Most Read Stories of the Week: Stabbing Confession, Reckless Driving Plea, and Big Trouble for Tiny Houses

Warning: there are graphic details in this story.

Disturbing evidence is shared for the first time about the 2023 attack at the University of Waterloo.

An audio recording of the assault, along with a video of the aftermath and the attacker's abrupt confession, were presented as evidence last week when Geovanny Villalba-Aleman pleaded guilty to four assault-related charges.

CTV News has now obtained all of the recordings.

At the time of the attack, Villalba-Aleman was a 24-year-old international student who had recently graduated from the University of Waterloo.

As part of his plea, the court heard an audio recording of the moments leading up to the stabbings on June 28, 2023.

Villalba-Aleman can be heard interrupting the gender studies conference.

After a brief discussion with the teacher, the class erupts into panicked cries.

The professor and two other students were injured in the attack.

A 93-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to reckless driving causing bodily harm in the crash that sent CTV News Kitchener reporter Stephanie Villella to hospital with life-threatening injuries last year.

On March 1, 2023, Villella was at the intersection of Brock Road and Maltby Road, which had been closed and barricaded by police, when she was struck by the then 92-year-old woman who was driving a sedan.

At the time of the crash, Villella was gathering footage from another two-vehicle crash that occurred on Brock Road earlier in the day.

Nearly two months later, the driver was charged with careless driving causing bodily harm.

According to a provincial offenses court clerk, the driver appeared in court Friday for a court pretrial. After pleading guilty, the fine imposed was $2,000 as well as a one-year driver's license suspension. The woman voluntarily surrendered her driver's license to the Department of Transportation and will no longer drive.

Villella and her family filed a lawsuit against the driver who hit her, an unnamed Guelph police officer, the Guelph Police Service, the Ontario Provincial Police and the province for a collective $15.7 million. dollars in damages.

The province has now filed a statement of defense on behalf of the Ontario Provincial Police, as well as a third party claim against Villella's employer, Bell Media.

None of the allegations made in the lawsuit, nor any counterclaims made as part of the defense statements, have been tested or proven in court.

CTV Kitchener is a division of Bell Media.

The University of Guelph says it predicted growth in 2024 – and it delivered.

More than 7,000 new students will become Gryphons in September.

The problem is that the university currently only has 5,050 residence spaces.

On Monday, an email was sent to 1,365 first-year students informing them that they had been placed on a residency waitlist. He also explained that each student was randomly assigned a number to keep their place in line.

According to the University of Guelph, anyone with a number below 150 or 200 has a reasonable chance of securing residency this fall.

The University of Guelph said it was facing significant financial pressures that forced it to increase its enrollment.

The school said the provincial policy of freezing tuition fees over the past five years has put significant financial pressure on most post-secondary institutions.

The University of Guelph campus. (Source: U of G website)

A Kitchener, Ont. A woman wants to set up a small house in her garden, but she continues to encounter administrative formalities.

Wendy Woolcox owns a duplex with her partner and has a tenant who rents one side of the building. She also wants to add a small house to her garden so that a second tenant can rent it.

She started applying for a building permit in early May, and that's when the headaches started.

“We got everything they asked for. Here we are again faced with a zoning problem that should have been resolved at the very beginning. We met with representatives from the Grand River Conservation. We have all these other permits in a row. All. NOW [the issue is] My driveway is too wide.

The city says the concrete at the edge of its driveway, where its current and future tenants will park, is too wide.

The driveway was expanded in the 1980s, long before Woolcox purchased the property, to include an additional parking area.

Forty years later, city staff reviewed the building permit process and said the work was not legal. They told him that the concrete slab had to be transformed into a terrace or blocked with bollards or large rocks.

Wendy Woolcox's garden in Kitchener, Ontario. on June 11, 2024, where she wants to build a small house. (Colton Wiens/CTV Kitchener)

A Canadian country duo from North Dumfries, Ontario. performed in front of a global audience on Tuesday evening.

Siblings Jenna and Stuart Walker, better known as The Reklaws, performed their new single on the TV show America's Got Talent.

“It kind of fell into our laps because we just released a song with Drake Milligan, who's on America's Got Talent, and the producers contacted us and asked if we wanted to audition,” explained Jenna Wednesday. “It was terrifying because we have a career here [in Canada] and we knew it was sort of putting ourselves in danger to see if we could be judged by Simon Cowell. Which is terrifying.

The Reklaws finally decided to perform their new single called “People Don't Talk About.”

At the end of the performance, judge Howie Mandel praised their song choice.

The Reklaws, Jenna and Stuart Walker, in an interview with CTV News Kitchener on June 12, 2024.