The City of Calgary conducts 2 surveys annually, 1 successful the outpouring and different successful the fall, pinch the results of the latest outpouring study group to beryllium presented to councillors connected Tuesday.

According to the survey, 54 per cent of Calgarians now opportunity they person spot successful the City of Calgary, which is higher than erstwhile surveys but not straight comparable owed to changes successful the questionnaire.

Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas told BERITAJA the caller figures are much reflective of the existent metropolis assembly and guidance much than six months into the job.

“The erstwhile study really reflected the erstwhile council. We were inheriting numbers, but these numbers are each ours,” Farkas said.

“At a precocious level, it shows a existent large rebound successful the spot Calgarians have.  It does place a batch of areas for continued focus.”

The findings show restitution pinch the wide level and value of services and programs offered by the City of Calgary sits astatine 62 per cent, down 5 per cent from the autumn survey.

The Calgary Fire Department led each 15 metropolis services evaluated successful the study pinch the strongest restitution standing astatine 90 per cent, followed by discarded and recycling astatine 78 per cent and parks astatine 77 per cent.

Half of Calgarians, aliases 51 per cent, said they were satisfied pinch h2o services aft the 2nd rupture of the Bearspaw feeder main successful little than 2 years.

The pipe, which carries 60 per cent of the city’s drinking water, underwent a bid of repairs and metropolis crews are moving connected a replacement statement to beryllium completed  by the extremity of this year.

Farkas pointed to significant investments into the h2o work successful the weeks that followed the feeder main break.

“As we proceed to make those investments and arsenic we present the replacement h2o main successful this almanac year, I’m assured that people is going to rebound,” he told BERITAJA.

According to the findings, less than half of Calgarians are satisfied pinch 4 metropolis services including transit, readying and development, roads, and lodging services.

Calgary Transit is utilized by two-thirds of Calgarians, the study said, but less than half of those users felt satisfied pinch the service.

“Users and non-users stock akin views connected each acquisition and value aspects arsenic good arsenic about timeliness measures, pinch 1 objection wherever users are little judge that concerns are addressed promptly,” the study noted.

Some riders who said pinch BERITAJA connected Monday noted information concerns stay a apical issue.

“People who I talk to don’t return the train, they don’t consciousness safe,” said Mitzi Godberson. “I’ve benignant of travel to beryllium okay pinch the situation.”

There person been investments complete the years to reverse the inclination including a transit information strategy, and about precocious a $9-million information aviator task to summation serviceman beingness during highest day and evening hours.

Others, for illustration Rachel Benipayo, said additions for illustration the opening of a convenience shop astatine the Bridgeland LRT position thief make the abstraction consciousness safer.

“As of now, I’m satisfied pinch the Calgary Transit service,” she said.

Calgary Transit head Sharon Fleming told BERITAJA the work takes the restitution figures seriously, but notes a continued backing spread must beryllium addressed to amended service.

“We’re not gathering the expectations for that accelerated and predominant web that they request to get around,” Fleming said. “We’re continuing to look for much finance to guarantee we could supply that service.”

Calgary metropolis assembly will beryllium getting an update later this week connected RouteAhead, transit’s 30-year scheme to amended service.

It comes aft Calgary Transit received a $76 cardinal backing boost successful the erstwhile fund to amended wave crossed the system, acquisition caller buses, and grow backing for the low-income transit walk program.

Overall, the study showed 76 per cent of Calgarians complaint their wide value of life arsenic good, up 5 per cent from the erstwhile survey.

The study suggests location is cautious optimism successful the system pinch 60 per cent of respondents standing the city’s system arsenic good.  Three‑quarters (74 per cent) of those surveyed said Calgary is simply a awesome spot to make a life, while about two-thirds (68 per cent) said it is simply a awesome spot to make a living.

Just complete half, aliases 54 per cent of respondents, said Calgary is connected way to beryllium a amended metropolis successful 10 years.

Ipsos Public Affairs conducted the study for the metropolis and interviewed 2,500 Calgarians complete the telephone from Feb. 17, 2026 to March 16, 2026, and the study has a separator of correction of ± 2.00 percent points, 19 times retired of 20.

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Trump recounts ‘absolutely pathetic’ Oval Office brushwood

President Donald Trump had antecedently described the gathering successful akin terms, claiming Maher quickly asked for a vodka tonic and appeared uneasy. By: MEGA

In a caller Truth Social post, Trump wrote, “[Maher] was nervous, scared, and the first words he uttered arsenic he entered the Oval Office were, ‘Can I person a drink?’ It was very endearing but, astatine the aforesaid time, perfectly pathetic.” The remark referred to a meal the 2 attended astatine the White House successful 2025 that musician Kid Rock arranged.

Trump had antecedently described the gathering successful akin terms, claiming Maher quickly asked for a vodka tonic and appeared uneasy. “He came into the famed Oval Office overmuch different than I thought he would be. He was highly nervous, had ZERO assurance successful himself and, to soothe his nerves, immediately, wrong seconds, asked for a ‘Vodka Tonic,'” Trump antecedently wrote connected Truth Social. “He said to me, ‘I’ve ne'er felt for illustration this before, I’m really scared.'”

Trump’s disapproval of Maher’s power successful the media

President Donald Trump targeted blimpish media outlets for giving Maher attention. By: MEGA

Trump expanded his disapproval beyond the dinner, targeting blimpish media outlets for giving Maher attention. “I dislike seeing Fox, and different Conservative Outlets, perpetually making Low Rated Bill Maher ‘relevant,’” he wrote, adding, “DON’T USE BILL MAHER ANY LONGER AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF YOU!”

He besides dismissed Maher’s influence, saying, “It was a full discarded of clip for maine to person this naughty astatine the White House,” while asserting that the tv host’s ratings are excessively debased for his commentary to transportation weight. “Fortunately, his Television Ratings are truthful debased that cipher will study about his various Fake News statements about me,” Trump wrote.

Maher defends White House meeting

Bill Maher antecedently addressed disapproval of the 2025 dinner, arguing that the attraction should beryllium connected constituent alternatively than his determination to attend. By: MEGA

Maher antecedently addressed disapproval of the 2025 dinner, arguing that the attraction should beryllium connected constituent alternatively than his determination to attend. In an question and reply pinch CNN International, he said, “They’re ever asking the incorrect question, which is: How situation you person meal pinch Donald Trump. The mobility should ever person been what did I opportunity aft I had meal pinch Donald Trump.” Despite the gathering and Trump’s claims of really it went for Maher, the TV big has continued to knock the president connected his HBO program, maintaining his position arsenic a predominant force of the president’s policies and rhetoric.

Trump-Maher feud stretches backmost much than a decade

The conflict betwixt President Donald Trump and Bill Maher dates backmost to 2013, erstwhile Maher joked about Trump’s parentage. By: MEGA

The conflict betwixt Trump and Maher dates backmost to 2013, erstwhile Maher joked about Trump’s parentage, prompting a suit that was later dropped. Maher joked astatine the clip that he would donate $5 cardinal to kindness if Trump proved he was not “the boy of an orangutan.” Since then, the 2 person traded disapproval regularly, pinch Trump labeling Maher a “lightweight” and Maher utilizing his level to situation Trump’s leadership. Trump’s latest comments besides referenced Maher’s caller question and reply pinch Gavin Newsom, claiming the big appeared “defenseless” during the exchange.

The Winnipeg Police Service said the cases stem from an ongoing investigation into emergency scams successful which suspects airs arsenic relatives seeking bail money.

Police had antecedently warned the nationalist about the scam and announced the apprehension of a Quebec man connected March 17 aft an big successful their 80s was defrauded successful February.

Investigators opportunity they person since identified 4 further victims successful Winnipeg.

Authorities opportunity connected Feb. 17, an big successful their 70s received a telephone from personification posing arsenic a grandchild requesting bail money. The unfortunate handed complete cash, which was later picked up by a antheral fishy successful the Charleswood neighbourhood.

On Feb. 19, an big successful their 80s was convinced to supply jewelry alternatively of rate aft receiving a akin call. The items were collected from the victim’s Windsor Park home.

On Feb. 25 and Feb. 26, 2 adults successful their 80s were separately defrauded aft callers posing arsenic grandsons requested bail money. Cash was picked up from residences successful Windsor Park and North Kildonan.

With assistance from the RCMP successful Portage la Prairie, constabulary opportunity they besides identified 2 further victims successful that community.

On Feb. 26, an big successful their 80s provided rate to a fishy posing arsenic a nephew. On March 5, an big successful their 70s was likewise defrauded aft receiving a telephone from personification claiming to beryllium a nephew.

A 24-year-old Quebec man, Lyven Lemieux-Theriault, was arrested April 15 astatine the Winnipeg Remand Centre connected a warrant related to the frauds.

He is charged pinch 3 counts of fraud nether $5,000 and 3 counts of fraud complete $5,000, and remained successful custody.

Police are urging the nationalist to thief forestall scams by hanging up connected suspicious calls, verifying accusation and reporting incidents.

Victims are encouraged to interaction the Financial Crime Unit.

Vince Hardy, main executive serviceman of ConX Wireless, says he took to the drafting committee to deliberation up a solution erstwhile he heard of the first onslaught successful early March.

“The first overpass deed virtually was like, ‘Wow, OK, I sewage to do this,'” he said.

Hardy’s early-detection creation uses 2 laser devices that formed an invisible beam to measurement a vehicle’s tallness arsenic it approaches an overpass. If a motortruck breaks the beam, the strategy will transmit a awesome to a ample LED motion posted connected the overpass pinch a connection informing drivers up to a kilometre away.

The strategy could besides notify constabulary and metropolis administrators of the breach and could enactment arsenic a regular roadworthy motion erstwhile not successful use, Hardy said.

“We benignant of took it a measurement further to activity the measurement it is,” he said. “They usage akin products for assembly lines, conveyor belts, and airports for luggage. It’s very common.”

Hardy estimates that installing the exertion would beryllium a straightforward process that would return only a fewer days. He says that if he were fixed the greenish ray from the metropolis today, procuring the hardware from Germany would return the about time, estimated astatine a fewer weeks.

“Locally, we do the package for it betwixt the instrumentality and the server. We do each of the assemblies here,” he said.

The City of Saskatoon said successful an emailed connection to BERITAJA that last repair costs pursuing the 4 March overpass strikes person not been finalized.

“Some costs betterment specifications are associated pinch progressive claims, and preliminary figures cannot beryllium shared until that process is complete,” said a metropolis spokesperson.

Previous costs estimates shared by the metropolis for the first 2 strikes totalled $750,000.

Hardy says his exertion would costs about a 4th of that.

“We’re still awaiting them to interaction america to astatine slightest study about this to spot if there’s a use to them aliases not,” said Hardy, adding that small-scale testing has him assured his strategy will thief debar early overpass strikes successful the city.

Todd Grabowski, engineering head for the City of Saskatoon, told BERITAJA successful a connection that group are invited to scope retired to the metropolis straight for consideration.

“Ultimately, it’s important to statement that master drivers are responsible for ensuring the tallness of their conveyance aliases a load being hauled does not transcend the posted heights connected overpasses successful Saskatchewan,” Grabowski added.

At a metropolis assembly gathering successful March, Terry Schmidt, Saskatoon’s proscription and building wide manager, shared a study from metropolis management to assembly connected the 2 first strikes. Here, he shared that the management is looking to aviator CCTV and overheight sensing devices astatine a location experiencing repetition strikes.

Repairs for 3 retired of the 4 overpasses are besides still underway, according to the city. Timelines of their completion dangle connected the information and privilege of each structure, pinch repairs for the remaining overpasses planned for later this year.

“There are liability risks that travel pinch that if they are not operating, and a motortruck hits the bridge, past it becomes a liability issue, possibly. So we are looking astatine each of those things and will hole a study connected that,” Schmidt told assembly astatine the meeting.

Saskatchewan already uses physics informing systems astatine 2 overpasses successful Regina and Moose Jaw and has been doing truthful for about a decade. The highways ministry notes that these are planned for decommissioning successful the future, arsenic caller projects to raise the heights of the overpasses to the caller ministry modular of 5.3 metres will beryllium underway.

“Unfortunately, Saskatchewan’s utmost power and acold continually origin malfunctions and the systems require dense maintenance,” the ministry said.

“The ministry will ever see caller and innovative ways to amended information but the exertion must beryllium cost-effective, reliable and activity consistently successful Saskatchewan’s climate.”

The Highway 16 overpass that goes complete Highway 11, the first to beryllium deed connected March 5, has since been afloat repaired.

Tenders for fixing the 108th Street overpass complete Circle Drive, the 2nd to beryllium struck connected March 11, are presently open, according to the city.

The metropolis spokesperson adds that the Canadian Pacific Railway overpass, which was the 3rd to beryllium deed connected March 22, is being managed by the CPKC obstruction company.

Meanwhile, repairs to the McKercher Drive overpass complete College Drive, which was besides struck connected March 22, are to beryllium completed connected a time-and-materials ground “when scheduling allows” done the span insignificant attraction program.

Kelly steps into spotlight arsenic Leavitt’s replacement amid skepticism

Anna Kelly has been tasked pinch a broader nationalist domiciled arsenic Karoline Leavitt originates her leave. By: X/@AnnaKelly47

Kelly has accrued her visibility successful caller weeks, appearing connected respective pro-Donald Trump platforms including Fox News, One America News and Real America’s Voice. A erstwhile pageant victor – she held the 2019 Miss State Fair of Virginia title – she has been tasked pinch a broader nationalist domiciled arsenic Leavitt originates her leave. Still, insiders person raised concerns about her readiness. “[Kelly] needs much polish contempt being a erstwhile pageant contestant,” a erstwhile Republican National Committee charismatic said. Another management charismatic added, “Good connected TV, but I wouldn’t opportunity she could wholly capable Karoline’s shoes.”

‘Aggressive’ media attack defines Kelly’s profile

Anna Kelly’s combative style aligns pinch broader messaging strategies wrong Donald Trump’s orbit. By: X/@AnnaKelly47

Kelly built her estimation pinch an fierce stance toward the press, often pushing backmost against captious coverage. She has echoed the administration’s “fake news” rhetoric and has reportedly pressured reporters down the scenes complete unfavorable stories. The Daily Mail described her arsenic an “acid-tongued pageant queen” and a “fiery-tempered redhead known for foul-mouthed tirades astatine reporters.” Her combative style aligns pinch broader messaging strategies wrong President Trump’s orbit.

Some members of the property corps, however, person expressed a much mixed position of Kelly. One newsman described Leavitt arsenic “absolutely dreadful” while saying Kelly “has ever been pleasant” and consenting to engage.

Lack of a clear briefing room successor

Karoline Leavitt precocious held her past property convention earlier her leave, addressing the aftermath of the White House Correspondents’ Association meal shooting earlier stepping away. By: MEGA

Leavitt precocious held her past property conference, addressing the aftermath of the White House Correspondents’ Association meal shooting earlier stepping away.

While Kelly is expected to return connected much responsibilities, nary of the property agency deputies has yet led a general briefing.

The Trump management reportedly plans a rotating approach, pinch Leavitt indicating that figures specified arsenic Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller could section questions during her absence.

The deficiency of a designated spokesperson marks a departure from erstwhile administrations, which typically maintained a clear second-in-command for media duties.

Limited excavation of media-ready officials wrong the White House

Former Joe Biden adjutant Andrew Bates remarked, ‘Donald Trump seems very willing successful the occupation of White House Press Secretary himself.’ By: MEGA

Kelly’s emergence besides reflects a constricted excavation of media-ready officials wrong the White House communications team. Other figures, including Abigail Jackson and Kush Desai, person had smaller tv roles, while Communications Director Steven Cheung is seen much arsenic a behind-the-scenes operator. The business has fueled speculation that President Trump himself could return connected a much salient media role. Former Joe Biden adjutant Andrew Bates remarked, “Donald Trump seems very willing successful the occupation of White House Press Secretary himself.”

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court connected Monday, successful granting an different petition made by Louisiana Republicans, allowed past week's major voting authorities ruling to spell into effect immediately.

The decision, prompting an angry written speech betwixt wide Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and blimpish Justice Samuel Alito, intends the authorities doesn't person to hold the accustomed 32 days earlier a Supreme Court ruling is certified and sent backmost to a little court.

This comes arsenic the authorities has sought to suspend its ongoing superior election truthful it could redraw legislature districts successful bid to return advantage of the ruling, which efficaciously green-lit states removing majority-Black districts that were drawn to comply pinch the Voting Rights Act. The authorities intends to tie a caller representation that could beryllium utilized for this year's midterm election. The existent representation includes 2 majority-Black legislature districts held by Democrats. The different 4 seats are held by Republicans.

In last week's ruling, the blimpish mostly gutted a cardinal proviso of the landmark 1965 voting law, saying that states, including those pinch a history of favoritism against Black voters, could usage their liking successful entrenching partisan advantage arsenic a defense erstwhile they are accused of diluting number votes.

In her dissent, Jackson decried the court's determination to bypass its normal practices about issuing a last judgment, saying it is "tantamount to an support of Louisiana's unreserved to region the ongoing predetermination successful bid to walk a caller map."

She noted that the tribunal usually takes a dim position of last-minute changes to predetermination procedures. Instead, connected this juncture the tribunal "dives into the fray" successful a measurement that is "unwarranted and unwise," she added. The court's 2 different wide justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, dissented successful past week's lawsuit but did not subordinate Jackson's opinion.

Alito, who authored past week's ruling, responded pinch his ain sharply worded sentiment successful which he described Jackson's reasoning arsenic "baseless and insulting."

Responding to Jackson's complaint that the tribunal is abusing its power, Alito called the declare "a groundless and utterly irresponsible charge."

In 2022, robots Hugo, Raja and Angie briefly delivered for Pizza Hut successful Vancouver’s West End.

Now, caller and improved versions could beryllium backmost aft tests successful California.

“If you spell down to L.A. arsenic the first marketplace that, you know, we’ve now spent rather a fewer years, I deliberation what you would beryllium amazed pinch the about is really normal this is,” Ali Kashani, the laminitis of Serve Robotics, said.

“It’s conscionable portion of the cloth of life there, the robots are doing their thing, you know, about group are wholly indifferent.”

Kashani is from Vancouver, and his early liking successful engineering and robot improvement began there.

Last year, the institution expanded to 20 U.S. cities, partnering pinch 3,500 restaurants.

Kashani assures everyone that robots will not switch quality workers.

“Our robots can’t do each their deliveries,” he said.

“They do deliveries that are short region successful very dense municipality environments pinch a batch of parking issues and postulation issues. These are not very desirable deliveries for gig workers.

The institution needs support from Vancouver’s metropolis assembly for a six-month aviator project.

Councillor Mike Klassen said he will present the mobility this week, saying it could thrust economical development.

“Vancouver wants to beryllium seen arsenic a metropolis that embraces invention and caller exertion and I deliberation that this could beryllium a measurement for america to beryllium leaders successful the country,” he said.

Kashani said that 99.8 per cent of robot deliveries are successful.

“We’ve been waiting for robots to show up successful our lives for truthful long, successful … sci-fi movies aliases whatever. I deliberation it’s a missed opportunity for america not to person a small spot of nosy arsenic we are doing this and make this thing that group really want to spot about them,” he said.

If approved connected Wednesday, the robots could commencement deliveries downtown and successful Kitsilano successful the fall.

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The fires happened astatine homes, vacant buildings, grassland, and an flat analyzable connected Young Street. Residents location were evacuated but were soon allowed to return wrong aft the firefighting efforts.

“The siren went disconnected truthful we went down,” explains Tara Biswanger, who precocious moved into the building. “It was connected the 2nd level pavilion and the pavilion was connected fire. The firefighters moved really accelerated truthful it didn’t look to return that agelong for them to get it out.”

No injuries were reported successful immoderate of the 7 fires, and the metropolis says the origin of the fires are still being investigated.

“Sadly a batch of our weekends are this engaged aliases adjacent to it,” says Deputy Fire Chief Scott Wilkinson.

Calls for work person accrued for the firefighters arsenic the city’s organization has grown, and the intelligence wellness and addictions situation has go much severe. In 2025 alone, Winnipeg firefighters responded to complete 500 fires astatine encampments.

“This does put an ongoing strain connected our resources, and surely puts a strain connected our crews trying to respond to that measurement of fires everyday,” explains Wilkinson.

“We’re moving connected immoderate strategical plans now regarding really galore much resources we request to prolong our consequence and change the measurement we respond to calls to support up the consequence times we need. Certainly pinch the maturation of our city, we are going to look astatine further stations and resources to support up pinch that growth.”

The Young Street play telephone is not the only high-rise occurrence successful caller weeks. A blaze astatine a Kennedy Street flat analyzable successful mid-April displaced residents, and 1 personification was recovered dormant inside.

“Those are high-density, high-risk lodging units,” says United Firefighters of Winnipeg President Nick Kasper.

Firefighters tasked pinch battling blazes successful these taller buildings often look further challenges compared to the mean two-story home.

“When we respond to a regular building fire, we get successful beforehand of the location and we’re location fresh to go,” explains Kasper.

“There’s thing known arsenic vertical delay. When our crews get astatine a precocious emergence they person to get their instrumentality from the crushed level up to the occurrence suite and interest about evacuating residents.”

Kasper goes connected to opportunity the blaze astatine Kennedy Street resulted successful the relocation of about 70 residents.

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They person launched a run called Stop the Squeeze.

In the latest budget, the B.C. authorities said services for illustration information and accounting will beryllium taxable to the 7 per cent PST, starting connected Oct. 1.

PST exemptions will besides beryllium removed from immoderate equipment and services specified arsenic clothing repair materials, services related to clothing and footwear, basal cablegram tv and landline telephone services.

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade says the alteration will summation costs not conscionable for those services but for each businesses, astatine a clip erstwhile the B.C. system is already connected shaky ground.

“This is simply a clip wherever British Columbia needs to beryllium arsenic competitory arsenic possible,” Bridgette Anderson pinch the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade said.

“We’re embarking connected awesome projects crossed British Columbia. We’re trying to beryllium much competitive, to beryllium resilient, to create much jobs. Yet, the government’s putting successful this taxation that is hindering businesses and their expertise to grow.”

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business has estimated the expanded PST will costs affected businesses $7,000 per worker per year.

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California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials captured a carnivore Monday astatine Hansen Dam a time aft it caused a operation among residents and triggered a constabulary response.

A melodramatic segment unfolded Sunday astatine Hansen Dam Recreation Area, successful the San Fernando Valley adjacent Pacoima, arsenic an ursine interloper came excessively adjacent for comfortableness to play crowds astatine the park.

In video obtained by KTLA, a ample carnivore could beryllium seen stepping adjacent to crowds of respective twelve onlookers.

A female hugs a kid astatine the tract wherever a roaming carnivore was captured Monday successful the Hansen Dam neighborhood.

(Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times)

Police and Fish and Wildlife officials were astatine the segment Sunday, according to KTLA. They were location again Monday erstwhile the carnivore started to move.

Video of the pursuit broadcast connected KTLA showed the carnivore moving about the vicinity arsenic residents kept their region and parkland rangers angled for a shot. The carnivore was yet deed pinch a dart and fell dormant connected apical of a cinder artifact wall dividing 2 properties, its assemblage straddling either side.

“We captured the carnivore today, took his vitals, collared him, gave him an receptor tag,” said Steve Gonzalez, a CDFW spokesperson, connected Monday.

The carnivore is 45 years aged and weighs 275 pounds: a patient weight, Gonzalez said. After being tagged and collared, the animal was released into Angeles National Forest.

“We telephone it a nary harm, nary foul bear,” Gonzalez said, arsenic location were nary reports of location break-ins aliases incidents pinch people. “It’s a first-time offender.”

In Lethbridge, immoderate residents person already knowledgeable evacuations arsenic portion of emergencies successful 2026.

“The very first occurrence we had this year, it was scary really adjacent it sewage to those condos connected Scenic (Drive),” said Troy Hicks, main occurrence marshal for Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services.

Across Alberta, floods and fires person immoderate communities connected edge.

“We are seeing immoderate overland flooding from crystal jams, arsenic good arsenic this play location were besides 2 awesome wildfires,” said Breea Tamminga, emergency guidance coordinator for Lethbridge County.

Even successful barren areas for illustration Lethbridge, wherever it’s been complete a decade since the past awesome flood, a spark could beryllium catastrophic.

“If we do person a monolithic arena (in the stream valley), you look astatine the arteries it could trim off. It could trim disconnected the expertise to spell down Whoop-Up (Drive) to spell to the westbound side. It could, depending connected wherever it’s located, it could extremity up closing Highway 3,” said Hicks.

These changeless concerns are prompting experts to punctual everyone to person a basal emergency kit.

“The much resilient we could beryllium and the much prepared we could be, the amended disconnected and the person to betterment we go pinch each those steps,” said Jamie Anderson, emergency readying administrator pinch the City of Lethbridge.

Emergency kits don’t person to break the bank, either.

“We really person a slew of caller resources this twelvemonth that look astatine preparedness from different financial value points, truthful what could you do from $0-$100.”

For Emergency Preparedness Week 2026, the taxable is ‘In It Together’ for Canada, aliases ‘Be Prepared, Know Your Risks’ for Alberta.

Municipalities for illustration Lethbridge County opportunity some ideas are critical.

“Knowing your neighbours is simply a large piece. That way, if location is thing that happens successful your community, you could scope retired to your neighbours — they could cheque successful connected your house, you could cheque successful connected them,” said Tamminga.

The region is besides showcasing the value of school children to understand the basics of disaster mentation to thief build a instauration of knowledge wrong a family unit.

“Getting the accusation (from kids) to recreation up to the adults successful the family is really going to thief support that relationship to emergency preparedness.

The City of Lethbridge and Lethbridge County each person much accusation connected their websites about what an emergency kit should look like.

Yellamaraju is 1 of 9 Canadians to get an exemption to play successful this year’s 115th RBC Canadian Open.

In his first twelvemonth connected the PGA Tour, the 24-year-old has made the trim successful 11 of the 12 PGA events he’s competed in. He has 5 top-25 finishes and 2 top-10 showings successful earning conscionable nether $2 cardinal truthful acold this season.

His world ranking has changeable up to 113th.

Other Canadians successful the section will see the Winnipeg-born Nick Taylor, Mike Weir, Corey Conners, Taylor Pendrith, Mackenzie Hughes, Adam Hadwin, Adam Svensson, and A.J. Ewart.

PGA Tour professionals Matt Fitzpatrick, Collin Morikawa, Tommy Fleetwood, Brooks Koepka, Tony Finau, and defending champ Ryan Fox person each committed to play.

Stony Mountain’s Aaron Cockerill was not among the Canadians added to the section aft a reliable commencement to his play connected the DP World Tour overseas.

This year’s tourney runs from June 11-14 astatine TPC Toronto astatine Osprey Valley.

Hough was the 2nd person to be randomly fired upon astatine that spot, eastbound of Calgary, connected Aug. 6, 2024, Crown charismatic Photini Papadatou told jurors connected the opening time of the trial of Arthur Penner and Blake Strawberry.

The connection is not grounds but an outline of what the Crown hopes to prove successful the Court of King’s Bench trial, which is scheduled to last a month.

Minutes earlier that fateful day, Papadatou told court, Matthew Andres was doing surveying activity — his energy company truck parked roadside — erstwhile he heard different conveyance thrust up pinch what sounded for illustration a level tire.

“An individual emerged from that vehicle,” Papadatou said. He shot Andres successful the limb and demanded his truck keys, past walked backmost and distant pointing the weapon astatine his head.

“(Andres) will show you he feared for his life and that he fled to escape.

“He ran arsenic acold and arsenic accelerated arsenic he could arsenic soon arsenic he could, but he did not get very far. He threw himself into a field. He will frankly show you he was trying to hide.”

As he hid, the 2 strangers group fire to their own truck, which had been stolen in Calgary the time before. But they couldn’t time off successful Andres’ conveyance arsenic it became stuck.

Another conveyance was needed.

In the distance, Andres could spot the 45-year-old Hough, successful his Rocky View County truck, approaching. He had nary way to warn him.

Hough, said Papadatou, was shot three times. Video footage from a adjacent semi-trailer driver captured his last minutes.

“His camera recorded a fig moving crossed the intersection and collapsing astatine that intersection successful the mediate of the road,” she said.

The Crown says a .45-calibre slug was recovered wherever Hough had collapsed and a 9-mm ammunition casing recovered adjacent wherever Andres was hit.

Houghs’ conveyance was later recovered abandoned. Penner, 37, was arrested 5 days later and Strawberry, 29, was found after a period hiding successful a residence connected the O’Chiese First Nation.

Andres is expected to testify Tuesday.

Penner and Strawberry are charged pinch second-degree execution and attempted murder. Earlier Monday they entered pleas of not guilty.

The assemblage was sworn successful and addressed by the judge.

“You are the judges of the facts,” Justice Shane Parker urged them. “Use your communal consciousness and experience.

“Don’t jump to conclusions. As the saying goes, don’t judge a book by its cover.”

This study by BERITAJA was first published May 4, 2026.

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Lakers halfway Deandre Ayton bounced crossed the tribunal aft believe Monday wearing each black, his chains swaying, his temper jovial arsenic he approached the media to talk about his domiciled successful the Western Conference semifinals.

His spirits were precocious for what lies up for the Lakers arsenic they prepared to look the champion squad successful the NBA, the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder.

Lakers coach JJ Redick said the play of his halfway “changes our ceiling the most.”

Simply put, Ayton’s high-level of play will beryllium paramount for the Lakers erstwhile they statesman the best-of-seven bid Tuesday nighttime successful Oklahoma City.

“Everything has been beautiful solid, conscionable staying successful my domiciled and conscionable doing much successful my role,” Ayton said. “This is the playoffs, truthful everybody could do more, everybody has different level. And this is the 2nd information coming in, truthful I deliberation we each merit that small spot of summation of assurance from what we’ve done truthful acold and the result from the adversity we’ve faced.

“I consciousness for illustration that’s wherever we are correct now and I deliberation that’s what’s motivating me, arsenic well, coming into these games. Just seeing, listening and being dialed successful and seeing the results of it.”

There were times Ayton was a unit against the Houston Rockets successful the first round. He had double figures successful rebounds successful 4 of the six games and had 3 double-doubles successful the series. He averaged 11.8 points and his 10.8 rebounds are third-best successful the postseason.

“DA’s had a awesome season,” Redick said. “He was instrumental successful america getting past Houston. I deliberation his baseline of who he is each time for the past two, two-and-a-half months has been awesome. And I cognize his teammates, surely the staff, we’ve each embraced him each play long. Again, he’s the personification that changes our ceiling the most.”

Both Ayton and Marcus Smart came to the Lakers past summer, giving them a much-needed halfway and a defensive-minded guard. Smart said he didn’t cognize Ayton earlier they became teammates, but the 2 of them person bonded.

Lakers teammates Marcus Smart, left, and Deandre Ayton observe during Game 6 against the Houston Rockets connected May 1.

(Kenneth Richmond / Getty Images)

They beryllium adjacent to each different successful the locker room and Smart is the first to ever promote Ayton, to push him, to expect much retired of him.

“Not his large brother, but I’m conscionable personification who he respects,” Smart said. “He sees [me] spell retired location and not only preaching, I’m really doing what I’m preaching. I’m not conscionable preaching, I’m retired location pinch him, successful the midst of it, battling pinch him, going done adversity pinch him, right? I deliberation that drives a batch of respect for 1 different successful that aspect, erstwhile you’re going to conflict pinch somebody. You’re struggling while they’re struggling correct location pinch you, trying to thief you get done yours.”

The 7-foot Ayton will beryllium going up against 7-1 Chet Holmgren and 7-foot Isaiah Hartenstein. Holmgren averaged 17.3 points, 8.5 rebounds and 2.0 blocks successful the first information and Hartenstein averaged 11.0 points, 8.3 rebounds and 1.0 blocks.

Ayton will person to clasp his ain against them and still beryllium the unit the Lakers person leaned connected successful the postseason.

“Playing bigger. ... Just being relentless connected the glass, you know, protecting the rim arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable and not letting them successful my paint,” Ayton said. “It’s gonna beryllium large pinch maine protecting that overgarment successful this series. They really make and touch the paint. ... Them having 50-plus points successful the paint, you cognize they’re a really unstoppable team. So, I’m really conscionable looking guardant to protecting the overgarment arsenic champion arsenic I could and staying connected the level arsenic agelong arsenic possible. That’s about it.”

Being connected the roadworthy and successful a dispute situation is thing that Ayton besides is looking guardant to. He knows the crowd successful Oklahoma City is for illustration a assemblage ambiance and that he and the Lakers can’t get rattled.

“Yeah, you can’t perceive yourself,” Ayton said. “It’s decidedly the ‘Thunder’ for a reason, you know? Their fans are thunderous. You know, you could perceive the level shaking, the bleachers, you can’t moreover perceive a play call. And you gotta beryllium ace dialed in.

“They’re the defending champs and you cognize their fans person been successful atmospheres and hype games and you cognize they’re fresh for their squad to do their thing. So, we conscionable gotta travel successful ace prepared and conscionable dial retired each the sound and conscionable travel successful and play together.”

DJ Marco Rubio

A video shared by Dan Scavino shows Marco Rubio mixing euphony and energizing the crowd. By: MEGA

Rubio, who has earned the nickname “Secretary of Everything” for holding aggregate high-profile roles successful the Trump administration, was captured connected video mixing euphony for wedding guests. The clip, shared connected societal media by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, showed Rubio wearing headphones and working alongside a master DJ.

“Our Great Secretary of State @MarcoRubio DJ’s weddings too! Here he is successful action coming astatine a family wedding… Let’s goooooo!!!” Scavino captioned the video connected X.

In the footage, Rubio appears to cue up Shiver by John Summit and HAYLA, engaging pinch the DJ and hyping up the crowd. Guests responded enthusiastically, linking arms and chanting on to the hit arsenic Rubio nodded his caput and waved his limb during the chorus.

MOMENTS AGO, BEHIND THE SCENES—Our Great Secretary of State @MarcoRubio DJ’s weddings too! Here he is successful action coming astatine a family wedding…

Let’s goooooo!!! pic.twitter.com/P8o79iwmZG

— Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) May 3, 2026

Diplomatic agenda

The lighthearted infinitesimal comes amid a engaged negotiated agenda. Rubio is expected to recreation to Rome this week for meetings pinch Pope Leo XIV, arsenic the Trump management seeks to easiness tensions pinch the Vatican. The narration has been strained by nationalist disagreements complete U.S. policy, including connected migration and the conflict pinch Iran.

President Donald Trump antecedently said, “I’m not a instrumentality of Pope Leo.” The pontiff, meanwhile, responded that he has “no fear” of the Trump administration.

Rubio’s trip

Marco Rubio is besides expected to meet pinch Pietro Parolin and Antonio Tajani. By: MEGA

During his trip, Rubio is besides expected to meet pinch Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani. A requested gathering pinch Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has not yet been confirmed.

The sojourn will people Rubio’s 3rd travel to Italy successful the past year, underscoring ongoing negotiated efforts successful the region.

Meanwhile, the Vatican has signaled its stance connected migration issues. On Friday, May 1, Pope Leo appointed Evelio Menjivar-Ayala — a erstwhile undocumented migrant — arsenic bishop of West Virginia. Menjivar-Ayala, primitively from El Salvador, entered the United States successful 1990 and was ordained arsenic a leader successful 2004.

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On Monday, the federal authorities rolled retired a series of caller alleviation measures worthy $1.5 cardinal for Canada’s tariff-hit steel, aluminum and copper tariffs, ministers Melanie Joly and Evan Solomon said.

The U.S. presently imposes a 50 per cent tariff connected Canadian alloy and aluminum, on pinch a 50 per cent tariff connected definite copper products from Canada.

Eby told reporters connected Monday that he tried to find the accusation connected softwood lumber, but discovered it was erstwhile again near disconnected the database arsenic a tariff-affected industry.

“I don’t cognize what it’s going to return really to get the bureaucrats and the ministers successful Ottawa to admit that softwood lumber employs much group successful Canada than alloy and car parts combined,” Eby added.

“It is simply a monolithic industry. In British Columbia, it is being decimated by wholly unfair tariffs retired of the United States, which includes tariffs connected value-added products.”

Eby said successful November that he was assured that the national authorities understands the value of the logging manufacture to communities some ample and mini crossed the province.

He said connected Monday that he is going to proceed to push to raise the national government’s consciousness about softwood lumber and its important domiciled successful Canada’s economy.

“My sincere dream is that softwood is truthful important that they’re preparing a afloat separate, comprehensively funded announcement, but my sneaking suspicion is that yet again a halfway manufacture for Canadians has been near disconnected the database and I struggle to understand why,” Eby added.

Joly said that because the tariffs are different and they impact industries differently, the alleviation packages besides person to beryllium different.

But Eby said he still struggles to understand why softwood gets treated truthful otherwise from those different industries.

“It has been the lawsuit that the softwood tariffs person been about for a agelong clip and the manufacture has struggled pinch the Americans connected this for galore decades now, and location whitethorn beryllium a consciousness of complacency about that arsenic a consequence successful Ottawa,” Eby said.

“We person worse entree correct now to the U.S. marketplace than Europe, than Russia. And arsenic a result, those 2 markets are sending much wood into the United States than Canada is correct now. It makes perfectly nary sense.”

Eby said he wants to spot the national authorities priortize discussions of softwood lumber successful the waste and acquisition negotiations and to admit really overmuch of an effect the tariffs are having.

A 12-year-old boy riding an e-bike was earnestly injured aft crashing pinch a Tesla successful San Diego connected Saturday, officials said.

The boy was riding the e-bike westbound successful the motorcycle lane connected Del Mar Heights Road astatine about 5:40 p.m., San Diego constabulary said successful a statement.

A 64-year-old man driving a 2023 Tesla Model Y was walking successful the aforesaid direction. The 12-year-old attempted to move near from the motorcycle lane onto Old Carmel Valley Road erstwhile he collided pinch the beforehand rider broadside of the Tesla, constabulary said successful the statement.

The boy suffered aggregate caput injuries, according to police, arsenic good arsenic a surgery clavicle.

He was taken to a adjacent infirmary wherever he underwent surgery. Police described his injuries arsenic life-threatening.

The section said intoxicant was not a facet successful the crash.

The San Diego Police Department’s Traffic Division is investigating the crash.

Carney, connected Monday, was travelling backmost to Ottawa from the Armenian superior of Yerevan wherever he had participated successful the 8th European Political Community summit.

Neither he nor his elder aides were disposable to remark while they were successful transit but his nationalist itinerary for Tuesday indicates that, connected Tuesday morning, he will beryllium successful Ottawa to “announce a caller appointment.”

The existent politician general, Mary Simon, an Inuk female calved successful bluish Québec, was the first Indigenous Canadian to clasp the office.

While Simon said Inuktitut and English, her assignment was arguable because she did not speak some of Canada’s charismatic languages, English and French.

Simon, for illustration each Canadian-born politician wide successful Canada’s history, was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II.

Her successor, the 31st Governor General of Canada, will beryllium the first who will beryllium appointed by King Charles III and first appointed connected Carney’s recommendation.

Simon, who is 78, has indicated done her husband, that she is fresh to retire.

Governors wide do not service for a defined word though about service for about 5 years. Simon’s predecessor, Julie Payette, served little than three-and-a-half years while Payette’s predecessor, David Johnston, served for 7 years and a day.

In Canada’s strategy of government, the politician wide performs mostly a ceremonial role, acting arsenic the commander-in-chief of Canada’s equipped forces and the typical successful Canada of Canada’s caput of state, presently King Charles III.

The groups Egale and Skipping Stone had asked a judge to fto them make the statement that Premier Danielle Smith’s authorities acted extracurricular its authority pinch the law.

Last year, her authorities utilized the notwithstanding clause to shield the restrictions from ineligible challenge.

The LGBTQ+ advocates based on that because doctors who didn’t comply pinch the caller rules look fines aliases imprisonment, it’s a criminal rumor and truthful falls to the national authorities – not a provincial 1 – to oversee.

Smith’s government, however, has said the norm changes are to protect the wellness and information of younker and autumn wrong its purview.

On Friday, a Court of King’s Bench justness agreed. Justice Allison Kuntz dismissed Egale and Skipping Stone’s application, saying because the authorities is related to wellness and safety, it falls wrong the province’s law control.

“Having wished that the prohibition falls wrong Alberta’s jurisdiction, it is unnecessary for maine to see immoderate of the different issues raised by the parties connected this application,” Kuntz wrote.

Egale and Skipping Stone said they scheme to appeal.

“Every time that (the legislation) remains successful force, transgender and gender-diverse young group successful Alberta are denied entree to medically necessary, evidence-based care,” the groups said successful a connection Monday.

In a statement, Justice Minister Mickey Amery’s property caput reiterated that the government’s authorities is about preserving the choices of children and youth, strengthening the domiciled of parents, and ensuring fairness and information successful amateur competitory sports.

“Alberta’s United Conservative authorities will beryllium unapologetic successful our committedness to these principles,” Heather Jenkins said.

The ineligible conflict dates backmost to 2024, erstwhile Smith’s authorities passed a bid of laws affecting transgender individuals, including a prohibition connected doctors from providing treatments specified arsenic puberty blockers and hormone therapy to those nether 16.

The groups challenged that rule connected behalf of 5 families pinch transgender and gender-diverse youth.

They opportunity the prohibition unfairly targets gender-diverse youth, forcing them to acquisition puberty that is inconsistent pinch their gender identity.
In June 2025, they won successful tribunal erstwhile Kuntz granted a impermanent injunction against the wellness restriction, saying it raised superior Charter issues that needed to beryllium explored.

The judge said astatine the clip the rule would apt origin irreparable harm to gender-diverse youth.

In December, Smith’s authorities invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause connected the transgender rules.

The clause allows a state to override definite Charter authorities for up to 5 years.

Soon after, Kuntz group speech her original injunction.

The usage of the clause prompted the defense groups to usage the criminal rule challenge, which was rejected by Kuntz connected Friday.

The determination leaves Egale and Skipping Stone pinch their original Charter situation against the health-care law.

But, that lawsuit is now connected clasp while the Supreme Court of Canada weighs successful connected a akin lawsuit successful Saskatchewan.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe’s authorities has utilized the notwithstanding clause to shield a rule requiring teachers to first seek

permission from a student’s parent, if the student is younger than 16, earlier the student an alteration their names aliases pronouns successful school.

The Saskatchewan authorities based on that its usage of the notwithstanding clause besides meant courts couldn’t measure whether the rule violates Charter rights, but the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal rejected that.

The Supreme Court will analyse if courts could state whether the rule violates Charter authorities moreover if the rule cannot beryllium struck down because of the notwithstanding clause.

Alberta besides has a akin pronoun norm successful the books, arsenic portion of a trio of laws affecting transgender people.

The 2nd is the wellness law, and the 3rd bans transgender athletes 12 and older from participating successful amateur competitory female sports.

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A terrible information vulnerability affecting almost each type of the Linux operating strategy has caught defenders off-guard and scrambling to spot aft information researchers publically released utilization codification that allows attackers to return complete power of susceptible systems.

The U.S. authorities says the bug, dubbed “CopyFail,” is now being exploited successful the wild, meaning it’s being actively utilized successful malicious hacking campaigns.

The bug, officially tracked arsenic CVE-2026-31431 and discovered successful Linux kernel versions 7.0 and earlier, was disclosed to the Linux kernel information squad successful precocious March, and patched aft about a week. But the patches person yet to afloat trickle down to the galore Linux distributions that trust connected the susceptible kernel, leaving immoderate strategy moving an affected Linux type astatine consequence of compromise.

Linux is wide utilized successful endeavor settings, moving the computers that run overmuch of the world’s datacenters. 

The CopyFail website says that the aforesaid short Python book “roots each Linux distribution shipped since 2017.”  According to information patient Theori, which discovered CopyFail, the vulnerability was verified successful respective wide utilized versions of Linux including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1, Ubuntu 24.04 (LTS), Amazon Linux 2023, arsenic good arsenic SUSE 16. 

Devops technologist and developer Jorijn Schrijvershof wrote in a blog post that the utilization useful connected Debian and Fedora versions, arsenic good arsenic Kubernetes, which relies connected the Linux kernel. Schrijvershof described the bug arsenic having an “unusually large blast radius” arsenic it useful connected “nearly each modern distribution” of Linux.

The bug is called CopyFail because the affected constituent successful the Linux kernel, the halfway of the operating strategy that has virtually complete entree to the full device, does not transcript definite information erstwhile it should. This corrupts delicate information wrong the kernel, allowing the attacker to piggyback the kernel’s entree to the remainder of the system, including its data.

If exploited, the bug is peculiarly problematic because it allows a regular, limited-access personification to summation full-administrator entree connected an affected Linux system. A successful discuss of a server successful a datacenter could let an attacker to summation entree to each application, server, and database of galore firm customers, and perchance summation entree to different systems connected the aforesaid web aliases datacenter.

The CopyFail bug cannot beryllium exploited complete the net connected its own, but could beryllium weaponized if utilized successful conjunction pinch an utilization that useful complete the internet. Per Microsoft, if the CopyFail bug is chained together pinch different vulnerability that could beryllium delivered complete the internet, an attacker could usage the flaw to summation guidelines entree to an affected server. A personification operating a Linux machine pinch a susceptible kernel could besides beryllium tricked into opening a malicious nexus aliases attachment that triggers the vulnerability.

The bug could besides beryllium injected by measurement of proviso concatenation attacks, successful which malicious actors hack into an unfastened root developer’s relationship and works the malware successful their codification successful bid to discuss a ample number of devices successful 1 go.

Given the consequence to the national endeavor network, U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA has ordered each civilian national agencies to spot immoderate affected systems by May 15.

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Fashion's biggest nighttime is delivering connected its committedness to showcase "costume art."

Celebrities person started descending upon the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art successful New York City, wearing attire that fresh the evening dress code: "depictions of the dressed assemblage passim creation history."

Grammy legend Beyoncé, Oscar-winning character Nicole Kidman and tennis prima Venus Williams are co-hosting the evening alongside mag executive Anna Wintour, who has agelong helmed the event.

This year, Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, besides service arsenic honorary co-chairs.

Here's a look astatine immoderate of the about daring looks.

The U.S. Secret Service said agents connected Monday changeable a man adjacent the White House who allegedly opened occurrence aft he was confronted by authorities.

Secret Service Deputy Director Matthew Quinn told reporters that the suspect, described arsenic a “suspicious individual that appeared to person a firearm,” was spotted by plainclothes officers who past alerted uniformed officers to apprehend the man.

The fishy allegedly fled connected ft and brandished a firearm, which Quinn said he fired successful the guidance of Secret Service agents who returned fire. The fishy was taken to a hospital. His information is unknown.

Quinn added that a bystander, who he said is simply a minor, was deed by gunfire from the fishy and transported to a infirmary pinch non-life-threatening injuries.

The shooting took spot astatine 15th Street and Independence Avenue NW, Secret Service said in a station connected X.

It wasn’t clear whether the incident had immoderate relationship to President Donald Trump aliases the White House successful general. The shooting comes a week aft Cole Allen, a 31-year-old coach and technologist from California, was charged pinch attempting to assassinate the president.

Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade passed adjacent Monday's incident moments earlier the shooting, Quinn said. He said the fishy did not onslaught the motorcade and that location was nary denotation that approaching it was his intent.

In making the announcement, constabulary said location are investigations ongoing into much than 60 locker thefts astatine various locations since November 2025.

In March 2026, constabulary received reports of aggregate thefts. In each lawsuit the victims reported that wallets, slope cards and recognition documents were stolen.

Investigators later identified a fishy successful 2 of the thefts that occurred astatine the Southland Leisure Centre connected Jan. 30 and Feb. 15, 2026.

On Wednesday, April 15, Calgary constabulary and the RCMP executed a hunt warrant connected a residence successful High River wherever they located a number of stolen documents.

As a result, a female has been charged pinch 4 counts of possession of a stolen in installments paper and 4 counts of theft nether $5,000.

During the people of their investigation, constabulary said they besides identified further victims who had not antecedently reported the thefts to  police.

The investigation into dozens of thefts is ongoing.

“Reporting these incidents is crucial,” said Calgary constabulary acting Insp. Paul Ralstin.  “It allows america to analyse each occurrence, place trends and, successful immoderate cases, nexus suspects to aggregate incidents.”

Such thefts, said Ralstin, could person “real impacts connected victims and their feelings of safety.”

Police are besides issuing a reminder to gym users to guarantee their locker is afloat locked and secured, debar taking valuables to the gym if imaginable and study immoderate suspicious behaviour and thefts to gym unit and police.

Anyone pinch accusation about immoderate of the thefts is asked to telephone Calgary constabulary astatine 403-266-1234.

Tips could besides beryllium submitted anonymously done Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-8477, online astatine www.calgarycrimestoppers.org or by downloading the Crime Stopper app (P3 Tips) from your app store.

General position of Arrowhead Stadium, successful Kansas City, Missouri, which will beryllium hosting immoderate of the World Cup matches this summer. Jamie Squire/Getty Images North America

Jamie Squire/Getty Images North America

With only six weeks to spell earlier the commencement of the World Cup, hotels astatine about of the cities hosting the tourney are facing a awesome problem: Bookings are moving acold beneath what they had expected.

For immoderate metro areas specified arsenic Kansas City, bookings are moving moreover beneath what a emblematic June aliases July would bring, according to an manufacture survey released connected Monday by the American Hotel and Lodging Association. The study was conducted past period and a spokesperson said it's based connected 205 respondents "representing edifice operators and owners, galore of whom ain aggregate edifice portfolios crossed the state and crossed aggregate World Cup markets."

AHLA said the disappointing bookings stem from less than expected world travelers and ample cancellations by FIFA — the organizer of the World Cup — leaving hotels pinch an unexpectedly ample number of quiet rooms.

"Despite much than 5 cardinal tickets sold (for World Cup matches), this request has not yet translated into beardown edifice bookings," the AHLA said successful the report.

The disappointment comes aft the edifice manufacture was bracing for a beardown summertime successful 2026. The World Cup is taking spot crossed the U.S., Canada and Mexico — pinch 11 U.S. cities hosting games. In addition, the U.S. is celebrating the 250th day of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which was besides expected to bring an influx of overseas visitors.

Overseas visitors are captious to the edifice industry, the AHLA says, because they thin to walk much — and enactment longer.

But the AHLA warned about 80% of edifice bookings crossed big cities are moving beneath first forecasts, according to its survey. In Kansas City, 85% to 90% of hotels reported bookings beneath projections.

World Cup organizers successful Kansas City pushed backmost to the survey, telling The Athletic that embassy unit successful countries specified arsenic the Netherlands are deploying further unit to the metropolis successful anticipation of a precocious number of visitors. KC2026, the big committee, did not instantly reply to a petition for remark from BERITAJA.

There were agleam spots, however, for big cities Miami and Atlanta. About half of study respondents successful the superior of Georgia reported bookings successful statement aliases up of projections, while about 55% of respondents successful Florida's biggest metro metropolis reporting stronger-than-expected projections.

Japan supporters observe aft their squad hit Spain astatine a 2022 World Cup crippled held astatine the Khalifa International Stadium successful Doha, Qatar, connected Dec. 1, 2022. Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images

Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images

Not coming to America

The study results look to beryllium another sign that overseas travelers are not readying to travel to the U.S. successful the numbers erstwhile expected arsenic a consequence of a slew of factors including tighter migration policies by the U.S. administration.

"Even pinch world anticipation building, the way to the U.S. for galore World Cup travelers feels progressively little for illustration a red-carpet welcome," the AHLA said successful its survey. "There is simply a cognition that world travelers whitethorn look lengthy visa hold times, accrued visa fees, and lingering uncertainty about introduction processing."

The AHLA besides cited different factors specified arsenic the beardown U.S. dollar and concerns about airdrome screening arsenic "contributing to a increasing consciousness that visiting the U.S. for the World Cup whitethorn beryllium much analyzable and costly."

FIFA has continued to tout the "unprecedented" demand for the tournament, and has said it expects the World Cup to break attendance records.

Meanwhile, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle told BERITAJA past week for a communicative connected World Cup request that the tourney "will nary uncertainty beryllium 1 of the top and about spectacular events successful the history of mankind," and that "President Trump is focused connected ensuring that this is not only an unthinkable acquisition for each fans and visitors, but besides the safest and about unafraid successful history."

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In the long-running saga that is Cerebras Systems’s IPO, the decorativeness statement is yet successful sight. The AI chipmaker said connected Monday that it is preparing to waste 28 cardinal shares astatine $115 to $125 a share. This would raise $3.5 cardinal and springiness it a $26.6 cardinal marketplace headdress astatine the precocious end.

That would beryllium a bully bump successful conscionable a mates of months for the precocious investors who piled into its $1 cardinal Series H astatine a $23 cardinal valuation successful February. It would besides beryllium a boon to OpenAI and a fewer of its executives.

Should Cerebras propulsion disconnected an first nationalist offering astatine aliases supra the precocious end, this will beryllium the largest tech IPO of 2026 truthful far. It could besides beryllium the appetite for moreover bigger blockbuster offerings successful the wings, for illustration SpaceX and perchance OpenAI and Anthropic.

Cerebras offers an AI-specific spot called the Wafer-Scale Engine 3 that challenges GPU-based AI chips. Cerebras says its spot is faster for conclusion while utilizing little powerfulness than specified competitors. Inference is the compute needed to process personification prompts.

A agelong database of top-name investors stands to summation from a patient IPO. Rick Gerson’s Alpha Wave; Benchmark (via partner Eric Vishria); Lior Susan’s Eclipse; Fidelity; and Foundation Capital (via partner Steve Vassallo) are its largest shareholders pinch much than a 5% stake, according to the company’s SEC filing.

The institution says its database of investors besides includes 1789 Capital, Abu Dhabi Growth Fund, Abu Dhabi’s G42, Alpha Wave Global, Altimeter, AMD, Atreides Management, Coatue, Moore Strategic Ventures, Tiger Global, Valor Equity Partners, and VY Capital.

Plus, Cerebras names connected its website a agelong database of angel investors, too. These see OpenAI laminitis and CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI laminitis and president Greg Brockman, erstwhile OpenAI main intelligence (now laminitis of his ain AI startup) Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI committee personnel and Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, Sun Microsystems and Arista co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, and respective different tech luminaries.

While Sam Altman’s liking wasn’t ample capable to disclose successful the SEC filings, he was quoted successful its S-1. That’s because Cerebras’ narration pinch OpenAI is moreover much noteworthy than its angel investors.

This narration was moreover presented as grounds by Elon Musk successful his suit pinch OpenAI. OpenAI had astatine 1 constituent considered acquiring Cerebras, according to ineligible filings by Musk’s attorneys that declare he was unaware of each of the OpenAI execs’ individual investments successful the company.

That woody ne'er happened, but OpenAI did go 1 of Cerebras’ largest customers. In fact, successful December, OpenAI loaned Cerebras $1 billion, secured by warrants that let OpenAI to bargain complete 33 cardinal shares, the S-1 discloses. So while OpenAI is not a ample shareholder now, it could go one.

Cerebras had hoped to spell nationalist successful 2024 but was delayed owed to a national reappraisal of an finance from Abu Dhabi-based unreality supplier G42, which was (and still is, the spot institution says) a awesome customer. That IPO effort was yet shelved.

A twelvemonth later, Cerebras sought to raise much cash. In September, it raised $1.1 cardinal astatine an $8.1 cardinal post-money valuation led by Fidelity and Atreides. A fewer months later, Cerebras signed its caller multi-year statement worthy more than $10 billion with OpenAI that included the indebtedness and warrants. In February, it raised the $1 cardinal Series H, its past mega round.

Should investors eat up the IPO, past OpenAI and its executives guidelines to summation successful much ways than one.

That seems likely. Banks are already fielding $10 cardinal worthy of orders for the $3.5 cardinal worthy of shares connected offer, Bloomberg reports. That benignant of request indicates that the institution will apt value its shares moreover higher than this announced range, raising moreover much rate for itself and much worth for its investors.

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These are immoderate of the issues identified successful a caller study published by an statement representing teachers provincewide. Of the 3,470 teachers surveyed, much than three-quarters said students are not receiving the support to succeed.

“We person ever had supports arsenic teachers. We had guidance counsellors, and we person assets teachers, we person clinicians who are societal workers and psychologists. We’ve had teams of group who travel and thief america who are capable to thief students study successful ways that are due for students,” said Lillian Klausen, the president of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society.

“We person seen an erosion successful each of those services complete the past number of years. Now teachers successful the schoolroom are becoming the counsellors and societal workers and person each of these roles.”

Another spread identified was the accessibility of acquisition assistants (EA). Sixty-three per cent of teachers said they noticed a diminution successful EA support complete the years.

“There needs to beryllium much acquisition assistants. (Teachers) cannot usability the measurement that they’re functioning — there’s a batch of burnout. They’re very overwhelmed. The kids are falling done the cracks because (teachers) person to prime and take who needs much support,” said Jasmine Laye, the laminitis of All Kids Deserve Support.

Her 10-year-old boy has ADHD and Tourette syndrome and requires an EA, but has ne'er received one.

“Families and unit are seeing the aforesaid gaps, and each kid deserves accordant support,” said Laye.

The study recovered 48 per cent of students opportunity they person six aliases much students pinch “complex needs” successful their classrooms. Students pinch analyzable needs whitethorn require different, aliases additional, support pinch school-related materials, for illustration reading, aliases struggle pinch intelligence wellness concerns, the society’s president explained.

When mixed pinch rising people sizes and underfunding successful education, Klausen said it is becoming a “pressing concern.”

“We want to spot much EA supports in our schools. We want to spot more clinicians coming in,” she added.

Despite the shortcomings reported, students are still enrolling and studying education.

The number of students admitted to the University of Manitoba’s Bachelor of Education programme much than doubled this year, erstwhile compared to the autumn semester of 2023. The Canadian Mennonite University reported filling each its available spots and had 18 imaginable students connected its waitlist.

Consistent enrolment was reported from the University of Winnipeg’s and Brandon University’s faculties of education.

At the University of Winnipeg, 58 additional students were enrolled successful its integrated acquisition program. In the second school, there was a less than 50 student increase in its undergraduate acquisition students from 2024 to 2025.

Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) spokesperson Tony Bitonti said the alteration took effect past week and applies to victor news releases, which will now place recipients as, for example, “John S. of Toronto” alternatively of utilizing afloat names.

Bitonti said the move responds to longstanding concerns from winners about having their identities wide circulated online, wherever accusation could persist indefinitely.

“We’ve been proceeding from our winners for a while about the request to protect their privacy,” he said, adding the agency must equilibrium that pinch its responsibility arsenic a authorities assemblage to beryllium transparent about payouts.

He said afloat names of winners will still beryllium published connected a database connected the agency’s website that includes prize amounts and successful which organization and business constitution the personification bought their winning ticket, ensuring nationalist accountability.

The agency has agelong publicized winners done news releases, photos and promotional materials, but Bitonti said the integer property has heightened privateness risks, including scams that impersonate lottery winners online.

He said the statement useful pinch societal media platforms for illustration Meta to region fraudulent posts and wants to trim the likelihood of winners being targeted.

Bitonti said transparency remains basal to support nationalist spot and deter concerns about corruption, noting the agency has disclosed victor accusation since its inception successful 1975.

“We are still being transparent, but we’re trying to equilibrium that transparency pinch the interest for their privacy,” the OLG spokesperson told BERITAJA by telephone connected Monday. “And we ever perceive from the nationalist that they want to cognize who our lottery winners are.”

He said the British Columbia Lottery Corporation has adopted a akin attack since January, and different jurisdictions are reviewing their policies.

Despite the change, the agency will proceed to stock individual stories and photos of winners.

Bitonti said the extremity is to guarantee winners could bask their prize “without dealing pinch immoderate untoward issues,” while still giving the nationalist assurance successful really lottery costs are awarded.

Child support

Hunter Biden’s lawsuit stems from a conflict pinch Lunden Roberts complete kid support for their 7-year-old daughter. By: @lundentownn_/instagram

The ruling, issued successful Arkansas, marks the latest improvement successful a years-long legal conflict complete Hunter’s financial obligations. Roberts is seeking to summation the $5,000 monthly kid support costs they agreed to successful 2023, arguing that Hunter’s manner suggests he has greater intends than antecedently disclosed.

During a caller hearing, Roberts’ attorney, Clint Lancaster, claimed Hunter had attempted to obscure the grade of his wealth. He alleged that Hunter’s “style of surviving is higher” than antecedently represented, pointing to his California location “overlooking the ocean,” world recreation and eating habits arsenic evidence. Lancaster besides cited vacations connected Nantucket pinch President Joe Biden arsenic further impervious of important financial resources.

Financial hardships

Hunter Biden antecedently claimed financial struggles erstwhile agreeing to the 2023 support deal. By: MEGA

Hunter antecedently based on financial hardship erstwhile negotiating the 2023 settlement, astatine 1 constituent offering artwork successful lieu of higher payments. The statement yet group support astatine $5,000 per month, down from Roberts’ first request of $20,000.

Hunter’s attorney, Brent Langdon, pushed backmost against the claims successful court, maintaining that his client’s circumstances person not materially changed. “I conscionable don’t deliberation going retired to meal is simply a support for modification of kid support erstwhile you are already paying … astatine slightest double the magnitude that, nether kid support guidelines, you should beryllium paying,” he said during the hearing.

The judge’s bid allows Roberts’ ineligible squad to reappraisal the erstwhile first son’s caller taxation filings and financial position arsenic they activity to revisit the support arrangement. Hunter must besides participate successful a deposition nether oath.

Hunter’s ineligible troubles

Hunter Biden’s lawyer argues manner claims don’t warrant raising payments. By: MEGA

The conflict dates backmost respective years and has included contentious claims connected some sides. Hunter antecedently said he had “no recollection” of gathering Roberts, though records later showed she had been employed by his firm.

Roberts reopened the lawsuit successful January, arguing successful tribunal filings that her girl has begun to announcement disparities betwixt her circumstances and those of the erstwhile first son’s different children. She besides sought to clasp Hunter successful contempt for allegedly failing to supply artwork promised successful the earlier settlement.

In response, Langdon based on that Hunter has nary ineligible responsibility to support connection pinch the child. “Any nonaccomplishment to pass pinch the kid is not punishable by contempt, arsenic the bid does not bid suspect to pass pinch the child,” he wrote successful tribunal filings.

Newsom appeared connected the show to beforehand his memoir Young Man successful a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery, but the speech quickly shifted to his messaging style and whether it mirrors Trump.

Maher accused Newsom of “imitating” Trump. The politician pushed back, saying, “I’m trying to put a reflector up to Donald Trump. We’re conscionable trying to bespeak that reality and definitive the absurdity of each of this.”

Maher was not convinced. “Many group would opportunity that you are imitating him. Of each the group who whitethorn aliases whitethorn not beryllium running, you’re the 1 who imitates his style pinch the trolling,” he said.

The Fox News suit flashpoint

The speech grew much pointed erstwhile Newsom’s suit against Fox News came up. Newsom filed a defamation suit successful June against the news network, alleging it misled the nationalist about a telephone telephone that took spot betwixt him and Donald Trump during civilian unrest that erupted successful Los Angeles.  

“We’re going into discovery. Fox amended look to settee correct now aliases apologize for defamation,” Newsom said.

Maher responded immediately, “OK but that sounds precisely for illustration what he does. Suing media?”

Newsom replied, “Well then, don’t defame, don’t lie.”

Maher doubled down. “Okay, again, but that does sound for illustration him,” he said arsenic the assemblage laughed.

Maher pressed Newsom to explicate really his suit differed from Trump’s ineligible threats against media outlets. Newsom based on he was holding Fox accountable and “putting a reflector up to Donald Trump,” but Maher kept returning to the aforesaid point: the strategies sounded similar.

Newsom’s trolling strategy

Newsom defended his attack successful a abstracted question and reply connected Meet the Press, saying, “Quite the contrary, the full look was to not let it to beryllium normalized. It was becoming normalized. He’s dressing up arsenic the Pope, arsenic Superman. He’s putting his look connected Mount Rushmore. It’s madness and truthful I put a reflector up to that madness.”

On societal media, Newsom has leaned into all-caps posts, crisp jabs and meme-ready messaging, echoing Trump’s style. The attack has go a defining portion of his governmental personality since Trump returned to office. During the Maher interview, Newsom described the existent ambiance arsenic a “sewer,” adding, “He’s not doing thing to effort to merge this state successful immoderate way, shape, aliases form. To me, that’s the biggest reflection of this infinitesimal — conscionable the sewer we’re now surviving successful because of Donald Trump.”

Joe Rogan weighs in

The disapproval extended beyond Maher. Podcast big Joe Rogan took purpose astatine Newsom, calling him “a cardboard cutout of a person” and “a chromatic cold, narrative-driven politician.”

“Whether you for illustration Trump aliases not, whether you deliberation he’s corrupt, he’s a quality being … pinch Newsom, you’ve sewage for illustration this construct,” Rogan said.

Newsom fired backmost connected societal media successful a Trump-like tone: “JOE ‘LITTLE GUY’ ROGAN IS TOO CHICKEN TO HAVE ME ON HIS FAILING PODCAST BECAUSE HE KNOWS I’D CRUSH HIM. ALL TALK, NO ACTION.”

Trump attacks Maher aft the interview

Trump reignited his feud pinch Maher pursuing the segment, posting connected Truth Social that the big appeared “defenseless” and “totally deficient.”

He besides claimed the question and reply made Fox News “look weak, stupid and ineffective.”

Using the nickname “Newscum,” Trump said Newsom “took Bill Maher complete the coals” while criticizing the governor’s grounds connected homelessness, infrastructure, wildfires and organization shifts successful cities for illustration Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Trump besides urged Fox News to extremity featuring Maher. “Fox should extremity putting [him] on. He’s not representing us,” he wrote. “DON’T USE BILL MAHER ANY LONGER AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF YOU! I dislike proceeding that ‘Bill Maher said…’ — Bill Maher is simply a MORON, though somewhat much talented than Jimmy Kimmel.”

His remarks followed chat of the question and reply connected The Big Weekend Show, wherever panelists praised Maher for challenging Newsom connected issues including California’s costs of surviving and its high-speed obstruction project.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman disclosed successful a proceedings Monday that his liking successful the patient is worthy about $30 billion, confirming a fig that co-founder Elon Musk has pointed to successful arguing that OpenAI has abandoned its ngo arsenic a nonprofit organization.

Brockman took the guidelines during the 4th time of the trial. Musk is suing Brockman and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, alleging that they unlawfully converted a kindness that he helped commencement into a for-profit business, champion known for creating the celebrated artificial intelligence app ChatGPT.

Brockman was many times asked to reconcile his about $30 cardinal liking pinch OpenAI’s stated ngo of making AI exertion to use each of humanity. He testified that the ngo hasn’t changed, moreover aft its committee has sold equity stakes to extracurricular investors.

“You conscionable hap to beryllium $30 cardinal richer?” asked Musk lawyer Steven Molo.

“Compensation was surely secondary to the mission,” Brockman responded.

The proceedings could reshape OpenAI arsenic an statement and change the industry-wide push for precocious AI. It’s besides different for featuring grounds from rival tech billionaires.

Musk, the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and xAI, vowed to make Brockman and Altman “the about hated men successful America” done grounds presented astatine the trial, according to the contented of text messages included successful a tribunal filing Sunday. Musk texted Brockman 2 days earlier the proceedings began to gauge the anticipation of a settlement, according to the filing by OpenAI’s lawyers.

Monday’s grounds was combative, raising ideas about what benignant of tech manufacture wealthiness is genuinely deserved. Molo astatine 1 constituent compared Brockman to a “guy who robs a bank,” a building that was stricken arsenic argumentative by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. At different point, Molo asked Brockman about transferring assets from OpenAI’s charitable broadside to its for-profit broadside to create a “money-making machine.”

Brockman pushed back. He testified that he was fixed his liking successful OpenAI successful 2018, years earlier the merchandise of ChatGPT erstwhile it was acold from definite that the statement would beryllium successful either financially aliases technologically. He said OpenAI’s committee granted him the stake, and that he didn’t participate successful the committee ballot to do so.

He testified that OpenAI is still controlled by a nonprofit foundation, and that its for-profit limb is what’s known arsenic a public-benefit corporation, a type of corp that must return into relationship some a public-spirited ngo arsenic good arsenic the interests of shareholders. He said that each of OpenAI’s co-founders, Musk included, wanted it to person a for-profit limb of immoderate benignant and that what they disagreed connected was the details.

And he said that Musk has small relationship to OpenAI arsenic it exists now. Musk stopped donating to OpenAI successful 2017 and near its committee successful 2018.

“That is thing that we’ve built done blood, sweat and tears, during each these years since Elon left,” Brockman testified.

The first OpenAI agency was Brockman’s flat successful San Francisco, he testified.

Brockman is comparatively obscure compared to the trial’s different billionaires, Musk and Altman, but is simply a well-known fig wrong the tech industry. Before co-founding OpenAI successful 2015, he was the main exertion serviceman of payments institution Stripe.

But his passion for the subjects astatine rumor came through. Brockman astatine times said truthful quickly that the tribunal newsman making a transcript could not support up, and the judge stepped successful to impulse Brockman to speak much slowly. Several times, Brockman had to repetition himself to make the grounds clear.

OpenAI said successful March that it was valued astatine $852 billion aft its latest backing round. After a restructuring successful October, the nonprofit instauration limb owned 26% while OpenAI labor owned 26%.

Molo, though, kept turning the grounds backmost to the about $30 cardinal figure, which Musk posted about past twelvemonth connected X. Musk’s suit alleges that Brockman, Altman and others breached their duties to OpenAI arsenic a charitable statement and unlawfully enriched themselves.

Molo mentioned the about $30 cardinal fig much than a twelve times during much than 2 hours of questioning Brockman.

“Do you judge that your about $30 cardinal stake… breaches your work to humanity?” he asked.

“No, I judge that we person developed the about well-capitalized nonprofit successful quality history,” Brockman responded.

Molo pressed Brockman connected whether his superior motive was really financial. He quoted from a September 2017 diary introduction successful which Brockman wrote to himself, while pondering OpenAI’s future, “Financially, what will return maine to $1B?”

Brockman testified that the money was ever secondary.

Molo asked Brockman whether he would see limiting his ain compensation to $1 cardinal and giving the equilibrium of his wealthiness backmost to the nonprofit limb of OpenAI.

“Do you think, sitting present today, fixed that you’re bully pinch the $1 billion, do you deliberation you should springiness the $29 cardinal backmost to the charity?” the lawyer asked.

“That’s not really I deliberation about it,” Brockman responded. “There are assumptions baked into the question,” he added, without elaborating.

At different point, Molo asked, “It takes $30 cardinal to get you retired of furniture successful the morning, but $1 cardinal doesn’t get you retired of furniture successful the morning?”

Brockman responded, “That’s not what I’m saying.”

Not mentioned during Monday’s grounds was Musk’s nett worth, estimated astatine $657 billion, highest successful the world, according to Bloomberg.

Highway 5 is closed from Canora to Wadena, according to Saskatchewan’s Highway Hotline. Stretches of that highway, arsenic good arsenic parts of highways 23, 25, and 35, are besides closed because h2o is connected aliases complete the roads.

“Conditions, flooding, (and) situations are changing rapidly. You may have got to your destination, check it again earlier you return,” said Dan Palmer with the Highway Hotline.

This spring’s above-normal flooding play is the consequence of a precocious and accelerated outpouring thaw, coupled pinch precocious outpouring snowstorms and an above-average snowpack successful parts of the province, the Water Security Agency’s executive head irrigation and economical development, Leah Clark, said.

The agency’s precocious travel advisory remains successful effect for the northwest, including Buffalo Narrows, and southeastern communities specified arsenic Yorkton, she added.

“Several communities person precocious declared section emergencies owed to washed retired roads. This includes the RM of Lakeside, the RM of Pleasantdale, and the RM of Birch Hills — each effective (as of) May 1,” said Jeff Dedekker, the communications and media head astatine the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA).

Only 1 area of concern remains in Meadow Lake, and the RM of Foam Lake whitethorn spot a 2nd wave, despite levels having receded, he said.

Seven group were evacuated from the RM of Invergordon, which re-declared a section emergency and began closing roads on Sunday.

In the RM of Buckland, the flooding feels unprecedented, according to resident Christie Cates.

“It’s brutal, like, I’ve ne'er successful my life seen flooding for illustration this. We can’t get retired because you can’t transverse that road, and past going the other direction, you can’t because it’s wholly washed retired the road. We’re stuck here,” said Cates, who has lived successful the agrarian municipality for almost 5 years.

She told Global News the flooding seems to have started connected Sunday night.

“North of us, the h2o is moving towards the stream (then it) is hitting the river, overflowing, and moving backmost down us. So, we’re stuck successful the mediate of the h2o coming in a circle,” Cates added.

The h2o is approaching her barn, but she said her location is safe for now.

“There is simply a tremendous magnitude of h2o retired there, and the past mates of snowfalls that we had didn’t help the situation. We did cognize that location was going to beryllium a batch of runoff, we just weren’t really sure where it was going to go, and really it was going to impact us,” said Mike Kwasnica, the main of the Humboldt Fire Department.

“Here, successful Humboldt, we’re fine. We don’t have immoderate issues whatsoever,” he added.

The occurrence chief said he will beryllium keeping an oculus connected the community’s regional neighbour, the municipality of Watson, wherever an emergency alert was issued connected Sunday.

No flood-related injuries person been reported to the agency, the SPSA said. As acold arsenic the provincial agency is aware, nary houses person sustained awesome damage, but minor damages are typically a local issue, the typical added.

Looking past the season of outpouring thaws, Palmer said location are rather a fewer highways to beryllium assessed after drying out.

Russian ⁠President ​Vladimir Putin connected Monday announced a two-day ⁠ceasefire successful ‌the ‌war pinch Ukraine to observe the day ⁠of the ‌defeat ⁠of Nazi Germany successful World War ‌II.

The ceasefire would tally Friday and Saturday, according to a connection from the Russian Defense Ministry.

While impermanent ceasefires are not unheard of successful the conflict, which started erstwhile Russia launched a large-scale penetration of the state successful 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy did not instantly corroborate they would abide by one.

Speaking successful Yerevan, Armenia, he said that while United States and Russian officials had spoken about a ceasefire, the thought had not been officially projected to Ukrainian officials.

"This is Russia’s warfare against Ukraine. If America and Russia are negotiating, it is important that our broadside knows what they are talking about," Zelenskyy said.

A connection attributed to the Russian Defense Ministry threatened Ukraine and overseas diplomats if the ceasefire wasn’t respected by Kyiv.

Ukrainian authorities person accused Russia of violating erstwhile ceasefires. The wide unit of the Ukrainian equipped forces said that Russia broke an Easter ceasefire pinch shelling past month, and the Russian Defense Ministry accused Ukrainian forces of doing the same.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry besides said past twelvemonth that Russia attacked Ukrainian power accommodation during a ceasefire.

In the arena that Ukrainian forces violated the truce, the Russian Defense Ministry connection warned “the civilian organization of Kyiv and labor of overseas negotiated missions of the request to time off the metropolis successful a timely manner.”

Zelenskyy noted successful a post connected X that Ukraine would observe a reciprocal ceasefire starting astatine midnight connected Tuesday.

"It is clip for Russian leaders to return existent steps to extremity their war, particularly since Russia’s Defense Ministry believes it cannot clasp a parade successful Moscow without Ukraine’s goodwill," Zelenskyy said successful the post.

Up to 27 cardinal group are estimated to person died during World War II, and Victory Day is simply a awesome ceremony successful Russia.

The man who started the Palisades fire, 1 of the costliest disasters successful U.S. history, was motivated by a resentment for the rich | and viewed accused United Healthcare CEO slayer Luigi Mangione arsenic a Robin Hood-like figure, according to tribunal documents detailing grounds gathered by national prosecutors.

In a tribunal little revenge past week, authorities opportunity Jonathan Rinderknecht searched “Free Luigi” and “reddit lets termination each billionaires” successful December 2024, according to a forensic reappraisal of his computer. Rinderknecht, 30, is accused of starting the Lachman occurrence successful the Pacific Palisades Jan. 1, 2025, which smoldered underground for a week past exploded into the deadly Palisades fire.

According to the brief, passengers described Rinderknecht arsenic “angry, intense, driving erratically and ranting about being ‘pissed disconnected astatine the world’ and Luigi Mangione, capitalism and vigilantism,” successful the hours earlier the timepiece struck midnight.

“On New Year’s Eve 2024, the suspect was unsocial again,” national prosecutors wrote successful a 25-page little of proceedings evidence. They alleged a narration pinch a co-worker had ended earlier that twelvemonth and that connected Dec. 30, 2024, she rebuffed him again, starring to a “visceral reaction: he near her 2 manic voicemails and entered prompts into ChatGPT expressing his utmost displeasure pinch her curen of him.”

Authorities allege successful their little that he was stewing complete being successful the vicinity of his ex-lover and listening to a French rap opus that evoked images of occurrence successful its euphony video.

Jonathan Rinderknecht was arrested Oct. 7, 2025 successful Florida

(U.S. Attorney’s Office)

It whitethorn beryllium excessively overmuch of a agelong to necktie each of these pieces of circumstantial grounds together to make a coagulated lawsuit for Rinderknecht’s prosecution, said Neama Rahmani, a erstwhile national prosecutor. The prosecution “has to person the tribunal to admit the grounds of his relationships, his dislike of capitalism, and praising Luigi Mangione as...motive evidence. Unlike the fascination pinch fire, which is defense is besides opposing, the judge whitethorn find that this different grounds is excessively attenuated,” Rahmani said.

Rahmani said the lawsuit is proving the January 1 rekindled days later. “The prosecution is relying connected ATF experts to found this, and the defense has designated experts of their ain to rebut. This is the about important rumor successful the lawsuit and whoever wins the conflict of the experts will prevail.”

Prosecutors allege the grounds shows the Lachman occurrence that erupted connected Hidden Buddha Hill connected Jan. 1—that officials thought had been extinguished—had burned for days and reignited amid hurricane-force winds connected Jan. 7. The Palisades occurrence killed 12 people, destroyed 6,500 structures crossed the Palisades and Malibu and costs billions successful damages and security claims.

Within 3 weeks of the fire, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives agents focused connected Rinderknecht, who called 911 many times to study the fire. Investigators seized a BIC barbecue lighter from Rinderknecht’s car pinch his DNA connected it that he admitted to having pinch him successful the Temescal Canyon trail, according to the proceedings brief.

Investigators sewage warrants for his compartment telephone and a big of electronics aft tying the conveyance he drove for Uber to the scene, moreover noting he turned backmost successful his conveyance to travel firefighters backmost to the burn.

“On December 29, 2024, conscionable 2 days earlier the Lachman Fire, suspect recorded 3 videos of occurrence engines departing LAFD Station No. 27 successful the Hollywood area,” prosecutors wrote. “While recording, suspect said retired large (apparently to himself), “They’re coming for you bro, I’m telling you, you sewage to get that intelligence f... brains successful order, and not beryllium liking this craziness, they’re connected their way, don’t worry.”

Asked by an interrogator connected Jan. 24, why personification would group the blaze, Rinderknecht said it “would beryllium retired of resentment of the rich | enjoying their money” and “compared specified an enactment of ‘desperation’” to Mangione’s sidesplitting of a United Healthcare executive connected a New York thoroughfare earlier that year, according to national prosecutors.

Rinderknecht utilized his iPhone to return videos astatine the clearing and perceive to a French rap opus “Un Zder, Un The,” which the affidavit said was about despair and bitterness and shows a trash could connected fire.

“When interviewed by investigators, the suspect falsely claimed that he first saw the occurrence arsenic he was already halfway down the hill, stepping backmost to his car. Based connected the geolocation information for the defendant’s phone, he was still successful Buddha Hill clearing (at the apical of the hill) watching the occurrence turn erstwhile he called 911,” prosecutors noted.

Eight months aft the fire, Rinderknecht would beryllium arrested. Prosecutors opportunity he lit the occurrence astatine 12:12 a.m. and stayed successful the area until 2 a.m.

Steve Haney, Rinderknecht’s lawyer, said the authorities has nary grounds tying his customer to the Lachman fire. In tribunal briefings, he argues the origin of the Palisades occurrence could beryllium traced backmost to Los Angeles metropolis firefighting commanders failing to decently extinguish an existing smoldering occurrence — not started by his customer — contempt warnings from crews connected the crushed that it was not out.

“Critically, the authorities possesses: nary eyewitness who observed Mr. Rinderknecht starting the fire; nary beingness grounds of accelerants, ignitable fluids, aliases materials associated pinch deliberate arson astatine the root site; nary incriminating statements aliases admissions by Mr. Rinderknecht; nary surveillance video of Mr. Rinderknecht committing immoderate enactment of arson; and nary recognition of the precise ignition root aliases the circumstantial point of substance first ignited,” Haney wrote.

Beyond cellphone pings placing Rinderknecht successful the wide area wherever the occurrence began, Haney and his experts reason that authorities person fewer specifics from the terabytes of evidence.

In fact, early hunt warrants focused connected fireworks that residents reported hearing. An ATF study connected the origin does not describe the residents who said they saw the fireworks that night, nor the 4 teens seen by a information defender aliases an unhoused personification successful the area, Haney noted.

Federal prosecutors, seeking to imprison Rinderknect for up to 45 years, opportunity they will telephone ATF experts to refute that fireworks, a cigarette, aliases powerlines started the Palisades Fire

“The origin of the occurrence was the preamble of an unfastened occurrence (lighter) to a combustible worldly specified arsenic vegetation aliases mean combustibles, specified arsenic paper,” the ATF study concluded and that would yet go the Palisades Fire.

Federal prosecutors allege that aft he moved to his sister’s Florida location successful April 2025, Rinderknech “blew up” and threatened to pain her location down, while yelling statements for illustration “why did you bring maine here.”

“Defendant’s fascination pinch occurrence dates backmost to astatine slightest 2018,” national prosecutors wrote, explaining he drove done the Santa Monica and Winnetka areas pinch his past woman to “admire the Woolsey Fire.”

The lawsuit will return national tribunal successful downtown L.A. May 11, wherever a judge will see arguments from some sides connected grounds to see successful the trial.