New Brunswick police are looking for an escapee from a prison in Shediac.

The RCMP say a 35-year-old man escaped from the Southeast Regional Correctional Centre on Friday, allegedly by jumping over a fence.

At the time, police issued an alert to residents in the area warning them not to pick up hitchhikers and to be on the lookout for anything suspicious.

RCMP say Todd John Lewis was previously charged with weapons-related offences and that the public should not approach him if spotted.

He’s described as blond and blue-eyed, standing 5’7” and weighing 146 pounds.

Police say they are still looking for Lewis, and believe he may be in the greater Moncton area.

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Four separate snowmobile outings turned deadly Saturday, Quebec provincial police said.

Police said the first crash occurred around 12:40 p.m. in Mont-Carmel, in eastern Quebec’s Bas-Saint-Laurent region near the St. Lawrence River, where a 57-year-old man died after his snowmobile was struck by a pickup truck at an intersection.

Sgt. Valérie Beauchamp, a spokesperson for the provincial police, said a 47-year-old woman lost control on a marked trail and crashed into a tree at about 5 p.m. in Hemmingford, a community south of Montreal near the U.S. border.

She later died at the hospital.

Beauchamp said around 6:30 p.m., in Saint-David-de-Falardeau, roughly 400 kilometres north of Quebec City, three men fell through the ice on Lac La Mothe during a ride.

Two men in their 20s survived, while a 49-year-old man from Saguenay was initially missing. Divers recovered his body late Sunday afternoon.

Beauchamp said the fourth crash happened at about 9:30 p.m. in Stanbridge East, in Quebec’s Estrie region southeast of Montreal, where a 47-year-old man died after his snowmobile left the road and landed in a ditch.

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Mounties in Alberta say there’s been an uptick in calls for people with a weapon and school lockdowns since the mass school shooting in Tumbler Ridge.

An RCMP spokesman says that he can’t say with certainty that the increase is connected with the shooting that left nine dead last Tuesday, but it is unusual and Mounties believe people have been more sensitive to the tragedy.

“Having those (calls) in that short amount of time is more than what is standard,” Cpl. Troy Savinkoff said in a phone interview on Sunday.

“We certainly can’t disprove that the recent event in Tumbler Ridge has brought those sensitivities … Obviously, due to the recent extremely unfortunate incident, we’re trying to be accountable to that.”

Savinkoff said Mounties received four calls for a person with a weapon in the last week in the southern town of High River, the northern city of Fort McMurray, in the west-central town of Edson, and in Sherwood Park, a hamlet located east of Edmonton.

The calls forced several surrounding schools into either a lockdown or a hold-and-secure status for hours, he said.

In lockdowns, students, teachers and staff remain in place until a call has been resolved, while a hold-and-secure status means a school has locked its doors but classes are proceeding as usual.

Savinkoff said only the call in Edson resulted in charges after a suspect threw beef jerky at students while screaming Bible verses and then shot what sounded like a gun three times in front of a principal before fleeing the scene.

“That firearm ended up being a cap gun and the suspect who is a 39-year-old from B.C. was charged with multiple offences,” Savinkoff said.

Mounties responded to the second call for a student with a weapon a day after the Tumbler Ridge shooting on Wednesday in Fort McMurray.

Although the student was not carrying a gun, Savinkoff said investigators believe he previously brought one to school.

“That investigation is ongoing,” he said.

On the same day, officers responded to a call for a person believed to be carrying a firearm in a Sherwood Park park near two schools, that were later ordered to lockdown.

That report was deemed unfounded.

“We don’t believe that the caller was trying to mislead police. We just think that they were mistaken,” Savinkoff said.

A fourth call was made to Mounties two days after the Tumbler Ridge shooting.

The RCMP spokesman said the caller told police a shooter was coming to school that day and Mounties believe the caller was using a software to disguise their voice.

Adam Lankford, a professor in the University of Alabama’s criminology and criminal justice department, says the uptick is not surprising as his research in the United States has found that the emotions people feel after a mass shooting are strong.

“And in some cases, fear may be causing people to overreact or err on the side of caution … so they’re reporting more,” said Lankford, who is also chair of his department.

“Likely the answer is both.”

Even though the chances of another mass shooting are low, the fear communities feel in the aftermath is high.

“It’s kind of like an earthquake or other natural disasters where what you have to lose is so great that it’s not necessarily reassuring that it is unlikely to happen,” he said.

And while people in the United States or war-torn countries may become numb to certain types of tragedy, in a place like Canada, where school shootings are rare, the fear can linger.

“If you live somewhere with the idea that this can’t happen here, and then it does, it can be kind of shocking to your world view.”

Savinkoff said Mounties are encouraging people to continue calling police guilt-free if they do believe someone is armed.

“Early detection of these incidents is extremely important. It’s truly the type of file where seconds count,” he said.

RCMP in Alberta did respond to the shooting in Tumbler Ridge and so the deaths in British Columbia have hit the service hard, he added.

“Even though it’s a different province, it was close to Alberta so it has been a tough last week for all police.”

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MILAN – Nathan MacKinnon was looking back for the puck behind France’s net with less than nine minutes remaining in a game long out of reach.

Next thing the Canadian forward knew, he was taking a blindside forearm to the jaw.

Tom Wilson would eventually get some payback at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

The bruising winger delivered a big hit on Pierre Crinon after the French defenceman served a two-minute penalty for interference before the pair dropped the gloves in a bout that was more of a wrestling match.

“Tom is a good teammate,” said MacKinnon, whose country won 10-2 on Sunday and now turns its attention to the quarterfinals. “I definitely appreciate him sticking up for me.”

Wilson and Crinon were both ejected from the game, as per International Ice Hockey Federation rules on fighting.

“We didn’t like the hit,” Canadian superstar centre Connor McDavid said. “Felt like it was late and high. Willie just finishes a check, and the guy jumps him, and Willie’s just protecting himself. That’s all he can do.

“That’s the type of guy he is, type of teammate he is. Nothing but respect for him.”

Sunday marked exactly one year since Canada and the United States fought three times in nine seconds to begin the countries’ heated round-robin matchup at the 4 Nations Face-Off, which was an NHL-run event.

Brandon Hagel dropped the gloves with Matthew Tkachuk, Sam Bennett tangled with Brady Tkachuk, and Colton Parayko rag-dolled J.T. Miller in an electrifying opening nine seconds at the Bell Centre in Montreal.

“We’ve come together pretty quick here, close-knit group,” Parayko, a big defenceman, said of Wilson stepping up. “We’re looking out for each other, standing up for each other.”

Hagel joked Wilson was always going to drop the gloves on the world stage.

“It was probably the talk about him coming to the tournament,” he said with a smile of Wilson, who plays for the Washington Capitals. “But that’s just what Willie does, he sticks up for teammates. That’s what you call a team. That’s why everyone praises and loves Tom Wilson, because that’s the stuff he does.'”

The six-foot-four, 225-pound Wilson has fought numerous times in the NHL, including four this season. Crinon, who stands six-foot-five and weighs 225 pounds, plays in France’s top league.

“Fighting isn’t a big thing in this tournament,” Canadian defenceman Drew Doughty said. “But when a guy takes a run at one of our big guys, that’s what Willie does. He does a lot more than that, but it was great to see him step.”

Canadian goaltender Jordan Binnington wasn’t surprised by the scuffle after MacKinnon was drilled.

“I’m sure (Crinon) was excited to go at it with him,” he said. “Doesn’t happen very much in the Olympics, but it’s part of hockey.”

MacKinnon said the 30-year-old Frenchman might have realized he had bitten off more than he could chew with Wilson in his face.

“That guy obviously didn’t want to fight Tom,” he said. “He just wanted to wrestle. I wouldn’t want to fight Tom either.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 15, 2026.

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British Columbia’s South Coast may need to brace itself for snow this week as a weather system makes its way down from Alaska.

Environment Canada says communities within Metro Vancouver, Sunshine Coast, Howe Sound and western parts of the Fraser Valley including Abbotsford and Mission are under a special weather statement.

The agency says starting Monday, these regions will experience light precipitation beginning before dawn, which will become steady as a cold front sweeps through.

Between five to 10 centimetres of snow is expected over higher elevations before easing through Monday night.

After this initial blast of precipitation, a “cold and unstable airmass” will settle over the South Coast from Tuesday until Thursday. During this period of time, Environment Canada says “locally intense convective snow showers” are possible.

“Snow levels are expected to fluctuate between 400 and 100 metres, lowering further near the mountains,” a special weather statement from the agency reads.

It also notes that wet snow may mix in at lower elevations during heavier showers.

“Locally higher snowfall accumulations are possible where heavier precipitation bands occur,” the notice says.

Due to the expected precipitation, Environment Canada urges motorists to prepare for “rapidly changing” travel conditions with sudden decreases in visibility possible. Roads could also become slippery as a result.

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Nearly 50 years ago, Anne McGrath was a 17-year-old student at St. Pius X High School in Ottawa when a fellow student entered a classroom with a sawed-off shotgun and opened fire.

Today, McGrath is a longtime political strategist and deputy chief of staff to former Alberta premier Rachel Notley, as well as a former national director of the NDP.

But this week, as Tumbler Ridge mourns its own mass shooting, she says she has felt like that teenager again.

“Whenever there is something like this that happens, and it happens all too often now, actually, it brings up a lot of memories that are hard to deal with,” she said in an interview Sunday with Global News. “So it’s definitely been a rough week.”

She was in the classroom next door when the shooting unfolded. At 17, she didn’t understand what was happening.

“I thought maybe a war had broken out,” she said. “I had no idea if there was one shooter or several or if people were shooting from the outside.”

McGrath described the 1975 shooting as one of the first of its kind in Canada. She said a classmate had raped and killed another former classmate earlier that day before riding to the school, kicking open the classroom door and opening fire. The spree ended when he turned the gun on himself.

Students returned to school the very next day.

“When it happened to us … we went back to school the next day,” McGrath said. “The messages were to kind of move on, to put it behind you, to not dwell on it.”

There was no lockdown protocol, no widespread trauma response and no immediate counselling support, she said. Students were expected to carry on, even as they were severely traumatized. One injured student later died in hospital weeks after the shooting.

Watching what is happening now in Tumbler Ridge – counsellors brought into schools, the building temporarily closed, public officials acknowledging trauma – McGrath says the contrast is striking.

“When I look at what happens now, I look at Tumbler Ridge … I see counsellors being brought in, I see the community,” she said. “It’s just completely different … than it was back 50 years ago.”

Still, she says, the long-term impact of surviving a shooting does not disappear.

“It comes up in waves when something like this happens, for sure.”

McGrath was also present during the 2014 Parliament Hill shooting and says people who experience violence often carry lasting reactions.

“You do have this experience … where you have a kind of a reaction to things like a car backfiring or a door being slammed,” she said. “I either overreact … or I completely don’t react.”

McGrath says the focus now should be on giving students space to grieve.

“I think the main thing is to take the time … to process it and to be compassionate with yourself and the people around you,” she said.

“There will be some students who want to talk about it all the time. There will be others who only want to talk to certain people. There will be others who won’t want to talk about it at all. You have to be generous … with yourself and with the people around you.”

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PREDAZZO – Calgary ski jumper Abigail Strate finished 11th in the women’s large hill competition on Sunday at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

The 24-year-old Strate scored 106.9 points on her first jump then earned 136.7 on her final attempt, giving her a combined score of 243.6.

The sport’s Olympic debut saw Norway claim gold and silver with Anna Odine Strøm scoring 284.8, followed by Eirin Maria Kvandal’s 282.7.

Slovenia’s Nika Prevc won bronze with a score of 271.5.

Strate was part of the team that won Canada’s first Olympic ski jumping medal with a bronze in the mixed event at the 2022 Beijing Games.

Strate won five of her six World Cup medals this season in large hill, including a gold on Jan. 1 in Germany.

Earlier in the Games, Strate placed 11th in the women’s normal hill competition that also saw Strøm claim gold.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 15, 2026.

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After enjoying relatively mild temperatures in recent weeks, most of Alberta is about to get an abrupt return of winter.

Environment Canada has issued special weather statements for much of central and southern regions of the province, with 10 to 20 centimetres expected to fall between Monday and Wednesday.

The agency says the snow will likely vary widely from place to place, with local amounts possibly reaching up to 30 cm.

According to Environment Canada, blowing snow is also expected on Tuesday over open areas in central and southern Alberta, including Highways 1, 2 and 16.

People are asked to allow for extra time for travel as visibility is likely to be poor.

The return of heavy snow comes after several southern Alberta communities set new daytime highs earlier this month, with Medicine Hat, Waterton, Crowsnest Pass and Bow Island among those that broke records.

It’s also a reversal for what some parts of Canada have seen in recent weeks, with higher temperatures in B.C. and Alberta while snowfall records were broken in Ontario and Quebec.

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CORTINA D’AMPEZZO – Canada’s Brad Jacobs defeated China’s Xiaoming Xu 6-3 on Sunday in the first session with World Curling’s readjusted umpire setup in effect after a contentious weekend at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium.

In a statement issued at the start of evening play, the sport’s governing body said the two umpires who had previously been monitoring athlete deliveries at the hog line will now only do so “at the request of competing teams.”

The development came after Canadian women’s skip Rachel Homan had her first rock pulled in a game against Switzerland’s Silvana Tirinzoni on Saturday night. Canada went on to drop an 8-7 decision in an extra end.

The umpire felt Homan had “double-touched” the rock on her throw. Curlers are not allowed to touch the stone’s granite after letting go of the handle.

Homan vehemently denied making an improper throw.

Great Britain’s Bobby Lammie had a stone removed for the same reason in a 9-4 win over Germany on Sunday morning.

On Saturday, World Curling said it would designate two officials to move between the four sheets but noted it was “not possible” to have umpires stationed at each hog line.

That change came after a tense men’s game between Canada’s Jacobs and Sweden’s Niklas Edin on Friday.

Swedish vice Oskar Eriksson complained that some Canadian players were ‘double-touching’ the rocks, an accusation that Canada vice Marc Kennedy firmly denied. Kennedy used profanity during the on-ice exchange, and the video clip went viral.

The latest umpire development came after a meeting with representatives of the competing teams, World Curling said.

“This change in protocol will see the two umpires who had previously been actively monitoring athlete deliveries remain available in the field of play, but will now only monitor athlete deliveries at the request of the competing teams,” the statement said.

“The umpires, when requested, will monitor deliveries for a minimum of three ends.”

Jacobs, Kennedy and teammates Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert took a 4-2 lead with a deuce in the sixth end. Canada stole a pair in the eighth, and China conceded after a single in the ninth.

Canada (4-1) was scheduled to play Lukas Klima on Monday afternoon.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 15, 2026.

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