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News Update, 8:00am, Wednesday, November 5th, 2025

News Update, 8:00am, Wednesday, November 5th, 2025
News Desk
Nov 05, 2025 | 8:00 AM
Special Weather Statement calling for strong winds
Brantford and Brant County along Waterloo region and Hamilton.
Check your kids Halloween candy, or what’s left of it, after pin nails were found in chocolate bars while kids were trick or treating in Cambridge and Kitchener.
According to Waterloo Regional Police, the affected candy bar in Cambridge was collected in near Sunset Boulevard and Saxony Circle, while another small pin nail was found inside a chocolate bar that was collected in the Hudson Crescent area.
Waterloo Police confirmed both involved Coffee Crisp bars and police haven’t ruled out the possibility that the nails were left in the bars during the manufacturing process.
While Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne vowed there would be no surprises in the federal budget yesterday, there was a big one…
A Nova Scotia Conservative MP, swapped sides and joined the Liberals saying Prime Minister Mark Carney is offering a better path forward for the country.
The Liberals are now within two votes of being able to pass the budget on their own and avoid the prospect of a holiday election. 
The Carney government's first budget meanwhile contains a deficit nearly twice the size forecast a year ago, a 78-billion-dollar deficit for this fiscal year.
The Conservatives and Bloc Québécois say they’ll vote against it, while The N-D-P and Greens are leaving the door open to negotiation.
Toronto’s real estate board says home sales and prices were down in October from a year ago, despite the drop in interest rates by the bank of Canada.
The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board says home were down 9.5% from last year, while the board said active listings were up from last year.
The average price for a detached home was down 7.3%, while the average price for a condo was down 4.7%.