Officials are issuing a reminder about gun safety following a close call where a stray bullet entered a family’s car while travelling along a forest service road outside of Mission, B.C.

In a press release Friday, Mission RCMP said a family of four was driving near Davis Lake when they heard gunshots.

The father then heard a noise inside the vehicle, and saw a bullet spinning around inside the cup holder of one of his children’s car seats, according to RCMP.

Police say it appears the bullet entered through an open window or the open sunroof.

Gill said a suspect has not been identified, but noted police are regularly called to the Mission backcountry due to people illegally and unsafely discharging firearms.

He said in cases where Mission RCMP have found people illegally shooting in the background, the offenders were nearly always a group of men from elsewhere in the Lower Mainland, usually from Surrey.

Steelmaker ArcelorMittal Dofasco says it's decommissioning one of its two remaining coke plants in Hamilton, with "the last push of coke" to be completed April 13.

People who work at the coke plant are being reassigned to new roles within the company, Verdun said, though she didn't say how many people or whether their new jobs will pay as much.

In 2022, federal and provincial governments touted investments in ArcelorMittal Dofasco's plan, saying the business would decommission its blast furnaces and coke plants and replace them with direct reduced iron technology and electric arc furnaces by 2028.

That quietly changed, CBC Hamilton reported in January, with the company extending its timeline to 2050, according to federal documents. Facing scrutiny at a heated community meeting later that month, Gas Gebara, Dofasco's general manager of environment and energy, acknowledged "timelines have shifted." He refused to provide any indication of when it will follow through on its plan, or even if it would happen in the next quarter century.

The teacher has taken the government to court, seeking to invalidate a provincial education policy that allows students 14 and up to change the name and pronouns used in school with or without parental consent.

A youth hockey team in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., that nearly lost the opportunity to play in a championship game over an alleged messy dressing room has been given the green light to compete this weekend.

The U18 AA Soo Jr. Greyhounds reached a resolution with the Northern Ontario Hockey Association (NOHA) late Friday night, according to team manager Lindsay Fera.

She said the NOHA reached out to the team and met virtually to discuss the league’s ruling that would have barred the Jr. Greyhounds from competing in the regional final against the Sudbury-based Copper Cliff Reds.

“Win or lose, the fact they get to play this game is a win in itself,” she said. “Our players are very grateful to be able to end this season the right way.”

The argument First Nations groups made this week in an Edmonton courthouse wasn’t only aiming to block Alberta separatists’ petition drive toward a referendum, even if that was the specific, narrow goal of an injunction and a related hearing.

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation and other litigants are challenging the very idea that a province can split from Canada, and in doing so sever their constitutionally protected First Nations treaties.

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) is centred in northeast Alberta, but its ancestors followed caribou throughout what’s now Saskatchewan and Northwest Territories — and members today freely cross those boundaries to hunt, fish and trap, lawyer Kevin Hille told the court this week.

“Any constraint on those activities by an international border would violate those [rights],” Hille said.

A Calgary woman who participated in a grandparent scam, stealing thousands of dollars from elderly victims, including three who were in their 90s, should get to serve her sentence at home, lawyers argued Friday.

Alana Love Duncan, 48, pleaded guilty in October to seven counts of fraud over $5,000 for crimes that took place over a four-week period in the summer of 2023.

At a sentencing hearing Friday, Duncan’s role was described by prosecutor Don Couturier as the “in-person courier” in a “sophisticated and predatory” scheme. Police have not charged the others involved in the scam.

In total, Duncan and her partners-in-crime stole $70,000 from the seven victims.

Canada’s technical expertise in space robotics got the country a seat to the moon, and then its cultural identity took center stage on the Artemis II mission.

A judge has approved a $10 million settlement to compensate survivors of the 2012 mall collapse in Elliot Lake which killed two women and left 20 others injured.

A subsequent investigation ordered by the government found years of leaking water, road salt infiltration and a lack of maintenance and proper inspections led to the corrosion of supporting steel beams.

Settlements have already been reached with the families of the women killed, Lucie Aylwin and Doloris Perizzolo.

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Manitoba recorded dozens of new measles cases over the final days of March and into early April, as the province continues to be Canada’s hot spot for the highly contagious disease.

Between March 29 and April 4, Manitoba had 36 new confirmed measles cases and two new probable cases, data released by the province on Friday shows.

That brings the total count of confirmed and probable cases in March to 156 and 24, respectively, along with 17 confirmed cases and one probable case this month up to April 4.

With the latest update, Manitoba has recorded 429 confirmed infections and 63 probable cases so far in 2026 — more cases than in all of 2025.

A judge has granted a month-long stay preventing Alberta’s chief electoral officer from certifying the results of a petition to force a referendum on a proposal for Alberta to separate from Canada.

Justice Shaina Leonard’s ruling on Friday afternoon also prevents Stay Free Alberta, the group behind the petition, from referring the matter to Justice Minister Mickey Amery once signatures are submitted.

The decision follows an application from two of three First Nations groups who say they believe the petition process threatens treaty rights. The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) and the Blackfoot Confederacy have been seeking a stay on the petition campaign pending a final ruling.

(Jeff Rath, a lawyer for Mitch Sylvestre, the lead organizer of the Stay Free Alberta petition) said, “I believe that the Speaker of the legislature now needs to get involved, because I think the idea that a Court of King’s Bench justice can issue a stay or what amounts to an injunction order against an officer of the legislature is one of the most remarkable things that I've ever seen."

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/58330920