RCMP is asking the public for help finding a suspect following an armed robbery and truck theft near Canora, Sask.

Canora RCMP received a report of an armed robbery around 5 p.m. on Tuesday. Officers determined a man with a weapon threatened someone and stole their truck at a home in the Rural Municipality of Sliding Hills, RCMP said in an update on Wednesday.

The suspect fled east towards Kamsack, and no physical injuries were reported to police, RCMP said.

The suspect is described as a man weighing 200 pounds, five feet 10 inches tall, with brown eyes and short black hair. RCMP said he has visible tattoos and was last seen wearing a red t-shirt, shorts and running shoes.

The stolen truck is described as a grey 2015 Dodge Ram 1500, with the Saskatchewan licence plate 247 NQF.

Anyone who may have witnessed suspicious activity in the area in the late afternoon or early evening of July 7 is asked to contact police at 310-RCMP or Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers.

Sliding Hills is located about 235 kilometres northeast of Regina and about 25 kilometres southeast of Canora.

Born and raised on a farm south of Moose Jaw, Sask., Jana Kitts would often watch in wonder as the Canadian Forces Snowbirds air demonstration team practiced over her family’s fields at its homebase at 15 Wing.

“I was really lucky growing up to see them in the air and lucky to see them ever since,” she remembered.

“15 Wing is really connected to Moose Jaw, to our community, they’re on our hockey team’s [logo]. To me, they are more than an air demonstration squadron.”

On May 19, the federal government announced the Snowbirds will be temporarily grounded after the 2026 season, until the team’s aging Tutor jets are replaced with the new CT-157 Siskin II.

The Snowbirds have performed at air shows across North America from May to October each year and have regularly flown overseas - performing nearly 2,900 official shows with another 1,000 fly-bys.

Kitts says the news didn’t feel right in her gut.

“[The Snowbirds] are special to me, but it’s also special to Canada,” she told CTV News. “They’re Canada’s team. The connection, the feeling of pride and them representing our country; it feels like Canadians don’t want to lose that through the transition period to the new aircraft.”

She added that Canadians want to feel that connection, which prompted her to take action.

In the days following the announcement, she researched ways she could amplify her voice to the federal government.

“I knew there must be other Canadians feeling the same way,” Kitts said. “So I started the petition to give everybody an opportunity to have their voice heard.”

Her petition penned to the Government of Canada aims to have the Department of Defence investigate ways to keep the RCAF Snowbirds flying while it procures new aircraft for the team.

It also asks the government to maintain and continue funding and operational support for the program through 2030.

Kitts believes stakeholders, such as the Snowbirds Alumni Association (SAA), have solutions which would allow the air demonstration squadron to perform through the transition. The SAA have previously brought forward ideas like reducing the team to seven planes – rather than nine.

“[The Snowbirds] are a part of our identity,” said Kitts. “It acknowledges they invested in this team in the past to keep them flying until 2030, but it also acknowledges the safety aspect of it, too.”

Kitts said some of the ideas she’s heard from SAA and the aviation community are viable options to be considered.

“I’m just hoping this petition helps [the federal government] more deeply consider those options,” she added.

Kitts says she has already received plenty of support from the SAA, the City of Moose Jaw and local MP Fraser Tolmie, who has sponsored the petition to the House of Commons.

“I think there is another way forward,” Tolmie told CTV News Tuesday. “People are questioning our national unity and this is a really a time we need to start flying the flag. The snowbirds really represent that.”

Tolmie, the former Mayor of Moose Jaw and current deputy critic of veterans affairs was quick to throw his name forward for Kitts’ campaign.

“This is something that’s ours, we’re not going to let it go,” he said.

“This shows the passion of our community. Jana is someone who recognizes the importance of the Snowbirds – not just to Moose Jaw or the province; but across Canada.”

Every day, Kitts sees more signatures from supporters across the country.

“It’s really encouraging to hear the passion everybody has for the Snowbirds,” she said. “That connection has united Canadians from coast to coast for generations watching them.”

The Snowbirds are set to host the squadron’s 55th anniversary air show July 11 at the Moose Jaw Airport.

It’s expected to be the final hometown show before the replacement of the fleet.

Kitts will be in attendance for Saturday’s show for what she hopes won’t be the last time.

“If we were able to see them continue in some capacity, it just really inspires a person to keep voicing concerns on matters they’re passionate about. That gives us a lot of hopes,” she said.

Kitts’ petition is open for signatures until Oct. 24, 2026.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar sounded missile alert sirens early Thursday morning warning of an Iranian attack after the United States launched a new round of airstrikes targeting Iran.

There was no immediate word of damage in the three Gulf Arab countries. Kuwait’s military said it was actively intercepting incoming drones and missiles.

On Wednesday, Iran launched attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait over an earlier round of U.S. airstrikes against Iran. The latest U.S. strikes began Wednesday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said that recent Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz signaled the end of the fragile ceasefire.

The action raised fears that the war in Iran could reignite, coming just a day after the U.S. military hit a variety of military sites and port facilities following Iran’s targeting of several merchant vessels off the coast of Oman.

Military officials said in a social media post Wednesday that the latest strikes were intended to “further degrade” Iran’s ability “to threaten freedom of navigation” in the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s traded oil and natural gas passed before the war began with U.S. and Israeli attacks on Feb. 28.

Iranian state media reported explosions in several locations, including Bushehr, home to Iran’s nuclear power plant complex, and the southern port cities of Chabahar, Konarak, Bandar Abbas and Sirik.

Trump warns that `it will get much worse’ if attacks on shipping happen again

After leaving a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, Trump posted several videos on his social media site of what he said were explosions in Iran and issued another warning to the Islamic Republic.

“This is in retribution for yesterday’s bombing of ships by Iran. If it happens again, it will get much worse!” Trump wrote.

Trump had said earlier in the day that the latest back-and-forth fighting would not result in “long-term” military action.

“Anything that happens is going to happen very fast,” Trump said, though he also suggested the U.S. military might “just finish the job.”

Trump also renewed his past threats to hit Iran’s civilian infrastructure, including electric plants and desalinization plants, and to seize the oil-production hub of Kharg Island.

After three tankers were hit Tuesday, the U.S. launched strikes on Iran, and Iranian forces retaliated by attacking American military sites in the Persian Gulf.

Iran has asserted that the interim ceasefire deal gives it the right to manage traffic through the strait. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, a key negotiator in talks seeking a permanent end to the war, was defiant in a post on X: “The era of bullying and extortion is over. It leads nowhere. We don’t fold.”

Strikes raise fears that war could resume

Trump fuelled concerns that the war could restart by saying the interim agreement to pause fighting was “over,” although he added that he would allow negotiations to continue.

Attacks have repeatedly threatened the shaky ceasefire, but Trump’s comments added new uncertainty, and oil prices shot up after he spoke. A renewed conflict could engulf the wider Middle East and would likely again halt energy shipments through the strait.

“For me, I think it’s over,” Trump said when asked about the status of the ceasefire. He added that U.S. representatives can continue negotiations, but he cast doubt on the outcome. “They can talk, but I think they’re wasting their time,” he said.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi, also a top negotiator, retorted on X that Trump’s remarks “are not a sign of power but an admission of the failure” of U.S. policy toward Iran.

Trump has threatened to seize Kharg Island at previous points in the war, including last month, when he also questioned whether the U.S. “has the stomach for it.” Some 90 per cent of Iranian oil exports pass through the island.

The new attacks on ships in the strait, despite the negotiations, could reflect a divide among Iran’s leadership. Hard-liners seek lasting control over the waterway, which is a globally important conduit for fuel shipments and has become a critical lever in confronting the West. Pragmatists want a permanent peace deal to lift international sanctions and provide desperately needed economic relief.

Negotiations to reach a final deal had been due to start after the dayslong funeral for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed Feb. 28 in the war’s first moments. The funeral, which ends Thursday, was supposed to be a period of lower tensions.

The talks are meant to focus on the toughest matters, including fully reopening the strait and rolling back Tehran’s disputed nuclear program.

U.S. military says it hit air defences and small boats

On Tuesday, the U.S. military’s Central Command said American forces hit Iranian targets including air-defense systems, radars and over 60 small boats used by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.

Those boats have been key to threatening ships in the strait. Iran’s ability to bring shipping in the waterway to a near halt during the war proved its greatest strategic advantage.

On Wednesday morning, both Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, and Kuwait, home to U.S. Army forces, sounded missile alerts. The Revolutionary Guard issued a statement acknowledging targeting U.S. military installations in both countries.

Kuwait said it intercepted two ballistic missiles and 13 drones launched by Iran. The Kuwaiti Electricity Ministry said a number of lines were out of service after shrapnel fell on them.

U.S. revokes licence allowing the sale of Iranian oil

After the Iranian strikes on shipping, the U.S. revoked a license that -- for the first time in years -- had allowed Iran to conduct oil sales openly in U.S. dollars, as part of the interim deal.

Iran and the United States agreed as part of the interim deal to allow ships to pass through the strait without paying charges for 60 days. But Tehran has insisted it must control the vessels’ routes and vowed to later charge fees for passage. That would upend decades of practice in the waterway. The ships attacked Tuesday all appeared to be using a route close to Oman’s shore, rather than one ordered by Tehran.

The U.S. and many Gulf Arab states say they will not agree to Iran charging for passage through the strait.

Elsewhere, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Falah al-Zaidi and other Iranian and Iraqi officials attended funeral ceremonies for Khamenei on Wednesday in the Iraqi city of Najaf.

Khamenei’s body will be returned to Iran to be buried Thursday at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, his birthplace.

Tech giant Meta announced Wednesday it will build a massive data centre in central Alberta, the company’s first in Canada, as it rapidly builds out computing capacity to support the global AI boom.

The one-gigawatt data centre will be located in Sturgeon County and represents a total investment of C$13 billion, or $9.17 billion, Meta said.

Meta has doubled down on AI, pledging hundreds of billions of dollars to build large AI data centres in the U.S. The Alberta announcement represents the company’s 33rd data centre globally.

Executives made the announcement in Calgary alongside Premier Danielle Smith and other Alberta government officials, who have spent several years courting Silicon Valley tech giants with the aim of spurring a large-scale investment in the oil-and-gas province.

Meta, like other tech giants, is facing rapidly expanding power needs due to the growth of AI, and Alberta is rich in natural gas which sells at a significant discount to the U.S. benchmark.

The province’s cold climate also makes cooling the massive super-computers and related data centre infrastructure more cost-efficient.

The 20 existing small- to mid-scale data centres in Alberta already pull from the province’s energy grid, which is 60 per cent powered by natural gas. The provincial government is giving ​new proponents the option to build their own power sources to avoid limits on power capacity.

Meta said Wednesday it will fully fund new generation and grid infrastructure for its Alberta data centre, which will consume about as much electricity as 800,000 homes.

The company has partnered with Alberta-based Pembina Pipeline, which announced last week it will go ahead with its Greenlight Electricity Centre, a new natural gas-fired power-generation facility in Sturgeon County which will be in service in late 2030 and with which Meta has a long-term tolling agreement.

The project will require approximately 150 million cubic feet per day of natural gas, according to Pembina, helping to create demand for Western Canadian natural gas producers.

Canada’s government laid out an AI strategy last month that suggested new data centre growth would benefit from the country’s clean electricity grid, which is largely powered by renewables and low-emission power sources.

But the vast majority of data centres currently in the planning stages in Canada are located in Alberta, where a reliance on natural gas means the emissions intensity of the province’s electricity grid is almost five times the national average.

A new automaker has entered Canada’s electric vehicle market giving some consumers looking to purchase a new vehicle more options.

Lotus, owned by the Chinese Geely Group, recently shipped its first Eletre EVs to Canada under a Canada-China deal signed in January. The premium SUV, made in Wuhan, is the first Chinese-owned and Chinese-built EV available for sale in Canada. The high-end vehicle starts at $119,000, while the fully loaded model sells for $159,000.

The CEO of Lotus Cars Americas, Max Trantini, says orders for the SUV — which can drive more than 600 kilometres on a single charge and go from 20 to 80 per cent charged in less than 20 minutes — have been high.

He says the first shipment of nearly 20 cars has already arrived, with more imports expected as the cars hit dealership showrooms and city roads.

“The Canadian customer really liked the car, and there is a high request for this car even before they saw the car,” he said. “So we are expecting now that we finally see the car at the dealership and also on the street, that our customer will really start loving it even more.”

The Eletre is the first of the Chinese made EVs imported into Canada after Prime Minister Mark Carney made a deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping in January. The agreement allows up to 49,000 Chinese EVs to enter the country per year, at a 6.1 per cent tariff rate. The change lifted a 100 per cent tariff on those vehicles implemented in 2024. In exchange, China agreed to drop duties on agricultural products.

Trantini says after the car launched in Europe three years ago, the plan was to launch in Canada before the 100 per cent tariff was placed on Chinese-made EVs in 2024.

“We developed the U.S market for this car, and also the Canadian market for this car, but then due to the tariff we had to hold the import because of that situation,” he said. “We believe that the car is perfect for the Canadian market.”

Data provided by Global Affairs Canada says that 2,910 EVs from China have arrived since March 1, though the agency could not say where they are located or what companies imported them. No new cars have arrived in the country since the end of May.

The managing director & publisher of Automotive News Canada Tim Dimopoulos says he expects that most of the early EV entering the country will be from well known brands like Lotus, Tesla and Volvo who already have dealerships in Canada.

“They’re going to take up a big part of that 49,000 unit volume that we’ll see, but you’ll start to see new entrants like BYD coming to the country,” he said.

Lotus currently has six dealerships in Canada but company officials say they are looking into options to expand their reach in Canada now that the Eletre is open for orders.

“Our dealer network… it was quite small, and that was the right size for the car we were selling until today because we were selling a sports car,” Trantini said. “Now that we have this new car coming, we are already talking with our dealer in order to expand their business, and I’m also receiving daily requests from investors that want to join.”

What’s next?

Data from Transport Canada shows Polestar, which is also owned by the Geely Group, is already listed in Transport Canada’s Appendix G pre-clearance program — a registry that allows foreign vehicle manufacturers to import new cars that comply with Canadian Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. The automaker is registered for passenger cars produced in Chengdu and Taizhou, China, as well as vehicles manufactured in the U.S. and South Korea.

Chinese companies BYD and Chery are also expected to enter the Canadian market in the coming months.

BYD already has Appendix G approval for an unknown kind of passenger car made in Shenzhen City and Xi’An, China. It’s unclear when the approval was received.

Dimopoulos says those companies will likely begin by importing high-end luxury models that offer dealers higher profit margins and appeal to a niche market.

“If they’re going to invest in dealer networks or partnerships with existing networks, or even set up offices here, they need to make some money initially to do that, and the more expensive stuff will allow them to do that,” he said.

However, Ottawa has said by 2030 it wants half of the Chinese EVs imported into Canada to cost less than $35,000. As more Chinese EVs, especially cheaper models, enter the market experts predict EVs across the spectrum to come down in price.

“Overall it should bring prices down from other manufacturers,” said Dimopoulos. “That’s going to be the first kind of pressure you’ll see in the marketplace.”

According to Transport Canada, there are at least 726,126 light-duty battery EVs, including popular vehicles on Canadian roads representing 2.7 per cent of the market share. The department says there are an additional 304,823 light-duty plug-in hybrid vehicles on the roads, representing 1.1 per cent of the market share.

Buy at your own risk

Intelligence and cybersecurity experts have repeatedly raised concerns with the Chinese-made vehicles citing significant national security and privacy concerns. Experts consider the EVs smartphones on wheels. The experts say their concerns stem from laws in China that require Chinese companies, especially those with some degree of state ownership, to hand over data if requested.

Jody Thomas, Canada’s former National Security and Intelligence Advisor to prime minister Justin Trudeau, said that by law the Chinese state has access to any data gathered by the EVs.

“It doesn’t mean they will access the data, but it means they can, should they choose to,” she said. “The risk at this point is more a plausible risk.”

Thomas says data like routes, cell phone contacts, driving patterns, phone conversations, and recordings from your car’s camera, all provide information about a driver.

“At sort of the base level, it’s a privacy issue, but broader than that, it becomes a potential for espionage when you aggregate the data, when you look at it as more than just the individual driver.”

Thomas says consumers need to consider these potential risks when purchasing a Chinese made EV and potentially mitigate the risk by choosing to avoid connecting a work device to their vehicle.

“This is about a personal choice, privacy, and who you want to buy from,” she said. “If you work in the military, if you work in sensitive sectors, if you’re an employee of some elements of the federal government, provincial governments, sensitive industries, you perhaps are not going to want to buy one of these vehicles.”

Some security experts have even gone so far as to suggest the federal government should ban the vehicles from sensitive sites like military bases and certain government sites.

Asked about these concerns, Trantini says his vehicles comply with all the federal government’s rules and regulations.

“Our cars are fully certified and all our hardware and our software follow the rules,” he said. “We disclosed to the government everything that is related to our software, everything related on our hardware, and we pass all the examinations, so as long as we are compliant, I don’t think we have anything to fear.”

When asked about what potential risks Chinese EVs pose, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree told a parliamentary committee that Ottawa needs to ensure the vehicles in Canada do not have the ability to transmit information back to other countries, including China.

Canada has repeatedly said it expects Chinese automakers in the Canadian market to build where they sell. Government officials, including Industry Minister Melanie Joly, have said Chinese automakers must partner with Canadian companies to not only build but sell their vehicles.

Experts have said its possible Canada could make a deal that prohibits Chinese companies who choose to make EVs in Canada from collecting data gathered domestically.

Trantini says if any future government regulations come forward from the government around data and security, the company will follow suit.

“We will adjust and always be compliant,” he said.

Thousands of Land Rover sport utility vehicles are being recalled in Canada and the United States due to a potential problem with the airbag that may increase the risk of getting hurt in a crash.

Nearly 25,000 vehicles from the automaker were recalled in Canada, while more than 250,000 were recalled south of the border.

The driver-front airbag may not inflate in a crash as intended for certain SUVs, according to the notice. The Jaguar Land Rover recall was posted on June 12 and later updated Wednesday on Transport Canada’s website.

“On certain vehicles, the connector for the driver-front airbag in the steering wheel could corrode,” the recall notice said, adding that the “problem would cause the airbag warning light to turn on.”

“An airbag that doesn’t work properly could increase the risk of injury in a crash,” the notice said.

The models and years of the SUVs affected in Canada include:

• Land Rover Defender 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026
• Land Rover Discovery 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026
• Land Rover Range Rover 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026

Affected owners will receive mail from Land Rover advising them to take their vehicle to a dealership to apply grease to the driver’s airbag connector terminals, according to the notice.

Jaguar Land Rover North America recently recalled SUVs in ‌the U.S. over a similar issue with the defective airbag. The company initially said it was conducting a “voluntary safety recall” in a report published by the U.S. Department of Transportation on June 12.

In Canada, the company had previously recalled more than 14,000 vehicles in April over a different safety concern affecting certain hybrid electric vehicles.

The earlier recall posted by Transport Canada was due to a DC/DC converter that could fail, resulting in the battery not charging for the wheels and the lights turning off.

Saskatchewan’s police watchdog is investigating after a 58-year-old man died in police custody in southeastern Saskatchewan on Monday.

According to Saskatchewan RCMP, officers received a report of an impaired driver in the ditch of Grid Road 709 near the community of Kipling at 4:20 p.m.

Mounties say they arrested the man for impaired driving when they arrived, but he refused to exit the vehicle and had to be removed by officers who escorted him to their police vehicle.

According to RCMP, the 58-year-old went into medical distress while in the back of the police vehicle.

Officers say they immediately requested EMS assistance and administered CPR until they arrived and took over revival efforts.

However, the man was later declared dead by EMS.

Since the man was in police custody when he died, his death will be investigated by the Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT).

SIRT is an independent, civilian-led unit responsible for investigating serious incidents involving police, including in-custody deaths or serious injuries.

This is the third time the organization has been deployed in 2026.

Kipling is located 154 kilometres southeast of Regina.

The Regina Police Service (RPS) is asking for help in searching for two suspects who allegedly stopped a vehicle in the city before beating and robbing the driver.

At around 2:50 a.m. on Monday, officers were dispatched to the area of Angus Street and 8th Avenue to investigate a 911 call that was hung up.

When police arrived in the area, they found a man who told officers he was driving down the street when a pedestrian jumped in front of his vehicle.

The driver stopped his vehicle and the man who had jumped into traffic opened the vehicle’s passenger side door, got inside and started assaulting the driver, according to police.

The suspect stole the victim’s phone and a ring off his finger. A second suspect, a woman, appeared at the driver side of the vehicle and demanded the driver given her anything else he had.

The pair of suspects then fled the scene.

The first suspect is described as around six feet tall, with short black hair. He was wearing a black tank top.

The second suspect was described as a 40 to 50-year-old woman who was wearing a black sweater.

Anyone with information that could aid investigators is asked to contact Regina police or Crime Stoppers.

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