Mike de Jong, one of B.C.'s longest-serving MLAs, has announced he'll be running in the federal election, after he says he was rejected by the Conservative Party.

RCMP have confirmed that a male passenger was killed in Wednesday morning's rollover near Ste. Anne. 

According to police, at 6:20 am, a Steinbach RCMP officer was travelling along Highway 12 when he observed a vehicle rolled over in the southbound ditch. As he stopped at the scene to investigate, a passerby also stopped and advised the officer that he had seen someone attempting to remove a person from the vehicle before that person fled on foot.

The officer located a 27-year-old male passenger with life-threatening injuries. The victim was transported to hospital by STARS air ambulance where he later died from his injuries.

With the assistance of Police Dog Services and a drone, officers located the suspect driver, a 31-year-old male from the Rural Municipality of Tache, a short distance away. He was arrested without incident and taken into custody.

Anyone with information, or who may have witnessed this collision is asked to contact Steinbach RCMP at 204-326-1234, call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477, or secure tip online at www.manitobacrimestoppers.com.

Steinbach RCMP, along with a Forensic Collision Reconstructionist continue to investigate. 

The parents of Ashlee Shingoose, the woman recently identified as the unknown victim of a Winnipeg serial killer, are scheduled to speak about the update involving their daughter at a news conference Thursday morning.

Iconic Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli announced his 2025 North American October and December tour dates, including his first-ever appearance in Hamilton, at the newly transformed Hamilton Arena on Tuesday, December 9. Bocelli’s appearance is part of an opening series of shows for Hamilton Arena, which is scheduled to reopen later this year.

“Said Nick DeLuco, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Hamilton Arena, Oak View Group. “We are thrilled to welcome Andrea Bocelli, one of our generation’s most legendary performers, to Hamilton for the first time. With the recent announcement of the 2026 Juno Awards taking place at Hamilton Arena, our opening season is beginning to take shape.”

This tour is sponsored by global investment firm Stifel. The Stifel pre-sale begins Tuesday, April 1 at 10 a.m. ET, alongside a special Front Of The Line® pre-sale for Amex cardholders. Andrea Bocelli Fan Club members will gain access on Wednesday, April 2 at 10 a.m. ET.

Tickets go on sale to the public on Monday, April 7 at 10 a.m. ET. For more information visit www.andreabocelli.com & www.gelbproductions.com/tour for more info.

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre made his first B.C. campaign stop in Coquitlam Thursday morning.

Poilievre appeared in a local sheet metal manufacturer, addressing what he called “another attack by [U.S.] President Trump” on the Canadian economy.

“My message to President Trump is, ‘Knock it off.’ Stop attacking America’s friends. Start trading so that we can once again become richer, stronger and more secure on both sides of the border,” said Poilievre.

“That is how we will have the money for stronger military and stronger borders to secure our continent against real threats and real enemies. We will never be the 51st state, but we will, we can once again be friends with the United States if the president reverses course on these disastrous tariff threats.”

He promised, if elected, that if Trump doesn’t back down, a Conservative government would work to make Canada self-reliant by building pipelines and LNG plants and “aggressively” promoting mines and resource infrastructure he claims have been “blocked” in the years of the Liberal government.

“The world needs our resources and our expertise. If you Mr. Trump, don’t want them, the rest of the world does,” said Poilievre.

In a release, the party announced that a new Conservative government will let Canadians put an extra $5,000 a year into TFSA’s for investments in Canada, for a total contribution of $12,000 per year.

Poilievre branded the announcement as a ‘Canada First TFSA Top Up,’ claiming the expansion of untaxed savings will bring billions of dollars to Canadian companies, who “will then spend it on factories, equipment, tools, wages and making our economy self reliant and strong.”

Before Poilievre’s appearance, Alex Rivard, assistant professor at the school of public policy at Simon Fraser University, said he expects a strong reception from some of those already planning on voting for him, but it’s not necessarily a sign that the Conservative Party is in as strong of a shape in B.C. as they were prior to Justin Trudeau’s resignation.

Rivard says the goal for Poilievre is to gain back some of the undecided vote.

“He says he needs to keep standing up to Trump. He has to, in my mind, try to distance himself from [Alberta Premier] Danielle Smith. Poilievre is, in my mind, in the toughest situation of the federal leaders because he has to not only convince people to vote for the Conservatives but also convince people not to vote for the liberals,” he said.

Rivard adds that Thursday’s visit to B.C. presents an opportunity for Poilievre to address some of the concerns voters have around what a Conservative Party would do to health care and whether there would be cuts to services.

“These kinds of support for social programs are pretty high even among Conservative voters. So, I think he could have the opportunity to come out and stake a claim to this, allowing himself to become the candidate, to move past the Trump-sphere and try and bring it back to more domestic politics,” he explained.

Later Thursday, Poilievre is set to host a “Canada First” rally in Surrey at 6 p.m.

The federal election is on April 28.

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The calendar says spring but Mother Nature doesn't care — she's bringing winter back to the Prairies, and Manitoba is about to get seriously dumped on.

York police have charged a 71-year-old doctor with allegedly sexually assaulting a patient in 2016. Police began investigating in April after a victim reported being sexually assaulted by Brian Sheffield during a medical exam in July 2016.

Time for a global boycott of the United States

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A Fredericton woman is facing a serious charge alleging she robbed someone just outside the capital last summer.

Kaylee Nason, 30, of St. Mary’s Street, made her initial appearance in Fredericton provincial court Wednesday to answer to an indictable charge.

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The abuse began when the victim was a young teenager and lasted until her late 40s, court heard.

Story Bay:  Sask Today

REGINA – A wintery mix of precipitation is forecast for Thursday and Friday across much of southern Saskatchewan. Expect hazardous winter travel conditions.

Environment Canada says heavy, rapidly accumulating, snowfall was to begin early Thursday morning in western Saskatchewan along the Yellowhead corridor, spreading eastward towards the Manitoba border by Thursday evening. The heaviest snowfall is forecast through Saskatoon and continuing east towards Yorkton. 10-20 cm of snow is forecast across the province before the snow eases Friday evening.

In addition to snowfall, strong easterly winds will also develop causing reduced visibilities and poor highway travel conditions.

Check the Highway Hotline before heading out.

https://hotline.gov.sk.ca/map#map

Helicopters dumped water over burning forests in South Korea on Thursday as fire crews struggled to contain the country's worst-ever wildfires, which have killed at least 28 people, forced at least 37,000 to flee their homes and destroyed more than 300 structures.

Customers of a troubled online service that helps people learn about their ancestry and offers insights into their health could now be vulnerable, a Fredericton cybersecurity expert says.

Internal RCMP documents reveal the police force is being inundated with a skyrocketing number of reports about cryptocurrency-related crime — offences police admit they are often unable to investigate.

An “informal audit” obtained by the IJF through access to information legislation found RCMP detachments received reports of just 18 cryptocurrency-related crimes in 2015 compared to more than 3,900 in 2023, the last year for which complete data was available. 

TikTok Canada is taking the federal government to court — and lobbying it, too. The app maker wants to discuss the privacy and security of its platform as Canadians face an increasingly messy media environment leading up to the April 28 election. A Nova Scotia mom wants Health Canada to change its organ donation rules, which she says discriminated against her son because he was gay. And vape giant Juul wants to talk taxes as the federal government moves to make tobacco companies pay for the public health costs linked to smoking. 

Those are just some of the insights from the IJF’s roundup of lobbying registrations at the federal level and in every province across Canada. Each week, the IJF publishes data from our four lobbying databases showing who wants laws changed and who is asking for government money. Think of it as your weekly dose of public policy news before it becomes news.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre announced Thursday that a government led by him would allow Canadians to contribute $5,000 more a year to their tax-free savings account (TFSA) — as long as that extra cash is being invested in Canadian companies.

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Police turned to the public Thursday for help in identifying a man in his mid-40s suspected of stealing cartfulls of items from the same business twice earlier this month.

The Oromocto detachment of the RCMP issued a news release Thursday morning accompanied by a photo of a suspect.

It said two thefts were perpetrated at the same business on Onondaga Street in the model town, first on March 2 and again the next day.

“During both incidents, the same individual entered the business, filled a cart with a significant amount of goods and left the business without attempting to pay,” the release said.

The Mounties released a still image of the suspect from security footage.

“The individual is described as being a man, in his mid-40s, approximately 5’10” (178 centimetres) tall, with a large build,” the release said.

“During one of the thefts, he was wearing a white hoodie, a green and brown winter jacket, and a black baseball cap.”

Anyone who recognizes the suspect or who might have other information that could aid in the effort to identify him is urged to call the Oromocto RCMP at 506-357-4300.

Those wishing to provide information anonymously can do so through Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), downloading the secure P3 Mobile App or visiting Secure Web Tips online at www.crimenb.ca.

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After an icy, wet night night across much of Alberta, a wintry storm is expected to hit central and northern parts of the province with heavy snowfall this morning.

The tolls were a small price to pay to travel in the city.

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A lawyer for a Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University who was detained by U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents filed an emergency motion Thursday requesting that the government produce her.

The request was made a day after Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was stopped by masked federal agents after she left her home in Somerville, Massachusetts. A federal judge presiding over her case ordered lawyers representing the government to respond to the motion Thursday morning.

With community measles exposures released by the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit (WECHU) on a near daily basis, the local public health unit is supporting residents with an easy, simple-to-follow, assessment tool to inform next steps.

The online self-assessment tool can be used following a possible exposure to measles to guide those exposed through a series of questions to determine the next steps they should take.

The risk assessment tool will let the user know if they are eligible for additional vaccination or treatment options which can make the difference between mild and severe illness for those at risk of infection.

It will make further recommendations around contacting the health unit or monitoring for symptoms for 7 to 21 days.

For many individuals, the symptoms of measles can be managed at home but for those most at-risk, there are additional steps to follow. According to Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Mehdi Aloosh:

“As a result of our region’s high vaccination rates the next steps for those exposed to the virus are simple for most. Things get more complex for those who are unimmunized or under immunized. This new tool will be an asset to those who are unsure if they should be staying home, calling our office, or moving along with their day to day lives after being exposed to measles in a community setting. Vaccinated or not, this will provide clear guidance to those who have been exposed and looking for next steps.”

The online risk assessment tool is available on the WECHU’s measles exposure webpage, and will be linked in public measles exposure notifications for direct access.

Vaccination is the most effective way to prevent measles. Those born before 1970 and those who have had two doses of measles vaccine are considered to be immune to the disease. Anyone who is unsure of their vaccine status, or has not received two doses, should speak to a healthcare provider. Those without a healthcare provider can contact Virtual Urgent Care or Health811.

To learn more about measles, visit wechu.org. For a list of possible public exposure locations in our region, visit the Measles Exposure Locations page.

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