cyber extortion in the mass data breach of a student information system used across Canada.
The companies were not named in court documents but PowerSchool, a software and cloud storage company for school systems in the U.S. and Canada, confirmed Wednesday that Lane was the person behind its data breach.
 A man, serving an 18-year sentence for killing three people from Six Nations of the Grand River, has died in custody at the Millhaven Institution Ontario.
Correctional Service Canada says 43 year old Nicholas Shipman passed away on October 2nd. 
The agency says the Correctional Service of Canada will review the circumstances.
 High-end perfumes and colognes worth hundreds of thousand dollars have been recovered following an investigation into thefts across The GTA.
Toronto police say they executed a search warrant at a home in Milton.
Almost 19hundred perfume bottles, worth about 320 thousand was found, a 23 year old from Milton was arrested and charged with trafficking .
 
A woman is facing charges after she allegedly spray-painted anti-Muslim and anti-Indian graffiti at a playground in Mississauga last month.
Peel police say a telecommunications box and several items in a nearby playground were vandalized with derogatory remarks.
A 29-year-old woman from Mississauga has been arrested and charged with mischief over five-thousand dollars.
 
A reminder to young drivers, you need a real person in the car with you, if you’re a G-1 driver.
Police say officers pulled over a 19-year-old along Highway 10 in Melancthon Township, and instead of a passenger with at least 4 years of driving experience…. It was a plastic skeleton… buckled in.
No word on any charges.
 
A new global report shows C-O-2 levels soared by record amounts to new highs in 2024. 
The World Meteorological Organization says C-O-2 levels growth rates are now triple what they were in the 1960s.
Wildfire emissions and reduced carbon absorption by the ocean and land ecosystems are said to be a big driver of the record C-O-2 growth in 2024.