As separatist sentiment swirls across Alberta, the country has been holding it’s breath and wondering: “will we face another separation referendum?” It seemed inevitable, as Premier Danielle Danielle Smith changed the rules to make putting a referendum forward easier.

But a court decision rejected their petition on the grounds that Indigenous peoples who would be affected were not properly consulted. Smith has since announced a compromise, of sorts: a referendum on whether or not to have a separation referendum.

Host Caryn Ceolin speaks to Ryan Jespersen,

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Majda was destitute. Her husband and eldest son had been . Living in a ragged tent in Gaza with rats and the stench of sewage, she couldn’t support her children and feared her daughters would be harassed going to in a camp with hundreds of strangers.

So she made a decision she now deeply regrets. She married off her 13- and 14-year-old daughters to men who promised safety and support.

“I thought I was

OTTAWA — Canadians claimed more than $122 million in federal subsidies for new electric vehicles since Ottawa reintroduced its rebate program in February, but many car dealers say they’re still waiting to get the funds they are owed.

Transport Canada published the database for the new electric vehicles affordability program, known as EVAP, on Tuesday, three months after relaunching the program on Feb. 16.

The database shows 24,389 claims were recorded but doesn’t yet have a breakdown of the dollar

NEWMARKET — Prosecutors are expected to withdraw more than a dozen murder charges against Kenneth Law today, with the Ontario man at the heart of an international investigation instead pleading guilty to aiding suicide.

Law, 60, is accused of selling deadly substances online to people at risk of self-harm, some of whom went on to take their own lives.

He was scheduled to stand trial in Newmarket, Ont., last month on 14 counts each of first-degree murder and aiding suicide, charges that relate to

Kenneth Law, an Ontario man accused of selling lethal substances online to people who later used them to take their own lives, is expected to plead guilty to 14 counts of aiding suicide after murder charges against him are withdrawn.

Police have alleged that Law ran several websites that were used to sell sodium nitrite and other items that can be used for self-harm, shipping them to people in more than 40 countries. The charges against him related to 14 people who died across Ontario.

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OTTAWA — Statistics Canada will reveal this morning how ongoing tariffs and the start of the Iran war affected the economy in the first quarter of the year.

The agency’s initial estimates suggest the economy rebounded somewhat after a mild contraction in the final quarter of 2025.

StatCan estimated last month that the economy grew at an annualized pace of 1.7 per cent in Q1, while a Reuters poll of economists expects growth was a bit below that mark at 1.5 per cent annualized.

StatCan said

OTTAWA — China’s foreign minister Wang Yi is in Ottawa today, the first such visit in a decade.

He is in Canada for a three-day trip that will include meetings with Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and Prime Minister Mark Carney.

The prime minister visited China in January and met with President Xi Jinping.

Canada and China reached a preliminary trade deal after Carney’s visit, when Beijing agreed to lower or eliminate some tariffs on Canadian agriculture products and Canada agreed to reduce tariffs on some Chinese electric vehicles

Elaine Byrne was starting to wonder if the $25,000-plus she spent fighting for John Reardon’s return to “Hudson & Rex” had been a mistake.

The devoted fan took out a full-page Toronto Star ad last year urging producers to bring Reardon back to the popular Canadian cop-dog drama after his abrupt departure. But in recent months, Byrne says financial stress and mounting home repairs, including flood damage, left her thinking about the money she poured into the campaign.