The United States is well on its way toward controlling Iranian airspace, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Friday, adding that Washington expects the achievable U.S. objectives to be completed in four to six weeks.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Leavitt also said Washington was looking at potential candidates to lead Iran, a day after President Donald Trump told Reuters in an interview that the United States must be involved in choosing the next leader of Iran.

“I know there’s a number of people that our intelligence agencies and the United States government are looking at, but I won’t get any further on that,” Leavitt said.

In the interview on Thursday, Trump said that he thinks the next leader of Iran is unlikely to be the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son, who has emerged as a frontrunner to succeed his father, who was killed in a military strike at the start of the war.

Earlier on Friday, Trump said there would be no ​deal struck with ​Iran except “unconditional surrender.”

“What the President means is that when he, as Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces, determines that Iran no longer poses a threat to the United States of America, and the goals of Operation Epic Fury has been fully realized, then Iran will essentially be in a place of unconditional surrender, whether they say it themselves or not,” Leavitt said.

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B.C.’s Public Safety Minister and Solicitor General, Nina Krieger, will be at the Justice Institute of B.C. on Friday afternoon for an announcement about expanded police training.

Last year, the B.C. government began accepting proposals from municipal police departments that were interested in establishing their own satellite training academies.

In February, Vancouver police announced that it is creating the Vancouver Police Training Academy Centre of Excellence in the Woodward’s building at 351 Abbott St.

“The issue of municipal police training in B.C. was first raised in 2017,” Chief Const. Steve Rai said in a release at the time. “Nearly a decade later, the core challenges remain.”

He noted in the statement that the current police academy model still does not meet Vancouver’s complex policing needs.

Last October, the B.C. government announced it is expanding space at the Justice Institute, enabling it to train 50 per cent more recruits.

This story will be updated following the announcement on Friday afternoon.

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A middle school art teacher from Fredericton says she started running again just weeks after giving birth 17-months ago, and now all those miles may have her on track for a Guinness World Record.

Julia Reid-Howell started bringing her daughter Winnie on her runs when she was big enough and says that she broke the world record for the fastest women’s one-kilometre run while pushing a stroller late last month.

Reid-Howell is in the process of submitting her paperwork to Guinness, including photos and verification from two independent witnesses.

Her time was three minutes, 17 seconds and 37 hundredths of a second, besting a French woman’s previous record of three minutes, 35 seconds and 14 hundredths of a second.

Toronto’s Brendan Neely broke the men’s one-kilometre stroller record with a time of two minutes and 51 seconds last May, according to Guinness, meaning Canadians will hold both the men’s and women’s records if Reid-Howell is certified.

She’s hoping to hear back from Guinness officials sometime within the next month.

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is considering filling part of Lake Ontario to accommodate his vision for a massive new convention centre in downtown Toronto.

At an unrelated event in Mississauga, Ont., on Friday, Ford confirmed reporting he was considering filling part of the lake to build a new convention centre, which he has priced at “a few billion” dollars.

“I wouldn’t call it an island, but we may look at putting fill in until we can put a convention centre,” he told reporters. “We’re exploring that.”

The premier said environmental work hadn’t yet begun for the plan, which he first began musing about last week.

“That’s what would happen first. It’s no different from anything else; the environmental process would move forward,” he added.

“But we have a tremendous amount of fill right now, but we need to expand the land. I did talk to the mayor about it, and she was endorsing it. We need more land, we need a world-class convention centre.”

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EDMONTON – The Edmonton Oilers will be without Mattias Janmark for the rest of the season.

Head coach Kris Knoblauch says the 33-year-old forward has had surgery for an undisclosed injury and won’t play again in the 2025-26 campaign, including playoffs.

He says the team expects Janmark to be ready for training camp next season.

The six-foot-two, 205-pound Swede hasn’t played since Edmonton’s 6-5 loss to the Anaheim Ducks on Feb. 25, and was limited to just 41 appearances this season, contributing one goal and seven assists across the stretch.

Originally selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the third round of the 2013 draft, Janmark has logged 680 regular-season NHL games with stints in Dallas, Chicago, Vegas and Edmonton.

He signed with the Oilers as a free agent in 2022 and provided a heavy presence for the team in back-to-back Stanley Cup finals.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 6, 2026.

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Halton regional police say investigators have laid 18 additional charges in a series of thefts targeting mausoleums across the Greater Toronto Area.

Police say the thefts took place over several months and involved cremation niches in cemeteries in Oakville, Burlington, Toronto and the Niagara region.

Investigators allege the suspects entered mausoleums during daytime hours and used tools to break into niche compartments, stealing hundreds of items like jewelry, decorative urns, keepsakes and other valuables often stored inside.

Police say some of the stolen items included necklaces and jewelry containing human remains, which were discarded before the jewelry was sold at pawnshops or through private sales.

Since November 2025, more than 140 people have contacted investigators and 26 stolen items have been returned to families.

However, police say many recovered items remain unclaimed and have posted photos of the property online in hopes of returning them to their rightful owners.

You can view the images here.

If you identify an item from these photographs that belongs to a deceased loved one, email  mausoleumthefts@haltonpolice.ca and provide the following documentation:

• Proof of the cemetery where the cremation niche is stored or registered (location)
• Approximate time frame of the theft (last visitation to the cremation niche)
• Details and descriptions of the stolen items (photograph of the cremation niche/items if available)
• Name of the deceased person(s)

Investigators will review your request and contact you with instructions on how to proceed.

A 45-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman, both of no fixed address, were charged in November 2025 for indignity to a dead body, theft under $5,000 and possession of property obtained by crime.

“These crimes are deeply disturbing and strike at the heart of our community’s sense of dignity and compassion,” Deputy Chief Roger Wilkie said in a statement.

Police are asking anyone who believes items belonging to a loved one may have been stolen to contact investigators.

— with files from Global News’ Aaron D’Andrea

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Ottawa and Alberta have reached a prospective deal they say will see major projects be approved more efficiently.

In a joint announcement, the two governments say they’ll work together when addressing the broader impacts of these projects, including on the environment.

They say projects that fall under Alberta’s jurisdiction will rely on the provincial regulatory process and Alberta’s process will be integrated with Ottawa’s for projects involving federal land and jurisdiction.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says in a news release the agreement is a meaningful step forward and should mean shovels hit the ground faster.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says it’s the next phase in the new partnership between Alberta and Ottawa following last year’s landmark energy deal.

The two governments say the new agreement is expected to be finalized in the coming weeks after collecting public feedback.

— More to come…

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The Saskatchewan Roughriders say fans have taken them up on pre-game drinking and barbecuing in the parking lot outside Mosaic Stadium.

The club says many have entered the lottery to win tailgating passes for the upcoming season.

It says the passes are to cost $500, and they were only made available to season ticket members.

The Roughriders say it doesn’t have exact number of entries, but have called it a “strong response.”

The deadline to enter the lottery has expired, and those who win the random draw receive two parking spots — one for their vehicle and one for their setup.

The pass covers the whole season, including home playoff games.

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Police say a 40-year-old Toronto man is facing fraud charges in an alleged multimillion-dollar investment scam.

York regional police say the investigation began in March 2025 after a person reported the alleged scam.

Police say in February 2024 the person was promised a return on an investment made with the suspect, the owner of Equity Line Service Corporation.

Last February, police learned of five other people who had invested with the same man, who investigators suspect misappropriated the money for personal gain.

They say he received more than $2.5 million in investments.

Police say the man was charged with six counts of fraud over $5,000 in December and they are now releasing his name and image because they suspect there may be more victims.

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Quebec’s Superior Court heard arguments Friday in a case about a high school teacher who alleges her Charter rights were violated when she was ordered to hide a student’s gender identity from their parents.

The teacher, identified only through the initials A.B. in court documents, alleges she was asked to use masculine pronouns for the student during class and feminine ones with the student’s parents at risk of losing her job in 2023.

The court withheld the teacher’s name to protect the identity of the student in the case.

The teacher has taken the government to court, seeking to invalidate a provincial education policy that allows students 14 and up to change the name and pronouns used in school with or without parental consent.

The provincial Education Ministry introduced the policy in 2021 to ensure the inclusion of all people with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions in schools.

The policy stresses that confidentiality is “extremely important.”

The teacher said the provincial policy left her feeling uncomfortable speaking to the parents about their child.

She also alleges the school’s instructions had violated her freedom of conscience and freedom of expression.

The court is now reviewing arguments about whether some witnesses providing statements in the case can remain anonymous, testing the limits of what’s in the public interest.

Two legal clinics, Juritrans and Our Duty Canada, are intervening in the case.

Our Duty lawyers collected affidavits from parents of transgender children across Canada and two adult women who detransitioned after starting a gender transition in high school.

The teacher’s lawyer, Olivier Séguin, argued the identity of all affiants should be withheld from court documents to ensure they do not rescind their testimony. Some also requested their testimony be for lawyers’ eyes only.

He said their perspectives are vital for the court to hear balanced positions and are of public interest. However, many only agreed to submit their testimony under condition of anonymity and “zero risk.”

According to Séguin, the affiants worry about their relationships with their children – whose medical histories and psychosocial information is detailed in the testimonies – and of negative repercussions given “the societal context” and sensitivity of the topic.

Juritrans disagrees with this approach, noting a judge already granted limited confidentiality for all trans minors in the case.

Juritrans lawyer Lex Gill said she would not be able to properly cross-examine witnesses if the judge approved the anonymity requests, which would extend to her clients.

Juristrans intervened in the case to represent the interests of transgender youths and students, including a minor who agreed to testify.

Gill said the clinic is “seeking to protect the constitutional rights of directly affected by the policy” the teacher wants nullified.

She added there is “no legal standing” to grant anonymity to protect from “personal conflict, embarrassment and the usual stress of participating in court procedures” or to “instrumentalize” the personal information of third parties without their consent.

She is asking the judge to waive Séguin and Our Canada’s confidentiality requests, saying it goes against the spirit of public interest and the open court system.

The judge’s decision is expected to land in a few weeks.

The court has not yet set a date to hear arguments in the wider case.

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