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Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
More work to do after meeting with Trump: Carney
Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to brief Canada’s premiers today following his seemingly successful first meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday.
Both leaders emerged from it appearing pleased with how it had gone, with Trump indicating he liked Carney and that there had been no tension during their talks.
Carney said the leaders are now “fully engaged,” but that there’s “a lot more work to do.”
The prime minister said he will host a call with Canada’s premiers Wednesday to discuss his conversation with Trump and the work that needs to be done.
Ottawa looks for ways to mend social fractures
Senior federal officials have been looking quietly for ways to bring together Canadians who don’t see eye to eye on the economy, immigration and social issues.
With a general election looming, officials prepared to meet last November to brainstorm solutions to the problem of social fragmentation, according to an internal presentation drafted by the Department of Canadian Heritage.
The presentation called on session participants to come up with ideas to make Canadian society more cohesive by reversing the trend toward polarization, building trust in government agencies and fighting the swelling tide of misinformation and disinformation.
The document offered various questions for discussion, including one asking how session participants could “position our advice on strengthening social cohesion in a way that will resonate for the next government, whatever its complexion.”
Planned B.C. fire could have turned deadly: report
British Columbia’s worker protection agency says a planned burn by the province’s wildfire service during the devastating 2023 fire season could have killed or injured multiple firefighters who became “trapped by extreme fire behaviour” that cut off their escape.
Inspection reports by WorkSafeBC say the BC Wildfire Service didn’t adequately ensure safety during the burn in the Shuswap region on Aug. 17 that year, and a group of trapped Brazilian firefighters had to retreat to a “safe zone.”
WorkSafeBC says they had to burn off fuel around their truck and spend the night because of low visibility, smoke, fire activity and falling trees.
They were picked up the next day by another crew that “cut their way into the site.”
“Other crews reportedly had to navigate off-road and around a burning pile of logging debris when the fire overcame the escape route causing damage to some trucks and causing one truck to nearly roll over in the process,” one of the reports says.
N.S. vice-principal files lawsuit after stabbing
A vice-principal stabbed by a 15-year-old student inside a Halifax high school is suing a school security guard, claiming the guard failed to follow proper search and de-escalation procedures before the attack.
In a statement of claim filed April 28, vice-principal Wayne Rodgers alleges that on March 20, 2023, Ryan Cosgrove failed to complete a search of the student and his belongings after the security guard pulled a weapon from the student’s school bag.
At the time, all three people were in Rodgers’s office at Charles P. Allen High School in suburban Bedford.
According to an agreed statement of facts presented last year to a Nova Scotia youth court judge, Cosgrove left the office with a butterfly knife and called police, leaving Rodgers alone with the student in an office that was locked from the outside.
A look at what Saks fixtures are up for sale
Mannequins galore, fashion-themed coffee table books and all the machinery you’d need to open a tailoring business.
These are just some of the gems Hudson’s Bay is offloading as part of a fixture sale the 355-year-old retailer is running as it winds down its 80 stores and 16 more it operates under the Saks banners.
Liquidation sales underway across the company’s entire footprint are due to rid the business of all of its inventory by June 15, leaving little reason for the retailer to hang onto display cases, shelving and decorative accoutrements that would otherwise fill its stores.
A “cheat sheet” it has made available to shoppers at its Yonge Street flagship in Toronto shows the company has at least 24 pages worth of treasures up for grabs from the Saks portion of its business.
Conclave begins at Vatican
Cardinals entered St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday to celebrate a final Mass before the conclave to elect the next pope.
The Mass precedes the secretive, ritual-filled process to find a new leader of the Catholic Church following the novel pontificate of Pope Francis.
The dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni Battista Re, is celebrating the Mass to pray that the 133 cardinals find wisdom, good counsel and understanding before they enter the Sistine Chapel later in the day to begin casting their ballots.
Many hadn’t met one another until last week and lamented they needed more time to get to know one another, raising questions about how long it might take for one man to secure the two-thirds majority, or 89 ballots, necessary to become the 267th pope.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 7, 2025
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