Kate Dubinski

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Kate Dubinski is a radio and digital reporter with CBC News in London, Ont. You can email her at kate.dubinski@cbc.ca.

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What is and isn't consent key in trial for 5 ex-world junior hockey players, Crown tells Ontario jury

The main issue in the trial for five former junior hockey players charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a London, Ont., hotel room in 2018 is whether or not she consented, a Crown prosecutor said during opening statements Wednesday.

Jury chosen for London, Ont., sexual assault trial of 5 ex-world junior hockey players

A jury of 11 women and three men was chosen Tuesday, the same day selection began, ahead of the trial of five former NHL players accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a London, Ont., hotel room after a 2018 gala for Canada's world junior hockey win. Proceedings are expected to began Wednesday with the Crown's opening statement.

London, Ont., woman's uncle among Indigenous WW II soldiers being honoured in Dutch museum exhibit

Eighty years after her uncle Welby Patterson died on a European battlefield in the final days of the Second World War, Maidy Keir of London, Ont., will see him being recognized at a museum exhibit in the Netherlands in a way he never really was back home. 
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Baby found on doorstep of London, Ont., home. Police looking for mother

Officials are appealing to the mother of a newborn boy who was found on a porch in London, Ont., on Wednesday afternoon. Meanwhile, the woman on whose stoop the baby was found is telling her story.

Lessons from Peterborough, where cops started cracking down on open drug use in 2023

When London, Ont., police launched their new approach to open drug use on Tuesday, they cited Peterborough as a model for the policy. CBC News spoke to Peterborough police Chief Stuart Betts about what's been working since it began in 2023 and what London should keep in mind.

London police chief launches new strategy to curb blatant drug use in public

London, Ont., police officers will no longer pass by people who are using illegal drugs on city streets and will instead try to talk to them and get them help, the police chief said Tuesday.

How to crack down on open drug use? 5 Londoners on what police should do

Months after he promised to crack down on Londoners smoking and injecting substances out in the open, Chief Thai Truong will unveil a new approach to guide police officers as they interact with drug users. Ahead of that unveiling, CBC News spoke to people about what they'd like to see.

How many Uber and Lyft drivers are there in London? The number might surprise you

By-law officials and police in London gave out more than 500 tickets to rideshare and taxi drivers during a month-long safety blitz, but it might be another number that stuns Londoners: There are more than 7,500 registered Ubers and Lyfts in the city — one rideshare driver for every 60 people, assuming a population of 450,000.

Western University spent $1.6M to police pro-Palestinian campus encampment, docs show

Western University spent more than $1.6 million on security during a two-month pro-Palestinian sit-in on campus last summer, documents obtained by CBC News show.

Can election promises help young Londoners one day afford their own home?

As dealers of modular and prefabricated homes eye a Liberal promise to double the rate of residential construction over the next decade, a new report paints a grim picture of current home ownership realities.