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\n Leyland Cecco is a reporter based in Toronto, Canada
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\nA minority of residents of the oil-rich province have long argued that the province’s woes are due to the structure of payments to the federal government and a perceived inability to get their vast fossil fuel reserves to market.
\nIn recent months, separatists have seized on the sentiment and collected nearly 180,000 signatures to request a referendum. But the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, near Edmonton, has asked a court to halt the campaign.
\nThe hearing, which began on Tuesday, is expected to last three days.
\n\nLast year, Alberta’s premier, Danielle Smith, reduced the number of signatures required for citizens bring a constitutional referendum, dropping it from 588,000 to roughly 178,000. The provincial government also changed how citizen-initiated referendums worked, removing powers from Alberta’s chief electoral officer. Now, referendums can pose questions that would run afoul of the Canadian constitution.
\nThe group behind the push to secede, Stay Free Alberta, says it has received the required number of signatures, a month before the cutoff date.
\nThey hope their question – “Do you agree that the Province of Alberta should cease to be part of Canada and become an independent state?” – will be added to a planned referendum in October, which will also include questions on immigration, healthcare and the country’s constitution.
\nSturgeon Lake, one of 39 nations which signed a key treaty with Canada in 1899, argues that the province of Alberta, the federal government and the province’s chief electoral officer have failed to uphold key provisions of that agreement.
\n“Alberta has treated [Sturgeon Lake Cree First Nation] as though they are chattel on the land, merely an afterthought in forced negotiations, not the first step in any potential secession,” the First Nation said in its court filing. “Alberta has no right to secede from Canada and no right to take Treaty No. 8 territory.”
\nThe First Nation is asking a court to reinstate the rule that a citizen-initiative petition must follow the constitution – and to halt the current drive for signatures.
\n\n“In 2026, Alberta’s actions are not only illegal, but they are also consummately irresponsible and dishonourable.”
\nThe First Nation has also warned the current push has invited the threat of influence of foreign actors and a vote to leave Canada “will enable foreign interference from the most powerful nation to the south”.
\nLate last year, separatist activists held covert meetings with and members of Donald Trump’s administration – a move one provincial premier called “treason”.
\nThe judge overseeing the case is expected to deliver a ruling on 2 May – the deadline for signature collection.
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\nCrime rates in Toronto as a whole are dropping but residents of Rosedale have been left on edge by a sustained rise in home invasions, with robbers targeting the tree-lined neighbourhood at a rate more than double the city average. Break-ins and thefts remain the third highest per capita in Toronto.
\nGrowing unease is reflected in the community’s WhatsApp group, where as many as 60 out of about 350 members are already contributing to fund private security.
\n“My friends experienced a horrific home invasion here in the community – their children were held at knifepoint, and they will be traumatised for the rest of their life,” said Craig Campbell, the Rosedale resident who proposed the plan. “Other friends aren’t sleeping well at night because they’re anxious about the crime that’s going to occur. Almost everyone knows someone who has been affected. Something has to be done.”
\nIn late March, residents attended a virtual meeting led by Campbell, who runs a security company. He outlined a plan in which an initial group of 100 residents would pay a C$200 (about £110) monthly subscription for technology that scans the licence plates of cars passing through the virtual “gate”.
\nThe US-based company Flock says the AI underpinning the technology can learn which cars belong to residents and which ones are suspicious. A rollout in the neighbourhood would mark Flock’s entrance into the Canadian market.
\nCampbell emphasised that the cameras did not use facial recognition, instead collecting licence plate data to create “whitelists” (known) and “blacklists” (suspicious) of vehicles entering the neighbourhood. Data collected by the camera is retained for 30 days and police would only be able to access data with legal authorisation. The system would work alongside the unarmed security guards who are already paid to patrol the area.
\nCampbell holds the Canadian licensing rights for Flock, and told the Guardian he “absolutely has a commercial interest in creating a viable business” around the security system. But he also said he was motivated by a feeling of frustration from friends and neighbours that not enough was being done.
\n“For my family’s safety, I’m not waiting around for the government to fix this. Yes, it’s a complex issue. But there’s things that we can do today to help ourselves instead of waiting around,” he said.
\nThe Guardian reviewed the March meeting in Toronto and found that many of the residents who spoke were enthusiastic about the project, as were members of the WhatsApp group. But others were less certain, citing concerns over AI bias, profiling and the broader spectre of surveillance.
\n\n Flock boasts that its network of more than 90,000 cameras has helped communities reduce crime by “up to 70%”, a figure researchers say is difficult to verify independently.
\nThe company has faced mounting scrutiny from activists in the US after local police shared data from schools with ICE agents and a police officer used the system to search the country for a woman who had had a self-administered abortion.
\nOne investigation found more than a dozen errors when reading a vehicle licence plate or a lack of verification by officers, resulting in people who had not committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail or mauled by a police dog.
\nFlock has clashed with the American Civil Liberties Union in recent years over allegations of mass surveillance. A website, FlockHopper, has been set up specifically to helps user avoid the system. One user posted a video on YouTube that showed how he hacked a Flock camera in less than 30 seconds.
\nPrivacy laws in Canada are far stricter than south of the border and a plan like the one proposed in Rosedale would probably face a legal challenge if it were deployed. Regulators are likely to view the network of cameras as a data collection system, not just home security, triggering Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Pipeda).
\n\n“We’re very comfortable that we will be in compliance with all privacy regulations,” Campbell said. “Nothing about the cameras and the technology is any different than any private citizen standing on a corner taking a picture with their iPhone, except in this case it’s only the licence plate being recorded.”
\nToronto police acknowledged that when residents felt unsafe from crime, they “may look for ways to increase their sense of security”, but they did not comment on the legality of the proposed Flock system.
\nA spokesperson for the force said “any technology that captures images, video or licence plates raises important considerations around privacy, data storage” and how that information was used or shared. Police said people wanting to use systems “may wish to seek guidance on applicable privacy laws and municipal regulations”.
\nIn the Rosedale WhatsApp group, there were tensions over how to view the project. “Is there a reason why everyone wouldn’t want this level of safety and security?” wrote one user who said he had pre-registered for Flock’s system.
\nAnother responded: “AI is one of the most unethical tools of our time,” citing its impact on the environment, bias and cases of wrongful arrest.
\nFrançois Hébette, who moved to the neighbourhood with his family a year and a half ago from California, said he understood the feelings behind the plans. When he was younger and living in Belgium, he experienced a break-in and the jarring anxiety that follows.
\n“A private initiative like this might be quite effective and fix this issue,” he said. “But if you wanted to live in a gated community, you can move to one. The idea of changing a neighbourhood into this ‘virtual’ one just doesn’t feel right. We have young kids and I’m not sure this is the kind of world I’d like for them.”
\nA spokesperson for Ontario’s privacy commissioner said because the office had not examined the matter, it was not in a position to offer specific comment. But they did say that companies that provided surveillance technologies for profit must inform individuals and obtain consent in a meaningful way and “use or disclose personal information for purposes that a reasonable person would consider are appropriate in the circumstances”.
\nThe company would also need to ensure the public was informed that video surveillance was taking place, and explain the use of the cameras. It would also need to ensure personal information (including in recordings) that was no longer required was destroyed, erased or made anonymous.
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\n The city of Toronto does not require permits for security cameras but recommends a series of “best practices”, including minimising the footage gathered outside a property. The city notes that the information and privacy commissioner of Ontario suggests a retention period of 72 hours – far shorter than the 30 days proposed at the Rosedale residents’ meeting.
\nSigns would be posted in the neighbourhood warning that surveillance was taking place and giving residents (or anyone passing through) access to a QR code linking to the privacy policy and opt-out process. Anyone can request their licence plate be removed from the system. While drivers can reduce their presence in the system, they cannot fully avoid being recorded. With commuters, delivery drivers and maintenance workers travelling through the neighbourhood, it is unclear if this would satisfy the regulator.
\nCampbell said: “We’ve had questions from the community about what happens if the bad guy opts out of their licence plate being covered. And yes, that’s a possibility. There are valid questions about this and about the databases. But what you can’t do is stop progress and innovation. Instead, you have to be thoughtful and be very public about what your values are.”
\n• This article was amended on 7 April 2026 to correct the name of the American Civil Liberties Union, which earlier was misnamed as “the American Civil Liberties Association”.
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\nIn a sting operation that involved false identities and covert recordings, journalists from Radio-Canada’s Enquête programme found that a low-cost syrup sold in major grocery store chains was heavily diluted.
\nSamples of the brand, which is sold in hundreds of locations across Quebec, were sent to the province’s research and testing facility, Le Centre ACER.
\n\n“This is the first time I’ve seen falsification of this kind. You can see that it’s outright cane sugar that’s been added to the cans,” Luc Lagacé, a microbiologist and the director of research at ACER, told Enquête. “This is not an accident. It’s deliberate.”
\nMaple syrup is a dominant industry in Quebec, where decades of technological innovation and investment helped farmers harvest 239m pounds of it last year. The Francophone province is responsible for nearly all of Canada’s production and nearly three-quarters of global production. A barrel of syrup is worth nearly C$1,000.
\nThe industry is worth nearly C$1bn annually and the immense value of the market has lured criminal elements to Quebec’s global strategic reserve of syrup.
\nIn 2011, thieves slowly siphoned off maple syrup worth nearly C$18m from the stockpile, a heist that led to 40 arrests and jail sentences for five men.
\nThe investigation into the fraudulent syrup began when a reporter at CBC’s Radio Canada discovered an odd taste to the syrup he had bought. The can was labelled “pure maple syrup” and linked to a producer south-west of Montreal, Steve Bourdeau.
\nEnquête had two people pose as buyers for a grocery store to reach out to Bourdeau.
\nThe journalists taped telephone conversations and later used a hidden camera to capture footage of Bourdeau. He told the reporters he knew it was illegal to cut maple syrup labelled as pure with other sugars – and said that he didn’t do that.
\nBourdeau’s syrup is sold by major grocery chains, including IGA and Metro.
\n“I’m the best when it comes to prices. The others can’t even come close,” he said, adding his maple syrup cost less than C$5 a can. “There’s a lot of jealousy going on. Because I have the market. And it’s not entirely legal. And I got away with it anyway.”
\nWhen Bourdeau was confronted with the findings from the lab tests, he initially denied the allegations before suggesting a supplier from outside the province was to blame.
\nHe told reporters he was launching his own investigation to try to determine how cane sugar had been mixed in with his product and would implement his own inspection system.
\nThe head of Quebec’s sprawling stockpile of syrup told CBC that using suppliers from outside the province was not illegal – but falsely labelling such syrup as having Quebecois origins was.
\nGeneviève Clermont, head of ACER’s inspection division, said 90% of syrup from Quebec sold in bulk was tested, but she said that products canned and sold by producers themselves were not inspected regularly.
\nMany of the popular maple-flavoured syrups sold in the US are made of corn syrup (or high-fructose corn syrup) with added flavourings and caramel to give the amber-like appearance of genuine maple syrup.
\nProducing maple syrup, which can only occur during a narrow window of time in the spring, requires immense volumes of sap, which is then boiled down into the final product.
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\nFour astronauts, Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, plus Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency, are on their way to the moon after lifting off at 6.35pm from launchpad 39B.
\nTheir 10-day lunar flyby is the first crewed mission to the moon in more than half a century. No other humans have traveled beyond lower Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in December 1972.
\nArtemis II is a test flight designed to evaluate the Orion crew capsule and essential life support and medical systems ahead of future Artemis missions, including the next moon landing scheduled for Artemis IV in 2028.
\nThank you for following the launch with us, and stick with us for news of the mission and coverage of the Artemis II crew’s splashdown in the Pacific Ocean in 10 days’ time.
","cleanBody":"We’re closing our live blog of the launch of Artemis II now after watching the space rocket’s spectacular launch into a clear blue Florida sky from the Kennedy Space Center. Four astronauts, Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, plus Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency, are on their way to the moon after lifting off at 6.35pm from launchpad 39B. Their 10-day lunar flyby is the first crewed mission to the moon in more than half a century. No other humans have traveled beyond lower Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in December 1972. Artemis II is a test flight designed to evaluate the Orion crew capsule and essential life support and medical systems ahead of future Artemis missions, including the next moon landing scheduled for Artemis IV in 2028. Thank you for following the launch with us, and stick with us for news of the mission and coverage of the Artemis II crew’s splashdown in the Pacific Ocean in 10 days’ time.","postType":"summary","contributors":[]},"blocks":[{"id":"block-69cda7ce8f08e0e61fbf6281","title":"Closing summary","publishedDateTime":"2026-04-01T23:41:53Z","lastUpdatedDateTime":"2026-04-01T23:45:26Z","body":"We’re closing our live blog of the launch of Artemis II now after watching the space rocket’s spectacular launch into a clear blue Florida sky from the Kennedy Space Center.
\nFour astronauts, Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, plus Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency, are on their way to the moon after lifting off at 6.35pm from launchpad 39B.
\nTheir 10-day lunar flyby is the first crewed mission to the moon in more than half a century. No other humans have traveled beyond lower Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in December 1972.
\nArtemis II is a test flight designed to evaluate the Orion crew capsule and essential life support and medical systems ahead of future Artemis missions, including the next moon landing scheduled for Artemis IV in 2028.
\nThank you for following the launch with us, and stick with us for news of the mission and coverage of the Artemis II crew’s splashdown in the Pacific Ocean in 10 days’ time.
","cleanBody":"We’re closing our live blog of the launch of Artemis II now after watching the space rocket’s spectacular launch into a clear blue Florida sky from the Kennedy Space Center. Four astronauts, Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, plus Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency, are on their way to the moon after lifting off at 6.35pm from launchpad 39B. Their 10-day lunar flyby is the first crewed mission to the moon in more than half a century. No other humans have traveled beyond lower Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in December 1972. Artemis II is a test flight designed to evaluate the Orion crew capsule and essential life support and medical systems ahead of future Artemis missions, including the next moon landing scheduled for Artemis IV in 2028. Thank you for following the launch with us, and stick with us for news of the mission and coverage of the Artemis II crew’s splashdown in the Pacific Ocean in 10 days’ time.","postType":"summary","contributors":[]},{"id":"block-69cda4838f08e7b812c98ae2","publishedDateTime":"2026-04-01T23:22:08Z","lastUpdatedDateTime":"2026-04-01T23:36:00Z","body":"Here’s a look at some of the earthlings who gathered near Cape Canaveral to watch the Artemis II crew begin their historic lunar commute on this Florida evening.
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\n Premium viewing spots for tonight’s spectacular launch filled up fast.
\nOfficials in Florida’s space coast cities, including Cape Canaveral, Titusville, and Cocoa Beach, said they were expecting up to 400,000 spectators to fill beaches and causeways.
\nAs early as first light, shortly before 7am on Wednesday, dozens of cars were already parked along the waterfront in Titusville, which bills itself as “the gateway to space and nature”.
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\n The city has a direct view across the Indian river to launchpad 39B, and the crowds there are a reminder of the Apollo era of the 1960s and 70s when millions packed in to watch the first moon missions.
\n“There’s three entry ways to the Kennedy Space Center and two of them go through the city,” Andrew Connors, the mayor of Titusville, told me in an interview last week.
\nAn influx of hundreds of thousands for Artemis II will bring a welcome financial windfall, but Connors is also a little apprehensive.
\n“It’s pretty crazy to think about it because we’re a city of 51,000,” he said.
\n“All the bridges fill up really quickly and I’m sure the main route through will be a parking lot, but our police have been doing this a lot of times. It’s something really special.”
\nRead more from the Titusville mayor, and other space coast figures, here:
\n","cleanBody":"Premium viewing spots for tonight’s spectacular launch filled up fast. Officials in Florida’s space coast cities, including Cape Canaveral, Titusville, and Cocoa Beach, said they were expecting up to 400,000 spectators to fill beaches and causeways. As early as first light, shortly before 7am on Wednesday, dozens of cars were already parked along the waterfront in Titusville, which bills itself as “the gateway to space and nature”.\nThe city has a direct view across the Indian river to launchpad 39B, and the crowds there are a reminder of the Apollo era of the 1960s and 70s when millions packed in to watch the first moon missions. “There’s three entry ways to the Kennedy Space Center and two of them go through the city,” Andrew Connors, the mayor of Titusville, told me in an interview last week. An influx of hundreds of thousands for Artemis II will bring a welcome financial windfall, but Connors is also a little apprehensive. “It’s pretty crazy to think about it because we’re a city of 51,000,” he said. “All the bridges fill up really quickly and I’m sure the main route through will be a parking lot, but our police have been doing this a lot of times. It’s something really special.” Read more from the Titusville mayor, and other space coast figures, here:","postType":"blog","contributors":[]},{"id":"block-69cda4258f08e7b812c98ad9","publishedDateTime":"2026-04-01T23:07:28Z","lastUpdatedDateTime":"2026-04-01T23:07:26Z","body":"With Orion now orbiting Earth, a little more than half an hour into flight after a spectacular and flawless lift-off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, mission managers on the ground are assessing data.
\nFlight controllers in Houston have confirmed that all four solar arrays were deployed successfully.
\nNasa leaders, no doubt beaming with pride, will conduct a post-launch press conference scheduled for 9pm ET. Our blog will have closed by then, but the Guardian will continue to bring you news as the rest of the 10-day Artemis II mission unfolds.
","cleanBody":"With Orion now orbiting Earth, a little more than half an hour into flight after a spectacular and flawless lift-off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, mission managers on the ground are assessing data. Flight controllers in Houston have confirmed that all four solar arrays were deployed successfully. Nasa leaders, no doubt beaming with pride, will conduct a post-launch press conference scheduled for 9pm ET. Our blog will have closed by then, but the Guardian will continue to bring you news as the rest of the 10-day Artemis II mission unfolds.","postType":"blog","contributors":[]},{"id":"block-69cd94748f08e0e61fbf61fe","publishedDateTime":"2026-04-01T22:55:31Z","lastUpdatedDateTime":"2026-04-01T22:55:31Z","body":"Jared Isaacman, the Nasa administrator, spoke about the Artemis II launch on Nasa TV.
\n“It’s the opening act, the test mission,” for the Orion spacecraft, he said.
\n“No humans have ever flown on this. We’re putting it through its paces to make sure it’s OK. It’s going to set up subsequent missions [and] a golden age of science and discovery.”
\nIsaacman, a billionaire private astronaut and Donald Trump’s pick to lead the agency, who was confirmed earlier this year, was asked what his favorite moment of the mission would be.
\n“After ignition, the moment I’m most excited for is splashdown,” he said.
\n“The takeaway is gaining extra comfort in the Orion spacecraft. It’s new territory for us. SLS plus Orion is everything. On this one we want to make sure we do this in as safe a way as we can.”
","cleanBody":"Jared Isaacman, the Nasa administrator, spoke about the Artemis II launch on Nasa TV. “It’s the opening act, the test mission,” for the Orion spacecraft, he said. “No humans have ever flown on this. We’re putting it through its paces to make sure it’s OK. It’s going to set up subsequent missions [and] a golden age of science and discovery.” Isaacman, a billionaire private astronaut and Donald Trump’s pick to lead the agency, who was confirmed earlier this year, was asked what his favorite moment of the mission would be. “After ignition, the moment I’m most excited for is splashdown,” he said. “The takeaway is gaining extra comfort in the Orion spacecraft. It’s new territory for us. SLS plus Orion is everything. On this one we want to make sure we do this in as safe a way as we can.”","postType":"blog","contributors":[]},{"id":"block-69cda0718f082fa268c5ca09","publishedDateTime":"2026-04-01T22:53:26Z","lastUpdatedDateTime":"2026-04-01T22:53:26Z","body":"Inside the Orion capsule, astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen have raised their visors and are immediately commencing tasks to assess how the spacecraft handled the 17,500mph ascent to orbit.
\nDeployment of the solar array wings, which will provide Orion with continuous electrical power throughout its lunar journey, is about to begin.
","cleanBody":"Inside the Orion capsule, astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen have raised their visors and are immediately commencing tasks to assess how the spacecraft handled the 17,500mph ascent to orbit. Deployment of the solar array wings, which will provide Orion with continuous electrical power throughout its lunar journey, is about to begin.","postType":"blog","contributors":[]},{"id":"block-69cd9f798f082fa268c5ca04","title":"Artemis II enters Earth's orbit","publishedDateTime":"2026-04-01T22:46:38Z","lastUpdatedDateTime":"2026-04-01T22:50:32Z","body":"Artemis II is now in Earth’s orbit. The two solid rocket boosters of the Space Launch System have separated and are floating back down to the Atlantic for recovery.
\nThe spacecraft will orbit Earth until flight day two (Thursday) when the translunar injection burn will take place and sent it on the rest of its 240,000-mile journey to the moon.
","cleanBody":"Artemis II is now in Earth’s orbit. The two solid rocket boosters of the Space Launch System have separated and are floating back down to the Atlantic for recovery. The spacecraft will orbit Earth until flight day two (Thursday) when the translunar injection burn will take place and sent it on the rest of its 240,000-mile journey to the moon.","postType":"key-event","contributors":[]},{"id":"block-69cd9f168f082fa268c5c9fa","publishedDateTime":"2026-04-01T22:42:48Z","lastUpdatedDateTime":"2026-04-01T22:42:47Z","body":"What a thrill. Artemis II’s successful launch looked incredibly cool.
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\n Nasa launched Artemis II on a historic crewed mission to the moon.
\nThe 10-day test flight, which will not land on the moon, is a mission packed with milestones. The mission includes the first woman and first person of color to fly into cislunar space, the area between Earth’s orbit and the moon.
\nArtemis II’s Orion space capsule could fly them farther from Earth than any human being before them.
","cleanBody":"Nasa launched Artemis II on a historic crewed mission to the moon. The 10-day test flight, which will not land on the moon, is a mission packed with milestones. The mission includes the first woman and first person of color to fly into cislunar space, the area between Earth’s orbit and the moon. Artemis II’s Orion space capsule could fly them farther from Earth than any human being before them.","postType":"key-event","contributors":[]},{"id":"block-69cd996d8f08e7b812c98a96","title":"Go for launch! New time 6.35pm ET","publishedDateTime":"2026-04-01T22:26:07Z","lastUpdatedDateTime":"2026-04-01T22:26:07Z","body":"Polling of mission managers has concluded, officially known as the launch readiness check.
\nThe verdict is “launch teams are ready to proceed at this time”.
\nNow it’s the final poll conducted by launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson. Things are good.
\nShe said:
\n\n\nReid, Victor, Christina and Jeremy, on this historic mission you take the heart of this Artemis team, the daring spirit of of the American people and our partners across the globe, and the hopes and dreams of a new generation.
\nGood luck, God speed Artemis II. Let’s go.
\n
The countdown clock has resumed, lift-off in 10 minutes, at 6.35pm ET (11.35pm BST)
","cleanBody":"Polling of mission managers has concluded, officially known as the launch readiness check. The verdict is “launch teams are ready to proceed at this time”. Now it’s the final poll conducted by launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson. Things are good. She said: Reid, Victor, Christina and Jeremy, on this historic mission you take the heart of this Artemis team, the daring spirit of of the American people and our partners across the globe, and the hopes and dreams of a new generation. Good luck, God speed Artemis II. Let’s go. The countdown clock has resumed, lift-off in 10 minutes, at 6.35pm ET (11.35pm BST)","postType":"key-event","contributors":[]}],"keyEvents":[{"id":"block-69cd8e6d8f08e7b812c98a56","title":"Engineers evaluating battery issue","publishedDateTime":"2026-04-01T21:37:56Z","lastUpdatedDateTime":"2026-04-01T21:37:56Z","body":"Sigh. Another late technical issue has cropped up, this time a problem with one of two batteries we are led to believe has something to do with the launch abort system.
\nAs of now, it is not considered a constraint to launch. BUT… confusingly, it would be considered one within the last six minutes of the countdown, Nasa’s launch commentator Derrol Nail said.
\nApparently, one of two batteries is reporting a temperature “out of range”, but engineers don’t yet know if it’s an issue with the battery itself, or just a malfunctioning sensor.
\nAs before, mission managers are “troubleshooting the issue”, and we are awaiting an update.
\nIn better news, the weather forecast for the the opening of the launch window at 6.24pm ET has increased to 90% favorable (from 80% earlier).
\nAnd the hatch of the Orion crew capsule has finally been closed and sealed, and the closeout crew is making its way off the launchpad.
","cleanBody":"Sigh. Another late technical issue has cropped up, this time a problem with one of two batteries we are led to believe has something to do with the launch abort system. As of now, it is not considered a constraint to launch. BUT… confusingly, it would be considered one within the last six minutes of the countdown, Nasa’s launch commentator Derrol Nail said. Apparently, one of two batteries is reporting a temperature “out of range”, but engineers don’t yet know if it’s an issue with the battery itself, or just a malfunctioning sensor. As before, mission managers are “troubleshooting the issue”, and we are awaiting an update. In better news, the weather forecast for the the opening of the launch window at 6.24pm ET has increased to 90% favorable (from 80% earlier). And the hatch of the Orion crew capsule has finally been closed and sealed, and the closeout crew is making its way off the launchpad.","postType":"key-event","contributors":[]},{"id":"block-69cd95d28f082fa268c5c9b2","title":"Battery issue 'won't affect launch'","publishedDateTime":"2026-04-01T22:03:12Z","lastUpdatedDateTime":"2026-04-01T22:03:11Z","body":"A welcome battery update from Nasa’s Artemis II blog:
\n\n\nEngineers investigated a sensor on the launch abort system’s attitude control motor controller battery that showed a higher temperature than would be expected. It is believed to be an instrumentation issue and will not affect today’s launch.
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We are back on. Again.
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\nLaunch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson says the recommendation is still to launch at some point, but we don’t yet know what new time might be provided.
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\nThe verdict is “launch teams are ready to proceed at this time”.
\nNow it’s the final poll conducted by launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson. Things are good.
\nShe said:
\n\n\nReid, Victor, Christina and Jeremy, on this historic mission you take the heart of this Artemis team, the daring spirit of of the American people and our partners across the globe, and the hopes and dreams of a new generation.
\nGood luck, God speed Artemis II. Let’s go.
\n
The countdown clock has resumed, lift-off in 10 minutes, at 6.35pm ET (11.35pm BST)
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\nThe 10-day test flight, which will not land on the moon, is a mission packed with milestones. The mission includes the first woman and first person of color to fly into cislunar space, the area between Earth’s orbit and the moon.
\nArtemis II’s Orion space capsule could fly them farther from Earth than any human being before them.
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\nThe spacecraft will orbit Earth until flight day two (Thursday) when the translunar injection burn will take place and sent it on the rest of its 240,000-mile journey to the moon.
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\nFour astronauts, Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, plus Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency, are on their way to the moon after lifting off at 6.35pm from launchpad 39B.
\nTheir 10-day lunar flyby is the first crewed mission to the moon in more than half a century. No other humans have traveled beyond lower Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in December 1972.
\nArtemis II is a test flight designed to evaluate the Orion crew capsule and essential life support and medical systems ahead of future Artemis missions, including the next moon landing scheduled for Artemis IV in 2028.
\nThank you for following the launch with us, and stick with us for news of the mission and coverage of the Artemis II crew’s splashdown in the Pacific Ocean in 10 days’ time.
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\nFull report – Nasa’s Artemis II rocket lifts off for historic moon mission
\nNasa’s moon rocket Artemis II launches on Wednesday evening, carrying astronauts to the moon for the first time in almost 54 years. The rocket is now orbiting Earth, and will continue to do so until Thursday, when the translunar injection burn will take place and send it on the rest of its 240,000-mile journey to the moon
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\nLewis, who served as the Canadian ambassador to the United Nations, as well as the head of Ontario’s New Democratic party (NDP), was 88.
\n“Stephen spent the last eight years of his life battling cancer with the same indomitable energy he brought to his lifelong work: the unending struggle for justice and dignity for every human life,” his family said in a statement. “The world has lost a voice of unmatched eloquence and integrity.”
\nThe prime minister, Mark Carney, paid tribute to Lewis, calling him “a pillar of compassionate leadership in Canadian democracy, and a renowned global champion for human rights and multilateralism” in a statement.
\nLewis, the scion of former federal NDP leader David Lewis, was also the father of Avi Lewis, who was elected leader of the federal NDP on Sunday.
\n\nIn his victory speech before his father’s death, Avi Lewis paid tribute to him, saying his father was “not doing too well” but was hanging on from his hospital bed to see the next chapter of “the movement”.
\n“Ever the political fanatic, Dad has demanded daily updates about our organizing, delivered to his hospital bed – a veritable IV drip of campaign data,” he said. “At age 88 he is more passionate about the promise of democratic socialism than he has ever been in his life.”
\nStephen Lewis led the Ontario NDP from 1970 to 1978, serving as official opposition leader from 1975 to 1977.
\nAfter leaving politics, Lewis was appointed Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations. He was then named special adviser to the UN’s secretary general on African affairs and later became deputy director of Unicef and the United Nations special envoy for HIV-Aids in Africa.
\nIt was that work, in a region of the world decimated by illness and the neglect of nations with the means to help, that left him shaken.
\n“I cannot remember in my entire adult life scenes of such unendurable human desolation, it was heartbreaking,” Lewis said during his first speech to the UN in 2006.
\nA skilled orator and writer, he reserved his sharpest criticism for wealthy nations and the global institutions capable of ending much of the suffering.
\n“It’s not just the fact that people will die; it’s the fact that those who have made the decision know that people will die. How does that get rationalized?” he said in a 2011 speech at Yale University after donor nations cut funding. “How does that get dealt with in the inner sanctums of development ministries and cabinet discussions? What in God’s name do they say to each other?”
\nLewis, driven by the desire to make combating disease and poverty his life’s work, then co-founded the Stephen Lewis Foundation with his daughter Ilana Landsberg-Lewis, travelling often to countries in Africa disproportionately affected by pandemics.
\nDuring the coronavirus pandemic, Lewis called on countries like Canada to recognize the need for vaccine equity, and criticised the government for accessing doses from an international vaccine-sharing pool. “It was always understood from the outset that this was not a source of vaccines for the rich and wealthy countries of the world,” he said in a 2021 interview.
\nThere are two schools in Toronto named after him and Lewis held 42 honorary degrees, among the highest of any Canadian. He was given the Order of Canada, the country’s highest honour, in 2002.
\n• This story was amended on 1 April 2026. An earlier version reported that Stephen Lewis had 33 honorary degrees when he had 42.
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\nA record number of members voted in the three-day NDP leadership convention, giving Lewis a first-ballot win that underscored widespread support. Lewis pledged to convert the “tremendous momentum” of the convention into an “NDP comeback”.
\nSpeaking to supporters on Sunday after his win, the 58-year-old documentary film-maker and former television host pledged to centre the party around the pursuit of equity, promising higher wealth taxes, green energy and tuition-free education.
\n“We can already hear the howls from the establishment: ‘But how will you pay for all this?’ It is time, far past time, to properly tax the corporations and billionaires that have been riding a tidal wave of profits while the 99% have been suffering and struggling,” he told a cheering crowd in Winnipeg.
\nLewis took aim at the moral failings of the governing Liberals, telling energised supporters that an NDP government would challenge the dominance of oil companies and “grocery baron[s]” that enjoy billions in profits.
\n“The NDP will start winning again because we will become that beacon to the 99%, illuminating the darkening sky of these terrifying times with the energising light of collective struggle.”
\nLewis, the grandson of the former party leader David Lewis and son of the former Ontario NDP leader Stephen Lewis, was joined on stage by supporters and his wife, the acclaimed author Naomi Klein.
\nHe faces a daunting set of tasks in rebuilding a party that has just six MPs, weak polling and about C$13m in debt. That effort will probably be complicated by the fact that he has never held political office and does not hold a seat in parliament.
\n\nIn winning at the leadership convention, he beat the MP Heather McPherson, who placed second, the union organiser Rob Ashton, the British Columbia city councillor Tanille Johnston and the farmer Tony McQuail.
\nThe prime minister, Mark Carney, and the Conservative party leader, Pierre Poilievre, each issued statements of congratulations to Lewis, saying they looked forward to working with the newly appointed leader. Both Carney’s Liberals and Tories were beneficiaries of the party’s collapse in the last election, which saw the NDP lose 17 of its 24 seats, as well as official party status. The then leader Jagmeet Singh resigned after losing his own riding.
\nNow polling at about 6% federally, the party was dealt another blow earlier this month when the MP Lori Idlout crossed over to the Liberals, leaving it far short of the 12 MPs needed for official party status.
\nIn 2011, under former leader Jack Layton, the party won 103 seats in parliament.
\nUnlike other federal parties, the NDP has deep ties with its provincial counterparts. Lewis appeared on stage with the Manitoba premier, Wab Kinew, whose NDP party won a strong majority in the province in 2023, and who consistently polls as the country’s most popular premier.
\nBut reactions from some provincial leaders following Lewis’s victory underscore the challenges he faces in unifying the party. While British Columbia’s NDP premier, David Eby, applauded Lewis’s win, he also noted his government’s aim of increasing jobs in the technology and mining sectors – both industries criticised by Lewis. “Our priority is lifting up working people and growing prosperity,” said Eby.
\nLewis has looked to bolster the party’s environmental credentials, calling for a green energy deal and an export tax to be placed on oil and gas shipped to the US. He also wants to invest 2% of Canada’s gross domestic product in the fight against the effects of the climate crisis.
\nAlberta’s NDP leader, Naheed Nenshi, who has clashed with Lewis over oil and gas development, warned that a perceived ideological shift in the federal party would not be helpful to its provincial version in Alberta.
\n“It is clear that the direction of the federal party under this new leader, someone who openly cheered for the defeat of the Alberta NDP government, is not in the interests of Alberta,” he said.
\nIn Saskatchewan, the NDP leader, Carla Beck, said she had declined to meet with Lewis, calling his positions “ideological and unrealistic”. She pointed to a video Lewis had posted in which he opposes new pipeline projects.
\nThe interim leader, Don Davies, said the party was ready to rebuild after a devastating result last April, telling convention attenders that he believed voters were concerned that Carney was becoming increasingly conservative.
\n“There is something I’d like to clear up arising from my speech at the press-gallery dinner,” Davies said on Sunday. “I erroneously said, when Prime Minister Carney played hockey, that he was a goalie. I was mistaken. He’s clearly a rightwinger.”
\n• This article was amended on 30 March 2026 to correct a reference to Heather McPherson as a former MP; she is the sitting MP for Edmonton Strathcona. A misspelling of Lori Idlout’s surname was also corrected.
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\nAir Canada’s CEO, Michael Rousseau, will retire by the end of the third quarter of 2026, the company said on Monday. He will continue to lead the company and serve on the board of directors until that time, the carrier said.
\nLast week, an Air Canada Jazz flight landed at LaGuardia airport in New York and then collided with a fire truck on the runway, killing its two pilots, Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther. The pair were praised by aviation experts for taking actions that saved passengers’ lives.
\nIn response to the tragedy, the company posted a four-minute condolence video in which Rousseau spoke only two French words – bonjour and merci.
\nCanada’s largest airline is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, where French is both widely spoken and the official language. Forest, the 30-year-old pilot, was francophone, as were a number of passengers onboard the flight.
\nUnder Canada’s Official Languages Act, which enshrines French as one of the country’s two official languages, the airline is required to provide services in both English and French. Even the company’s own policy requires all communications with the public to be in both languages.
\nSoon after, the prime minister, Mark Carney, said he was “extremely disappointed” by Rousseau’s unilingual message, which showed a “lack of compassion” towards the victims of the crash.
\nDays later, Rousseau issued a statement apologizing for the way in which his “inability to speak French” had “diverted attention from the profound grief of the families” and instead placed a sharp focus on his language skills.
\n“Despite many lessons over several years, unfortunately, I am still unable to express myself adequately in French,” he said. “I sincerely apologize for this, but I am continuing my efforts to improve.”
\nBoth his wife and mother speak French, and in 2021 Rousseau came under fire for giving a high-profile speech in Quebec only in English. He responded to reporters at the time that he had been living in Montreal for 14 years and called it a “testament to the city” that he didn’t need to learn French. He also said at the time that his schedule did not allow him time to take French courses, but promised to do so, and had reportedly spent 300 hours studying the language before his video statement last week where he used only two words of it.
\nBy 27 March, the office of the commissioner of official languages said it had received more than 2,000 complaints. In Quebec, where politicians have taken legislative steps to protect a language they fear is under threat by anglophones, lawmakers overwhelmingly passed a motion calling for Rousseau to step down.
\nThe executive’s inability to string together even a handful of rehearsed sentences in French also prompted disbelief online.
\n“The Air Canada CEO has lived in Montréal for decades, and he knows less French than a literal POLAR BEAR,” posted one user, referring to a bear that was recently moved from a zoo in Quebec to a facility in Calgary, where staff said a French-speaking trainer had accompanied the bear to help it adjust to his new settings.
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\nBut lawmakers in Canada’s lone francophone province rejected the mea culpa as “too little too late” and overwhelmingly passed a motion calling for the head of Canada’s flagship carrier to step down.
\nAir Canada’s CEO, Michael Rousseau, has been criticized for the four-minute condolence video posted online that included only two French words – “bonjour” and “merci”.
\n“I am deeply saddened that my inability to speak French has diverted attention from the profound grief of the families and the great resilience of Air Canada’s employees, who have demonstrated outstanding professionalism despite the events of the past few days,” Rousseau said in a statement on Thursday.
\n“Despite many lessons over several years, unfortunately, I am still unable to express myself adequately in French. I sincerely apologize for this, but I am continuing my efforts to improve.”
\nBut soon after, Quebec’s legislature passed a vote calling on Rousseau to resign. The motion, brought forward by the province’s minister of French language, cited the executive’s “lack of respect for the French language, Quebec families in mourning, and all francophones across the province”.
\nThe motion also called for the next CEO of the company to speak French.
\nLawmakers from all parties joined to vote in favour of the motion, with 92 for it and none against it. One person abstained.
\n\nThe Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, had previously said Rousseau showed a lack of compassion and judgment and said he looks forward to hearing more from Air Canada’s board of directors.
\nAntoine Forest, one of the two pilots killed in the crash at LaGuardia airport, was a French-speaking Quebecer. Forest and Mackenzie Gunther died when the Air Canada Jazz flight they were in landed at LaGuardia and collided with a fire truck on the runway.
\nCanada’s largest airline is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, where French is the primary language. Rousseau has been criticized for not speaking French previously. He delivered his condolence video message in English, with French subtitles.
\nCarney noted that Canada is a bilingual country with two official languages.
\nQuebec’s identity has been contentious since the 1760s when the British completed their takeover of what was then called New France. Quebec is about 80% French-speaking.
\nLegault noted that when Rousseau was appointed president of the airline in February 2021, he promised to learn French.
\nThe office of the commissioner of official languages has received hundreds of complaints about Rousseau’s video.
\n“Back in November 2021, less than a year after he was appointed CEO of Air Canada, one of his first major speeches in his role triggered a strong controversy among francophones, as the speech was almost exclusively in English,” said Daniel Béland, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal.
\n“At the time, in response to that controversy, Rousseau apologized and pledged to learn French. He did later take French lessons but, as the new controversy suggests, it was probably not very successful to say the least.”
\nJason Kenney, a former conservative cabinet minister, said he would rather the CEO of Canada’s flagship carrier focus his scarce time on safety and reliability than language training.
\nAssociated Press contributed reporting
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\nAmid growing calls for his resignation, the airline chief’s misstep has once again revived frustrations and fears over linguistic rights protections in the province of Quebec, where French is the only official language.
\nTwo pilots were killed in the crash late on Sunday, when a fire truck collided with an Air Canada Express flight landing at New York’s LaGuardia airport.
\n\nThe following day, the Air Canada CEO, Michael Rousseau, shared a four-minute condolence video online, saying he was deeply saddened by the loss of life and said the collision was a “very dark day” for Air Canada. It only included two French words – “bonjour” and “merci”.
\nRousseau does not speak French – a language spoken by both his mother and wife, and roughly 80% of the population of Quebec. When he assumed the job in 2021, he pledged to learn the language, but months later prompted angry protests when he addressed the Montreal chamber of commerce in English.
\nOn Wednesday, Air Canada, which is based in Montreal, said in a statement that Rousseau wanted to address “everyone affected by the tragedy, whether directly or indirectly”, himself.
\n“He therefore recorded a message as a matter of priority before departing on a flight for the crash site. Despite his efforts, his ability to express himself in French does not allow him to convey such a sensitive message in that language as he would wish.”
\nThe video included French subtitles, and all available information was communicated in both official languages on the Air Canada website.
\nBut the explanation did not satisfy federal ministers, who have summoned him to the official languages committee to “explain himself” to lawmakers.
\n“We proudly live in a bilingual country. There are two official languages here and Air Canada has a special responsibility whatever the situation to communicate whatever the situation in both official languages,” Carney said. “I am extremely disappointed by the message released by the CEO of Air Canada. It shows a lack of compassion, and we will be closely following his comments before the official languages committee as well as the comments coming from the board of Air Canada.”
\nCanada’s languages commissioner usually receives 100 complaints about the airline each year. But as of Wednesday morning, the commissioner said it received nearly 800 complaints about the video.
\nThe two pilots killed in the collision were Antoine Forest from Coteau-du-Lac, Quebec, and Mackenzie Gunther, a 2023 alumnus of Toronto’s Seneca Polytechnic.
\nMélanie Joly, the industry minister, joined the criticism, saying many of the victims and their families were francophones. “It is a question of moral leadership,” Joly said.
\n“If he still doesn’t speak French today, it’s disrespectful to his employees and to his francophone customers, so yes, I think that if he doesn’t speak French, he should resign,” François Legault, the Quebec premier, told reporters.
\nThe federal Bloc Québécois leader, Yves-François Blanchet, said the Air Canada board should force him out. “He should leave. He should acknowledge the fact that he doesn’t have the requisite respect for Quebec society,” he said. “There is a limit to the number of insults that one is supposed to stand.”
\nIn the 1950s, company bosses in the province would speak only English to their workers – and often refuse to allow French to be spoken. Those dynamics helped spark the Quiet Revolution – the bloodless overthrow of Catholicism and the anglophone ruling classes in the province – and a Quebecers separatist movement.
\nIn recent years, Quebec’s nationalist government has passed laws to dramatically strengthen protections for the French language amid fears English is overtaking it, especially in large cities.
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\nThe CRJ-900 jet, operated by Jazz Aviation, collided with a fire truck as it landed, killing both the pilot and co-pilot. Nine people were sent to the hospital with injuries, including Solange Tremblay, a flight attendant.
\n“It’s a complete miracle. At the moment of impact, her seat was ejected more than 100 metres from the plane. They found her and she was still strapped into her seat,” her daughter Sarah Lépine told Quebec’s TVA News. “She had a guardian angel watching over her. It could have been much worse.”
\nLépine said her mother suffered multiple bone fractures and was taken to the hospital for surgery on a broken leg.
\nAccording to her social media profile, Tremblay began working for Jazz 26 years ago as a flight attendant.
\nJazz Aviation, owned by Chorus Aviation, is an independent regional airline that operates short-haul flights on behalf of Air Canada under the Air Canada Express brand.
\nMontreal-based Air Canada did not provide a statement on Tremblay, but several staff members confirmed details of the incident to the Guardian.
\nTVA identified one of the pilots as Antoine Forest, 30, of Coteau-du-Lac, a city south-west of Montreal. He joined Jazz Aviation in 2022. The other pilot was Mackenzie Gunther, Radio-Canada sources have confirmed.
\n“The loss of our two fellow crew members onboard Flight 8646 is a profound tragedy,” said Jason Ambrosi, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, the largest airline pilot union in the world.
\n“These pilots dedicated their careers to the safe transport of passengers, and we are all thinking of their families, loved ones, and colleagues at Jazz Aviation during this devastating time.”
\nIn air traffic control recordings moments before the crash, staff could be heard on a radio transmission giving clearance to a vehicle to cross part of the runway, then trying to stop it.
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\n “Stop, Truck 1. Stop,” the transmission says as the controller attempts to divert incoming aircraft from landing. After the collision, audio released by LiveATC appears to show air traffic controllers discussing the incident.
\nOne controller said the impact “wasn’t good to watch”. Another responded: “Yeah, I know I was here. I tried to reach out … we were dealing with an emergency earlier. I messed up.”
\n“Nah, man, you did the best you could,” the other controller says in the recording.
\nMark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, said the collision was “deeply saddening”.
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\nTwo pilots killed after Air Canada jet collision at LaGuardia in New York
\nCCTV footage showed the moments before an Air Canada Express jet collided with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. The pilot and co-pilot were killed in the collision. The crash injured dozens of passengers and led to hundreds of flight cancellations.
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\nMembers of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations travelled to London from their territories in the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan to raise the alarm over the secessionist movement, arguing that it ignores key agreements signed between First Nations and the crown nearly 150 years ago.
\nJoey Pete, Sunchild First Nation’s grand chief, said the delegation “made [Charles] aware of the separatism issue in Alberta and the threat to the Treaty it represents”, adding in a statement that the monarch appeared “concern[d] and committed to learning more”.
\nA minority of residents of the oil-rich province in western Canada have long argued that the province’s perceived woes are due to the structure of payments to the federal government and a perceived inability to get their vast fossil fuel reserves to market. Alberta often has the highest GDP per capita and highest median income in the country.
\nOrganizers of the Alberta independence movement are now collecting signatures to trigger a referendum there, and have attempted to solicit the help of officials in Washington. The pro-independence campaign has been travelling across the province as organizers try to collect nearly 178,000 signatures over the next few months. The group has publicly said it wants a $500bn credit facility from the US treasury to help fund the creation of a new country if their referendum is successful.
\n\nProminent Indigenous leaders in the province have warned no secession is possible without consultation with treaty holders, whose agreement predates the creation of Alberta as a province within Canada.
\nThe relationship between Indigenous peoples and the British royal family is nuanced: Canadian history is rife with broken promises, dispossession and overt attempts to erase Indigenous cultures. But the connection is rooted in treaties signed in the 1700s, predating the existence of the country of Canada itself.
\nTreaty Six, which governs relations between First Nations and the crown in lands within the current province of Alberta, was signed in 1876. Alberta became a province in 1905.
\nPete says he asked Charles to issue a royal proclamation “reaffirming our sacred treaty relationship and sovereign rights” following a meeting of “treaty partners and equals”.
\nDanielle Smith, Alberta’s premier who has rejected the idea of separation and said she “supports a strong and sovereign Alberta within a united Canada”, is facing mounting criticism that her government recently made it easier for residents to petition for a referendum.
\nChief Desmond Bull, who also attended the meeting with the king, said leaders spoke “directly” to Charles about the “international implications of the threats our treaties” face as well as Canada’s ongoing failure to meet treaty obligations.
\nBull, a member of the Louis Bull Tribe, said the king took the issue “very seriously”.
\nBoth leaders formally invited Charles to attend the 150th commemoration of Treaty Six celebrations during August in Edmonton, saying the king’s attendance “would be a powerful symbol of the Crown’s commitment to the Treaty relationship”.
\nMark Carney will meet Charles on Monday and told reporters ahead of the visit the chiefs had “quite a fulsome discussion” with the monarch.
\n“His Majesty, in all my experience, takes an intense interest in the rights of Indigenous peoples,” the prime minister said.
\n• This article was amended on 15 March 2026 to include the fact that members of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations from Saskatchewan also met King Charles.
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\nWhile experts say the deaths are exceedingly rare, critics say Canada’s embrace of private companies to handle blood products reflects a “slow collapse of a system that has been the envy of the world”.
\nHealth Canada, the federal agency that regulates plasma clinics, said it had received reports from the clinics regarding “fatal adverse reactions” after plasma donations in October 2025 and January 2026.
\nThe deaths occurred at facilities operated by the Spanish healthcare company Grifols. In both cases, the two donors went into “distress” while donating, people familiar with the cases told the Guardian.
\nHealth Canada said its investigations were continuing.
\nGrifols said in a statement it had “no reason to believe that there is a correlation between the donors’ passing and plasma donation”.
\nCBC News was the first to report the fatal adverse reactions in plasma donors.
\nPlasma, the pale yellow liquid part of blood, is used to create medications for a number of conditions, including haemophilia, and to help treat burn victims. But in recent years, Canada has faced stiff pushback over the extent to which Grifols, which operates 17 facilities in the country, has become enmeshed in the world of blood plasma collection.
\nCanada’s health agency did not disclose the identities of the two donors who died but friends say one was Rodiyat Alabede, 22, an international student who donated plasma in Winnipeg on 25 October.
\n“Rody aspired to become a social worker, dedicating her life to helping others, a dream she was so close to achieving,” friends wrote on a GoFundMe page to raise money to help her family. “Rody was known for her kindness, compassion, and unwavering faith. She was deeply devoted to her dream and always carried herself with grace, warmth, and sincerity.”
\nThree months later, another person died while donating plasma at a different location in Winnipeg.
\nHealth Canada said there were immediate visits to the plasma collection centres after each reported fatality and records indicated standard operating procedures were being followed.
\nThe Canadian Blood Service said it was “deeply saddened” by the deaths and that it monitored donor health and followed “the highest safety standards to safeguard both those who donate in our centres and the patients who receive blood products”.
\nProvincial health agencies were notified only recently about the fatalities, even though the first occurred nearly six months ago.
\nGrifols said: “Every donor undergoes an extensive health history evaluation and physical examination before being deemed eligible to donate. We strive to operate under strict operational procedures at the highest standard.”
\nAccording to federal inspection reports, one facility in the neighbouring province of Saskatchewan was inspected in January and failed to “accurately assess the donor’s suitability” – one of 11 deficiencies that prompted inspectors to rate the site as non-compliant with Canada’s Food and Drugs Act and the blood regulations.
\nOther failures include “validation, calibration, cleaning, or maintenance of critical equipment [that] were not always sufficient” and records that “were not always accurate, complete, legible, indelible and/or readily retrievable”.
\nAnother site in Alberta was found to have 10 deficiencies, including record keeping, donor screening and equipment maintenance.
\nGrifols said: “A ‘non-compliant’ rating means that the identified operational processes require improvement and we are working hard to address those swiftly.” It added that after two recent inspections, it had “submitted detailed action plans to Health Canada and began implementation immediately with a focus on preventing recurrence and strengthening overall compliance”.
\nIt said its facilities in Calgary and Regina were previously compliant and “continue normal operations while we implement corrective actions to address the cited concerns”.
\nOf the eight documented instances of non-compliance for blood inspections, which date back to 2016, facilities operated by Grifols made up half of all cases.
\nOne inspector with Health Canada, who asked not to be named, told the Guardian he felt the non-compliance reports were “very troubling” and believed they reflected a “deeper set of concerns” about the facilities and how they were run.
\nCurtis Brandell, a blood safety activist who is president of the independent British Columbia chapter of the Canadian Hemophilia Society, said: “When I heard about the first death, I thought it must be a mistake. The donation procedure is safe. But when I learned of a second death – in the same city – alarm bells started going off.”
\nOne of the facilities in Winnipeg where a donor died in January, owned by Grifols, is the subject of a lawsuit after a donor said the facility used a faulty machine that damaged his blood, causing “non-reversible and permanent” injuries to his kidney.
\nCraig Loney, an aircraft maintenance technician, said he experienced intense pain and blood in his urine after using a machine that separates the plasma from the red blood cells. He later received an email from the company operating the facility, informing him that a “machine error” had caused some red blood cells removed during the procedure to be “broken” and erroneously returned into his body along with the plasma.
\nThe allegations have not been tested in court. Grifols has asked a judge to dismiss the case and said in a court filing the donor was “fully informed of the risks” of the procedure and had consented to possible side-effects.
\nQuestions over the structure of how Canadians give blood and plasma are set against the backdrop of a national scandal in which thousands of Canadians were infected with HIV/Aids and hepatitis C through contaminated blood products in the 1980s and early 90s.
\nTwo of Brandell’s uncles were infected through contaminated blood products.
\n“The Canadian Red Cross knew they were sending out contaminated blood but figured anyone who needed blood needed it for life-saving reasons,” he said. “The Red Cross told themselves if people knew, it would lead to pandemonium and distrust of the system. So they just kept it quiet.”
\nThe Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada later made a series of recommendations to ensure the safety of the system. The commission said Canada should aim to be self-sufficient in blood and blood products – but not by creating a commercial donor market, and that a voluntary system was the safest and most ethical model.
\nCanada does not produce enough plasma for domestic use, meaning it must buy its supply from abroad – most often from the US. For decades, Grifols has been one of Canada’s main suppliers of immunoglobulin, a plasma protein used to treat medical conditions such as autoimmune diseases and neurological disorders.
\nOnly three provinces – Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec – have a ban on paid donations for plasma, but under a 2022 agreement in Ontario, Grifols operates as an “agent” for the Canadian Blood Services, meaning it can in effect skirt the ban.
\nGrifols pays up to C$100 (£55) for each donation, and donations are permitted twice a week. Those who donate more frequently are enrolled in the company’s “super hero rewards” programme and can receive prizes and cash bonuses of C$50 for every 10 donations made within six weeks.
\nDocumented concerns over the company’s problems with record-keeping and cleanliness of machinery were reminiscent of Canada’s tainted blood scandal, argued Brandell.
\nHe said the “absolutely tragic” deaths were a wake-up call and added that advocates had been promised by Canadian Blood Services that there were “robust guardrails” in place.
\n“My concerns were, once you have a private company coming into Canada, you lose control over much of the industry. I fear the first thing we’re losing is public accountability and oversight. We were promised transparency. That’s not what we’re getting.”
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\nTowering atop the crowns of evergreens, it has no skeleton of limestone or granite. There are no spires, cornices or headwalls. It is simply piles upon piles of snow, mixed with a toxic cocktail of road salt, antifreeze, oil, coffee cups and lost keys. It is the final resting place for the forces of nature that have battered the city in recent weeks – and a daunting environmental hazard.
\nIn late January, Toronto was hit with what many experts said was the heaviest single day of snowfall in the city’s history. In some spots, nearly 23in fell, driven in part by a collision of weather systems. The city had already removed 264,000 tonnes of snow from 1,100 km (680 miles) of roads, sidewalks and bike lanes by mid-February.
\nA similar storm hit New York City at the end of February with more than 25in of snow piling up in some regions, part of a two-day storm with hurricane-like winds.
\nMajor cities that experience the full brunt of winter have long been forced to confront a reality that snow cannot stay on streets or sidewalks. The solution is to truck the snow – sometimes for weeks on end – to storage facilities along the urban outskirts.
\nToronto’s six resulting snow mountains are scattered throughout the city. Most are secret, to deter illegal dumping. One site, however, in the north-western outskirts of the city, is most visible to drivers travelling along the highway. It can hold 144,000 cubic metres of snow on its two acres.
\nReaching nearly 100ft – the height of a 10-storey building – it resembles an Italian marble quarry, with yellow excavators moving in unison against the ashy snow. Plumes of steam rise from industry melters – contraptions roughly the size and shape of a shipping container which slowly reduce the size of the mountain over time. The site operators pull long shifts: during particularly nasty storms, the machinery works 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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\n “Certainly, there’s a need to remove the snow to minimise risk on roads and sidewalks, especially from a public safety perspective,” said Donald Jackson, a professor of ecology at the University of Toronto. “But the challenge is what they’re trying to balance against: the ultimate impact to aquatic ecosystems.”
\nCanada’s largest city has spent more than C$1bn over more than a decade to successfully re-naturalise the mouth of the Don River, restoring its natural flood mitigation capabilities and reviving a riparian ecosystem once left for dead.
\nThe city says it uses a variety of tools to prevent contaminants such as oil from cars entering water systems. But salt is a pervasive foe, passing though most storm water treatment.
\nToronto has so far used more than 130,000 tonnes of salt this season and local governments are grappling with a shortage – even though the world’s largest salt mine sits less than 150 miles west of the city.
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\n “We know cities are trying to reduce their usage and reliance on salt. But it works,” said Jackson. “But while we know roughly how much the city uses, we have no idea how much is being used to salt private driveways and places like grocery store parking lots.”
\nFurthermore, the risk of legal liability prompts many private operators to overuse salt, Jackson said.
\nThe rock salt used on roads – sodium chloride – is chemically the same as table salt. But the two elements pose different risks to the environment and human heath.
\nChloride in high concentrations is toxic to fish in fresh water systems. In recent testing, Jackson and Lauren Lawson, a doctoral researcher, found chloride levels were high enough to be lethal to a majority of aquatic species at 30% of sites tested. Virtually all the sites they tested were in excess of federal guidelines.
\nMeanwhile, in areas where people use wells for drinking water, sodium levels increase over time as salt is absorbed into the groundwater.
\nIn John McPhee’s Annals of the Former World, the author wrote: “Remember about mountains: what they are made of is not what made them.”
\nAnd what made them is not what will destroy them. A recent thaw eroded chunks of Toronto’s snow mountain, pushing vast amounts of salt into waterways.
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\n “You can have places where it’s elevated to 10, or even 100, times the background level,” he said. “But we’ve also seen locations in where the amount of salt in the water exceeds seawater concentration.”
\nExperts warn that while the climate crisis will lead to overall warmer temperatures, it is also likely to unleash brutal storms, similar to those that choked infrastructure in Toronto and New York. Those storms will require more salt – like many things humans put into the environment – which will last a long time.
\n“The trajectory isn’t good, based on sort of what trends have been over time. We’re looking at increasing concentrations that we see in our rivers, in our lakes. And there isn’t any reason to expect that to stop,” Jackson said. “Even if we stopped applying salt right now, it would take years to decade to flush out of all of our soils and the groundwater.”
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\nThe lawsuit comes days after the head of OpenAI said he would apologize to the families of a remote Canadian town after violence shattered the tight-knit community.
\nEight people – including five school students, aged 12 to 13, and a 39-year-old teaching assistant – were killed by an 18-year-old shooter in the mountain town of Tumbler Ridge on 10 February.
\nIt later emerged that the shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, who died of a self-inflicted injury, had described violent scenarios involving guns to ChatGPT over several days in June, which an automated review system flagged, according to the Wall Street Journal.
\n\nBut OpenAI, which owns the chatbot, said it felt the account activity did not identify “credible or imminent planning” and so banned Van Rootselaar’s account, but did not notify authorities in Canada. The company later said it found a second account linked to the shooter after the first was suspended.
\nOn Monday, Cia Edmonds filed a lawsuit against the company on behalf of herself and her two daughters, Maya and Dahlia Gebala, both of whom were present during the shooting.
\n“The purpose of this lawsuit is to learn the whole truth about how and why the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting happened, to impose accountability, to seek redress for harms and losses, and to help prevent another mass-shooting atrocity in Canada,” the law firm Rice Parsons Leoni & Elliott LLP, which is representing the family, said in a statement.
\nThe allegations have not been tested in court.
\nMaya, 12, was shot three times. One bullet entered her head above her left eye and another hit her neck. A third bullet grazed her cheek and part of her ear, the lawsuit says.
\nShe remains in hospital after suffering a catastrophic traumatic brain injury, permanent cognitive and physical disability, right-sided hemiplegia, scarring and physical deformities, according to the claim.
\nBoth Edmonds and her daughter Dahlia, who was not injured physically in the shooting, have experienced PTSD, anxiety, depression and sleep disturbances.
\nEdmonds’ civil claim alleges ChatGPT was rushed to market by OpenAI without adequate safety studies. The family is seeking undisclosed punitive damages, saying the company’s conduct “is reprehensible and morally repugnant” to both the plaintiffs and the “community at large”.
\nLast week, OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, met virtually with the British Columbia premier, David Eby, and Darryl Krakowka, the mayor of Tumbler Ridge, amid mounting frustration that the tech giant’s existing policies did not require it to report violent content to police.
\n“Everybody on the call recognized that an apology is nowhere near sufficient, but also that it is completely necessary,” Eby said. “And the mayor of Tumbler Ridge is going to work with OpenAI to make sure that any public statements relating to that are done in the way that is appropriate and meaningful, as much as possible, [and] doesn’t retraumatize people in the community.”
\nAsked to comment on the lawsuit, a spokesperson for the company called the shooting an “unspeakable tragedy” and said Altman will work with Eby and Krakowka “to find the best way to convey his apology and support to the Tumbler Ridge community” but did not give a timeline.
\n“OpenAI remains committed to working with provincial and local officials to make meaningful changes that help prevent tragedies like this in the future.”
\nThe company did not say if the lawsuit would change Altman’s plans to apologize.
\n“OpenAI had the opportunity to notify authorities and potentially even to stop this tragedy from happening,” Eby told reporters after the meeting with Altman. The premier said while the company could have done more, he flagged a lack of mental health support and the shooter’s access to firearms.
\nEby, who delivered an emotional speech to the community at a vigil in the days after the shooting, has emerged as a staunch critic of the largely nonexistent regulatory framework governing how artificial intelligence companies operate in Canada – and how OpenAI handled the situation.
\n“It’s not acceptable that it’s up to the companies about whether or not to report, and that needs to change.”
\nEby refused meetings with members of the company’s leadership team, demanding instead that he speak directly with Altman. In the 30-minute call, the premier said he did not ask about interactions between the shooter and OpenAI’s chatbot.
\nAlready under pressure from lawmakers, the company has changed how it works to better identify potential warning signals of serious violence. Canada’s AI minister, Evan Solomon, said he had asked the company to apply the new safety standards retroactively and review previously flagged cases.
\n“This will determine whether additional incidents that would have been referred to law enforcement under OpenAI’s new safety standards were missed, and ensure they are promptly reported to the RCMP,” Solomon said.
\nWhile Eby said OpenAI’s leadership has been “responsive” to the concerns of governments, he warned that other companies with similar chatbots hadn’t yet changed their policies.
\n“The status quo doesn’t work, didn’t work, and it very much presents the threat that it might fail again,” said Eby. “And so change needs to be made quite urgently.”
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\nAfter shifting location because the wind and ice “didn’t feel right” and the fish weren’t biting close to shore, he and a friend joined nearly two dozen others far out on a sheet of ice in Lake Huron. They followed the familiar routine of anyone who spends a day on the ice: they drilled holes, dropped their lines and waited.
\nLess than four hours after venturing on to the frozen lake, however, disaster struck. Fishers including Fox noticed they were moving – imperceptibly slowly, but enough that it was captured on their electronic devices.
\nUnseasonably warm weather and strong winds had helped detach a large piece of ice from the shores of Georgian Bay, stranding 23 people – including families – and prompting a dramatic rescue.
\nDespite strong winds, Ontario police were able to send two helicopters and one air ambulance to retrieve the stranded anglers in an operation on Sunday that took two hours.
\nFox wrote on Facebook that the group decided to run toward one side of the bay in an attempt to escape back to land. But they soon realized the ice had already separated from the shore in that spot. At another section, they found the same result: the ice had sheared from the land.
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\nAs chasms replaced cracks in the ice, fear set in, survivors recalled.
\n“I just started screaming: the ice is opening. The ice is opening,” Alfie How, one of the fishers, told the Sun Times, a local newspaper.
\nThree members of the group tried to run towards shore but the ice around them fractured into smaller pieces, stranding them on open water.
\n“That’s when the reality of the situation really set in. We heard with the [strong] winds at one point they could not send a boat or helicopter. We honestly thought we were doomed,” he wrote.
\n“Some of the guys started making final phone calls to their families. It’s something I will never forget – seeing grown men crying while saying goodbye to the people they love.”
\nWhile some of the stranded anglers had floatation suits on, they knew the freezing waters would overwhelm them within minutes.
\nEventually, helicopters arrived, first plucking the trio from a small piece of ice and then ferrying the other stranded people back to shore.
\nFox says he and others took the necessary precautions to avoid a catastrophic outcome by monitoring the ice, winds and temperatures.
\nBut police say that warm weather has notoriously unpredictable effects on ice, especially in large bodies of water.
\n“We’re really encouraging people here in our area to stay off the ice altogether. Stay away from the edges of waterways,” constable Craig Soldan of the Huron county Ontario provincial police told the Canadian Press.
\n“That includes rivers, ponds – any kind of bodies of water where you’ve got ice shelves, they’re breaking away.”
\nSoldan said the detachment has a motte: “No ice is safe ice.”
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For the other six months, they slipped back into sync. Not because the town changed them but because its neighbours changed back and forth from daylight saving time.
\nCreston was an outlier: a community that effectively created its own time zone. But when residents in most parts of the province shift their clocks forward on Sunday, they will be doing it for the last time – and permanently joining Creston for the first time in nearly 70 years.
\nLast week, British Columbia announced plans to create the Pacific time zone, a decision that reflects both a broad dislike in the province of changing clocks – and an increasingly tense relationship with the United States. But the province then said that while it will create the new Pacific time zone, municipalities will be free to choose their own time zones, raising the possibility of more “time zone islands” like Creston.
\n\n“We are done waiting. British Columbia is going to change our clocks just one more time – and then never again,” BC’s premier, David Eby, told reporters, adding he hoped “our American neighbours” will adopt a similar change. The move puts BC in line with the Yukon territory to its north.
\nIn 2019, public consultations revealed that 93% of residents surveyed said they wanted permanent daylight saving time. But despite that strength of feeling, BC has kept switching in order to match the US and facilitate cross-border trade and travel.
\nAnnouncing the new policy, however, the province cited “recent actions” from its southern neighbour, in what was likely a reference to the sustained trade war and threats to Canadian sovereignty from the Trump administration.
\nAccording to provincial authorities, the changes will lead to “more usable light in the evenings in winter” and a “reduced administrative burden” for swaths of the province.
\nThe Peace region in northern BC, which previously observed mountain standard time year-round, will now be on the same time as most other places in British Columbia with the new time zone. Previously, the region spent its winters aligned with Alberta and then one hour behind in the summer.
\nThe new time zone means that other mountain communities that observe mountain time, but switch between standard and daylight saving times, will be aligned with the rest of the province during the winter months, but will be one hour ahead in the summer.
\nBut those towns could shift – either as a group or on their own, like Creston did.
\n“Just as they can today, local governments will retain the power to determine what time zone they observe,” the government said. “They can choose to shift to permanent daylight time and Pacific time, along with the rest of BC, if they prefer.”
\n“The feedback we’ve received from the public … is [that] people want to be on the same time as the rest of British Columbia,” Cranbrook’s mayor, Wayne Price, told CBC News.
\nIndustry groups expressed frustration with the move.
\n“The unilateral change in time is an unwelcome distraction that will make it more difficult to attract and retain businesses in British Columbia,” Bridgitte Anderson, president and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, said in a statement. “The choice to change the time unilaterally will create an additional headache for businesses operating on both sides of the border.”
\nThe Vancouver airport authority said it would “work with industry to better understand the potential schedule and passenger implications” of shifting time zones without neighbouring jurisdictions doing the same.
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\nMasood Masjoody, a mathematician critical of both Iran’s theocratic regime and the exiled family of the former shah, went missing in early February in the city of Burnaby, British Columbia.
\nPolice are still searching for Masjoody’s body, and a spokesperson for the integrated homicide investigations team, which is part of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), said all of the evidence investigators have collected indicates foul play.
\n\n“We are treating this as a homicide,” Sgt Freda Fong said.
\nActivists who have documented Iran’s recent deadly crackdown on protesters fear the disappearance reflects a policy of attempting to silence members of the diaspora community who are critical of the Iran’s theocracy.
\n“[Masood] has been very vocal against not only opposition groups, but also the regime,” said Tadayon Tahmasbi, an Iranian based in the Netherlands. Tahmasbi, who survived an attempt on his life in June 2024 believed to be linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said the regime in Tehran is working “to stifle and silence voices abroad more than it ever did before”.
\n“I can only hope the truth of his disappearance and those behind it are caught. For now, we across the diaspora are very worried for Masood,” he added.
\nMasjoody obtained his doctorate in mathematics from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, specializing in discrete mathematics and graph theory. He was hired as a sessional instructor that same year and taught mostly undergraduate courses, including one on analytical and quantitative reasoning.
\nBut Masjoody sparred with the mathematics department, including a clash over his “alternative grading system” and his class assignments. He also faced allegations of sexual harassment and made repeated misogynistic and violent posts on social media targeting female colleagues. He was terminated for “just and reasonable cause” in 2020.
\nHis subsequent 2021 lawsuit against the university and colleagues, which he lost, alleged a “conspiracy, weaponizing my personal life against me, defamation, and wide-spread cover-up” in part enabled by “malicious efforts on behalf of Khamenei’s regime”. But he also warned Canadian authorities about what he believed was Iran’s “alarming infiltration” of postsecondary institutions in the country – including at Simon Fraser University.
\nIn a letter to then prime minister Justin Trudeau, Masjoody said he had flagged Iranian regime programs that were involved in sensitive engineering and technology fields and warned that technologies developed in Canada could be brought back to Iran for nefarious purposes.
\nHe also sued a local news outlet, the social media company X and members of the Iranian community. But last year, BC’s court of appeal barred Masjoody from initiating or continuing any appeals without its permission, citing a years-long pattern of “habitual, persistent, and without reasonable cause” litigation.
\nA judge found that Masjoody’s suits had escalated, including instances in which he alleged Simon Fraser University administrators were enabling “spies from the Islamic Republic of Iran” and called one judge “reprehensible”, “inhumane” and “barbarically biased”.
\nSgt Fong said most of the tips provided to police have come from the Iranian community, but she said that unless they find a body, it can be “very difficult” to bring any criminal charges.
\nPolice have provided little information about the scope of the investigation or if they have suspects.
\n“Any speculation over whether Iran was involved would be premature and compromise the integrity of the investigation,” said Fong, adding it was “understandable” that activists and members of the public considered it a possibility.
\n“Masood was very vocal about his views and didn’t shy away from telling the world about it,” said US-based Alborz Pakravan, an exiled Iranian economist who worked with Masjoody in activist circles. “In the aftermath of the massacre [of protesters] in Iran, I am afraid this is a part of the revenge campaign led by the Islamic Republic against dissidents abroad. It’s impossible to not speculate that someone this vocal was a problem and it points to the regime weaponising transnational repression to silence us.”
\nIn addition to warnings from Canada’s intelligence agency over foreign interference from Iran, a 2024 report from the France-based Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime found that Iran relied on “clusters of foreign currency exchange brokers” to launder funds and finance terrorist proxies, including “nodes” in large Canadian cities like Toronto and Vancouver.
\nThat same year, Iran is believed to have targeted prominent critics within Canada. In November 2024, former Canadian justice minister Irwin Cotler said he had been the target of an alleged Iranian assassination plot. The RCMP warned Cotler, a fierce critic of Iran’s government, of an “imminent assassination attempt within the next 48 hours”.
\nCotler had drawn the ire of Iran’s clerics for his campaign to list the IRGC as a terrorist entity, which Canada did in 2024.
\n“In particularly alarming cases over the last year, we’ve had to reprioritise our operations to counter the actions of Iranian intelligence services and their proxies who have targeted individuals they perceive as threats to their regime,” the head of Canada’s spy agency, Dan Rogers, said in November. “In more than one case, this involved detecting, investigating and disrupting potentially lethal threats against individuals in Canada.”
\nPakravan said that Masjoody’s disappearance “has brought to light the consequences of speaking openly” against Tehran, adding that governments must “take seriously how dangerous this regime has been”.
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\n“We are one family,” the Canadian prime minister said from New Delhi on Monday, capping a four-day trade-focused trip meant to reset relations with the world’s most populous nation.
\nCarney says he wants to have a free-trade agreement with the world’s fifth biggest economy by the end of this year. The two nations signed a number of memorandums, as well as a landmark $2.6bn uranium deal. Canada hopes that two-way trade with India could reach $70bn by 2030.
\nModi praised Carney for working to reset the stalled bilateral relationship and the two announced plans to meet again – in Canada – after Modi accepted Carney’s invitation to visit.
\nDuring his visit, Carney reiterated his government’s belief in “principled pragmatism” acknowledging that “not every partner will share all our values”.
\nA readout after his meeting with Modi said that Carney “underscored that Canada will continue to take measures to combat” transnational repression. The release did not include additional details.
\nCarney’s office cancelled a planned press conference Monday, citing the lengthy nature of meetings with Modi’s government and a tight travel schedule to Australia.
\nThe prime minister has yet to answer questions from reporters after a senior official said last week the government was “confident” that India’s campaign of threats and violence had ended, adding that if they had not, Carney and a high-level delegation “wouldn’t be taking this trip”.
\n\nCanada’s foreign affairs minister, Anita Anand, told reporters in New Delhi that “the words of the senior official are not words that I personally would use”.
\nIndia’s envoy to Ottawa, Dinesh Patnaik, says India never conducted foreign interference in Canada.
\nQuestions over India’s role in the 2023 assassination of Sikh campaigner Hardeep Singh Nijjar came as it was reported that an official in the country’s Vancouver consulate helped supply information on Nijjar.
\nPolice believe the consular employee was also an intelligence officer with India’s external intelligence agency. In June, Canada’s spy agency said Nijjar’s murder signaled a “significant escalation in India’s repression efforts”, reflecting a broader, transnational campaign by Delhi to threaten dissidents.
\nAnd in November, the head of Canada’s spy agency said China and India were the main perpetrators of foreign meddling and transnational repression in Canada, and as recently as last week, a prominent Sikh activist was warned by police over a credible threat against the lives of his family – a threat he believes came from India.
\nLiberal MP Ruby Sahota said in a statement that “any suggestion these threats have been resolved does not reflect the current security reality facing Canada”.
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\nBut amid what he had described as a “rupture in the world order”, Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, will on Monday meet Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, to repair strained ties between their nations.
\nThe visit marks a stark shift by both countries, which have been locked in diplomatic stalemates for more than a year and a half. It comes, however, as both countries find themselves locked in spats with their largest trading partner: the United States.
\n\nThe India visit marks Carney’s second such trip in as many months. In January, Carney led a delegation of ministers and senior provincial leaders to China in an attempt to reset relations with Beijing, underscoring his government’s efforts to hedge trade uncertainty with the US.
\nCarney has used much of his time in office signalling to other nations the need to restructure political and economic relations in the face of weakened international institutions and shifting alliances.
\nDespite sharing the world’s largest unprotected border and one of the most integrated economies on the planet, the US under Donald Trump has repeatedly bullied Canada, prompting Carney to pledge a doubling of Canada’s non-US exports within the next decade – hence his government’s interest in India.
\n“India is the most populous country in the world right now and by most accounts the fastest growing big economy in the world,” said Partha Mohanram, director of the India Innovation Institute at the University of Toronto. “It’s a tremendous country to hitch your wagon to. Most other economies in the world, even if they’re rich, are extremely stagnant because of demographics. A deal with India gives you a big piece of a fast growing economy.”
\nCurrent trade between the two nations is negligible, valued at less than C$15bn, and Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy identifies the country as a key trading partner in the region. Ahead of his visit to Delhi, Carney and his delegation held meetings with business leaders in Mumbai.
\nA senior Canadian official told the Guardian there was optimism a 10-year, US$2.8bn uranium supply deal could be one of the most significant and concrete outcomes of the trip.
\nIndia recently reached a truce with the US after disagreements over market access and India’s high volume of Russian crude imports. But the unpredictability of how the White House respects its own agreements has cast uncertainty over how long that truce might last.
\n“Misery loves company. Both countries can share the feeling of being ill-treated by the US,” said Mohanram. “But there are also strengths in looking at each other. India is a massive importer of energy. Canada is a massive exporter of energy. Right now, that makes Canada very attractive to India.”
\nMohanram says the two countries have significant areas of mutual cooperation and there are “tremendous opportunities” for both leaders.
\nMuch of the groundwork for the visit has been handled by India’s high commissioner to Canada, Dinesh Patnaik.
\nNew Delhi is presenting the trip as firmly business-focused and Patnaik says “both the prime ministers are very keen, so the intent is there on both sides” when it comes to strengthening economic ties.
\nIndia’s eagerness toward the visit comes in sharp contrast to Justin Trudeau’s blunder-ridden trip in 2018, when he received what many saw as a cool reception from the Indian government. The biggest embarrassment came when Jaspal Atwal, a Sikh separatist supporter convicted in Canada in 1987 for attempting to assassinate a visiting Indian politician, was invited to an event linked to Trudeau’s delegation.
\n“Relations have transformed over the last few months … Since the last four to five months, we’ve been working very hard to ensure that the relationship is reset to what it was before … This visit will put a stamp on all the activities that have happened to solidify the relationship and to take it to the next level,” Patnaik said ahead of the visit.
\nDespite Modi’s efforts to focus the trip on trade and business, questions over India’s sustained campaign of transnational repression has put Carney in a challenging position.
\nIn 2023, Trudeau accused India of orchestrating the high-profile assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh activist and Canadian citizen. In October 2024, Canada expelled India’s high commissioner in Canada, Sanjay Verma and five other Indian diplomats who federal police said were “persons of interest” in a sprawling investigation with links to the Modi government.
\nIn November, the head of Canada’s spy agency said China and India were the main perpetrators of foreign meddling and transnational repression in Canada and as recently as last week, a prominent Sikh activist was warned by police over a credible threat against the lives of his family – a threat he believes came from India.
\nShortly before Carney boarded a government plane bound for Mumbai, a senior Canadian official told reporters the government was “confident” that India’s campaign of threats and violence had ended, adding that if they had not, Carney and a high-level delegation “wouldn’t be taking this trip”.
\nA day later, Canada’s public safety minister, Gary Anandasangaree, admitted to reporters there are “outstanding” security issues with India. “There’s still a lot more work to do, and we will do that work.”
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