Ready for tomorrow.

Today marks 14 years since I started working at CTV Kitchener as the evening writer, hoping that one day I’d get to become a reporter. Filling in on the anchor desk on this anniversary feels very full circle!

Ontario’s Minister of Education says he’ll introduce legislation that would allow him to fire a Catholic school board trustee who hasn’t reimbursed his share of a pricey trip to Italy:

Randall McKenzie and Brandi Stewart-Sperry, the two people found guilty of first degree murder in the death of OPP Constable Greg Pierzchala, are appealing their convictions.

Visited @stratfest today to see “Annie” — an incredible production of a beautiful story of hope!

Fans are lined up, waiting to be let in to tonight’s Kitchener Rangers game. Rangers are trailing the Knights 3-0 in the Western Conference finals, but have experience erasing that deficit — they came back against Windsor in the second round. Puck drop tonight is at 7.

Dozens of people still at Mike Morrice’s post-election event at 1 AM, as he announces he has called his Conservative challenger Kelly DeRidder to congratulate her on winning the riding of Kitchener Centre. One of a few ridings in Waterloo Region going blue this election.

More than 6 hours after deliberations began, jurors delivered verdicts of guilty of first degree murder for both Randall McKenzie and Brandi Stewart-Sperry.

This afternoon the jury began deliberating at the trial for the two people charged in the December 2022 death of OPP constable Greg Pierzchala.

Closing submissions heard at trial for pair accused of first-degree murder in OPP officer’s death

Text messages Randall McKenzie sent about “shooting out with cops” and a video of him holding a gun among the evidence shown at his trial today. McKenzie and Brandi Stewart-Sperry are charged in the Dec. 2022 death of OPP constable Greg Pierzchala.

Randall McKenzie’s arrest, the gun found at the scene, and the clothing seized from him was the focus of testimony today at the trial of the two people charged in the death of OPP constable Greg Pierzchala.

Thermal imaging cameras captured the moments two people, accused of killing OPP constable Greg Pierzchala, surrendered to police.

The latest testimony at the trial for Randall McKenzie and Brandi Stewart-Sperry, the two charged in the on duty death of OPP Constable Greg Pierzchala.

Erick Buhr, found guilty of second degree murder in the death of his grandmother Viola Erb, is appealing his conviction and sentence. He says his lawyer was ineffective (he fired his lawyer mid-trial and asked for a mistrial, which the judge denied).

From Monday: video of a stolen truck speeding away from the scene of the shooting shown at the trial of two people charged in the death of OPP constable Greg Pierzchala.

Body camera footage captured the moments leading up to when Constable Greg Pierzchala was shot while responding to a call for a vehicle in the ditch in December 2022. My coverage of the trial for the two people charged in his death:

“Injunction schmunchkins.” The St. Patrick’s Day street party in Waterloo raged on today, in spite of the possibility participants could be arrested and criminally charged.

In spite of a court injunction and the potential of facing criminal charges, students in Waterloo say they still think there will be a street party on Marshall St. for St. Patrick’s Day.

From Monday: Waterloo Regional Police say they hope a new enforcement tool will help them stop the St. Patrick’s Day street party before it really starts.