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The Edmonton Oiler gave goaltender Tristan Jarry his first start of this year’s NHL playoffs in Game 4 of a first-round series against the Anaheim Ducks.

The Oilers, trailing the best-of-seven series 2-1 heading into Sunday’s game at the Honda Center, have been outscored 16-12 in the first three games.

Connor Ingram went 1-2 in the first three games with a .470 goals against average and .849 save percentage.

Edmonton acquired Jarry in December in a trade with Pittsburgh that sent longtime starter Stuart Skinner to the Penguins.

Jarry, who was injured early in his tenure with the Oilers, went 9-6-2 after he arrived in Edmonton. The 30-year-old from Surrey, B.C., got his first playoff start as an Oiler and first since 2022 with the Penguins.

Oilers forward Jason Dickinson also drew back into the lineup after missing two games with an injury.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 26, 2026.

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Provincial police say one person has died after a boat overturned in the St. Lawrence River on Saturday night.

OPP say there were multiple people on board when the 15-foot aluminum boat capsized.

Police say one person was reported unaccounted for and firefighters later found a 41-year-old Ottawa resident unresponsive in the water.

OPP say the person died in hospital.

Police say the incident happened just north of Grenadier Island in the township of Leeds and the Thousand Islands, about 50 kilometres downstream from Kingston, Ont.

OPP say the investigation continues.

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Vancouver marks one year since the deadly Lapu Lapu Day festival tragedy. And with the FIFA World Cup just weeks away, locals still have questions about impacts of the tournament coming to the city.

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Manitoba could soon be the first province in Canada to ban social media, including AI chatbots, for youth, Premier Wab Kinew said this weekend.

Kinew’s announcement at an NDP fundraiser in Winnipeg comes as other provinces and the federal government are considering whether to implement similar restrictions.

“As your premier, my most sacred responsibility is the protection and the safety of our children,” he said.

“We are going to take action on things that are really harming our kids. These are forces that contribute to anxiety and depression, these are forces that lead young women and girls being trafficked and these are forces that lead to too many of our precious children taking their own lives. I’m talking about social media.”

Kinew said the platforms are doing “very, very awful things” to children, adding they’re designed to get people “addicted to the infinite scroll” by triggering the release of dopamine.

The premier’s plan for a ban isn’t new.

Members of the federal Liberal party voted earlier this month to set 16 as the age for Canadians to be able to use social media accounts during the party’s policy convention.

A few days later, Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra said the Progressive Conservative government is also considering a total, province-wide prohibition on cellphones in elementary and high schools, along with a social media ban for children under 16.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe has said his government plans to ask the public their views on a ban.

These actions follow Australia passing its social media ban for the same age group in December. That law will also make platforms like TikTok and Meta liable for fines of up to C$45.5 million for systematic failures to prevent children under 16 from holding accounts.

But while some provinces and the federal Liberals have suggested it, Kinew appears to be the first to be moving forward with it, though he did not say when his plan will be enacted. He also didn’t specify the age range the law will target, or how a provincial government could have jurisdiction over such platforms.

Carmi Levy, a technology analyst, said in an interview that the way a ban be implemented is another obstacle.

He said the law in Australia requires social media companies to implement age verification technologies, but also to use AI to scan accounts for signs of whether they are the age they said they were when signing up.

“It’s not 100-per cent solution,” he said. “Kids are managing to bypass it in Australia, and I think we would have to expect that the same thing would happen here, both in Manitoba as well in Canada.

“The trick is to ensure that the vast majority of kids are targeted, that the mass majority of kids are given other alternatives to unmitigated social media access and that their safety is maximized.”

Support for such rules around social media nationally is high, with an Angus Reid Institute poll in March finding banning those under 16 from the platforms would be “well-received.” About 75 per cent of those surveyed said they support a full ban. The poll also showed 70 per cent of parents with kids in the household support the idea.

There have also been questions since the mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School about how the person behind the tragedy used OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The 18-year-old was banned from using the AI chatbot due to worrisome interactions, but the company did not alert law enforcement and the shooter got around the ban by having a second account.

Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman issued an apology letter to Tumbler Ridge, saying the company was “deeply sorry” it did not alert law enforcement to the account that was banned in June.

Federal Culture Minister Marc Miller has said earlier in April that the decision about a potential ban would be left to an expert panel currently examining online harms, to weigh in on whether the bill should cover AI chatbots.

“We owe the next generation of Manitobans a simple promise, freedom,” Kinew said on Saturday.

“Freedom from screen time. Freedom to be a kid and to enjoy this beautiful place that we call home by going outside and playing with your friends in person.”

The Manitoba legislative assembly is expected to sit for four more weeks before summer break and not reconvene until the end of September.

—with files from Global News’ Hersh Singh and The Canadian Press

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Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette will travel to Washington on Monday for her first official foreign mission.

She will arrive there just as the U.S. capital has been shaken by what appears to be another assassination attempt targeting President Donald Trump.

The visit comes just two months before trade negotiations begin on the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, scheduled for July 1.

Quebec companies have been significantly impacted by a series of tariffs introduced by the Trump administration since he took office in 2025.

During her visit, Fréchette is scheduled to meet Canada’s ambassador to the United States, Mark Wiseman, and participate in a roundtable with American and Canada–U. S. business associations.

She also plans to hold talks with congressional contacts whose names have not been disclosed.

The United States remains Quebec’s top trading partner, receiving 73.5 per cent of its exports in 2024, worth $91.2 billion. The exports mainly consist of aerospace products, aluminum, aircraft engines, and mineral goods such as gold, silver, platinum group metals and their alloys.

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The man accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner railed against Trump administration policies and referred to himself as a “Friendly Federal Assassin” in writings sent to family members minutes before an attack that authorities increasingly believe was politically motivated, according to a message reviewed by The Associated Press.

The writings, sent shortly before shots were fired Saturday night at the Washington Hilton, made repeated references to President Donald Trump without naming him directly and alluded to grievances over a range of administration actions, including U.S. strikes on boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Investigators are treating the writings, along with a trail of social media posts and interviews with family members, as some of the clearest evidence yet of the suspect’s mindset and possible motives.

Authorities also uncovered what one law enforcement official described as numerous anti-Trump social media posts linked to the suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old California man accused of trying to breach a security checkpoint at the dinner while armed with multiple guns and knives.

Suspect’s brother reached out to Connecticut police

Allen’s brother contacted police in New London, Connecticut, after receiving the writings, according to a law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The New London Police Department said in a statement it was contacted at 10:49 p.m., about two hours after the shooting, by an individual who wanted to share information related to it. The police department said it then immediately notified federal law enforcement.

Federal agents have also interviewed Allen’s sister in Maryland, who told investigators her brother had legally purchased several weapons from a California gun store and stored them at their parents’ home in Torrance without their knowledge, according to the official.

She described her brother as prone to making radical statements, the official said.

The writings examined by AP ran more than a thousand words and read as a rambling, deeply personal message, opening almost jarringly with a casual “hello everybody!” before shifting into apologies to family members and co-workers, and even strangers he feared could be caught in the violence. The note moved between confession, grievance and farewell, with Allen thanking people in his life even as he sought to explain the attack.

Elsewhere, he veered between political anger, religious justifications and rebuttals to imagined critics. He also made a taunting critique of security at the Washington Hilton, mocking what he described as lax precautions and expressing surprise he was able to enter the hotel armed without detection.

AP limits the use of attackers’ writings and social media posts to avoid amplifying their views or encouraging copycat actions. The AP chooses to summarize their words and focus mainly on the victims and investigations.

Allen legally bought a .38-caliber semiautomatic pistol in October 2023 and a 12-gauge shotgun two years later, according to the law enforcement official, and another one who also spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation.

Acting head of Justice Dept. says Trump officials were targets

Allen is believed to have traveled by train from California to Chicago and then onto Washington, where he checked himself in as a guest days earlier at the hotel days earlier where the gala dinner was held with its typically tight security, said acting attorney general Todd Blanche. He is believed to have acted alone and is set to face criminal charges on Monday.

Allen attempted to charge toward the cavernous ballroom at the Washington Hilton but was tackled to the ground in a violent scene that resulted in shots being fired, Trump being hurried off the stage unharmed and guests ducking for cover beneath their tables.

“It does appear that he did in fact set out to target folks who work in the administration, likely including the president,” Blanche told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

A profile of the shooting suspect emerges

Social media posts that appear to match the suspect show he is a highly educated tutor and amateur video game developer.

A May 2025 profile photo of Allen appears to match the appearance of the man in a photo of the alleged attacker being taken into custody that was posted Saturday night by Trump. The photo, posted to the social networking site LinkedIn, shows him in a cap and gown after graduating with a master’s degree in computer science from California State University, Dominguez Hills.

Allen earned a bachelor’s degree in 2017 in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He listed his involvement there in a Christian student fellowship and a campus group that battled with Nerf guns.

A local ABC station in Los Angeles included an interview with Allen during his senior year of college as part of a story about new technologies to help people as they age. He had developed a prototype for a new type of emergency brake for wheelchairs.

Allen contributed $25 to a Democratic Party political action committee in support of Kamala Harris for president in 2024, according to federal campaign finance records.

Chaotic scene unfolded minutes after gala began

The shooting at the security barricades happened minutes after the event got underway.

The Secret Service and other authorities swarmed the room as guests ducked under tables by the hundreds. Gasps echoed through the ballroom as guests realized something was happening. Hundreds of journalists immediately got on phones to call in information.

“Out of the way, sir!” someone yelled. Others yelled to duck. From one corner, a “God Bless America” chant began as the president was escorted offstage. Outside the hotel, members of the National Guard and other authorities flooded the area as helicopters circled overhead.

After an initial attempt to resume the event, it was scrapped for the night and will be rescheduled.

Trump was unusually conciliatory after what he saw as a third attempt on his life in less than two years. He suggested that his personal politics had made him a repeated target, but he also called for unity and bipartisan healing in an increasingly violent world.

“It’s always shocking when something like this happens. Happened to me, a little bit. And that never changes,” Trump told reporters in a hastily organized news conference at the White House late Saturday.

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As the United States prepares to mark 250 years since declaring independence from Britain, King Charles III is set to visit Washington for a state visit that underscores how far the relationship between the two countries has come.

U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will host the King and Queen Camilla from April 27 to 30, marking the first official state visit of Trump’s second term.

The visit will include a formal arrival ceremony, a bilateral meeting and a State Dinner, along with military honours and a 21-gun salute, highlighting the longstanding alliance between the two countries.

But beyond the pageantry, analysts say the visit comes at a sensitive geopolitical moment.

“It’s going to be a very structured, very tightly scripted event,” royal historian Justin Vogue said in an interview with Global News. “Any sort of mending of fences that we might hope could come from this visit will be happening behind the scenes in private conversations.”

Among the issues expected to come up privately are tensions tied to the conflict in Iran, as well as renewed questions around the United Kingdom’s claim to the Falkland Islands — a long-standing territorial dispute that has recently resurfaced in discussions between allies.

“There’s a very strong possibility that this issue around the Falklands is something that will be discussed behind closed doors,” Vogue said.

“There’s a strong likelihood that this is one of the key factors in driving this visit,” Vogue added, noting the trip was undertaken at the request of the British government.

While neither side has publicly confirmed the scope of those discussions, state visits often serve as a platform for leaders to address complex issues away from public scrutiny. At the same time, the optics of the visit carry their own significance.

A British monarch returning to Washington during a milestone year for American independence highlights the evolution of a relationship born of conflict.

Since the early 19th century, the United States and the United Kingdom have developed one of the closest alliances in the Western world, a partnership that continues to shape global security, trade and diplomacy.

“It is about attempting to restore, renew, shore up what has been a centuries-old alliance,” Vogue said

In addition to official meetings, the visit will also include cultural and educational events, including a joint appearance by the first lady and the Queen with students at the White House, focused on shared history and cross cultural exchange.

For the public, the visit may appear largely ceremonial defined by tradition, symbolism and spectacle.

But behind closed doors, it is expected to be a moment of strategic conversation between two long-time allies navigating an increasingly complex global landscape.

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Canadians love their coffee. It’s now the number one consumed beverage, even surpassing water.

However, costs have been on the rise for years, with the price of a brew increasing 81 per cent over the last two decades.

Kim Rashley-Anton, co-owner of McQuarrie’s Tea & Coffee, says this has led to the shop having to raise their prices.

“For 2025 it was a very big increase, and we increased our prices then. For the moment we are hoping to remain stable until the time that we can’t,” explains Rashley-Anton.

Fortunately for this historical Saskatoon shop, customers have still been coming in to buy tea or coffee beans on a consistent basis.

This may be correlated to more and more residents in Saskatoon saying they prefer to brew their own cup of joe at home.

“Can’t do better than my own brew, so rarely I go out,” says one Saskatoon resident.

Despite the rise in price and consumers brewing at home, cafe culture still remains incredibly trendy thanks to a rise in Gen Z preferring a more artisan roast.

“Good coffee is good coffee, and I think people just don’t want crummy coffee,” shares Rashley-Anton.

Studies show younger adults are willing to pay more for coffee to make sure it is ethically sourced or supporting local or Indigenous brands. This is helping specialty roast shops like The Columbian Coffee Bar & Roastery to thrive, with seven stores across Edmonton and one location in Saskatoon.

“We started because we wanted to bring coffee from my family’s farm in Colombia. I am originally from Colombia,” notes Santiago Lopez, co-owner of The Colombian Coffee Bar & Roastery.

Lopez knows the only thing better than a cup of great coffee is the people you share it with.

“We have been so intentional about building community, opening in neighbourhoods — not downtown or busy areas. We want to create gathering spots so we can see families and neighbours coming and getting together,” explains Lopez.

This philosophy has made the roastery the 15th best coffee shop in all of North America, Central America and the Caribbean, reflecting the surge in consumers wanting high-quality brews.

“People need coffee and we are here, introducing them to the best specialty coffee coming out of Colombia,” notes Lopez.

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TORONTO – Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic had a brief Serbian vocabulary lesson for Toronto reporters and fans after a 93-89 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Inat, pronounced ee-nut, is a concept beyond grittiness.

“It’s proving everybody wrong, in spite of everything. That’s the state of our team,” said Rajakovic during his post-game news conference. “All of our guys, they have a chip on the shoulder.”

“They’re coming every single day to to put extreme work in to play for this city. I would use that word — inat.”

Brandon Ingram and Scottie Barnes had 23 points apiece as the Raptors withstood a late Cavaliers charge on Sunday to tie up the best-of-seven series 2-2. Game 5 will be in Cleveland on Wednesday and Game 6 will be back at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena on Friday.

The Raptors pulled off the win despite a woeful shooting performance, making 31 of 97 (32 per cent) field goals and 4 of 30 (13.3 per cent) three-point attempts.

It was the lowest shooting percentage for a winning team in a playoff game since the NBA-ABA merger in 1976.

“It’s the grind and fight that we had, the attention to detail and rebounding the ball, and taking care of the ball, all the stuff that we preach night in and night out that came out in the game,” said Rajakovic. “We just never, never flinched. We continued guarding and guarding.

“I told our guys at halftime that it was awesome that we’re shooting 27 per cent from the field, 15 per cent from the three-point line, but I was lying. I told them that we’re going to shoot better in the second half, but we did not.”

Barnes had nine rebounds and six assists. He said that Rajakovic deserved credit for creating such a resilient team identity, but wouldn’t go so far as to say the Raptors have a chip on their shoulder.

“We’re just trying to go out there and win, take it one possession at a time,” said Barnes. “That’s all we’re focusing on, taking it one possession at a time.

“If they go on the run, how can we go on a run ourselves? What can we do better? How can we focus on keep getting better each and every single day? We’re just enjoying that process.”

Ingram had six rebounds and was responsible for three of Toronto’s three-pointers. It was arguably his best playoff performance in a Raptors uniform, as he had struggled through the first three games of the series.

Going into Sunday’s game Ingram averaged 12 points, three rebounds, three assists and a steal, shooting 39.4 per cent on field goals and 33.3 per cent on three-pointers. Both of those rates are well below Ingram’s career marks of 46.9 per cent on field goals and 36.6 per cent on threes.

“All my teammates have been there through ups and downs, telling me to keep shooting and if they’re open, they tell me to pass it,” said Ingram. “All the information they give me is good information that propels me for the game.”

R.J. Barrett of Mississauga, Ont., had 18 points and eight rebounds for his hometown team, while rookie centre Collin Murray-Boyles had a double-double off the bench with 15 points and 10 boards.

“(Rebounding) is just something that I do. Something that I’ve been successful with throughout the post-season,” said Murray-Boyles. “Obviously, we need that more as the series goes on and as we keep playing these really tough games.

“We need everybody so the things that I do we need it times 10.”

Donovan Mitchell had 20 points, including 12 in the fourth quarter, to lead the Cavaliers’ late rally. He had six rebounds and his four three-pointers matched Toronto’s entire output from beyond the arc.

James Harden added 19 points with eight assists for the Cavs.

According to simulations run by Basketball-Reference.com, the Raptors had only a 26.9 per cent chance of winning the first round series. With the best-of-seven series now tied 2-2, Toronto has upended expectations.

Ingram said that he and his teammates know the Cavaliers won’t go quietly.

“We’ve got to expect a fight,” said Ingram. “Back in their territory (for Game 5), their fans are going to be super loud, bringing the energy, and we’ve got to be ready for Donovan Mitchell to bounce back.

“All their guys are going to be ready so we’ve just got to be ready too.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 26, 2026.

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A Toronto man could soon join a small club of people in the world considered cured of HIV following a bone marrow transplant to treat cancer that left the immunodeficiency virus in remission.

The 62-year-old man, identified by the health officials only as the “Toronto patient,” had developed acute myelogenous leukemia in 2021 and underwent a bone marrow transplant at University Health Network’s Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.

The procedure involved donor stem cells that were selected because they contained a rare genetic mutation called “delta-32.”

According to the UHN, Unity Health Toronto and University of Toronto, the CCR5 gene encodes a protein on the surface of human immune cells that HIV enters and infects. Those with the delta-32 mutation in the CCR5 gene don’t make the receptor protein, making them resistant to HIV infection.

“One per cent of people of European ethnicity have bone marrows that are resistant to HIV infection,” said Mario Ostrowski, a clinician-scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital. “A bone marrow transplant from these donors can provide a potential cure.”

In the case of the Toronto patient, that appears to be exactly what happened. The case was presented Saturday at the Canadian Association of HIV Research Conference in Winnipeg.

Dr. Sharon Walmsley, director of the HIV clinic at UHN, said it’s a big change for the man.

“This person now has an immune system that cannot be affected by HIV,” Walmsley said. “He is quite amazed by all of this… When we told him that we believe him to be cured, he was pretty astounded.”

According to the hospital groups, the man was first diagnosed with HIV in 1999 and has been living with the virus for 27 years, taking antiretroviral therapy (ART) to suppress virus levels.

He stopped taking the medication in July 2025 and, as of April 2026, is in sustained remission with HIV levels undetectable. If he remains at this level for two-and-a-half years after stopping ART — approximately the end of 2027 — he will be considered cured of HIV.

The process to find the bone marrow to treat the man’s leukemia meant starting a search for the right match.

Dr. Jonas Mattson with the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre said doctors first checked to see if there was a familial match, which there wasn’t. This prompted a wider search, using global databases to search by tissue type. Doctors can search among 47 million potential donors worldwide using the German and U.S. registries, which accounts for roughly half of all potential donors worldwide.

“The idea is to find as good a match as possible because that will increase the chances that the transplant will be successful,” Mattson told Global News. “So we did that but at the same time since we knew that this patient was HIV positive, we thought that, OK, maybe we can also cure the HIV.”

During their search, doctors found three matching donors who carried the mutated protein.

“The patient’s old immune system was completely gone and replaced by this new immune system and the cancer was gone,” Mattson said. “But the interesting thing is also that this new system was resistant to HIV, meaning that the patient couldn’t get infected or get his cells, the new cells infected.”

While the results are promising, Mattson cautioned people shouldn’t look at this case as a definite method to treat or cure HIV.

Dr. Tommy Alfaro Moya, also at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, said it is still a “wonderful” outcome.

“This is not a procedure that you would get to get rid of your HIV,” Alfaro Moya said.  “This was a very wonderful, extraordinary outcome of the transplant, but it was not the primary outcome why this individual got a transplant.”

Even though HIV treatment wasn’t the focus, Walmsley said it underscores the need for people to register as donors, which can help lead to further breakthroughs.

Such cases support scientists in their continuing research into treatments to eliminate HIV from a body, she said, which could help also tackle the stigma still present for those with the virus.

“The thing is, this particular mutation is fairly rare and so there really did require an international search in order to be able to find the bone marrow that had the right mutation that would allow this patient to be cured from their HIV,” Walmsley said.

“So it’s really important that we have donors and we have registries so that we’re able to identify the specific bone marrows that we need when patients like these come around.”

—with files from Global News’ Katherine Ward

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