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Kitchener-Waterloo A Waterloo region charity that provides food to school children in need says it’s hungry for donations as kids prepare to return to class. Food4Kids says it’s had to start a waitlist for serviceCBC News · Posted: Aug 26, 2024 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours agoContinue Reading

Kitchener-Waterloo Apparent tornado touches down in Ayr, Ont., downing trees and power lines and damaging businessAn apparent tornado touched down in Ayr, Ont., on Saturday morning following an emergency warning issued by Environment Canada, downing trees and power lines and causing other heavy damage, including to a home and business.Continue Reading

Kitchener-Waterloo Kitchener, Ont., high school student Feiyang Luo has donated around 500 books to prisons in Ontario through his project Bright Pages. ‘This gets me up in the morning,’ Feiyang Luo says of donating books to prisoners Keena Alwahaidi · CBC News · Posted: Aug 17, 2024 6:00 AM EDTContinue Reading

Kitchener-Waterloo Unrealistic Ideas, a documentary production company owned by actor Mark Wahlberg, says it will tell the real story of Waterloo, Ont.-based smartphone maker BlackBerry. Producers say film will be ‘definitive look’ at smartphone maker from Waterloo, Ont. David Friend · The Canadian Press · Posted: Aug 14, 2024 2:07Continue Reading

Kitchener-Waterloo Residents in a small Stratford, Ont., suburb are still grappling with the tragic outcome of a neighbourhood feud that left two dead and two seriously injured Thursday night. Neighbour says conflict ‘not something that is brand new’ Cameron Mahler · CBC News · Posted: Aug 03, 2024 5:33 PMContinue Reading

Kitchener-Waterloo Two people are dead and two were sent to hospital with serious injuries after a man opened fire on his neighbours following a dispute in Stratford, Ont., on Thursday night. Police said Friday the dead include the 31-year-old shooter. Police received multiple calls about gunshots around 10:45 p.m. ET ThursdayCBCContinue Reading

Kitchener-Waterloo The University of Waterloo has issued a legal trespass notice to Occupy UWaterloo members, who set up an encampment on campus on May 13. An Occupy UWaterloo spokesperson says the notice “will not influence our decisions moving forward whatsoever.” Occupy UWaterloo spokesperson calls trespass notice ‘absolutely nonsensical’ Kate Bueckert · CBCContinue Reading

Kitchener-Waterloo·Video Video evidence presented during a hearing for the man who recently pleaded guilty in the 2023 attacks in a University of Waterloo, Ont., gender-studies class shows the former student telling police he was a stabbing victim, then saying “it was me” and asking to be handcuffed. Video, audio evidenceContinue Reading

Kitchener-Waterloo A former University of Waterloo, Ont., student who faced attempted murder and terror charges has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, assault causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon related to the classroom stabbings of an instructor and two students in June 2023. Five days in October have been setContinue Reading