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Crumbl craze comes to Waterloo with first store opening in Waterloo Region
A customer shoes off their cookie after purchasing from Crumbl's new store in Waterloo on Aug. 15, 2025. (CTV News/Karis Mapp) Waterloo got a little bit sweeter Friday morning with the grand opening of a new Crumbl location. The popular dessert franchise specializes in picture perfect cookies, with a rotating menu each week. 'Every single week you get your cookie drop on Sundays,' explained co-owner Niki Condos. 'It creates a buzz and excitement for what we're going to be serving. Everyone looks forward to seeing what the next cookie is.' Throughout the year, the company features over 250 creative cookies. crumbl waterloo Dozens lined-up outside of the new Crumbl location to get a taste on Aug. 15, 2025. Dozens of people lined up hours before the opening, in hopes of getting their hands on their favourite flavours. This week's menu includes Crumbl's signature semi-sweet chocolate chunk, strawberry skillet, birthday cake and dulce de leche. Each cookie is roughly $7. Friday's opening celebrated the first store in Waterloo Region. '[I'm] born and raised here, worked here and we've hired a lot of great local kids that couldn't find jobs,' said Ted Siountres, the other owner. The pair, who are brother and sister in-law, also opened a Guelph location back in April, marking the first Crumbl in southwestern Ontario. crumbl waterloo Crumbl opened a Waterloo location on Aug. 15, 2025. (CTV News/Karis Mapp) After trying the cookies for the first time when visiting family in Florida, Condos said she knew she had to bring the tasty treats north of the border. 'We have had people reaching out to us for months, [asking] when are you opening?' she said. The Waterloo store will be open Monday to Thursday between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m., and 8 a.m. to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. 'Sundays we're closed because we have to rotate the menu,' Siountres said. With everything made fresh daily, owners say customers should be able to try any flavour regardless of when they stop by. 'We constantly are having our mixers doing, our ovens going,' said Condos. 'So we're planning to have full cookie availability for everybody.'
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Lester B. Pearson School Board to join budget- cut lawsuit against Quebec government
Another English Montreal school board has joined a lawsuit against the Quebec government over budget cuts in education. The Lester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB) is the latest to join the Quebec English School Board (QESBA)'s legal challenge after a unanimous vote Thursday night. It threatened to sue the province in late July, and the English Montreal School Board (EMSB) voted to take part on Monday. QESBA is challenging Quebec's education budgetary rules and wants them stayed. Last June, LBPSB's Council of Commissioners also adopted a resolution calling on Quebec to reverse cuts. The province is demanding its education network slash a total of $567.7 million from the 2025-2026 fiscal year: English school boards and French-language service centres were asked to cut $510.8 million, and private schools an additional $56.9 million. The school boards taking part in the lawsuit say the budget measures imposed on the entire education system are 'unreasonable and unworkable,' preventing them from presenting balanced budgets. 'As minority language school boards in Canada, English school boards are entitled to specific rights — including the authority to manage and allocate resources in ways that best serve our communities,' said the LBPSB in a news release. LBPSB Chairperson Judy Kelley says the nine English school boards under QESBA were looking at how it could be beneficial for them to join the lawsuit separately as they are all uniquely affected. She says schools are still in the process of budget correcting after the announced cuts, followed by Education Minister Bernard Drainville reinvesting some $540 million into the system, with strings attached. 'There's very specific attachments to how we can use that money. It's a real juggling act to see if you can counter some of the original budgetary regulations and rules with the new money or not,' she told CTV News. She pushed back against Drainville saying the government has increased its spending in education in its provincial budget, saying the reality is more complex. For example, teachers signed a new collective agreement that enshrined salary increases so labour is more expensive, on top of inflation. School boards also manage buildings, handle maintenance, provide services for students in school, transportation, and more. 'Imagine in all the costs in running a school board. It's not just about paying a teacher's salary to be in a classroom,' she said. 'There's so much that goes on and, in every area, costs have risen, and the funds given do not begin to match what the costs are.' Kelley stresses that all budget compressions affect student services in one way or another. The school board is confident Quebec's courts will side with them in a timely decision 'that safeguards the future of [its] students.'
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Man robbed 2 Edmonton convenience stores at knifepoint in July: police
The Edmonton Police Service says this man robbed two Edmonton convenience stores at knife-point in July 2025. (Credit: Edmonton Police Service) Police are looking for a man they say committed two armed robberies at west Edmonton convenience stores last month. The first robbery happened at 3:45 a.m. on July 23. According to an Edmonton Police Service news release, a man armed with a kitchen knife robbed the 7-Eleven store at 107 Avenue and 156 Street before running from the scene. On July 28 at 3:30 a.m., police say the same man, still armed with a kitchen knife, robbed the 7-Eleven at 95 Avenue and 156 Street. No injuries were reported in either incident. The man is described as 40 to 50 years old and was wearing dark-framed glasses and a grey hoodie with a yellow or beige skull logo on the back. He was also wearing grey pants, dark shoes, dark gloves, and carrying a knife. Anyone who can identify the man is asked to contact EPS at 780-423-4567 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
