The fear of Poilievre has turned to hope that Carney can beat him. But Carney is no alternative. Between Carney (the banker) and Poilievre (the bully), workers must fight for real alternatives that leave no one left behind.

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Nova Scotia, like all jurisdictions, has an energy system. This system is responsible for supplying the energy we all use for end-use services such as space and hot-water heating, lighting and appliances, transportation, building services such as elevators, and industrial applications. In 2023, about two-thirds of the energy consumed by Nova Scotians was supplied by […]

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The RCMP arrested eight people in Quebec and Ontario early Thursday as part of an investigation targeting a smuggling ring that allegedly transported migrants across the U.S. border.

RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Martina Pillarova says five men and one woman were arrested in Montreal, and another two men were arrested in Brampton, Ont. All the suspects are between 20 and 30 years old. 

The operations were carried out by 100 RCMP officers in the two provinces, as well as officers with Peel Regional Police. Law enforcement raided two homes in Montreal and one in Brampton. 

Pillarova says one of the homes in Montreal is believed to have been used as a “stash house” to keep migrants before they were smuggled into the United States from Quebec. She said the smuggling ring offered their services on Instagram and WhatsApp.

Citing the ongoing investigation, Pillarova declined to say where the migrants were from or whether any migrants were found during the raids.

“We’ll continue with the investigation, and the people that were arrested will be taken into Canada Border Services Agency custody,” she said, adding that the suspects could face human smuggling-related charges and removal from Canada. 

In December, Ottawa said it would beef up border security amid threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to impose hefty tariffs if Canada didn’t address what he said was a flood of migrants and fentanyl across the border into the United States.

Last summer, the RCMP announced that it had dismantled a smuggling ring that was connected to the deaths of eight migrants who drowned in the St. Lawrence River while trying to cross illegally into the United States in March 2023.

However, Pillarova would not comment on whether the suspected smuggling network targeted in Thursday’s investigation was in any way related to previous smuggling activities in Quebec or Ontario.

On the island, roads are bare and have wet sections. Visibility is poor from Clarenville to Bonavista and on the Avalon Peninsula due to fog.

Across Labrador, there are a few stretches of highway that are partly snow-covered with icy and slushy patches.

The MV Qajaq W is out of service for the time being due to lack of an icebreaker. Other ferries are on time.

Flights in St. John’s, Gander, and Deer Lake are on time.

The Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary report into an Endeavour Air flight, operated by Delta Air Lines, that crash landed at Toronto Pearson on February 17, flipping onto its roof, and catching fire.

The plane struck the runway, and the rear landing gear collapsed, causing a wing and tail section to separate from the plane. The fuselage flipped onto its roof and caught fire.

The flight crew escaped the cabin through a ceiling hatch.

Photo via Transportation Safety Board

There were no fatalities, but 21 passengers and crew were injured as a result—many of whom required hospitalization.

The TSB has issued a video outlining its preliminary findings.

Photo via Transportation Safety Board

The Transportation Safety Board says preliminary data collected from the flight data recorder did not contain any caution or warning messages pertaining to the flight controls, “but further analysis will be conducted.”

While the agency says it is too early to determine the cause of the crash, it was noted that the plane was descending at an elevated rate of speed.

Photo via Transportation Safety Board

The TSB says among the areas their investigation will focus on will be the metallurgy of the wing structure, certification of landing gear and wing structure, landing techniques, hard landings and pilot training, and cabin obstructions and impediments once inverted.

Britain's Heathrow Airport said it would be closed all of Friday after a huge fire at a nearby electrical substation wiped out power, disrupting flight schedules around the world.

A boy of tender years sure garnered attention on the Outer Ring Road yesterday.

The 17-year-old was nabbed by the RNC around 3:30 doing 163 km/h. The speed limit is 100 km/h.

Police gave him a ticket, and took his driver’s licence and vehicle.

Around 3:30 pm today, Thursday, a member of RNC Traffic Services stopped this vehicle for traveling 163 km/h in the posted 100 km/h zone on the Outer Ring Rd in St John's. The 17 year old male driver was ticketed, had his licence suspended and vehicle impounded. #nltraffic pic.twitter.com/dBc3zR80Ww

— Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (@RNC_PoliceNL) March 20, 2025

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It costs more to fill up the gas tank this morning.

On the island, the price of gas is up by less than 2 and a half cents per litre. Diesel is down by 3 and a half cents.

Furnace oil drops by 3 cents per litre. Propane is down by a little over 4 cents.

The PUB is now doing pricing adjustments on Fridays rather than Thursdays.

All 19 of the world’s glacier regions experienced a net loss of mass in 2024 for the third consecutive year, the United Nations said Friday, warning that saving the planet’s glaciers was now a matter of “survival.”

Five of the last six years have seen the most rapid glacier retreat on record, the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization said on the inaugural World Day for Glaciers.

“Preservation of glaciers is not just an environmental, economic and societal necessity: it’s a matter of survival,” said WMO chief Celeste Saulo.

Beyond the continental ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, more than 275,000 glaciers worldwide cover approximately 700,000 square kilometres, the WMO said.

But they are rapidly shrinking due to climate change.

“The 2024 hydrological year marked the third year in a row in which all 19 glacier regions experienced a net mass loss,” the WMO said.

Together, they lost 450 billion tonnes of mass, the agency said, citing new data from the Swiss-based World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS).

It was the fourth-worst year on record, with the worst being in 2023.

Huge loss over 50 years

“From 2022-2024, we saw the largest three-year loss of glaciers on record,” Saulo said.

Glacier mass loss last year was relatively moderate in regions such as the Canadian Arctic and the peripheral glaciers of Greenland, but glaciers in Scandinavia, Norway’s Svalbard archipelago and North Asia experienced their worst year on record.

Based on a compilation of worldwide observations, the WGMS estimates that glaciers — separate from the continental ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica — have lost more than 9,000 billion tonnes since records began in 1975.

“This is equivalent to a huge ice block the size of Germany with a thickness of 25 metres,” said WGMS director Michael Zemp.

At current rates of melting, many glaciers in western Canada and the U.S., Scandinavia, central Europe, the Caucasus and New Zealand “will not survive the 21st century,” the WMO said.

The agency said that together with ice sheets, glaciers store around 70 per cent of the world’s freshwater resources, with high mountain regions acting like the world’s water towers. If they disappear, that would threaten water supplies for millions of people downstream.

‘Ignoring the problem’

For the U.N., the only possible response is to combat global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

“We can negotiate many things in the end, but we cannot negotiate physical laws like the melting point of ice,” said Stefan Uhlenbrook, the WMO’s water and cryosphere director.

He declined to comment on the return to office of U.S. President Donald Trump, a climate change sceptic who has pulled the United States out of the landmark 2015 Paris climate accords.

However, Uhlenbrook said that “ignoring the problem” of climate change “is maybe convenient for a short period of time,” but “that will not help us to get closer to a solution.”

For the inaugural World Day for Glaciers, the WGMS named a U.S. glacier as its first Glacier of the Year.

The South Cascade Glacier in Washington state has been monitored continuously since the 1950s and provides one of the longest uninterrupted records of glaciological mass balance in the western hemisphere.

The U.S. Geological Survey, the government body that studies the natural environment, has measurements there going back to 1958, while WGMS’s records there began even earlier, in 1952.

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At 8:30 p.m. Thursday evening, the RNC responded to a report of a theft in progress in the downtown area of St. John’s.

A male and female were reportedly attempting to get money from an ATM.

When officers arrived, it was determined that the 37-year-old female was bound by a court order not to be in the area. She was arrested and held for court for breaches of her release order, resisting arrest and uttering threats.

Southwestern Ontario's commercial fishing industry is feeling the pressure of looming U.S. tariffs expected April 2 on all Canadian goods as vast majority of fish caught in Lake Erie is exported stateside.

An 18-year-old woman is speaking out after she says she was secretly filmed in a London, Ont., shopping mall. The exchange was posted to the social media feeds of a man whose viral videos seemingly celebrate men rejecting women. 

Another family seeking school bus accommodations for a child with diabetes is not getting the answers they hoped for from district officials.

Julmac Contracting Ltd. is hoping a judge will grant an injunction that allows it to return to work on three bridge projects the New Brunswick government removed it from last month.

P.E.I. wildlife groups are increasingly turning to technology to monitor what's happening in woods and streams across the Island, from Souris to Miminegash. 

Most Black Canadians participating in politics face discrimination and barriers to getting involved in government, according to a recent study.

Families were notified on Monday that the Children's Garden Day Care in Halifax, N.S., which is licensed for 80 kids, will close at the end of April and they should start looking for alternative child-care options. With most nearby daycares at full capacity with extensive waitlists, parents are stressed.

Don’t forget that umbrella before you head out of the door Friday morning.

A drizzly morning will turn into rain this afternoon according to 95-7’s weather specialist Allister Aalders.

“Periods of drizzle, rain and fog continuing tonight the temperature will drop down to 3 degrees  with about 5-10 mm in the forecast, there could be locally up to 15mm in some areas.” Said Aalders

Saturday, the rain is expected to let up by noon with some partial clearing and a high around 10 C, Sunday there are just a few clouds in the forecast with a daytime high around 7.

Monday the sun will stick around to stary, but daytime highs are expected to only reach 3 degrees, and we could see some flurries later Monday evening and into Tuesday.

A woman has been charged after trying to steal money out of a bank machine in downtown St. John’s last night.

RNC were called around 8:30 after a man and woman were spotted trying to access cash from the machine.

Officers discovered the 37-year-old woman was under court order to stay away from the area and she was taken into custody.

She’ll appear in court today on charges of resisting arrest, uttering threats, and breach of release order.

On the Island, gas increased by up to 2.3 cents per litre, diesel decreased by up to 3.5 cents, furnace oil heating fuel decreased by 3.05 cents, and propane heating fuel will dropped by 4.2 cents.

The maximum price adjustments in Labrador this week reflect changes in market commodity prices in western areas of Labrador and the implementation of changes for Labrador resulting from the review.

For Western Labrador and Churchill Falls gas went up by 2.8 cents, diesel decreased by 3.0 cents, and stove oil decreased by 3.25 cents. 

In Cartwright, gas went down 16.5 cents, diesel decreased 14.5 cents, and stove oil went down 18.32 cents.

In Zones 10, 11, 11a, 12 and 14, gas increased by 0.6 cents, diesel increased by 0.6 cents, and stove oil increased by 0.50 cents.

Propane heating fuel in all areas changed in the range of -11.2 cents to +2.6 cents.

The Board’s next regularly scheduled price adjustment is on Friday, March 28.

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It’s going to be a day of chaos for hundreds of thousands of travellers after an electrical substation fire forced the closure of London’s Heathrow Airport.

The airport, ranked one of the busiest in the world, is closed today after a transformer caught fire, knocking out power for tens of thousands in West London.

Flights bound for Heathrow have been forced to divert at airports throughout the world, including the airport in Goose Bay.

Since last night, several flights bound for the U.K. have landed at Goose Bay Airport, with some already en route back to airports in the United States.

In January alone, six million passengers filed through London Heathrow.

The price of most fuels saw fluctuations across Labrador following the Public Utilities Board's review of fuel pricing in the region Friday. Meanwhile, parts of Newfoundland will see a small increase in gas prices.

Thanks to a $100,000 donation from Air Borealis and PAL Airlines, Kids Eat Smart N.L. will continue serving up free breakfasts to students across the province. On Thursday, the foundation visited Peacock Primary School in Happy Valley-Goose Bay.

The sudden closure of the Woodstock Public House in Paradise is forcing couples who had booked the venue for their weddings to scramble for an alternative arrangement.

With five Liberal MPs deciding not to seek re-election, the political landscape in Newfoundland and Labrador is guaranteed to undergo a serious shakeup, regardless of how voters lean in the upcoming federal election.