London, Ont. - Liam Greentree of the Windsor Spitfires tips in his 30th goal of the season in a Windsor win over the London Knights on Feb. 27, 2026 at Canada Life Place.
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A four-goal burst in just over four minutes in the second period lifted the Windsor Spitfires to a 6-1 win over the London Knights at Canada Life Place on Feb. 27.
Liam Greentree recorded a hat trick for Windsor as he started the scoring with a deflection in front at 3:27 of the first period to reach 30 goals on the season.
London held the Spitfires to just three shots on goal over the first 20 minutes and tied the game 1-1 as Jaxon Cover rifled home a Will Nicholl feed at 12:55.
Cover’s goal moved him into sole possession of fifth place in OHL rookie scoring with 18 goals and 43 points on the year.
Ethan Belchetz came out from behind the London net and scored his 33rd goal of the year at 6:36. Then, just 23 seconds later, Greentree’s second of the game gave Windsor a 3-1 lead.
Greentree completed the hat trick at 9:29 of the second period to extend the Spitfires lead to 4-1.
Before the end of the second a bounce found Chicago Blackhawks prospect Alex Pharand at the edge of the Knights crease and he put a backhand past Alexei Medvedev and the Spitfires went to the dressing room with a four-goal lead.
The teams went 51 minutes before the first minor penalty of the game was officially recorded.
On the ensuing Windsor power play A. J. Spellacy nudged a puck across the goal line to finish the scoring at 12:26 of the third period.
A penalty had signalled in the second period but a goal was scored on the delayed call so the penalty did not end up on the scoresheet.
The Spitfires outshot the Knights 30-18.
Windsor was 1-for-1 on the only man advantage of the game.
Up next
The Knights will be on the road for back-to-back games against the Brampton Steelheads at 4 p.m., on Saturday, Feb. 28 and then in Kitchener to kick off the month of March at 2 p.m., against the Rangers.
London has not seen the Steelheads since Sept. 26 when Brampton eked out a 2-1 win in London.
The Knights will be meeting the Rangers for the sixth and final time during the regular season and Kitchener has been on a run.
In the 29 games they have played since the trade deadline where they acquired former Knights players Sam O’Reilly and Jarred Woolley they have lost just one time in regulation.
Coverage of both games can be heard on 980 CFPL, at www.980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.
At least 15 people are dead after a Bolivian air force cargo plane skidded off the runway and slammed into a vehicle on a busy highway near the Bolivian capital Friday. Officials say dozens more people were injured.
A cargo plane carrying money crashed Friday near Bolivia’s capital, damaging about a dozen vehicles on highway, scattering bills on the ground and leaving at least 15 people dead and others injured, an official said.
Defense Minister Marcelo Salinas said the Hercules C-130 plane was transporting newly printed Bolivian currency when it “landed and veered off the runway” at an airport in El Alto, a city adjacent to the capital of La Paz, before ending up in a nearby field. Firefighters managed to put out the flames that engulfed the aircraft.
Fire chief Pavel Tovar said at least 15 people died but he did not clarify if the dead were in the plane or in the cars on the nearby highway.
Salinas did not specify how many people had been killed in the crash and said the cause was being investigated.
Bolivian Air Force Gen. Sergio Lora said two of the plane’s six crew members had not been found as of late Friday, adding that the aircraft was arriving from the eastern city of Santa Cruz.
Images on social media showed debris from the aircraft, destroyed cars and bodies scattered on the road. According to Tovar, at least 15 vehicles were damaged.
The plane, belonging to the Bolivian air force, was transporting money to La Paz and images on social media showed people rushing to collect the bills scattered at the crash site, while police in riot gear tried to disperse them.
Tovar said the hundreds of people trying to collect the spilled bills were hindering rescue efforts.
More than 500 soldiers and 100 police officers took control of the area to disperse the mob, according to official reports. Police and military personnel burned the cash boxes in the presence of Central Bank President David Espinoza, who said the bills “have no legal value because they never entered circulation,” without clarifying what that meant.
Espinoza did not specify the amount of money being transported but he said the banknotes had arrived in Santa Cruz from abroad.
Authorities temporarily suspended all flights to and from the terminal.
As Kelowna deals with an increase in social disorder and crime, the city's top cop is calling for a lot more RCMP officers than are currently allocated in this year's budget. Klaudia Van Emmerik reports.
When Kelowna, B.C., Mayor Tom Dyas took the city’s top priorities to Victoria this week, they included social disorder concerns.
Dyas met with provincial ministers, including Attorney General Nikki Sharma.
Among the things Dyas advocated for included more Crown prosecutors and an involuntary compassionate care facility.
However, the mayor stopped at asking for more RCMP funding to help bolster RCMP resources.
“At this particular point in time we are not asking for more police officers,” Dyas told Global News at the legislature in Victoria Thursday.
“We deal with that through our normal budget process and we’ve gone through the budget process at this point in time.”
The 2026 budget has allocated funding for four additional RCMP officers, but according to the detachment’s officer-in-charge, far more are needed to meet current policing needs.
“We require more police officers to meet the service levels that’s expected from the community,” Supt. Chris Goebel said when addressing council on Feb. 9.
When asked by city councillor Ron Cannan how many more are needed, Goebel said more than 30.
“To meet the summer call response, as well as the front-line call response and to add sufficient foot patrols to meet the need, about 32 officers,” Goebel said.
Dyas declined Global News’ request for an interview to explain why he didn’t ask for more RCMP dollars while in Victoria.
“If the professional assessment is telling us that we need 32, that’s a gap,” said Rhonda Lindsay, owner of Train Station Pub. “Clearly we need to do something. Kelowna is growing and we have to grow with it.”
Lindsay is just one of many business operators where social disorder is having ongoing impacts.
“Broken windows, broken-into cars, broken-into equipment,” Lindsay said when describing regular occurrences.
In the city’s Rutland area, where crime is top of mind, residents also voiced concerns about the need for more policing resources.
“We do need more, especially with what’s going on with the homeless and drug people,” said Rutland resident Shannon Doherty.
“They definitely need more cops in the area,” said Rick Wabi, another Rutland resident. “They have to re-shuffle some of the money, I guess.”
While many agree that policing is only one part of the solution to social disorder and repeat offenders, it’s a piece many don’t want to see fall behind.
“Kelowna is an incredible city and we need to give it the care that it deserves and that is with policing. It’s with mental health support. It’s with dealing with all of our from prosecutors,” said Lindsay. “It’s a full package.”
Family and friends of two homicide victims in Chilliwack say they're still searching for justice two-and-a-half years after their deaths. As Taya Fast reports, the case has yet to go to trial while the accused remains out on bail.
The family of a couple killed in Chilliwack in 2023 held a rally outside court on Friday to voice their frustrations at ongoing delays for justice.
“There has been over 35 court dates and it’s been two and a half years and there is still no trial,” Joy Finnigan, the couple’s daughter, said.
“This is about a violent crime, a double homicide. Our parents. The accused is still free in the community this entire time. He spent five days in jail with no psychiatric assessment. And he’s been free since then.”
Robert Freeman, 83, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder in their deaths. Police believe the killings were a result of a dispute between neighbours.
“Over the last two and a half years, we have attended court over and over and over again and all of these dates lead to nowhere,” Finnigan said.
“Every single time we’re here. It brings trauma and it makes us relive the worst moments of our lives. There’s no closure, no healing and no sense of safety.”
Global News has reached out to the BC Prosecution Service for information on Freeman’s next court date and when a trial might start.
“Our parents were part of our lives,” Finnigan added.
“They were our support system. We spent time with them on a daily basis. They supported not just helping with our household and our children, but they were very important friends and within the community itself. So this doesn’t just impact the family, but it impacts everybody.”
Close family friend, Tasey Taylor, said she can’t believe the level of systemic failure of the system in this case.
“It’s cruel treatment for people who have endured the most painful experience of their life to be coming back here over and over and being re-traumatized and watching this happen,” she said.
“Past what the loss that was inconceivable in the first place, but then to see the repeated failure of this system. It’s hard to describe … and even going in there this morning and seeing that we’re all in the same space as this man. And the family is expected to be in the same space while we’re waiting.
“It just seems unfathomable that it’s happening in Canada, honestly.”
Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand speaks as she arrives for a meeting of the federal cabinet, in Ottawa, on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Canada’s foreign affairs minister is urging Canadians in parts of the Middle East to consider leaving while commercial travel options remain available, warning that Ottawa’s ability to provide help during an active conflict would be limited.
In a statement issued late Friday, Anita Anand said the security situation across parts of the region remains “volatile and unpredictable,” and advised Canadians to remain vigilant, monitor local and international media, and follow instructions from local authorities, including any orders to shelter in place.
The statement says Canadians in Israel, Palestine and Lebanon should consider departing while commercial options are still available.
This comes as U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he’s “not happy” with the latest talks over Iran‘s nuclear program but indicated he would give negotiators more time to reach a deal to avert another war in the Middle East.
As American forces gather in the region, Trump has threatened military action if Iran does not agree to a far-reaching deal on its nuclear program, while Iran insists it has the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes and denies seeking a nuclear weapon.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long urged tougher U.S. action against Iran, and has warned that Israel will respond to any Iranian attack.
Canadians in Iran are being urged to leave immediately if they can do so safely. The federal government notes there is no Canadian embassy in Iran and that its ability to provide consular services there is extremely limited, particularly during an active conflict.
Anand also cautioned that Canada’s capacity to carry out evacuations or assisted departures during a conflict would likely be limited.
The statement says Canadians in the region are advised to prepare contingency plans that do not rely on the Government of Canada for evacuation assistance.
The minister said the safety and security of Canadians at home and abroad remains the country’s top priority. She encouraged travellers to monitor official travel advisories for their destination and to register with the Registration of Canadians Abroad service to receive updates. Those already registered are being asked to ensure their contact information is accurate.
WATCH: Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says his main focus for his trade mission to India is removing tariffs on pulse products, following his Friday arrival in Mumbai.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says India’s tariffs on Canadian lentils may increase upon landing in India for a trade mission with other Canadian delegates.
Speaking to reporters upon landing in Mumbai on Friday, Moe says he would “love to see” tariffs removed on pea, lentil and bean products — also known as pulses — before the end of the trip next week. However, he added that it wasn’t likely that all products would see tariff removals.
“I’ve heard some discussion that in the case of lentils that there’s some discussion that they might actually increase to some degree,” Moe said.
India currently has a 10 per cent tariff on Canadian lentils.
The country also placed a 30 per cent tariff on Canadian yellow peas in November to protect its local producers.
India is a major importer of Canadian pulses, accounting for over 50 per cent of all pulse imports from 2000 to 2020, according to Pulse Canada.
Moe will be in India until next week and says he will be focusing on advancing trade with India on Saskatchewan staples like potash and uranium, alongside agriculture.
“We have a tremendous opportunity to actually advance that trade and not only into other products but into larger volumes of the products that we do,” he said.
Trade with India has been under fire as of late, with threats of foreign interference from the country an ongoing concern.
The day before Prime Minister Mark Carney’s official visit to Mumbai and New Delhi, a senior official said the government believed India was no longer plotting attacks on Canadians.
The official’s comments at a press background briefing were the first to suggest India had halted the clandestine operations that Canada has linked to a murder and other violence.
But Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree on Thursday would not fully agree with that statement when asked multiple times. Instead, Anandasangaree said there are outstanding issues about the safety and security of Canadians that are being worked out with India.
As for Moe, he wants to continue doing business with India despite the disagreements.
“It’s important to be at the table in those countries where we have differences, but also where we also have opportunities and points of agreement to be able to talk our way through potentially what those disagreements are,” he said.
The delegation will travel to New Delhi next week before heading to Australia and Japan.
Moe will not be joining the rest of the delegation on the trip beyond New Delhi and will instead stay back to attend the Raisina Dialogue conference in the city, he told reporters.
The Raisina Dialogue runs from March 5 to 7, meaning he will be overseas when Saskatchewan’s spring legislative sitting kicks off on Monday.
WATCH: The newly-tabled Alberta budget isn't going over well at Calgary City Hall, and it has the city's mayor calling for more transparency. The province has increased its share of property taxes to help fund education, and it's set to cost the average Calgary homeowner an extra $340 this year. Adam MacVicar reports.
Alberta’s newly-tabled budget, and its impact on local property taxes, is facing criticism from Calgary council and the city’s mayor, who is calling for more transparency around how the money will be spent.
On Thursday, the provincial government unveiled its budget with a second straight increase to the education property tax rate to generate $3.6 billion; $1.2 billion of that has been requisitioned from the City of Calgary.
New city data shows the move means that 42 cents of every property tax dollar collected in Calgary will go to the provincial government.
At a press conference Friday, Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas expressed his disappointment in the budget’s impact on city taxpayers.
“It is looking a lot like Calgary’s deal in Alberta is very similar to what Danielle Smith says Alberta’s deal is in Canada,” Farkas said. “But, for us, we want to come to the table, we want to be collaborative, we want to work with the provincial government.”
Although Farkas noted some “positives” in the budget, including funding for affordable housing and for maintenance for seniors homes, he questioned what Calgarians are getting back from the money sent to the province.
The increase is expected to cost the typical Calgary homeowner an extra $340 this year.
A comparison of the impact to the typical Calgary homeowner from city and provincial property tax increases over the last three years.
City of Calgary
In comparison, city council whittled down the property tax increase in its budget back in December to 1.6 per cent, which is expected to cost the average homeowner an extra $54 in 2026.
“We did the work,” Farkas told reporters. “To have a scale of increase 10 times the tax increase being lobbed by the provincial government in a single year without any kind of head start or notice, that is just incredibly egregious.”
The provincial budget does include billions of dollars in continued and previously-announced investments for Calgary, including ongoing funding for the Green Line LRT, upgrades to Deerfoot Trail, and the infrastructure around the new event centre, as well as $67 million over three years for the city’s court of appeal, and $10 million for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Other provincial facilities in the city also saw a boost, including the Foothills Medical Centre Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the Calgary Radiopharmaceutical Centre, the Alberta Kidney Care, Bethany Continuing Care Centre and the Bridgeland Riverside Continuing Care Centre.
However, Farkas said it was “sobering” the budget didn’t include a mention of the Prairie Economic Gateway project, or the Bearspaw feeder main, which has prompted an emergency replacement after two critical ruptures in less than two years.
“If there wasn’t a huge tax increase, I wouldn’t be expecting add-ons for the City of Calgary,” Farkas said.
Finance minister Nate Horner defended the tax hike during a post-budget address to an audience of the city’s business community at a luncheon hosted by the Calgary Chamber of Commerce.
Horner said the increase is to help fund a third of the education ministry’s operating budget, which was telegraphed in last year’s budget.
“We didn’t want to put it all onto folks in one year, so we staggered it over two,” Horner said. “I’m surprised that everyone is this surprised, to be honest.”
Horner told the audience that the education budget is $10.8 billion this year, and the construction of new schools is “dominating” the provincial capital budget.
He said out of 40 new schools announced this year, 14 will be in Calgary.
While the investment and new schools are welcomed, Ward 10 Coun. Andre Chabot, who was also in attendance at the event, said the funding is addressing matters that fall under provincial jurisdiction.
“The majority of the things he was talking about are things that fall under provincial obligations, not municipal obligations,” Chabot said. “He didn’t talk about water infrastructure for the City of Calgary, he talked about infrastructure, alright, but provincial infrastructure.”
Chabot said the budget is “seriously lacking” in support for municipal infrastructure.
Ward 13 Coun. Dan McLean said the property tax increase will be challenging to stomach for some residents.
“This is going to be a really tough sell to Calgarians,” McLean said. “I think it’s very important that we let our residents know what the province is requesting from them and what the city is taking from them, because this is a large increase.”
Farkas said city council will be discussing measures to respond to the property tax increase, which could include sending two separate property tax bills to Calgarians.
Late Friday, Farkas called a special council meeting on March 4 for that debate.
In comparison, the education property tax requisition is nearly $640 million in Edmonton, which is expected to cost the typical homeowner in that city an extra $154 this year.
WATCH: Family-run Villeray bakery speaks out after OQLF accuses it of excessive English-language posting on social media.
A well-known Armenian bakery in Montreal’s Villeray neighbourhood says it was shocked to receive a notice from Quebec’s language watchdog over the use of English in its social media videos.
Lamajoune Villeray Bakery, a family-run business operating for 40 years, recently received a letter from the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) stating that videos posted to TikTok contained too much English and did not comply with the province’s French language charter.
The charter requires that French be the predominant language in commercial communications, including online content.
“All the family was obviously shocked. We couldn’t believe that we had received this kind of letter,” said Charbel Hannan, who runs the bakery alongside his parents.
Hannan said the family has always aimed to serve its clientele in French and English and never intended to diminish the role of French.
“Our point was never to undervalue French. We are Québécois, let’s not forget this — we are a Québécois company,” he said, adding that the bakery has already been producing content in both languages.
In a statement, the OQLF said English content on social media is permitted, but the amount of French content must be equivalent.
The bakery, known for its homemade Armenian specialties, says it respects its French-speaking customers. One client interviewed in the shop said she had never seen the bakery’s social media content but has always been served in French.
Since news of the notice became public, Hannan said the business has received an outpouring of community support.
He added that the bakery’s social media views have grown significantly in recent days as more people learn about the family business and its story.
The English universities won a ruling last April after the Superior Court overturned the hike of about $3,000, finding that it was unreasonable.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
Concordia and McGill universities say they are abandoning their legal challenge against the Quebec government’s decision to maintain a 33 per cent tuition hike for out-of-province students.
The English universities won a ruling last April after the Superior Court overturned the hike of about $3,000, finding that it was unreasonable.
But the province formally entrenched the tuition increase in a revised framework published in January, saying the government wanted to ensure Quebec taxpayers weren’t subsidizing the education of out-of-province students.
Premier François Legault has said the tuition hike is in part to reduce the number of English-speaking people in Montreal and protect the French language.
McGill University says that while it doesn’t believe the government’s response respects the 2025 court ruling, the school has decided that further litigation would undermine the university’s objectives.
A spokesperson for Concordia University says the school doesn’t have the financial means to continue the challenge and hopes it can work productively with the government.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 27, 2026.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is praising Winnipeg Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck for his performance in this year’s Winter Olympics, but says when it comes to promoting sport and respect, the entire U.S. men’s hockey team was way offside.
Kinew, speaking to reporters in Winnipeg, made the comment when asked about the American players celebrating in their dressing room after their gold medal win over Canada and laughing at disparaging comments about the gold medal-winning women’s team made by U.S. President Donald Trump.
“The women’s team, for America, deserved a lot better than they got, both from the men’s team but also from their president,” Kinew said Friday.
“With Hellebuyck, I’m a Winnipeg Jets fan, so I’m going to bite my tongue about the Trump stuff. But (to Hellebuyck), win a Stanley Cup for our city now.”
The Michigan-born Hellebuyck was considered the difference maker, as he fended off waves of Team Canada attacks en route to a 2-1 overtime victory Sunday. Days earlier, the U.S. women’s hockey team capped off a dominant Olympic tournament performance with a 2-1 gold medal overtime win over Canada.
Kinew said lucky bounces, upset wins and losses are part of sport, but the U.S. team missed the bigger picture.
“The reason I’m a hockey parent is because I want (my kids) to learn life lessons,” the premier said. “I want them to learn how to play on a team. I want them to learn how to overcome adversity. And I want them to learn how to be respectful.
“I think on that count, the Team USA men’s team failed us.”
After the men’s win, Trump dialed into the U.S. dressing room and invited them to attend his state of the union address two days later. The president added that he would have to invite the women’s team as well or he’d risk being impeached, which led to players laughing at the comment many saw as sexist.
A number of players, including Hellebuyck, joined Trump at the White House on Tuesday and were later cheered at the Capitol during his speech. The women’s team didn’t receive a congratulatory call from the president and politely declined the invitation to attend.
Trump also announced Hellebuyck would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honour.
The dressing room phone call got political on both sides of the border this week, as various Olympic players returned to their NHL teams. Many on the U.S. men’s hockey team said they were caught up in the celebration. Boston Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman said they “should have reacted differently” to Trump’s remarks.
The Jets are on a California road swing and fighting for a playoff spot. Hellebuyck was expected to rejoin the team for a game Friday night against the Ducks in Anaheim.
In a team video interview posted Thursday, Hellebuyck addressed the controversy.
“We were so excited, on Cloud 9 coming into that (dressing) room, and then some things unfolded. And I’m sorry that that’s the way that they unfolded,” he said.
“It’s very unfortunate (with) the criticism that we’re taking for all this, because that’s not the way we intended it.
“We used the women’s gold medal game as a motivation for us to win gold.”
Hellebuyck said he went to the White House to celebrate a historic win in a historic place.
It still feels “surreal” to earn the Presidential Medal of Freedom, he said, and he was “shaking” after getting the news.
In Winnipeg, fans have found many ways to describe Hellebuyck’s Olympic-winning performance: spectacular, lights out, team-shouldering, but also heartbreaking.
“He had a tournament for the ages,” said Jeff Baquiran, a Jets superfan. “When the chips were down and everything was on the line, he came up when he had to and, yeah, wrong team.”
Michael Dube said it stung to see the goaltender lead a charge to beat Canada. “We outplayed them throughout the whole game, basically,” he said.
Tony Ollenberger, a Jets fan from Saskatoon, said he hopes to see the same gold medal-level performance from Hellebuyck in an NHL jersey. “Why couldn’t you be that guy in the Jets uniform instead of just always in a Team USA uniform?” Ollenberger asked.
The Jets return home Tuesday for a game against the Chicago Blackhawks.
In the video interview, Hellebuyck said now comes the awkward part.
“Because I play in Winnipeg and I play in a Canadian city, where I’ve given my heart and soul for my entire career,” he said.
“To go into a moment like that where now I have to kind of break the hearts (of the fans) of where I play, it’s tough mentally.
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