Mother and child held in notorious Rio Grande Valley detention centre despite presenting visa, family says

A Canadian mother and her seven-year-old daughter, who has autism, have been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Texas since Saturday, family members have said.

Relatives of Tania Warner and her daughter Ayla Lucas say they were detained unlawfully. They are uncertain about what problem ICE found with their immigration paperwork.

Tania Warner and her daughter are both Canadians, with Warner originally from British Columbia. The Canadian broadcaster CTV News reported that they are being held at the notorious Rio Grande Valley Central processing centre in McAllen, Texas.

Warner, who is said to have moved to the US five years ago, lives in Kingsville, Texas, with her husband, Edward Warner, a US citizen.

Alberta's separatist sentiment has resurged in recent months amid the Trump administration's comments about the province's future, coupled with economic and political tensions with the Canadian government. Andrew Chang explains what it would actually take to grant sovereignty to a Canadian province, and why it's so difficult to achieve.

Don’t let the bill’s title fool you from the contents of the text.

https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/45-1/s-209

The offer seemed straightforward. In early January 2026, a Bell chat agent promised Vicki Sloot that if she upgraded to a new Bell Fibe TV box, she could keep all her specialty programming sports channels like TSN and Sportsnet. Plus, she’d be paying $5 less a month.

The next day, her new equipment arrived — but she was missing the speciality channels. She went back to Bell, who told her she only had a “basic starter plan” and that it’d be an extra $25 a month to get them back.

So began an eight-week odyssey through Bell’s customer service department, consisting of hours spent live chatting and on the phone with different agents, and an eventual escalation to Bell’s resolutions team.

“It’s impossible to get a single right answer that is consistent throughout each support agent,” said Sloot, who lives in Toronto.

An Indian man whose wife is an accepted refugee in Canada is facing deportation with the couple's five-year-old son in what lawyers say is a troubling new practice of separating the families of people with protected status.

Ravi Chauhan and his young son are set to be deported Monday, leaving his wife, who is the child's mother, behind in Canada without the possibility of seeing her family for what could be years while they await permanent residency.

Lawyers and advocates say Chauhan's case reflects a broader change in which border officials are increasingly deporting the spouses and children of protected persons who were previously allowed to remain while applications were processed.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is seeking security clearance to receive briefings on foreign interference in her province, but the leader of the Opposition says she shouldn't be trusted with it.

The premier told the Legislative Assembly of Alberta this week that she has started the process to get a higher security clearance so she can receive briefings from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).

"I would like to know if there is any foreign interference happening in our province," Smith said during question period Wednesday.

(Opposition NDP Leader Naheed) Nenshi said he believes Smith should be disqualified from obtaining the clearance, citing what he called her lack of concern about the ongoing separation campaign in Alberta, and questions he has about the premier's trip to Saudi Arabia last fall to meet with local government officials, which was taken on a private plane.

Anyone hoping to check their home’s radon level can now pick from dozens of different radon monitors sold online or in stores — but experts warn many of those devices don’t actually work.

Plenty of Canadians install faulty monitors, only to find out later that they aren’t approved or certified, cautioned Pam Warkentin, the executive director of the Canadian Association of Radon Scientists and Technologists (CARST), which runs the country's certification program alongside Health Canada.

“I have to tell them that they can’t really base any decisions on those detectors and need to go purchase another one."

As of March 2026, only six electronic monitors have been approved for use:

• Airthings Corentium Home.
• Airthings View.
• Aranet RN+.
• Ecosense EcoQube.
• Ecosense RadonEye.
• SunRadon Luft.

Canadians looking for one of those certified devices can find a list of provincial suppliers through the Take Action on Radon program.

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) has applied to intervene in the ongoing pronoun case in Saskatchewan.

In a release issued on Tuesday, the CMA stated that it would like to intervene before the Supreme Court in the landmark case between the Government of Saskatchewan (Minister of Education) v. UR Pride Centre for Sexuality and Gender Diversity (“UR Pride”).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44744529

Not by stopping the invasion of course, don't be silly.

A new Republican-sponsored bill in the U.S. Congress takes aim at Canada's attempts to force foreign streaming companies such as Netflix and Disney+ to pay into Canadian funds for domestic content production.

The proposed legislation could pave the way for the United States to impose new tariffs on Canadian products.

Called the Protecting American Streaming and Innovation Act, the bill was introduced on Thursday in the House of Representatives by Pennsylvania Republican Lloyd Smucker. It's designed "to counter Canada's digital trade barriers targeting American streaming companies and content producers," he said in a news release.

"Canada’s unfair policies stack the deck against U.S. companies, creators, and workers," Smucker said. CBC News has requested an interview with the congressman.

The bill is aimed at Canada's Online Streaming Act, which has been a trade irritant for the U.S. since it became law in 2023.

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“The micro-modular shelter is working,” Morgan told CTV News. “People are finding indoor spaces. Certainly, there are still people outdoors, but [there’s] a big decline in the numbers of both encampments and people living unsheltered through the winter.”

Last fall, London City Council approved $7 million to construct and operate the 60 unit community (50 single-occupancy and 10 double-occupancy) that will house up to 70 people until April 2027.

The municipality’s Coordinated Informed Response (CIR) Team, who offer support to the unhoused, enforce encampment policies, and respond to the concerns of businesses, has witnessed the transformation of several people who moved into the MMS.

“An incredible change, we visibly see it in folks,” said Debbie Kramers, CIR manager. “We’re now visiting the MMS, going there regularly, and the conversation has changed. It’s about their future and it’s about housing. They’re actually having conversations with my team about what [life] looks like next.”