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• 3 people stabbed at Halifax-area high school; 1 person in custody

  Police in Halifax say three people have been stabbed and a student is in custody following a weapons complaint at a high school in Bedford, N.S. The victims were taken to hospital for treatment, but the extent of their injuries is not yet known.

  

• Ontario 'scumbags' guilty of withholding passports to face steeper fines, ministry says

  Ontario employers who withhold foreign workers’ passports or work permits could face steeper penalties under new labour laws, with maximum fines setting them back up to $200,000.

  

• Woman suing Tim Hortons for $500K after hot tea spill left her 'disfigured'

  An Ontario woman has launched a lawsuit seeking $500,000 from Tim Hortons after she suffered major burns from an alleged ‘superheated’ tea. The company has denied all allegations and said she was ‘the author of her own misfortune.'

  

• W5 Investigates

  W5 Investigates | How did a healthy teen die at a minor hockey camp?

  The parents of young Ontario hockey player Ben Teague have been searching for answers since he died while at a team retreat in 2019. The mystery about what happened and the code of silence in hockey culture is explored in CTV W5's 'What Happened to Ben,' on CTVNews.ca and W5's official YouTube channel.

  

• Northern Ont. youth pulled over on closed highway in an allegedly stolen car

  A Timmins youth has been arrested and charged with possession of a stolen vehicle, police say.

• Northern Ont. woman celebrating 105 years of life as Canadians are living longer

  As more Canadians are living longer, Thessalon native Joyce Poupore turned 105-years-old in February.

• Donald Trump's call for protests gets muted reaction by supporters

  Former U.S. President Donald Trump's calls for protests ahead of his anticipated indictment in New York have generated mostly muted reactions from supporters, with even some of his most ardent loyalists dismissing the idea as a waste of time or a law enforcement trap.

• Conservatives forcing MPs to vote on striking new foreign interference study

  In an effort to keep the foreign interference story at the forefront, and to do an apparent end run around the Liberal filibuster blocking one study from going ahead, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has forced the House to spend the day debating a motion instructing an opposition-dominated House committee to strike its own review.

• Poilievre calling for national standardized test to license doctors, nurses trained outside of Canada

  Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for a national standardized testing process to be created in order to speed up the licensing process for doctors and nurses who are either immigrants or were trained abroad.

• Sudbury advocacy group wants to limit salt used on roads in order to protect the local watershed

  As winter winds down and the snow melt begins, the Greater Sudbury Watershed Alliance is calling on the city to do more to protect our waterways from road salt.

• Northern Ont. woman rises to No. 5 in the world in extreme winter sport

  An extreme winter sport athlete from Bonfield, Ont., has cracked the Top 5 in the world in her sport.

  

• Northern Ont. man realizes he won millions after forgetting about a lottery ticket

  A 51-year-old engineer from Terrace Bay says it was like a rollercoaster ride after splitting a $5 million jackpot in a Lotto 6/49 draw in December.