SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The $1 million March Madness wager between a pro gambler and an artificial-intelligence site will be decided by the winner of the Duke-Houston game in the Final Four.

The Vegas bookies project the gambler, who picked 5 1/2-point favorite Duke, should win.

The AI platform 4C Predictions, which picked Houston, says that’s why its smarter than them.

The bottom line: both pro gambler Sean Perry and the 4C’s AI program have done very well over the first 60 games of the tournament. Perry has missed only 13 picks. AI has missed only 10. They both picked all the Final Four teams correctly.

Alan Levy, who runs the 4C site, says ChatGPT — who else? — says getting 50 of 60 correct places AI in the 95th percentile of all humans “which has gone beyond even what we expected at the start.”

The leaders in some of the multimillion-person bracket pools on ESPN, Yahoo and CBS are getting 55 or 56 picks right.

Both pickers chose Auburn to win in Saturday’s other semifinal. Though AI has gotten more right, it could still lose because the picks become worth more points as the tournament progresses.

The tournament has largely been a bust for people who love upsets — good news for both these brackets, which largely stayed away from picking them. Both had Memphis and St. John’s winning multiple games. Memphis fell to Colorado State in the first round and St. John’s was gone after the second.

Levy said he is still analyzing Perry’s offer to increase the bet to $10 million.

“My prediction?” Levy wrote in an email. “You’ll be joining me and the 4C team in all the celebrations” after Saturday’s game.

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Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai said on Thursday that the territorial government was ending rebates for Tesla products, cancelling some of its Starlink accounts, and quitting the social media platform, X.

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For Carbonear’s new Fire Chief Trevor Crawford, serving with the local volunteer brigade is a family affair.
Crawford was elected chief on February 12 along with the brigade’s new executive.
Born and raised in Carbonear, Crawford said he was inspired to pursue firefighting by his father, Tom Crawford, who has been a member of the department for 36 years and is himself a former fire chief.
“Growing up, as far as I can remember, he was in the fire department,” said Trevor. “When I was a kid I used to hang around a lot at the fire department and he’d be over there for functions and whatnot, so I just took an interest in it and when I was old enough I joined up.”
The new chief has served with the department for 16 years.
“It’s a great experience,” he said. “Getting to help people and doing the community good and stuff like that. It’s been all-around good, one of the best organizations I could ever imagine being a part of.”
It’s not Crawford’s first time on the executive. He has held the titles of lieutenant and captain, the latter for four years up to the recent election.
“I just decided to try to give the chief’s position a go,” said Crawford, who is an electrician by trade. “It was something I was interested in, and I actually wanted to do it before but due to work commitments and stuff and being away a lot of the time for work, I decided it wasn’t the right time. So, I gave it a lot of thought and figured now is as good a time as any to step up and give it a shot.”
Crawford is hoping to get as many training opportunities for his members as possible. He also wants the departmentt to train with other fire departments in the area.
“With mutual aid calls we will, from time to time, be working together with the other departments so it’s nice to also train with those people and get to know them and build up a relationship with the other departments, instead of the first time you’re ever running into them is at a fire scene one of these nights,” said Crawford.
The department has been doing a lot of training recently and has more scheduled in the near future. The department is also hosting a vehicle extrication course.
“I’m fresh into it now, only about a month in, so my first thing is trying to get this training stuff off the ground,” said Crawford, ”and it seems to be going good. There’s a pretty full schedule coming up.”

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Four people are facing drug trafficking charges after a vehicle was pulled over on the west coast earlier this week.

The vehicle was stopped by the RCMP-RNC Joint Forces Operation West in Corner Brook on Wednesday.

They allege that the driver, identified as 45-year-old Sandra Callahan of Corner Brook, showed signs of impairment and did not comply with a breath test, while a passenger, 25-year-old Bobby Sheppard of Deer Lake, was in breach of his probation.

Police say when they searched the vehicle they located 1.5 ounces of cocaine, a large quantity of various pills, LSD, cash, and other items consistent with possession for the purpose of drug trafficking.

Both Callahan and Sheppard appeared in court today on charges possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. Callahan is also facing a charge of refusal, while Sheppard is facing charges of resisting arrest and breaching probation.

Meanwhile, two other people have been released from custody and are also facing charges of possession for the purpose of trafficking cocaine.

The investigation is continuing with more charges possible.

Canadian and U.S. stock markets continue to be roiled by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff plans today, which sent several prominent indexes nosediving Friday.

The S&P/TSX composite index opened down more than 2.5 per cent.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 2.6 per cent, the S&P 500 fell nearly three per cent and the Nasdaq opened down more than three per cent.

More to come

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TORONTO — Canadian and U.S. stock markets continue to be roiled by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff plans today, which sent several prominent indexes nosediving Friday.

The S&P/TSX composite index opened down more than 2.5 per cent.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 2.6 per cent, the S&P 500 fell nearly three per cent and the Nasdaq opened down more than three per cent.

More coming.

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Statistics Canada says this is the biggest monthly job loss since January 2022, and came amid uncertainty caused by U.S. tariffs.

The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation says the provincial government renewed the rules for the Mine Financial Security Program without needed changes, and ignored concerns about infringement on their Treaty rights.

Kevin 'BK' Brooks, the lead singer of Montreal hardcore punk band Maxxpower, died within a year of being diagnosed with sarcoma. Tonight, artists are gathering to celebrate his music, life and perseverance.

Coming off an Olympic silver medal, Canada's Marco Arop will open his outdoor season this weekend in Jamaica at the Grand Slam Track in the 800 metres and a newer distance, the 1,500. “Marco has great race instincts, no matter the distance," says coach Chris Woods.

Valerie Stevenson's cat was playing around when her pet knocked the urn containing the ashes of her beloved cat Jewels off her dresser. The Burlington, Ont., resident soon learned the ashes she had kept for 20 years were not those of Jewels, but of a dog named Sparky.

A Thunder Bay, Ont., family says they're appealing Indigenous Services Canada's decision to deny their funding request to cover applied behaviour analysis therapy for their four-year-old daughter, who has autism. The family says the lack of federal coverage and the years-long waitlist to get into provincial programming are putting their daughter at risk of regression.

Ontario wine agents are accusing the LCBO's 'unfair policies' after California wines were pulled from shelves almost a month ago due to ongoing trade dispute with the U.S., but grocery stores and retail giants like Costco and Loblaws are still allowed to sell the products.

Seniors enjoying karaoke night at Edmonton's Norwood Legion told CBC what matters to them in the upcoming federal election. Their issues? The cost of living, pension security, affordable housing and top-notch health care.

In 1995 I moved to St. Petersburg and lived there for ten years. Although my antennas were always up for signals of a socialist spirit, or even just the memory of one, they registered none. My reaction was to dive deeper into the history of the 1917 revolution, and I began noticing things about it that were out of sync with my reading of Marx and Engels. These included the fact, for example, that almost all the top Bolsheviks were from the upper class, not to mention that what they did to the workers they were supposedly leading to communism was far worse than what they had suffered under their old masters.

Lenin brought his Bolshevik Party to power on the cresting wave of the democratic workers’ councils, or soviets, in 1917. Then, with a few changes, he essentially restored tsarist autocracy. Freedom of speech, the press, and assembly were again suppressed, and the absolute power of a non-elected monarch, a dictator, reappeared along with a centralized bureaucracy. Under Lenin, the chinovnik-bureaucrat apparatus once more became the master of the land and of thousands of industrial enterprises. It included many tsarist bureaucrats, who, together with a few Bolsheviks, were the bosses in the ministries. Lenin’s bureaucracy blended with the tsarist bureaucracy and quickly adopted the same rules. Everything that upset or challenged the interests of centralized economic and socio-political life was eliminated.

Naturally, the USSR presented itself as socialist. From the standpoint of capitalists the world over this was confirmed by the abolition of private property and the free market. For Soviet workers, however, their government, though endlessly spewing Marxist phraseology, was a harsh exploiter. The USSR had very little in common with socialism, if by this we mean a society without exploitation and classes. Abolition of private property and nationalization of the means of production are not socialism if the direct producers do not control the economy. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was not a union because Moscow ruled despotically over the regions. It was not soviet because the Bolsheviks eliminated the workers’ councils. It was not socialist as workers’ self-management was destroyed. And it was not republican because there were no free elections. Every word in this “USSR” was a bald lie.

German and Dutch Marxists, including among others, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Leo Jogiches, Paul Levy, Franz Mehring, Otto Rühle, Anton Pannekoek and Herman Gorter, exercised an early criticism of the concept Lenin elaborated in his 1902 pamphlet What Is To Be Done? whereby a highly disciplined party of professional revolutionaries would “substitute” for the working class and carry out a socialist revolution in its name. They insisted that socialism was not a party affair and argued that all political parties—even those identifying as socialist—are inherently bourgeois in nature because they always have a hierarchy with leaders who make all the important decisions and followers who do as they are told. They considered the very idea of the political party to be a violation of the credo and collectivist spirit of socialism.

For the longest time, I could not understand the phenomenon of well-off, usually well-educated, individuals leading revolutions, people like Lenin, Trotsky, Castro, Guevara, and Mao. The answer is self-evident, but it took me a while to realize this. Intellectuals have two routes to power. One is to join the establishment and work to preserve and extend it in the spirit of Niccolo Machiavelli. For the more daring or desperate, the other way is to lead a revolution and make the establishment theirs. Leftists, including Leninists, Trotskyists, Stalinists, Maoists and other “ists,” have a special interest in state capitalism, and they exploit and rule over the workers. Ipso facto, they make up capitalism’s “radical” left wing.

Since the Paris Commune of 1871, the world’s workers have not discovered any other form of revolutionary organization than the council. Councils know no hierarchy and all decisions are taken collectively. Their representatives answer only to their members and are recallable at any time. This is the form in which the social-revolutionary workers’ movement has clothed itself for over a century-and-a-half, and include, among many others, the soviets in Russia in 1905 and 1917-1921, the arbeiterrate in Germany in 1918-1923 (and 1953 in East Germany), the consigli dei lavoratori in Italy in 1919-1920, the szovjetek in Hungary 1918-1919 and 1956, the comites d’entreprise in France in 1968, the shoras in Iran in 1978-1979, and the rady rabotnicze in Poland in 1980-1981.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels did not say, “Unite the workers of the world!” They said instead, “Workers of the world, unite!” Their audience were workers, not upper-class intellectuals with guilt complexes and political ambitions. Indeed, if they are to blame for anything, it is the exceedingly sanguine hope they gave to so many that capitalism would spread across the planet and take root much faster than it did, along with the expectation that the victory of the proletariat, by virtue of its sheer size and majority alone, would be guaranteed and the world would finally lay the awful system to rest. In fairness to Marx and Engels, however, the first words of the Communist Manifesto, published in distant 1848, are, “A specter is haunting Europe.” The confusion may be due to the pamphlet’s forward-looking last sentence: “Workers of the world, unite!”

It is now 2025, and there have never been more workers on the planet. Moreover, the hold on them of political parties is largely a thing of the past. The prospects for international socialist revolution have never been better.

Evel Masten Economakis lives in Rafina, Greece.

French-speaking Canadians got a first taste of how the five main federal party leaders defend their platforms beyond U.S. tariff threats in the span of two hours Thursday night on Radio-Canada's Cinq chefs, une élection program.

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Will Bridle Path residents embrace a condo among their mansions?

A developer wants to build a luxury six-storey building in one of Toronto’s wealthiest areas, targeted at those with “large homes in the neighbourhood” who want to switch to condo living.

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A developer is proposing a luxury condo — that could fit 150 units but will only include 56 to fit the character of the “Granite Club neighbourhood”— in The Bridle Path.

City staff held an online community consultation on April 1 to discuss a proposal to build a residential condominium at 2425 – 2427 Bayview Ave. & 1 The Bridle Path.

The meeting kicked off with a presentation by community planner Rebecca Thompson and the development applicant team: Peter Smith, a land-use planner and partnerwith Blousfield Inc., Steven Kirshenblatt, the project architect and representatives from LEA Consulting, Schollen & Co. Inc. and Times Group, the owner and developer.

The developer and architect are proposing a “high-end luxury building”  with units ranging from a minimum of 2,000 square feet for one-bedroom apartments to three-bedroom apartments with family rooms and dens up to over 4,000 square feet, Kirshenblatt said.

The presenters repeatedly emphasised to local residents that the building would fit into the community.

“ It's a much more high-end building that…my client and the Times Group is betting will be acceptable and bought by probably mostly your community to live in,” said Kirshenblatt.

"[The building is]  targeted to maybe a lot of empty nesters and [people who own] large homes in the neighborhood that want to live…a condominium type lifestyle,” he added.

LANDSCAPE PLAN FOR THE PROPOSED CONDOMINIUM.
: City of Toronto.

The building would house six one-bedroom units, 16 two-bedroom units and 34 three-bedroom units. It will include 115 parking spaces, whish is a little over two per units

Smith said that the parking spaces are “more significant than what you might see in an average apartment building these days in the city.”

(For context, the City of Toronto amended a bylaw to include a maximum of parking spaces in new developments in 2022. The rationale given for this was that Toronto faced challenges including: “A climate emergency, decreasing housing affordability and increasing demand for mobility.”

The luxury condo proposal falls within Toronto’s Parking Zone C, which allows for the most parking spaces in the city. Current bylaws state that the maximum number of parking spaces for residential buildings are 0.9 for each one-bedroom unit, one for each two-bedroom dwelling unit and 1.2 for bigger unit. With these calculations, there should be 62.2 parking spaces in the 56-unit building.)

Community members had concerns about:

• An increase in traffic,
• parking issues exacerbated by construction vehicles and upon completion, added traffic from residents of the new development,
• noise and vibration issues during construction, as well as potential rodent issues
• loss of privacy and shadowing of surrounding properties.

One community member pointed out that the six-storey building is actually seven and a half stories tall.

In response, the presenters exaplined that the units will have high ceilings designed to ensure the luxury of the building.

“At six stories, we probably could be building 150 units on this site,” said Kirshenblatt.

He added that the decision was made to create luxury units in keeping with the area's character, which he described as “one of the most exclusive neighbourhoods in Toronto.”

What’s next for this project?

The presenters said questions and feedback will be taken for further consultation and deliberation.

You can contact the community planner, Rebecca Thompson at [email protected] and Peter Smith of Bousfields Inc. at [email protected]

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Pat DeReamer and Mary Wheaton-Kroger exchange the same card every year to celebrate each other's birthday — a tradition they've kept for the past 81 years.

The Reeve for Hanover says though construction costs ran higher than expected, the municipality now has a beautiful new daycare in Kleefeld.

It was in February 2023 that Kleefeld was awarded a new daycare through a joint provincial/ federal announcement. The original promise was for a 74-space daycare, which eventually grew by 30 spots. 

It was announced that through this initiative, the Rural Municipality of Hanover would own the building, provide maintenance, and not charge rent for at least 15 years. The daycare would be a ready-to-move building supplied by the upper levels of government. 

Hanover Reeve Jim Funk admits that when Hanover first put its name in the running for a daycare the municipality did not know exactly how much it would cost. He notes they were advised that it would be their responsibility to have the site prepared for construction.

"But time did not permit us to get quotes on the cost as the deadline for the applications, the timing was very tight," he says. 

Funk notes they were told to expect to pay for utility connections and any additional change orders. Early on, the change orders had to do with paving the entire parking lot, rather than just a portion in front of the daycare.

Funk says the daycare was originally expected to cost $5,615,000. This cost would be covered by the upper levels of government and did not include additional expenses by the RM. He notes by the time construction started, they had not yet secured estimates for the remainder of the work which fell within the scope of the municipality. Funk says this was due to the tight application deadline. 

Here we are in early spring, and Funk says the total cost of the project will end up being just over $6 million, which includes additional costs incurred by the municipality. For example, Funk says paving the remainder of the parking lot and adding more lighting cost them about $198,000. Funk says they had anticipated being able to use interest earned from the grant funding, but that was declined. 

Funk says in the final stages of construction, the building failed to receive its occupancy certificate, as it failed inspection for fire code due to a door. In addition, Funk says the building failed to meet the requirements to operate a daycare facility due to several doors. The total corrections cost $4,210. The corrections were deemed to be change orders and therefore were not reimbursed. 

When all is said and done, Funk says Hanover paid about $295,000 for the daycare. 

"Our initial cost in it is very little for what we actually got," he says. 

Funk says the extra costs have not been a burden. 

"At the end of the day, we have a very nice facility there and it is pennies to the dollar," adds Funk. "The municipality is far further ahead despite all the overruns and challenges with that project."

Funk refers to the daycare as a "good asset" and great for the community and surrounding area. 

Putting things into perspective, Funk says back in 2018 they built their new fire hall in Blumenort at a fraction of the cost of the Kleefeld daycare. He notes they spent $2.5 million to construct the 6,500-square-foot building, purchase three fire trucks and turnout gear for all firefighters, buy the land, and pave the parking lot. 

Meanwhile, even though construction costs for the daycare ran higher than expected, Hanover Administration says this is in no part the fault of Happy Hive, noting their directors have been fantastic to work with. 

An $11-billion exclusive deal between Rogers and the NHL announced today gives the telecommunications company the rights to broadcast hockey games across the country for the next 12 years. Rogers promises fewer regional blackouts and says a continuation of its streaming deal with Amazon is a “strong possibility.”

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Lorne Fitch — Lethbridge, AB

A local politician opened a conference on water with what he thought was a witty observation. He said he wasn’t sure why the conference was being held since water is basically colourless, odourless and tasteless and didn’t evoke much enthusiasm on his part since it is so commonplace. There was muted applause.

Water is part of our language and holds a unique place in the tapestry of metaphors: a drop in the bucket, a sea of trouble, drowning in work, a flood of emotions, and a wave of relief. In the span of a daily conversation, one of many water metaphors will rise to the surface or float past you.

Despite being an integral part of our language and communication, water lies below the surface of our sensibilities. When that happens we can become all dried up. That’s the tone and tenor of an essential message about water and where it comes from.

All of us need to learn more about our water — maybe something new, reactivate something we knew but forgot — and, most importantly, understand the implicit need to protect the headwaters from which most of our water comes. One essential message is that the Eastern Slopes provide the rest of Alberta with over 80 per cent of our water.

Call the Eastern Slopes our headwaters, the water towers, the rain barrels, the essential taps or just the well, there is a growing recognition the well is running dry. Or, at least the headwaters are not acting as they once did, as a reliable and predictable source of water. The past does not adequately reflect the future.

The reasons are varied for that reality. Climate change is resulting in significant modifications in how much water the Eastern Slopes receive, how it is received, as snow or rain, how it is stored, the changing seasonality of water delivery, and the nature of wicked, unpredictable storms. Climate change also is priming the forests for more and bigger fires that change the nature of the absorptive sponge tree cover represents.

Our human land-use footprint in the Eastern Slopes continues to grow, especially the extent of logging and roads. This exacerbates the effects of climate change. The cumulative effect of this footprint changes how the headwaters respond to water delivery from rain and snow. Water has less time to soak into the shallow groundwater aquifers, runs off faster, causes more erosion, and leaves us with less water later in the season. A large land-use footprint provides a double whammy of flooding and drought.

As the amount of water declines, we need to be doing much more to steward what we have. Rather than treating our headwaters as warehouses to be ransacked, we need to engage in planning efforts to define what we want the Eastern Slopes to be and do for us. We had the template for that in the 1970s with the Eastern Slopes Policy, which defined watershed protection as the primary directive. This crucial direction has been ignored for the past five decades.

We need to get back to the future with a sense of restraint, reclamation, and critical management to reduce and repair the footprint of over five decades of industrial-strength land use like logging, and longer with the legacy of coal mining. 

Blind boosterism and benign neglect will not take us into a desirable future. The Eastern Slopes are temples for water, not just a place to unsustainably extract other resources. That recognition might start to prepare us for a dry horizon.

The Eastern Slopes aren’t just our headwaters, they are so for much of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Alberta is a headwaters province with responsibility and obligation to our fellow downstream Canadians.

Without water we will all return to cosmic dust. It’s that simple. Knowing this now might create a trickle of understanding, a wash of concern and a river of change to get us out of a mudhole of complacency.

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It’s all part of the slow art movement, which believes that the unhurried approach is good for both art appreciation and mental health. CBC’s Sandra Abma got a leisurely tour.

America’s 49th state is showing support for the country that U.S. President Donald Trump wants to make its 51st.

Republican Representative Chuck Kopp of Alaska, which shares a border with Yukon and is separated from the contiguous U.S. by Canada, says the state doesn’t support the President’s trade war and annexation bid against Canada.

He has proposed a joint resolution in the state legislature that would affirm Canada’s sovereignty and recognize the enduring, centuries-old ties between Alaska and Canada.

The City of Vancouver is admitting it could have done a better job explaining its plan to replace a section of the seawall that had to be closed indefinitely due to safety concerns, and it's promising a workaround by the start of summer. 

A second local man was sentenced earlier this week for a break-and-enter at a worksite that saw several individuals arrested this past fall.

Ryan Corrins attended Swift Current Provincial Court on Wednesday morning to plead guilty on both counts against him; break-and-enter and theft under $5,000.

The Swift Current resident was handed a 90-day conditional sentence with the first 60 days to be served on house arrest, along with a required 60 hours of community service.

He is not permitted to be within a set distance of any site owned by Whitecap Resources and has been ordered to pay a $200 fine to the court.

For a period of time, Corrins is also prohibited from having any contact with the other individuals charged in the incident; Austin Hill, who was also sentenced on Wednesday, and Jeremy Gardner.

Additionally, he was ordered to provide a DNA sample, respond to any check-ins by officers, report to a probation officer, and more.

The trio were initially arrested on October 27 after Swift Current Rural RCMP responded to a report of a theft and break-and-enter outside of Swift Current.

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A rural route just outside of Fredericton was closed Friday morning after a tractor-trailer went off the road in slippery conditions, and first responders cautioned people to drive with care.

“The intersection of the 104 highway and the 105 highway in Keswick is completely blocked off due to an accident involving a tractor-trailer,” the RCMP advised on social media around 6:30 a.m. Friday.

The Keswick Valley Fire Department provided more information around the same time, advising that traffic from Route 105 to Route 104, about 20 kilometres west of Fredericton, was “blocked entirely.”

“Traffic on Route 104 heading to Route 105 is inaccessible,” it posted on Facebook on Friday morning.

“Traffic [is] being rerouted through the Keswick Landing parking lot towards the Mactaquac Dam.”

The fire department stated roads are “incredibly slick,” advising motorists to take note of conditions and to drive with care.

The Fredericton Independent can be reached at [email protected].

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As the snowy system continues to make its way through our province, Manitoba 511 reports that most roads and highways across the southeast are snow-covered or partly snow-covered.  

Friday morning, Motorists are reporting icy and slushy sections of Hwy 1 near Winnipeg.  

Commuters are to expect reduced visibility this morning, especially when passing vehicles.  

Snowplows, salt and sand trucks are out this morning.   

You are advised to drive according to the conditions of the road. 

A 32-year-old man is facing charges after an armed robbery late afternoon Tuesday at the Irving Parkdale Mainway on St Peters Road. Charlottetown Police say a lone masked male threatened the employee at the gas station/convenience store with a needle and made off with some cash. Police say the suspect fled the scene in an un-plated black Honda Civic. With video surveillance and police work the investigation was solved and the suspect was arrested without incident within 24 hours.

P-E-I’s government is bringing in regulations that will allow a Charlottetown emergency shelter to keep operating.Steven Myers says a recent city decision that would have ended the ability of the shelter on Park Street to continue was unacceptable and would have caused encampments and homelessness.Myers says the province will enact regulation to create a special planning area that includes the shelter and allow the minister to take the decision directly to keep it going.On Tuesday night, the city council had voted to reject the province’s request for an extension of a zoning change to cover the shelter’s operations on Park Street.