Global National: Jan. 24, 2023 | Former junior hockey stars to surrender to police over sex assault

There is news tonight about allegations of sexual assault involving former junior hockey players. The Globe and Mail is reporting five former members of the 2018 Canadian World Junior hockey team have been told to surrender to police in London, Ont. The newspaper says it's about allegations of a group sexual assault in a hotel room in London in 2018. The case was closed without charges in 2019 but was later reopened. Mackenzie Gray has more.

It is now confirmed that six people died in the plane crash near Fort Smith in the Northwest Territories. It went down shortly after takeoff near the Alberta border. The tragedy has hit the community hard, with Premier R.J. Simpson saying those killed were neighbours, friends, colleagues, and loved ones. Eric Sorensen looks at what we know about the crash.

Russia is accusing Ukraine of shooting down a military transport plane which it claims was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war. The plane went down in a snowy rural area near the Ukraine border. Ukraine’s military says it has no reliable information about who was on board and stopped short of acknowledging it had shot down the plane, though Ukraine’s intelligence did accuse Russia of deliberately jeopardizing the lives of prisoners of war. Crystal Goomansingh reports.

Republican Nikki Haley is pushing on with her presidential campaign despite losing to former president Donald Trump in the New Hampshire primary yesterday. The result was closer than expected and as Jackson Proskow reports, she’s trying to convince voters that she’s the only Republican that can beat Joe Biden.

Universities and colleges in Canada are increasingly reliant on international students who often pay up to five times more in tuition than domestic students. Now that the federal government is putting a cap on foreign students the financial implications are worrying. Universities and colleges say reducing those numbers will be a big hit to their bottom line and as Mike Drolet reports, the stress is being transferred to students.

An Ontario woman has invested a cool million into some real estate in Nova Scotia and plans to make it her retirement project. It is a big one — a castle in Cape Breton. And though it’s not old or historic, its new owner has big plans for its future.

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