It was a beautiful Sunday in Saskatoon for families out and about on Mother’s Day. To catch a glimpse of this year’s celebrations, Global News travelled to three Mother’s Day events around the city.

To start the day, a wellness and fitness party called engageHER was held at TCU place, hosted by Engage Wellness. The event featured a variety of female-owned wellness vendors and included speakers Kim Deschamps and Sonia Reid. Participants were led through several exercises and dances that got the blood pumping and the party going.

The event’s goal was to inspire mothers and daughters to come together and realize their spiritual, physical and mental strength. The event also served as a fundraiser for SaskAbilities.

After getting their sweat on, families took a quick drive out of the city for a picnic at Crossmount. It was the perfect patio weather mothers to enjoy cider, charcuterie boards and tea. Crossmount is a pet friendly venue, allowing families to bring “fur babies” along for the celebration.

After lunch, the main course was served out at The Berry Barn. Families gathered for a special Mother’s Day menu, including yummy items like perogies, stuffed pork loin, lemon herb chicken and The Berry Barn’s famous Saskatoon berry pie.

The Berry Barn greenhouse officially opened earlier in the week, allowing families to grab some flowers for Mother’s Day.

Watch the video above to see all the festivities in action. 

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A toddler has died after falling from a high-rise apartment building in North York, Ont.

Emergency crews were called to the scene of the building at Don Mills Road and Graydon Hall Drive at about 12:21 p.m. Sunday.

Upon arrival, they found a toddler had fallen from an apartment. The child was pronounced dead at the scene.

The circumstances of the toddler’s death remain under investigation, which Toronto police said is in its early stages.

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On a day moms are feted with brunch and flowers for Mother’s Day, a different kind of observance has taken shape in Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg.

The non-profit Parentless Club has turned what can be a challenging day for those who’ve lost their moms, into what they call The Pity Party You’ll Actually Want to Go To.

Events include crafts, food, drinks and most of all, support from others who understand loss and the complicated relationship with Mother’s Day.

“I still wanted to continue to commemorate my mom and even celebrate my mom on Mother’s Day but I didn’t have a space to do it,” says Parentless Club co-founder Amanda Katz. “So rather than sitting around and wait(ing) for something to happen, I created this event.”

Motherless Day began in Toronto three years ago. Katrina Zborowsky, who lost her mom in a cycling accident in 2020, dreaded the day and happened to be in Toronto for a bachelorette party when she heard about the event.

“Friends convinced me to go and pretty much walked me to the venue and said “If it’s not your space, we’ll come pick you up don’t worry,'” Zborowsky says.

But it was her space. She attended the following year too and this year, brought the event in Winnipeg.

“Its a place to mingle and have laughter and levity on a day that can kind of be tough for us,” she says.

The hope is to see the idea continue to grow to support those who mark the day differently than those who can still celebrate the day with their mothers.

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VANCOUVER –  There were ample lessons for the B.C. Lions to learn under rookie head coach Buck Pierce last season.

Now, with Pierce and his staff heading into their sophomore campaign, the team wants to use that knowledge to take another step in its journey to a Grey Cup title.

“Last year, they were kind of getting to know personnel, we were trying to learn the play book,” Lions quarterback Nathan Rourke said of the squad’s growth.

“Now we know what our strengths are, let’s continue to build on those things. We know what our weaknesses are, let’s improve on those things. I think we have a much better direction going into this training camp and I’m excited to see what that looks like.”

The Lions open camp Sunday in Kamloops, B.C.

B.C. was a solid squad under Pierce in 2025, finishing the regular season with an 11-7 record before falling to eventual Grey Cup champions, the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the West final.

They led the league in net offence (7,743 yards), points (559) and touchdowns (59), but also gave up the third-most points (499) of any CFL team.

There’s a lot to build on heading into 2026, said Lions general manager Ryan Rigmaiden.

“I think there’s going to be less thinking and just more reacting and playing,” he said. “So everybody who’s been in this system already for a year, that’s going to be an advantage.”

Much of last year’s roster remains in tact.

Over the off-season, Rourke signed an extension that will keep him with the club through 2028, while running back James Butler re-upped on a two-year deal and offensive lineman Dejon Allen inked a one-year pact.

The Lions added American linebacker Darnell Sankey, who spent last season with the Montreal Alouettes and former Hamilton Tiger-Cats defensive lineman Casey Sayles, additions that Rigmaiden said make the team tougher to play against.

“I feel like we always want to stay true to what we think are pillars of our philosophy and winning inside out is something we want to do,” he said. “So adding those guys, getting more physical, getting stronger and then adding leaders is something we always want to do.”

B.C. will be without American receiver Ayden Eberhardt, who joined the Ottawa Redblacks in free agency after amassing a career-best 863 yards with four TDs last season.

The team also lost veteran offensive lineman Jarell Broxton to the WinnipegBlue Bombers.

“We lost Jarell last year which, I’m not going to lie, that’s a big piece,” said Canadian o-lineman Michael Couture. “But I’m very confident with the guys that we have that we’re going to be just fine.”

Couture and his teammates will once again be looking to protect Rourke, who’s coming off a campaign where he was named both the CFL’s top Canadian and its most-outstanding player.

Rourke, who turns 28 on May 28, tallied 5,290 passing yards with 31 touchdowns, and added 10 rushing majors himself.

But the 16 interceptions he gave up still play on his mind, Rigmaiden said.

“If you talk to him, he’s talked about taking care of the ball a little bit more. He’s got such high standards and expectations for himself, he’s always going to make that higher than I’ll ever be,” he said.

“I think he’s pretty dang good already. But him being a goal-setting type of guy and him wanting to always be at his absolute peak, he’s going to set that bar very, very high.”

One of the QB’s top targets last season was Keon Hatcher Sr. The American receiver totalled 1,688 yards with 611 yards after catch and nine touchdowns. Four of the TDs came in B.C.’s last three regular-season outings.

Asked whether he could hit the 2,000-yard mark this year, Hatcher said it’s possible after a solid off-season where he worked hard on his explosiveness and strength.

“But that work starts now,” Hatcher said. “Just gotta lock in. I believe in myself. I believe it’s obtainable. But just got to go work and go prove it.”

As the team heads to training camp, the focus is simply on making it further than they did last season, he added.

“Expectations are always high,” Hatcher said. “But we’ve been in this system for a year, so when we get to camp, the ball’s dropping and it’s rolling. There’s not really much of a learning curve. It’s just get back to where you were at and let’s be better. And just go to work and build off what we had last year.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 10, 2026.

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As the May flowers begin to bloom in the province, so does allergy season.

According to the Aerobiology Research Lab, Saskatoon will see a swift rise in birch, ash, and oak pollen, along with snow-delayed poplar, elm, and cedar pollen. Aerobiology Research Laboratories director, Daniel Coates, shared his predictions of this year’s allergy season with Global News.

“Because we had such a cold spell, a lot of Canada has seen a slow start to pollen season, which means it’s going to get really intense in a very short period of time,” explained Coates.

For anyone living in Regina, though, there may be some relief this allergy season.

“Regina, if you’re an allergy sufferer, is one of the best places to live in Canada. It ranks third out of our top five, followed only by the Maritimes,” said Coates.

And Saskatoon is not too far behind.

“We just released a report and it shows that Saskatoon is actually the fifth-best place to live in Canada if you have a tree allergy,” shared Coates.

Unfortunately, that does not mean there still won’t be some red eyes and runny noses this season, with pollen increasing significantly across Canada over the last few decades.

“We’ve seen pollen increase in Canada over double over the last 35 years to well over millions of grains, where it used to be like in the lower half million type of idea,” Coates said. “We’re seeing a lot more pollen in the air, and it’s only continuing to get worse.”

Watch the video above to find out more about how seasonal allergies may affect your spring.

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CALGARY –  A Grey Cup game in their city is on the horizon. The Calgary Stampeders plan to keep their heads down and do the work to play in it.

“I get it right now, we’re going to talk about the Grey Cup,” head coach/general manager Dave Dickenson said Sunday on the first day of main camp at McMahon Stadium.

“I know Nov. 15, I want to be coming out of that locker room with the guys. In order to look forward, you’ve got to kinda look where we’re at. For us, let’s make sure we handle today.”

It’s been a CFL minute since a team won a Grey Cup in its home stadium.

The 2013 Saskatchewan Roughriders were the last to do so in Regina, which capped a run of three straight years after the Toronto Argonauts (2012) in Toronto and the B.C. Lions (2011) in Vancouver.

Receiver Dejon Brissett, who signed with the Stampeders in the off-season after winning two Grey Cups with the Argos (2024, 2022), says commitment to and execution of day-to-day chores will be the key to hoisting the trophy.

“I’ve been on two teams that got there and won it so it’s a process right?” said the 29-year-old from Mississauga, Ont.

“So just kind of reinforcing that with the guys, not getting too focused on the end goal, but every single step along the way. Teams that start strong and finish stronger, those are the teams that usually win.”

Brissett amassed 907 receiving yards for the Argos last year.

Calgary hosts the defending Grey Cup-champion Saskatchewan Roughriders in a pre-season game May 18. Calgary’s regular season starts June 5 at home to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

An 11-7 record to rank third in the West Division in 2025 was a significant turnaround from finishing dead last in the league the previous year. The Stampeders narrowly fell 33-30 to the B.C. Lions in last season’s division semifinal.

Quarterback Vernon Adams Jr., revived Calgary’s offence in his first season as a Stampeder, and was rewarded with a contraction extension on the eve of training camp through to 2028.

“We started a winning foundation again, what this city is used to,” Adams said. “We want to uphold the standard, but we want to raise it even higher. It’s a huge opportunity this year for us and we know what’s at stake.”

As is his custom, the quarterback ran another spring camp with his receivers in April.

While the majority of that group in California was familiar to him, there were changes with the retirement of Dominique Rhymes and departure of Damien Alford to the NFL’s New Orleans Saints.

The CFL’s leading rusher last season with 1,409 yards felt fit in body and mind to start training camp.

“Coming into camp, weighed in at 225 on the dot,” said Dedrick Mills, who also signed a two-year contract extension in the off-season.

“Usually I’m coming in at 230, 240, 238, 240. It’s probably the best I’ve ever felt body-wise, weight-wise. Mentally, just got married, so feeling very good.”

Receiver Reggie Begelton and defensive lineman Folarin Orimolade were veterans not in pads Sunday.

Begelton, who sustained a season-ending knee injury in Week 2 of 2025, was an on-field observer wearing workout clothes.

Orimolade, who tore his Achilles tendon in September’s Labour Day game, jumped rope on the sidelines with his left ankle in a brace.

“They haven’t had their physicals yet,” Dickenson said. “Both are progressing well, but certain days they’re having some problems.

“We would like them back for Week 1, both.”

Defensive back Bailey Devine-Scott started camp on the six-day injured list.

The retirement of P.J. Walker has opened the door for Josh Love to move up the depth chart and back up Adams.

The departure of defensive lineman Jaylon Hutchings and linebacker Jacob Roberts to the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings creates competition for starting jobs on defence. Hutchings was released by the Vikings last month but has yet to sign with another team.

“We accomplished some positives last year,” Dickenson said. “I’m not one of these guys that you have to win the Grey Cup to consider it a successful season, but it really is levels of success.

“I’ve heard in hockey, talk (that) if you don’t win it, you don’t make the playoffs, what’s the difference? For us, there’s levels of success. We want to make sure we’re playing our best football.

“We’ve like to get a (playoff) bye and like to give ourselves the best chance, but as far as expectations, we’ve got to be careful on that. Let’s just get better and make sure this week’s important to us and get better on a daily basis.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 10, 2026.

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British Columbia’s top doctor says the four passengers returning home from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship remain in a “critical period,” but stressed she would not call them “patients” as they are not considered infected.

Henry told reporters they will be monitoring the four passengers, ensuring they are cared for during the minimum isolation period of 21 days.

“We know as well the incubation period of this strain of the virus can be as long as six weeks, so we’re at actually a critical period,” she said. “We know the median incubation period is about 15 to 18 days, so we’re still in a period of time when we may see more cases arise.”

She added the four people had exposure to the virus but have shown no symptoms.

“So we treat them as contacts, we are hoping that none of them are infected and that none of them will develop disease,” she said. “But the incubation period, so the period between the time you were exposed and the time you might develop the disease is as long as six weeks, so we have to wait out that six weeks to make sure that nobody was infected.”

The four individuals were aboard the MV Hondius when the outbreak began, with eight cases and three deaths reported of the hantavirus.

The ship docked in Tenerife, Spain, on Sunday morning, and the four B.C. residents wore protective gear as they climbed the stairs of a plane bound for the Saguenay-Bagotville Airport, roughly two hours outside of Quebec City.

Global Affairs Canada says they will change planes for a flight to the West Coast. Officials declined to identify their destination in B.C.

There, Henry said the four Canadians would go through a health assessment by local public health officials before being transported directly to individual lodgings for them to isolate.

 

“At no point do we expect them to be in contact with the public during this arrival process or during their isolation period,” Henry said.

Oceanwide Expeditions, the ship’s owner, said there were four Canadians among the roughly 130 asymptomatic passengers.

The company says representatives from a number of groups, including the World Health Organization, screened passengers at the port.

According to Henry, the 21-day isolation period goes back to the last potential contact with somebody who had the virus, which is believed to be May 6.

Once this period ends, local public health officials will reassess the situation based and could extend the self-isolation period to a maximum of 42 days total since last potential exposure.

If any of the four individuals develop symptoms, Henry said there are detailed plans in place to be able to safely do assessments and testing.

She added, if necessary, the province has a specialized biocontainment unit treatment centre at Surrey Memorial Hospital that has been used in the past.

“I know they (the passengers) are undoubtedly looking forward to being back home in Canada where they can get the care and monitoring they need,” Henry said.

The Canadian Armed Forces is assisting Global Affairs Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada in repatriating the four Canadians, however, their assistance is limited to facilitating the transfer of the four people on a chartered return flight and their transfer from PHAC to provincial health authorities in B.C.

The virus originates in rodents, and the version on the cruise ship – the Andes virus – is the only one known to spread from human to human, though it’s not very contagious.

It’s why Henry stressed she recognized people’s concerns following the COVID-19 pandemic because it cannot transmit in the same way.

“It causes infections that are more deep in the lungs, it can cause the kidneys to fail and a number of other symptoms and it’s not spread as easily through coughing,” Henry said. “You have to have as we’ve found out from the people who’ve been dealing with this virus, and with all the hantoviruses, having very close contact with somebody who’s infected. Even that it’s still very rare that it’s transmitted from person to person.”

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A 23-year-old man is dead after what police called a “physical altercation” outside of a Tim Hortons in Oshawa, Ont.

Police responded to a call about an armed person on Saturday at about 8:10 p.m. in the area of Simcoe Street North and Winchester Road East.

Two groups of men had engaged in a physical altercation outside of the Tim Hortons at 2700 Simcoe St. N., police said. During the fight, the 23-year-old victim suffered fatal injuries. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

According to Durham Regional Police Service, the suspect and several other men fled on foot south and east of the Tim Hortons.

Despite an extensive search, police say the suspects were not located. As a result, an increased police presence in the area should be expected as the investigation continues.

The incident is believed to be isolated, police said, and there are no concerns for public safety.

The homicide unit has taken over the investigation and ask anyone who was in the area between 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. who witnessed the incident, or who may have cell phone, dash-cam or surveillance footage or any other information to contact Det. Laura Middleton at 1-888-579-1520 ext. 5418.

The victim’s name is not being released at this time.

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Police are asking for the public’s help finding two murder suspects from Ottawa who investigators believe could be hiding out in British Columbia.

Provincial police say the men are wanted in the death of Christo Allison Richards, an Ottawa man who was found with life-threatening injuries on April 12 in Last Duel Park in Perth, Ont., about 80 kilometres southwest of the nation’s capital.

OPP say the 34-year-old was rushed to a trauma centre but later died, and those accused in his death face second-degree murder charges.

Police believe one of their suspects, 34-year-old Joseph Madore, is currently in British Columbia and say he has connections to the Richmond, Abbotsford, Chilliwack and Terrace areas.

They say the second suspect, 28-year-old Brayton Kennedy, may be travelling with him in B.C. or could still be in the Ottawa area.

Police are asking anyone with information about the men’s wearbouts to come forward, but say not to approach the men if they see them.

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PARIS – Macklin Celebrini had a goal and three assists as Canada captured a 6-1 exhibition hockey win over France on Sunday.

The contest kicked off Canada’s pre-tournament action ahead of the 2026 world championship.

Celebrini, the San Jose Sharks star, was earlier named the Canadian team captain.

Gabriel Vilardi and Mark Scheifele, both of the Winnipeg Jets, had a goal and two assists apiece while John Tavares of the Toronto Maple Leafs added a goal and an assist.

Parker Wotherspoon of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Dylan Holloway of the St. Louis Blues had the other goals for Canada. Jet Greaves of the Columbus Blue Jackets stopped 24 shots.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 10, 2026.

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