OTTAWA – The Ottawa Senators have been swept out of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Logan Stankoven the go-ahead goal in the third period as the Carolina Hurricanes defeated Ottawa 4-2 to win the teams’ first-round series 4-0.

Taylor Hall added a goal and an assist before Sebastian Aho buried two pucks into the empty net for the top seed in the Eastern Conference. Frederik Andersen made 25 saves. Seth Jarvis chipped in two assists.

Drake Batherson, with a goal and an assist, and Dylan Cozens replied for the Senators, who put up just five times in four games and never led against the Hurricanes. Linus Ullmark stopped 26 shots. Rookie defenceman Carter Yakemchuk added two assists in his playoff debut.

Of the 213 NHL teams to fall behind 3-0 in a seven-game series, just four have come all the way back to win — the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs, 1980 New York Islanders, 2010 Philadelphia Flyers and 2014 Los Angeles Kings.

Ottawa also trailed last spring’s first-round matchup with Toronto 3-0 after seven years outside the post-season tournament before eventually falling in six games.

Stankoven scored his fourth goal in as many contests at 9:10 of the final period on a power play off rebound from the end boards.

Batherson came close to equalizing again with six minutes at the side of Andersen’s to go before Carolina was whistled for too many men. But Ottawa’ anemic power play again couldn’t generate any quality looks against a high-pressure penalty kill.

Aho scored into the empty before Cozens made it 3-2 with 1:51 left on the clock. Aho then sealed the series for good with another empty netter.

Carolina took the first two contests at home in the best-of-seven matchup — 2-0 and 3-2 in double-overtime — before grinding out a 2-1 victory in Game 3.

The Senators’ battered blue-line took another big blow Thursday when Jake Sanderson suffered a concussion after taking an illegal check to the head from Hall.

The smooth-skating 23-year-old joined Artem Zub (undisclosed injury) and Nick Jensen (knee) on the sidelines to continue an injury trend in a campaign that has seen Ottawa use 12 defenceman since the Olympic break.

Carolina opened the scoring in a physical, nasty second period when Hall beat Ullmark five-hole at 15:15 after Mark Jankowski made a big shot block at the other end.

Ottawa’s power play — 0-for-12 in the series entering play and without much going Saturday — finally broke through 17:08 when Drake Batherson tipped a Tim Stutzle one-timer past Andersen inside the towel-waving Canadian Tire Centre after Ullmark denied Jordan Staal in alone short-handed.

Emotions boiled over earlier in the period after Senators defenceman Tyler Kleven crushed Hurricanes counterpart Alexander Nikishin with a huge hit that left the Russian dazed and needing help off the ice.

Stutzle nearly scored on a short-handed breakaway before Ottawa captain Brady Tkachuk started throwing his weight around on Hall and Jalen Chatfield. A massive scrum ensued at centre after the whistle, with Carolina tough guy Nicolas Deslauriers seeking retribution.

The Senators failed to connect on a 5-on-3 power play — shades of a disastrous two-man advantage in Game 3 — before the teams traded late goals.

Ottawa hit numerous posts and crossbars in the first three games and again found iron early in the first when Lars Eller scooped a puck just off target from in tight.

The Senators had another got a two-man advantage for 33 seconds later in the period, but failed to register shot on target.

Ullmark robbed Staal at the other end on a Carolina man advantage before Nikolas Mantipalo blocked a Aho effort from the slot.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 25, 2026.

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A 30-year-old man is dead following a shooting in Toronto’s west end late Friday night, police say.

Toronto Police Service said officers attended the area of Scarlett Road and Scarlettwood Court shortly after 10 p.m. for reports of gunfire. They found a man inside a parked vehicle who was suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Police have identified the victim as 30-year-old Ahmed-Nur Ismail, a Toronto resident. His connection to the neighbourhood has not been confirmed.

Police said in a conference Saturday that three unidentified suspects entered Scarlettwood Court and opened fire before fleeing the scene in a vehicle.

Authorities have not released suspect descriptions, and said it is too early in the investigation to determine whether the shooting was targeted or what led up to it.

Residents reported gunshots and screaming, and expressed concerns about safety in the community. Police said additional resources will be deployed in the area as the investigation continues.

Anyone with information or dashcam footage is encouraged to contact investigators.

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Governor General Mary Simon will be in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., next week to support the community’s “ongoing healing journey” months after a deadly mass shooting claimed eight lives.

The Office of the Secretary to the Governor General says in a statement that Simon will visit the community for three days starting Monday.

It says she will meet with local officials including Mayor Darryl Krakowka, and firefighters, paramedics and members of the Tumbler Ridge and Chetwynd RCMP detachments who responded to the shooting.

The statement says Simon will also visit the memorial site for a “moment to reflect,” and to place a “paper heart with a message written on it.”

It says Simon will meet with students, school staff and others impacted by the shooting, an event that will be closed to media.

The statement says mental health is a “central focus” of Simon’s mandate and she plans to spend time with mental health workers to find out about the services being made available in Tumbler Ridge after the tragedy.

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TORONTO – Success in the NBA playoffs is all about adjustments. Who can make the necessary tweaks to adapt their game to what the series demands?

For renowned napper Brandon Ingram, that means moving up his bedtime.

“Trying to get in the bed earlier today,” said Ingram after practice at Toronto’s OVO Athletic Centre. “My girl’s around so she’ll get on my nerves enough where I just want to go to sleep.”

Turning in early will be a necessity for Ingram — and anyone else on the Raptors who likes to nap — as Toronto hosts the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 4 of their opening round series at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday. Cleveland leads the best-of-seven matchup 2-1.

Starting centre Jakob Poeltl isn’t sure if the unusually early tipoff will help or hinder either team.

“It might, it might not, but it’s the same for both teams,” he said. “I don’t think it really matters. We have early games throughout the season every now and then, so everybody should know what it feels like. I think we’re fine.

“It kind of changes the routine, obviously, because all day just kind of changes, but you still try to do the same things before the game.”

Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic said he scheduled Saturday’s off-day practice to line up with Sunday’s start time to helps his players create a rhythm for the weekend.

“We’re giving guys 24 hours to get ready until tomorrow,” said Rajakovic. “We’ve got to focus on things that we’re controlling.

“Those are our defensive, offensive fundamentals, our culture. That’s the main focus of it. There is not much you can do regarding your body clock.”

Toronto looked flat in back-to-back losses to start the series in Cleveland but routed the Cavaliers 126-104 in Game 3 on Thursday. Ingram said it was because everyone was more aggressive on defence.

“They didn’t make as many shots. We tried to slow down (all-star guards) Donovan Mitchell and (James) Harden a little bit more,” said Ingram. “I think Harden still got some shots that he wanted, of course, but we just tried to limit Donovan Mitchell’s touches in that game and just make them take tough shots.

“Guys just stepped up. We needed everybody, and everybody was there.”

The Raptors announced on Friday that Immanuel Quickley would miss the rest of the team’s first-round series. Quickley had missed the first three games against Cleveland with a right hamstring strain.

He had been progressing through escalating tests but aggravated the injury on Thursday when doing the latest round of tests.

Poeltl, who was an effective pick-and-roll partner with Quickley in the regular season, said Toronto wants the point guard back as soon as possible.

“He’s been somewhat of a staple, at least with me, on the court, for me to play off of,” sad Poeltl. ” quick. But now we just got to make the most of what we have. Like I said earlier, we have a deep team. We have a lot of team, a lot of guys that can come in and have an impact on this team. So we just got to go to the next option.

Quickley averaged 16.4 points and 5.9 assists in 70 starts this season. He had missed all of Toronto’s playoff games, including Toronto’s 126-104 Game 3 win, before he was officially ruled out for the rest of the series.

Second-year guard Ja’Kobe Walter started in Quickley’s place for Game 3. Jamal Shead had been in the lineup for the first two games of the series.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 25, 2026.

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A proposed treaty that would grant the Red River Métis greater self-governance is moving through Parliament, but First Nations leaders are urging Ottawa to halt the legislation, warning it could infringe on existing treaty rights.

The Manitoba Métis Federation said the Red River Métis Self-Government Recognition and Implementation Treaty reached second reading in the House of Commons this week, marking a significant step forward.

However, the Assembly of First Nations is opposing the bill, saying First Nations were not adequately consulted and that no new treaties should be established on their traditional territories.

National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak said the proposed legislation lacks clarity around territorial scope.

“The undefined territorial scope of the Red River Métis within the bill would set the stage for expansive Métis jurisdiction over areas that conflict with the existing rights and jurisdiction of First Nations,” she said.

Much of Canada is already covered by historic treaties, and some First Nations leaders warn that introducing a new agreement could create overlaps and lead to prolonged legal disputes.

The Manitoba Métis Federation has said the treaty is not about land or resources, but rather about recognizing Métis self-government and addressing longstanding historical grievances.

The Federation considers the Manitoba Act, 1870 to be its original negotiated agreement with Canada, though Métis were not formally recognized as a distinct nation at the time.

While Métis leaders say the new agreement has been decades in the making, First Nations leaders maintain it must not supersede their treaty rights or inherent sovereignty, and warn they are prepared to challenge it in court.

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ANAHEIM – NHL star Connor McDavid and top forward Leon Draisaitl were given a breather Saturday while the Edmonton Oilers plotted ways to plug a leaky defence.

The Oilers, who reached the Stanley Cup final each of the last two years, trailed the Anaheim Ducks 2-1 in their best-of-seven, first-round series.

Edmonton fell 7-4 to the Ducks in Game 3 at the Honda Center. Seven goals in one playoff game was a Ducks record.

Game 4 is Sunday in Anaheim followed by Game 5 in Edmonton on Tuesday.

Edmonton has have given up 16 goals to the speedy, young Ducks over the first three games of the series.

“The simplicity, the hardness, the attention to defensive hockey hasn’t been very good, and we need to get back to that simplicity and hardness to our game,” Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch said Saturday at the Honda Center.

The Oilers were particularly porous in the latter stages of Game 3. They couldn’t stay above the puck enough to protect a 3-2 lead in the second period.

“Yeah, we’ve got to just manage the puck better,” said Edmonton defenceman Evan Bouchard. “They’re putting up a lot of goals. We know we can score. We know they can score, so it’s a matter of keeping the puck out of our end and our net.”

McDavid and Draisaitl took Saturday off for maintenance, Knoblauch said.

Draisaitl, who missed the last 14 games of the regular season with a knee injury, led the Oilers in post-season points with a goal and five assists.

The line of Draisaitl, Kasperi Kapanen and Vasily Podkolzin has been Edmonton’s top performer in the series, but there’s a drop-off after that.

Whether McDavid is dealing with an issue beyond his ankle roll in Game 2 or not, the Ducks smell blood in the water around Edmonton’s captain,

Anaheim has largely contained a player who led the NHL playoffs in points three of the last three years, but hasn’t been on his usual cracking playoff pace to start this year’s post-season.

McDavid’s first goal of the series Friday was also Edmonton’s first power-play goal. He assisted on another goal for his first multi-point game this post-season.

But McDavid was also minus-4 in the game and minus-6 in the series alongside Bouchard also at minus-6.

“Trying to make too many fancy plays, myself especially,” Bouchard said.

Top-line winger Zach Hyman was minus-5 and shutdown defenceman Mattias Ekholm minus-2 after three games.

“We need our best guys to be our best guys and they’ve carried the load so much and that’s forwards and defence,” Knoblauch said. “Overall, collectively we need to be better.”

Goaltender Connor Ingram’s numbers weren’t flattering, but there was little he could do in the face of Anaheim’s multiple odd-man rushes in Game 3.

When asked if Ingram would start again Sunday, Knoblauch replied “we haven’t decided.” Tristan Jarry was Ingram’s backup the home stretch of the regular season.

Third-line centre Jason Dickinson skated Saturday. After scoring two goals in a 4-3 victory in Game 1, he was scratched the next two with a lower-body injury.

“It’s just been killing me to watch,” Dickinson said. “Today went really well, but this has kind of been a day-to-day thing that I’m really trying to manage as best I can.

“If I wake up tomorrow and feel good, I’m definitely playing.”

The Oilers trailed the Kings 2-1 in the first round last year and won the series in six games. Edmonton was down 2-1 to the Canucks in a second-round series in 2024 and took it in six.

Edmonton dropped the first three games of the 2024 Stanley Cup final to the Florida Panthers, but forced a Game 7.

So there’s enough players in Edmonton’s lineup who know what it takes to recover when trailing in a series. It’s a matter of applying it now.

“We are in a fight right now,” Bouchard said. “We know we’ve got better to play, but … we’ve been in worse spots before. It’s time to take a step forward as a group.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 25, 2026.

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Donald Trump said he cancelled a planned trip by U.S. representatives to Islamabad to meet Iranian officials, citing delays and internal divisions within Iran’s leadership.

“Too much time wasted on traveling, too much work,” Trump said in a statement on TruthSocial Saturday afternoon.

“There is tremendous infighting and confusion within their leadership. Nobody knows who is in charge… we have all the cards, they have none.”

The remarks came as Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, left Pakistan on Saturday evening before any sign that U.S. envoys had arrived for expected indirect ceasefire talks, two Pakistani officials told The Associated Press.

“Have yet to see if the U.S. is truly serious about diplomacy,” Araghchi posted after meeting with Pakistani officials.

Iran has said any negotiations would be conducted indirectly, with Pakistan relaying messages between the two sides.

An open-ended ceasefire has paused most fighting, but the economic fallout grows with global shipments of oil, liquefied natural gas, fertilizer and other supplies disrupted by the near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Iranian officials have openly asked how they can trust the U.S. after talks last year and early this year over Tehran’s nuclear program ended with it being attacked by the U.S. and Israel.

The price of Brent crude oil, the international standard, is still nearly 50% higher than when the war began because of Iran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz, leaving global economic uncertainty high.

Meanwhile, Trump announced Thursday that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to extend a ceasefire by three weeks. Hezbollah has not taken part in the Washington-brokered talks.

– With files from The Canadian Press

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The Gardiner Expressway is closed in both directions between the Humber River and Spadina Avenue this weekend for scheduled maintenance work.

The closure began Friday at 11 p.m. and is expected to remain in place until approximately 5 a.m. Monday.

City officials say crews are working around the clock on street lighting, traffic sensors, catch basin flushing and guardrail repairs.

Crews also plan to start paving once weather conditions improve.

The city says the full weekend closure is intended to avoid multiple overnight disruptions and is urging drivers to plan alternate routes.

With several major sporting events and other large-scale gatherings underway across the city this weekend, some commuters and residents have taken to social media to voice their concerns.

“With the number of events this weekend, none of this sounds critical or time sensitive enough to close the Gardiner for,” said Vlad Petrov on X.

Next month, the Don Valley Parkway (DVP) will also be fully closed from Highway 401 to the Jarvis Street ramp on the Gardiner Expressway from 11 p.m. on Friday, May 8, until 5 a.m. on Monday, May 11.

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Since 2011, the residents of the Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie riding in Montreal have voted to make New Democrat Alexandre Boulerice their representative in Ottawa.

On Monday, Boulerice will thank those voters for that support and ask that, in this fall’s provincial election in Québec, they make him their representative in Québec City, as the Québec Solidaire MNA for the riding of Gouin.

It is a huge loss for the federal NDP who, with Boulerice’s departure, will have not a single MP east of downtown Winnipeg. There will be no New Democrat in Canada’s national legislature from Ontario nor Québec nor any Atlantic Canada province. That has not happened since the 1993 general election when the NDP, under then leader Audrey McLaughlin, managed to win just nine seats spread across Saskatchewan, Manitoba, B.C. and McLaughlin’s own riding in the Yukon.

Mark Carney’s Liberals will be keen to keep any orange off the electoral map in eastern Canada by stealing Rosemont from the NDP in the byelection that will determine Boulerice’s successor.

And the governing party’s control of the timing of  that byelection could tilt the odds of that steal in the Liberals’ favour.

Rosemont will not be the only riding this spring to lose an MP who wants a chance at a seat in the provincial legislature. Liberal Nate Erskine-Smith has promised to quit as the MP for the Toronto riding of Beaches-East York as he pursues the chance of becoming the leader of the Ontario Liberal party. He hopes to launch that pursuit by winning a byelection that Ontario Premier Doug Ford must soon call in the provincial riding of Scarborough Southwest. (Erskine-Smith may not win the Liberal nomination for Scarborough Southwest but set that story aside. He told a local media outlet, the Beach Metro Community News, that he will quit federal politics this summer even if he does not win that nomination.)

The simultaneous vacancies in Rosemont and Beaches will put the federal NDP in a pickle.

It cannot abandon the riding of Rosemont and must defend that seat vigorously with a leader, Avi Lewis, whose ability to speak French is still a work-in-progress.

And yet: a riding like the Beaches is precisely the kind of downtown, urban riding that New Democrats must win as they look to rebuild their electoral coalition. Beaches’ residents elected a New Democrat in the Jack Layton Orange Crush sweep of 2011. The provincial riding of Beaches-East York, which shares the same boundaries as the federal riding, elected a New Democrat in 2018 and the provincial NDP, in the 2024 general election, won the ridings on Beaches’ eastern and western borders.

Forget for a moment that the New Democrats, in last spring’s federal election, notched less than seven per cent of the popular vote. The NDP vote cratered everywhere.

Instead, look to the NDP vote share in other elections. During all of the elections where the progressive/left-of-centre Justin Trudeau was Liberal leader, the NDP routinely won more than 20 per cent of the Beaches vote. And in elections where the Liberal leader was more centre/centre-right — that would be Paul Martin and Jean Chrètien — the NDP in Beaches generally scored better than 30 per cent of the vote.

So, with enough money and work — and perhaps even a candidate named Avi Lewis — the NDP should be competitive in the Beaches. It might even have a shot to win a byelection, a byelection, it should be noted, where the voters will know that the Liberals will hold on to their majority no matter the outcome.

But the federal NDP, right now, is financially vulnerable. So, from a strategic standpoint, the Liberals will try to get the NDP to fight a two-front war, if you will, in the hope that NDP resources it can divert from Rosemont to the Beaches will help the Liberals win Rosemont.

There is another reason the Liberals will want to run byelections in Rosemont and Beaches at the same time — and I’m grateful to for Conservative national campaign manager Fred Delorey for flagging this: The Liberals can get a two-to-one financial advantage over the other suitor for the Rosemont seat, the Bloc Québecois.

The financial advantage comes from the spending limits set under federal elections law. Be it a byelection or a general election, local campaigns have to abide by a set spending limit set by Elections Canada. On this front, the BQ and the Liberals will be equal when it comes to Rosemont. But there is a separate spending limit for the national campaign and that spending limit is based on the number of candidates a party runs in a general election or, in this case, in two or more byelections held on the same day.

But even though the spending limit for a national party is based on the number of candidates it is running, the national party can spend the money anywhere it wants. So the credit the federal Liberals get for running a candidate in Beaches can be spent supporting the Liberal candidate in Rosemont. Unless the BQ runs a candidate in Toronto — unlikely, one would think — the BQ does not get that extra spending authority in Rosemont.

This just happened, by the way, in the April 13 byelections. The federal Liberals took money they were allowed to spend as a result of running candidates in two Toronto ridings — both easy favourites — and diverted it to the Montreal riding of Terrebonne. There, in a close race, they defeated a BQ candidate who had to fight the Liberal machine with less money (and fewer volunteers).

Like University-Rosedale and (the federal riding of) Scarborough Southwest, the Liberals would still be heavy favourites in Beaches-East York. Which makes it likely that the federal party would divert funds it would have been allowed to spend on the race in Beaches to support a steal of an NDP seat in Rosemont.

David Akin is the chief political correspondent for Global News.

 

 

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