Ottawa police say they're investigating what they consider a hate-motivated assault.
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Ottawa police say they’re searching for a man after a woman had her hijab removed in what is being considered a hate-motivated assault.
At about 11 p.m. Saturday in the 100 block of Woodridge Crescent, police responded to a report of the assault. According to officers, a man approached a woman unprovoked and uttered a racial slur before “forcibly removing her hijab” and throwing an umbrella at her.
The suspect, police said, fled on foot and was unknown to the victim. He remains at large.
The woman was not injured.
The West Criminal Investigations Section and Hate Crime Unit are continuing the investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 613-236-1222, extension 7300, and reference case 26-170255.
Anonymous tips can also be given to Crime Stoppers.
RELATED: City of Calgary defends weeknight concert curfew, noise rules for this year's Stampede
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says “the fun police have struck” Calgary after the city announced it’s turning down the sound dial for its upcoming rodeo and music festival.
Smith claims in a post on X that Calgary’s recent decision to lower music volume thresholds during the Calgary Stampede will negatively affect workers and create crowd-control issues, as festivalgoers will leave early.
She says Calgary’s Mayor Jeromy Farkas and council need to rethink the new restrictions.
A memo Farkas posted on X says the city notified in February venues operating past midnight that permissible sound levels during the July event have been reduced by five decibels, bringing the maximum decibel threshold to 70.
After midnight on weekends, the memo says music bass levels can go up to 80 decibels, which is five decibels less than what was allowed last year.
The memo, signed by Calgary’s chief of community standards, says the new restrictions come after the city received 225 noise complaints from residents, with many saying that their windows were vibrating and items were falling off shelves and tables during last year’s festivities.
Firefighters battling a wildfire near Lytton, B.C., say cooler temperatures and light winds helped overnight but that fire activity could increase throughout the day as temperatures climb.
An update posted online Sunday by the BC Wildfire Service says crews overnight prioritized the protection and defence of structures near the Saw Creek wildfire burning south of Lytton.
The report says firefighters and aircraft continue to focus on securing the perimeter of the communities near the fire.
It says temperatures are expected to be between the mid-20s to low-30s on Sunday and relative humidity will trend lower, “meaning there is the potential for fire activity to increase throughout the day.”
The latest estimate puts the size of the out-of-control fire at about seven square-kilometres, up slightly from Saturday.
The wildfire has triggered evacuation orders and alerts in the area, affecting more than 230 properties, while also shutting down a more than 115-kilometre stretch of Highway 1.
The Lytton First Nation has also issued an evacuation order for some of its residents.
The wildfire broke out on Friday, near the fifth anniversary of the June 30, 2021, inferno that had razed the town and claimed two lives.
The regional district has declared a state of emergency in Lytton and Blue Sky County, as 135 firefighters, nine helicopters and structure protection crews work to contain the flames.
As of Sunday morning there were 18 active wildfires in the province, with two listed as out-of-control.
RELATED: U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s political future in doubt
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing a career-defining decision: step down or fight a possible challenge from Labour Party rival Andy Burnham.
Starmer has publicly vowed to stay in office, but pressure is building as more and more Labour Party colleagues conclude that his time is up. Expectation is growing that he will announce a timetable for his resignation as soon as Monday. That’s the day Burnham will be sworn in as a lawmaker in the House of Commons after winning a special election last week.
Business Secretary Peter Kyle said Sunday that Starmer is “making time to reflect on the political realities, challenges and opportunities that he finds himself in.”
“I know he is a prime minister who always puts his country first,” Kyle told the BBC, though he said that reports that Starmer will resign are “speculation.”
Starmer is spending the weekend at Chequers, the country mansion used by prime ministers, with his family. He gave no public hint about his decision, but sent a Father’s Day message on social media.
“Being a dad is my greatest joy. Today, I’m thinking about my dad, and the father I am to my children because of him,” he wrote on X.
U.S. President Donald Trump weighed in even before an announcement, linking Starmer’s potential exit to two of his recurring bugbears: immigration and renewable energy.
“Keir Starmer will resign as Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. He failed badly on two very important subjects- IMMIGRATION AND ENERGY (OPEN NORTH SEA OIL!). I wish him well! President DJT,” Trump posted on his Truth Social network.
It was unclear whether Trump was responding to media reports about Starmer’s plans. The two leaders haven’t spoken over the weekend.
Starmer’s initially warm relationship with the president has soured in recent months over issues including the Iran war, which the U.K. didn’t join.
If Starmer quits, he will be the sixth prime minister to leave office in the past 10 years, an extraordinary rate of churn for the United Kingdom.
Discontent with the prime minister has been building for months, with Labour lawmakers desperate to reverse the government’s decline in popularity since Starmer led the center-left party to a landslide election victory in July 2024.
He has struggled to deliver promised economic growth, repair tattered public services and ease the cost of living, and has been hamstrung by repeated missteps, including his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson, a scandal-tarnished friend of Jeffrey Epstein, as the U.K. ambassador to the United States.
Labour is losing liberal voters to the growing Green Party and facing a rising Reform UK, the Nigel Farage -led anti-immigration party that consistently leads in nationwide opinion polls.
Burnham, until this week the popular mayor of Greater Manchester, decisively won the seat of Makerfield in northwestern England in a special election held Thursday. He took almost 55% of the 45,510 votes cast, over 9,000 more than the Reform UK runner-up.
Now that Burnham is becoming a lawmaker, he’s in a position to challenge Starmer for leadership of the Labour Party. Burnham’s acceptance speech left no doubt that he wants to lead both the party and the country.
“Everyone knows that politics isn’t working,” he said. “Everyone can feel that the country isn’t where it should be. Tonight could, just could, be the turning point.”
It’s unclear whether Burnham would face a coronation or a challenge, if Starmer steps aside. Wes Streeting, who resigned as health secretary last month to protest Starmer’s leadership, has said that he will run in a contest if there is one.
Starmer congratulated Burnham on Friday, but insisted that he would fight any attempt to oust him.
“I will run, I will stand,” if there is a Labour leadership contest, Starmer said. “I’ve said repeatedly I’m not going to walk away from that.”
But Charlie Falconer, a senior Labour member of the House of Lords, said Saturday that Starmer has “absolutely no authority” left.
“There should be an agreed transition process in which Andy and Keir cooperate as to when the handover should take place,” he told the BBC.
WATCH: A powerful storm dumped up to 150 millimetres of rain on parts of Montreal in just a few hours Saturday, overwhelming sewers and flooding hundreds of homes.
Thousands of people in Montreal are without power, and some basements are inundated with water after heavy rain made its way through the region, causing flooding and outages.
According to Environment Canada, some parts of Montreal’s West Island and South Shore received between 100 and 150 millimetres of rain in just a few hours on Saturday.
“The situation is extremely serious,” said Jim Beis, mayor of the Montreal borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro.
He said his community saw numbers higher than Environment Canada’s report, estimating 150 to 170 mm fell in about two hours. The mayor added “several hundred” homes were severely flooded, and roads were closed in both Pierrefonds and Dollard-Des Ormeaux.
Communities in Pointe-Claire and Dorval have also been affected to certain extents, he said, according to his counterparts in those boroughs.
Hydro-Quebec said as of Sunday morning, about 4,500 addresses were still impacted by service interruptions.
The municipality of Saint-Constant, southwest of Montreal, had to declare a local state of emergency. The mayor lifted the emergency at approximately 10:40 a.m., but a statement said residents continue to be supported.
Montreal Fire Division Chief Martin Guilbault said Sunday the department received about 800 calls since about 3 p.m. Saturday in the Pierrefonds-Roxboro and Dollard-des-Ormeaux boroughs with 300 homes flooded.
“The main purpose of the fire department right now is to make sure that everyone is safe and there’s no electrical problems,” Guilbault said.
Basements will not be pumped by fire crews, Guilbault said, unless it’s needed to reach electrical panels to shut off the power in flooded homes.
By Sunday afternoon, Guilbault added about 3,000 more people should have power, which would likely reduce those without power to about 1,000 people.
Some evacuations did take place, he said, with about 15 people in cars needing to be rescued using boats. No people in homes needed help from the fire department to evacuate.
Officials said Quebec Public Safety Minister Ian Lafrenière promised to work to get residents the help they need.
Police tape surrounds Tomkins Park as police investigate the suspicious death of a man. Saturday June 21, 2026.
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Calgary police are investigating the death of a man who was found severely injured and died at southwest Calgary Park on Saturday afternoon.
Police were called to a reported assault at Tomkins Park in the 800 block of 17th Avenue just after 5 p.m. where they found a man in medical distress. Despite life-saving efforts, he died at the scene.
One person has been taken into custody.
Both 16th Avenue and 17th Avenue between 7 Street SW and 8 Street SW were closed for the investigation. They have since been reopened.
An autopsy is scheduled for Monday. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at (403) 266-1234. People can also submit anonymous tips through Crime Stoppers.
EDMONTON – The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Jason Dickinson to a five-year contract, the NHL club announced Sunday.
The deal has a US$4 million average annual value.
Dickinson was acquired from the Chicago Blackhawks at last season’s trade deadline and was set to become a free agent in July.
The 30-year-old appeared in 17 regular-season games for the Oilers in 2025-26 tallying a goal along with three assists. In Chicago, he had six goals and seven assists in 47 games.
Dickinson dressed in four post-season games for Edmonton, scoring a pair of goals and an assist.
The six-foot-two, 200-pounder from Georgetown, Ont., was a first-round pick (29th overall) in the 2013 draft by Dallas. He has 172 points (75 goals, 92 assists) in 566 career games having also made a stop in Vancouver.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 21, 2026.
RELATED: South Korean submarine takes part in joint naval exercises in BC
From a massive ad blitz featuring Canadian broadcast icon Peter Mansbridge to a cabinet minister calling on shipbuilders to cough up a car plant, the brief race to replace Canada’s aging submarine fleet turned heads in more ways than one.
The unusually short competition to build the navy’s next submarine fleet seemed to focus on everything but the boats themselves — even though the two vessels in the running are, in some ways, very different.
At no point during the two-year-long procurement competition did the federal government ever really talk about the boats’ capabilities. The navy made it clear very early on that either model would do just fine.
With the July NATO summit right around the corner, the Liberal government is expected to announce its chosen supplier for up to 12 submarines in the coming days.
It’s a massive order, worth tens of billions of dollars — enough to catch the attention of South Korean manufacturer Hanwha as Seoul aspires to make itself the fourth-largest defence exporter in the world.
Hanwha launched a massive ad campaign, plastering airports in Canada with advertisements and hitting broadcast TV and streaming platforms to showcase its KSS-III.
Even its competition — a European market leader responsible for supplying most of NATO’s conventional submarines — took note of the ads that appeared as far away from the coasts as Winnipeg and Calgary.
“This is nuts, honestly,” said Oliver Burkhard, CEO of rival bidder TKMS, in an interview at the CANSEC military trade show in May. “We’re not used to this.”
A scale model of a TKMS (ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems) HDW Class 212CD submarine is shown at the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries annual defence industry trade show CANSEC, in Ottawa, on Wednesday, May 27, 2026.
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His typical competitors — French, Spanish, Italian, British and Swedish submarine makers — “do not do this,” he said. Submarines aren’t supposed to be so visible, after all. These competitions usually focus on what the subs can actually do, and the sales pitches are aimed squarely at governments — not everyone.
“This is unusual. Let them try it,” he added. “If they have success, then maybe say this was a big strategy and we have won this because of our advertising. If they do not win it, then they are the more popular one who has lost … the most popular loser.”
But Hanwha is not a typical competitor. While it has never exported subs before, it boasts of its massive shipyard facility and has offered Ottawa a breakneck delivery schedule.
Hanwha says it is making a long-term play with the ads. It’s a household name in Korea but not yet known in countries like Canada as a top defence supplier, said its Canadian CEO Glenn Copeland.
“It’s about brand recognition and it’s about understanding what our capabilities are, and as people have understood, it’s a pretty powerful company,” Copeland said in an interview days after the big defence trade show.
He said the ads also “certainly got the attention” of several levels of government and resulted in a lot of knocks on their door.
Hanwha might be new to exporting subs but its boats are already being used by the Korean navy. One sailed to Esquimalt, B.C. in May.
The TKMS model 212CD sub is the firm’s latest design and has yet to start rolling off assembly lines. It offers cutting-edge engineering from a long-established manufacturer.
While all subs are quiet, the 212CD has a diamond-shaped hull designed to make it less detectable by sonar.
The TKMS campaign for the sub contract has focused on the fact that Germany and Norway, NATO alliance countries, are buying the same model. Interoperability — doing things like training and repairs together — is a stated goal of the alliance.
While the details of the bids remain classified, the public side of the Korean campaign has wowed some observers.
“Korea has gone all-out to win this,” said Paul Mitchell, a professor of defence studies at the Canadian Forces College. “In some ways, I think it’s theirs to lose.”
Royal Canadian Navy host the Republic of Korea Navy KSS-III, known as Dosan Ahn Chang-ho, during a welcome ceremony at CFB Esquimalt in Esquimalt, B.C., on Monday, May 25, 2026.
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Early on, Hanwha pitched an aggressive delivery timeline — four boats in the water by 2035, then one boat per year. The Germans then revised their own schedule to speed up deliveries late in the game.
Hanwha’s KSS-III is a bigger, more spacious boat than the 212CD, something that can affect modifications and range.
Designed to keep North Korea in check, it also comes with an added capability to vertically launch ballistic or cruise missiles from the sea to hit land targets — something the German boats don’t have.
“The strengths that the German boat has over the Korean boat are harder to quantify — interoperability, the layout of the boat itself, and I would argue the language factor … You’re dealing with navies that have extremely good English-language capabilities,” Mitchell said. “And language is going to be a real significant issue.”
Most experts say the contest appears to be a dead heat or is marginally leaning to one bidder or the other. No one really knows, since Ottawa is keeping it tightly under wraps.
The federal government’s behaviour during the last two years has also been somewhat unusual. It changed the normal rules and processes to speed up what is likely the biggest military purchase in Canada’s history, advancing it by several years.
Ottawa made a surprise move to extend the bid deadline this spring. Industry Minister Mélanie Joly publicly declared she hoped the bidders would include in their packages an offer to open a new car plant in Canada to help the struggling auto sector.
That led to an additional offer from Hanwha — a possible joint venture to build military vehicles.
Those who watch military purchases closely were not entirely shocked.
“I would say that’s par for the course for Canada, honestly,” Mitchell said.
When Canada was about to order its current Victoria subs from the U.K. in the 1990s, he said, Ottawa asked for an extra $50 million discount at the last minute.
With procurement projects this large, economic benefits often come to the fore.
“This is a quite unusual capability acquisition, in part because it’s very significant in value,” said Darren Hawco, a retired naval officer now working with Deloitte.
“While many procurements of military capabilities are modest in value, relatively speaking … this procurement is different because of its size, because of its (geopolitical) strategic alignment outcomes, and because of the economic potential to Canada overall.”
Retired vice-admiral Mark Norman said he’s been “really impressed” by both bidders.
“The Koreans have been extremely aggressive and they have led the way in the public domain. They’ve been out there communicating, not just making deals but also communicating the nature of those deals,” he said.
“The Germans equally have been working hard but more behind the scenes.”
He said he’s not convinced either company has a clear edge since Ottawa’s decision will come down to how it assesses the value of the economic benefits and strategic partnerships on offer. Publicly comparing capabilities only gets a sub maker so far.
“The difference between a Toyota Camry and a Honda Accord is fundamentally buyer preference,” Norman said.
“They both basically do the same thing. They both are the same configuration, basically the same product. They’re just packaged differently and they deliver their capability in slightly different and nuanced ways.”
Officer responded at about 8 p.m. on June 14, after two 14-year-old girls reported being approached by a group of men in the city’s southwest.
Police say the girls were walking in the area of 18A Avenue S.W. and Rutherford Road S.W. when the suspects, who were in a grey Chrysler Pacifica van with heavily tinted windows, began shouting at them in an attempt to lure them into the vehicle.
The van was reported to have five to six males inside, around 30 to 40 years of age, and was driving erratically with the side door open.
Edmonton police have released photos of two vehicles believed to be connected to an alleged, attempted child luring in hopes someone may have information about them.
Source: Edmonton Police Service
Photos of two vehicles, the van and a second silver vehicle that may have been involved, were released by police on Thursday. A photo of a “person of interest” who they believe was driving the second vehicle was also released in hopes people may have information.
On Sunday, police said in an email that the person of interest had been identified.
Global News has been contacted by the parents of one of the girls, whose concern escalated when the van drove past them, made a U-turn and began travelling back toward them again.
The parents say the experience caused the girls to fear for their safety and began to yell for help. A woman nearby called 911 as the girls ran away and the van “quickly” fled the area.
The investigation is still ongoing and police are asking anyone with information to call police.
Lucky Lili is located at the Vancouver International Airport (YVR) near Gate C46. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Recipe: Beijing bolognese
Serves 1
Ingredients
1 Tbsp ground bean sauce
1 Tbsp hoisin sauce
2 Tbsp vegetable oil
¼ cup water
1 tablespoon green onion, sliced, whites and greens separated
½ tsp finely chopped or grated fresh ginger
150 g ground pork OR 150 g medium tofu cut into 1 cm dice
¼ tsp five spice powder
10ml Shaoxing wine or sherry
150 g fresh thin Chinese wheat noodles
2 Tbsp julienned cucumber
Method
In a liquid measuring cup, combine ¼ cup water with the ground bean sauce and hoisin. Mix well and set aside.
To make the ragu, in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, heat the oil until just barely smoking. Add the ground pork (or tofu) and turn the heat to high. While the meat sautés, add five-spice powder. Add the white parts of the green onion and the ginger. Season with salt.
Cook, stirring frequently and breaking up the pork, until the pork has nearly turned brown or the tofu is nicely browned. Add the wine and cook, stirring occasionally.
When the liquid has reduced by about half, add the water and sauce mixture and turn the heat down to medium. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the mixture reaches the consistency of loose gravy. Remove from heat and set aside.
Bring a medium pot of water to a rapid boil. Add the noodles and cook according to the package directions until just al dente, stirring with long chopsticks to prevent clumping. Drain and rinse well with hot water, then transfer to a warm serving bowl.
Top with the ragu on one side and garnish with green onions and cucumber. Toss well to combine and serve.
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