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News Update, 8:00am, Tuesday, April 7, 2026

News Update, 8:00am, Tuesday, April 7, 2026
News Desk
Apr 07, 2026 | 9:57 AM

It's Tuesday, April 7th. Good chilly morning. Minus 4 feels minus 11 right now in Brantford. It's minus 6 in Kitchener, minus 3 in Hamilton. The dollar 71.82 cents US. Gas a buck 86 and Stacey Englehart. All the frigid cold returns bundle up because it is chilly this morning. We'll have the details coming up in the forecast. A GTHA neurosurgeon accused of professional incompetence getting a small wrap on the knuckles in a February 9th decision made by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Stefan Joseph Konashevich is being suspended for six months. after a review of his medical misconduct, which includes a patient dying after a nerve blocking procedure, despite an explicit order to stop performing the injections that he kept doing anyway. The doctor, with clinics in Hamilton, Toronto, and Newmarket, was previously facing professional incompetence allegations in 2022. So are doctors actually getting away with incompetence? according to the CPSO's own documents, they rarely get punished. Out of every complaint received, 0.06% of doctors are actually convicted. Police in the GTA have arrested a half a dozen suspects in a counterfeit currency sales ring operating through social media. Halton police say they were aware of two Instagram accounts linked to online stores selling film prop money. They say online orders were shipped across the country. And Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen and his crewmates have completed their record-breaking trip around the moon. According to NASA, Monday's historic journey surpassed the previous distance record, and the astronauts are now heading back home with a splashdown set for Friday. Light 92 sports baseball yesterday. The Blue Jays annihilated by the Dodgers 14-2. That home series continues at 7 tonight. NHL last night, Winnipeg beat Seattle. Leafs host Washington tomorrow 7.30. The University of Michigan won its second NCAA men's basketball title and its first since 1989. The Wolverines held off UConn 69-63. And in the NBA tonight, the Raptors host Miami at 7.30. They've moved up to 6th spot in the Eastern difference. Light 92 weather, flurries this morning, sunshine this afternoon, windy and two degrees. Tonight, clear and cold, a wind chill of minus 12 overnight. Sunshine tomorrow, a high of nine. By Thursday, it climbs to 18. Right now, minus 4, feels minus 11 in Brantford, feels minus 14 in Kitchener, feels minus 10 degrees in Hamilton. I'm Stacey Englehart.