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News Update, 8:00am, Wednesday October 22nd, 2025

News Update, 8:00am, Wednesday October 22nd, 2025
News Desk
Oct 22, 2025 | 8:09 AM
If you couldn't grab a ticket to see the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series inside Rogers Centre , you can instead check out an outdoor watch party.
The City of Toronto will host free public viewing parties at Nathan Phillips Square for all Blue Jays home games during the World Series.
Tickets sold out in about an hour.
The cheapest price for a verified resale Game 1 ticket on Ticketmaster was 18-hundred-dollars as of this morning.
Police are searching for a suspect who allegedly fatally shot a woman in Brampton and then abducted a one-year-old child yesterday. 
The Amber Alert for the girl was cancelled after she was found safe. 
Police initially believed the suspect was in the Niagara Region.
38-year-old Anthony Deschepper was driving a black Nissan Kick with a Quebec licence plate FRV4520.
He is described as a white man with brown hair who is 5"9 and weighs about 180 pounds.
 
Starting next month, 911 services in Brantford Brant will have a new system in place.
Beginning Nov. 5, The Medical Priority Dispatch System will ensure that the most critically ill and injured patients receive care as quickly as possible,
The system is already in use in more than 35,000 ambulance communications centers across 46 countries, including Halton, Niagara, Peel and York Region and Toronto.
Looks like another car company is ending jobs in Ontario.
General Motors has announced an end to production of its electric delivery van at its Ingersoll, plant.
The announcement came just a week after Stellantis said it would be moving production planned for its Brampton plant to Illinois.
Production at the plant was paused in May when GM cited slowing demand.
The company said their BrightDrop vehicles will not longer be made.
The head of the union for taxation employees says he's not surprised by the auditor general's scathing report about the quality of work at Canada Revenue Agency contact centers.
Union president Marc Briere says the C-R-A has lost about three-thousand employees since last year, and those who are still there are exhausted.
Yesterday's series of A-G reports included findings that most callers to C-R-A contact centers waited over 30 minutes, and were given wrong information to the tax questions.
A report by Federal Auditor General Karen Hogan also looked into the living conditions at Canadian Forces bases – and it’s pretty sad that our military has to live like this.
Hogan says the aging base housing is in a serious state of disrepair, with deteriorating walls, a lack of drinking water and malfunctioning sewage systems.
The audit found 25% of quarters needed major repairs and a serious lack of housing units, the military had just 205 residential housing units available in the spring, with 37-hundred applicants on waiting lists.
 The Report on Cyber security, meanwhile, found  "significant gaps'' outlining Ottawa's shortcomings in monitoring and responding to active attacks on information systems.
It found that not all federal organizations were subject to the same security policies, leading to inconsistent protection services.
Inflation jumped to 2.4 per cent in September, thanks to gas and grocery costs.
Statistics Canada says that's up from 1.9 per cent annual inflation in August.
Prices at the pump were down sharply over the same period last year, pushing the annual inflation comparison higher.
This report was the last piece of price data before The Bank of Canada's interest rate decision on October 29th. 
 
Former employees with Hudson's Bay are filing a class-action lawsuit seeking a share of the defunct retailer's pension surplus.
The filing is on behalf of workers who were enrolled in a pension plan offered by Simpsons, a rival department store bought in the 1970s.
It says the annual pension statement reports that H-B-C sent Simpsons workers showed that, as of January 2024, there was about 167-million-dollars in a trust fund linked to the retailer's overall plan.
Any surplus the company has stands to become a flashpoint in H-B-C's ongoing creditor protection case.
 
A new record has been set for the most watched Blue Jays game on Sportsnet.
An average of 6 million Canadians tuned in to watch the Jays eliminate the Mariners Monday night, securing their spot in the World Series.
Game 6 of the 2015 A-L-C-S, which averaged 5.1 million viewers.