A man was stabbed in Winnipeg on Tuesday night while trying to help a woman he believed was overdosing, police said.

The 51-year-old was near Jubilee Avenue and Osborne Street when he tried to help a woman who “appeared to be suffering from an overdose,” and was stabbed around 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, the Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) said in a news release.

A male suspect, who police said is known to the woman, stabbed the 51-year-old in the upper body, according to police. The victim and woman were both taken to hospital, with the man in unstable condition.

Responders from the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service informed police of the incident, WPS said.

Later that night, around 10:51 p.m., patrol officers and the police canine unit found the 31-year-old suspect in the 400 block of Brandon Avenue, according to the release. Two knives were seized from the suspect after a failed attempt to flee, it said.

The 31-year-old is being charged with assault with a weapon and possession of a weapon. He is detained in custody.

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A swelling mosquito population due to all the water that’s fallen this summer has led to more hospital visits for children experiencing skeeter syndrome — an intense, localized allergic reaction to mosquito saliva.

Dr. Andrew Dixon, an emergency room physician at Stollery Children’s Hospital, said they’ve been treating five or six children a day with the condition.

He added that skeeter syndrome is more common in children and appears worse in the beginning of the season.

“Your body kind of gets used to it over time and stops reacting as much,” Dixon said. He said the condition isn’t dangerous and antihistamines are effective in treating it.

Mike Jenkins, a senior scientist with the City of Edmonton, said the number of mosquitoes in the city in mid-July is 15 times higher compared with this time last year.

“It’s definitely the largest number of mosquitoes we’ve had in the last decade,” Jenkins said.

“But that being said, it also has been one of our driest decades on record — until now.”

Alberta’s capital city has broken the record for its wettest summer, bringing with it flooding and the relentless mosquitoes.

Edmonton has been saturated by 580 millimetres of rain as of Tuesday morning, beating the record set in 1953 with 417 millimetres from June through August.

Edmonton is also on track to record the wettest July — and month — on record.

The record for precipitation for July is 282 millimetres set in 1901 and, as of Tuesday, the city has recorded 260.7 millimetres, according to Environment Canada.

— With files from Fakiha Baig and Dayne Patterson, The Canadian Press

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A New Brunswick politician in the provincial legislature has gone viral for delivering a speech in the provincial legislature with some unusual passages.

Progressive Conservative Bill Oliver appeared to read a few odd sentences in the June 9 speech that match the type of language typically used by an artificial intelligence chatbot.

In one instance, Oliver paused and said, “here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points.”

Oliver made two other similar statements in the same speech that appeared to be written by AI.

He did not respond to a request for comment.

Jon Gillham, who founded AI detection company Originality.ai, says the video went viral due to Oliver’s obvious reading of “residue” left behind by large language model AI programs.

“The tip-off was the same as all of us seeing what we have seen in our own conversations with ChatGPT or other AI LLMs — that there were words that wereA New Brunswick politician in the provincial legislature has gone viral for delivering a speech in the provincial legislature with some unusual passages. very clearly disconnected from the rest of the speech,” he told The Canadian Press.

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Ontario Provincial Police have released surveillance footage showing the last known movements of a Cornwall, Ont., man who disappeared four years ago, as investigators renew their appeal for information.

Paul Bellemore was last seen on July 29, 2022, near Lamoureux Park along the Cornwall waterfront, and police say they suspect foul play, according to an OPP news release.

Footage released Wednesday shows Bellemore arriving at the Cornwall Civic Complex in a black 2018 BMW sedan at about 4:35 p.m. that day.

Investigators say he then entered Cornwall Square, briefly stopped at a kiosk and left the mall before walking toward Lamoureux Park.

Bellemore was last seen proceeding behind the park’s bandshell. He has not been seen since.

“Four years have passed since Paul Bellemore was last seen and we continue to actively investigate his disappearance,” OPP Det. Insp. Jocelyn Sauvé said in the release.

“By releasing surveillance footage and photos, we hope to reach someone who may have seen Paul that day or who has information about his whereabouts.”

Bellemore’s sister, Chantal, said the family continues to live with the pain of not knowing what happened.

“Paul is not just a missing person. He is a son, a brother, an uncle and a friend. He is someone who is deeply loved and missed by so many people,” she said in a statement.

“What makes it even harder is the uncertainty. We are left with questions that have never been answered and a pain that never fully heals.”

Bellemore was 43 when he disappeared. He is described as five feet 11 inches tall and 159 pounds, with green eyes and a balding or shaved head.

He was last seen wearing a light-coloured shirt, shorts, a grey Hurley hat and black camouflage sandals.

Cornwall police received the missing person report on Aug. 2, 2022. OPP joined the investigation in January 2023.

Anyone with information is asked to contact authorities.

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Police east of Toronto say an investigation conducted by another police service has found no grounds to lay criminal charges against officers accused of assaulting a lawyer at the Oshawa, Ont., courthouse earlier this year.

Durham Regional Police say they have received the results of the investigation carried out by York Regional Police into the Jan. 23 incident and have now referred the matter to the Law Enforcement Complaints Agency to assess whether any misconduct took place.

Lawyer Sudine Riley alleged in a statement issued by her counsel that uniformed Durham officers slammed her head on a desk and put their knees on her back and neck after challenging her presence in the courthouse interview room where she was working.

Riley, who is Black, alleged she was then dragged out of the room, handcuffed and taken to the courthouse cells, during which her headscarf was ripped off.

She said she was left bleeding and swollen.

Her lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

Riley’s allegations spurred calls for an independent investigation into the incident, including from the Criminal Lawyers’ Association, a national legal organization.

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New Brunswicker Bruce Newman loves New York City, but not enough to rethink his current boycott of travel to the United States.

“I do feel for people in New York, and Vermont,” said Newman. “I don’t have anything against Americans. It’s just the current administration.”

Newman considered taking his wife to New York’s famed Broadway for her 75th birthday last spring but decided to head to London’s West End theater district instead, despite the higher price tag.

“I’m one little guy and this is the statement that I can make and apparently a lot of other Canadians feel the same way,” he told Global News.

He changed his travel plans, as a response to the ongoing trade war, which escalated again last week when U.S. President Donald Trump threatened 50 per cent tariffs against Canada.

New York is feeling the impact of Canadians choosing other destinations and is hoping to lure them back.

NYC Tourism + Conventions unveiled its “Northern Neighbor Deal,” offering Canadian visitors 30 per cent discounts at more than 85 tourism, hospitality and entertainment businesses across the city.

“There has been a pause for some visitors, and we respect that and understand that. And we are here and welcoming them and ready when they are,” Julie Coker, president and CEO of New York City Tourism + Conventions Coker told Global News.

Coker said Canada remains the city’s second-largest international market, but the city has seen a dip in visitors.

“We understand that there are some factors out of our control in terms of the sentiment that Canadians may have toward the U.S.”

Coker said the city welcomed nearly one million Canadian visitors annually before the pandemic, but that number fell to about 800,000 in 2025, a drop of roughly 19 per cent from the previous year.

Tourism officials expect the number of Canadian visitors to increase slightly this year to about 820,000, but it remains below pre-pandemic levels.

The promotion will run from Aug. 18 to Sept. 7, spanning the Labour Day holiday period in both Canada and the United States. Reservations open Aug. 4.

While many Canadians have chosen to boycott travel to the United States after trade tensions began, there has been a rebound in the number of visitors heading south of the border, said Ipsos Public Affairs senior vice-president Gregory Jack.

“The situation with the U.S. has really moved from an emotional shock reaction to more of a sustained reality.”

But tourism to the U.S. has not yet returned to levels seen before the tariff dispute began, Jack added.

“Canadians are kind of in an endurance economy point of view right now. They’re enduring through what they think is a permanent shift in our relationship with the economy overall and with the U.S.”

The Big Apple is not the first U.S. destination trying to entice their northern neighbours to return. Kalispell, Mont., Buffalo and Las Vegas are also running campaigns aimed at attracting Canadian visitors.

For Neman, it remains a hard sell.

“They can drop their prices 50 per cent and it really wouldn’t make any difference to me as long as there’s going to be that type of disrespect and the tariff nonsense.”

Coker says she wants to remind Canadians “New York is still the same.”

“We would ask Canadians to look at that and the history that we’ve had over many, many years and not just define our relationship over the past few years,” she said.

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WINNIPEG – Rookie Kaidon Salter will make his first CFL start Thursday as the B.C. Lions look to get their season back on track against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

The Lions (1-5) confirmed the quarterback change Wednesday after Salter replaced an ineffective Chase Brice late in last week’s 26-12 loss to Toronto.

Salter completed nine of 15 passes for 121 yards in relief and becomes B.C.’s third starting quarterback this season following Nathan Rourke’s shoulder injury.

Winnipeg (4-3) will counter with Dru Brown, who makes his fourth straight start with Zach Collaros still sidelined by a neck injury.

Brown is 2-1 as a starter but is coming off a four-interception performance in a 52-30 loss to Calgary.

The Lions will also be without starting running back James Butler because of a foot injury.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 29, 2026.

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British Columbia’s gang squad says it has uncovered what would have been a sophisticated illicit drug production organization, seizing large quantities of drugs, dozens of firearms and 65 cubes of commercial explosives.

RCMP Sgt. Sarbjit Sangha, with the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, says the discovery of explosives is especially disturbing because they are strictly regulated in Canada and only available to authorized blasting companies.

She says the drug lab was under construction and the facility, along with the explosives and illegal firearms, significantly elevated the public safety concerns associated with the investigation.

In addition to the weapons discovered on a rural property in Abbotsford, police found a long list of drugs, including two kilos each of fentanyl and methamphetamine, 64 litres of GHB, cocaine, heroin, MDMA, oxycodone and benzodiazepine.

Four people have been arrested and have been released pending completion of the investigation, but Sangha says they could face firearms and drug-production charges.

Sangha says she couldn’t comment on which criminal organization the suspects belong to but added that they are known to police and have criminal records.

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London, Ont. emergency crews are responding to a reported explosion at a home though it is not known at this time if anyone was injured.

The London Fire Department said in a post on X that they received multiple 911 calls reporting the explosion in the 100 block of Baseline Road W.

“We can confirm there is a total loss of a house,” the department said. “Unknown injuries at this time.”

Fire crews are on an offensive and dousing hot spots.

Officials said a primary search was determined to be all clear.

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Taylor Momsen says the music she makes is first and foremost for herself. But seeing it take on a life of its own after it’s released is one of the most rewarding parts of being an artist.

“To see the reaction and to see it you know, kinda spread its own wings and have people connect to it and emotionally relate and all of those things, and see it really effect people is just the most rewarding, highest compliment you can get as an artist.”

This summer, The Pretty Reckless released their fifth studio album, Dear God, giving fans another deeply personal collection of songs to connect with. The album’s lead single, “For I Am Death,” helped the band repeat their streak, earning them a fourth consecutive No. 1’s on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. Momsen describes the record as “very honest, very blunt,” explaining that while the band has always written candidly, they’ve never embraced this level of directness before.

For Momsen, songwriting has been an outlet for self-expression since she was a child. Today, it’s much more than a creative process – it’s how she works through life.

And if fans find pieces of their own stories in those songs along the way, that’s simply the greatest reward an artist can hope for.

 

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