Saskatchewan’s Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) says three officers were involved in the fatal shooting of a Regina man last Thursday.

On the night of Sept. 25, members of the Regina Police Service (RPS) were engaged in a planned arrest related to an ongoing domestic violence investigation involving a 22-year-old man.

Due to comments attributed to the man during a previous investigation, members of the RPS tactical support team were ready to assist with the arrest.

After failing to find the man at a home in northwest Regina, police moved to a second home on the 3000 block of E Haughton Road.

Police confirmed the man was inside and made their way into the home. At approximately 11:07 p.m. a confrontation took place between the man and police officers inside the home.

Three members of the tactical support team discharged their service firearms during the encounter, hitting the man.

Police immediately provided first aid as paramedics were called to the scene.

At 11:14 p.m., EMS arrived at the scene, where they pronounced the man dead.

RPS notified SIRT that an officer-involved shooting had taken place. SIRT accepted the notification, determined the incident was within the organization’s mandate, and directed an investigation to take place.

Six SIRT investigators deployed to Regina to begin their investigation.

SIRT’s mandate is to investigate alleged cases of serious injury, death, sexual assault or interpersonal violence stemming from the actions or omissions of on and off-duty police officers.

Organizations are pushing the Government of Saskatchewan to extend its $10 per day childcare deal with Ottawa before its current agreement expires in March.

Kelsey Morrison, board chair of The Prairie Playhouse Early Learning Centre, said volunteers in the village of Sedley fought hard to offer childcare to families in the rural community.

“People before me started that fight in my community over a decade ago. A group of about 12 of us parents continued that fight, and we were finally granted spaces in November of 2023,” Morrison told reporters outside the legislative building Monday morning.

“From the time you’re awarded childcare spaces to opening. There’s a lot of work involved, a lot of volunteer hours, and it costs a lot of money.”

She added that countless hours of volunteering and fundraising went into the centre being able to open its doors in July – offering daycare to 30 children. However, the community is still fighting to provide services at a lower cost for families almost two years later.

“There’s so many benefits to childcare in our communities and now to know that all of that hard work has gone unnoticed and could literally be lost if this government doesn’t get a deal. It’s heartbreaking to think about,” Morrison expressed.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Saskatchewan said federal funding is needed to increase workers wage tops-ups to $8.50 an hour, along with providing families access to affordable daycare.

“Centers will lose funding they rely on to keep their doors open. Many childcare centers will close. This means childcare workers lose their jobs and parents lose their childcare spaces,” CUPE president Kent Peterson explained.

“Parents who do manage to keep a space will see their childcare fees skyrocket … Without an agreement many childcare workers will fall back to earning minimum wage.”

Child Care Now Saskatchewan also echoed the union’s call for action, emphasizing that Saskatchewan is one of two provinces in the country that has yet to renew a federal funding agreement – with Alberta being the other.

“We have had enough, we need to hear more from the minister,” voiced Child Care Now Saskatchewan chair Sue Delanoy.

“Sign the deal and don’t add for-profit to the mix, if you’re waiting to do that. Not-for-profit, publicly funded childcare is what we need. It’s what we have already in Saskatchewan. Expansion needs to happen or our families and children will be at risk.”

In a statement to CTV News, the provincial government said its confident a new agreement will be signed prior to the current agreement expiring in March 2026.

“We have reached out to the federal government multiple times to sit down and negotiate an extension to the Canada-Saskatchewan Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement,” read the statement.

“Ministry of Education officials continue to engage with their federal counterparts, during which time they are re-affirming Saskatchewan’s commitment to signing an extension and Education Minister Everett Hindley has also written several letters to the previous and now current federal minister to set up a meeting to discuss the extension.”

A Regina man was taken into custody last weekend after allegedly threatening another driver — before travelling 130 km/h down city streets.

The Regina Police Service (RPS) says it received the call at around 1:45 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 21.

The suspect was allegedly following a female victim closely and repeatedly flashing his high beams. According to police, when the two vehicles were stopped at a red light, the suspect came up to the victim’s vehicle and banged on her windows before continuing to follow her in his vehicle.

Plainclothes officers in an unmarked vehicle found the suspect driving in the area of College Avenue and Hamilton Street. The suspect, not aware that the vehicle was being driven by police, flashed his high beams, sped up and cut off the vehicle before slamming on the brakes.

He then fled the area at a “high rate of speed,” according to RPS.

The service’s police plane was alerted and continued to follow the suspect vehicle from the air – witnessing the man exceed 130 km/h at one point.

A short time later, a marked police vehicle was able to pull the suspect over.

He was taken into custody and charged with dangerous driving.

RPS says its Aerial Support Unit (ASU) has assisted in 331 calls for service over the past month – leading to 66 people being charged.

YouTube agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by U.S. President Donald Trump after he was suspended by social media platforms following the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

This makes Alphabet-owned YouTube the last of the three Big Tech social media companies sued by Trump — which included Meta and then Twitter, now called X — to settle over his removal from their platforms.

YouTube will pay US$22 million to settle the claims made by Trump to the nonprofit Trust for the National Mall, which is “dedicated to restoring, preserving, and elevating the National Mall, to support the construction of the White House State Ballroom,” according to a court document.

The social media company will also pay $2.5 million to settle with other plaintiffs, such as the nonprofit American Conservative Union.

YouTube directed CNN to the court document when asked for comment.

Meta agreed to settle Trump’s lawsuit in January for $25 million. X’s settlement in February involved a payment of around $10 million, according to the New York Times.

When they suspended his accounts, the platforms said Trump’s posts about the riot risked inciting further violence. At the time, legal experts said similar suits had been dismissed because tech companies have the right to run their platforms as they see fit.

However, the settlements come as tech giants have taken a more conciliatory, if not outright supportive, approach to Trump and Republican interests since he took office in January.

After Elon Musk acquired X — then known as Twitter — in late 2022, he reinstated Trump’s account; Meta followed suit in February 2023 and YouTube the following month.

Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai all sat front and center at Trump’s inauguration, and social media platform has rolled back content moderation efforts that Republican users had likened to censorship.

Just last week, YouTube said it would reinstate some accounts banned for violating now-defunct rules meant to curb repeated posting of misinformation, including about the results of the 2020 election. In its announcement, the company said it “values conservative voices on its platform and recognizes that these creators have extensive reach and play an important role in civic discourse.”

Souls Harbour Rescue Mission provides food and housing for thousands of people living in Nova Scotia. Like many charities, it relies on mail-in, charitable donations from the public, to support its programs.

“One-third of our funding stream are people who are donating through the mail system,” said CEO Michelle Porter, who added, the facility, like it did in the previous Canada Post strike, is once again braced to take a direct financial hit during this strike. “It is incredibly impactful to Souls Harbour and other charities because we are losing over $1 million in the mail.”

According to Porter, that money would be earmarked to support people heading into the cold winter season. It’s all part of a fall fundraising program that supports meal programs to feed more than 600 people daily at nine locations across Nova Scotia.

“Some of those meals are for Thanksgiving, and also for Christmas,” said Porter.

As the work stoppage continues, Canada Post is reassessing an offer it had planned to make to postal workers.

CUPW Nova local president Dwayne Corner said hurting charities is not the purpose of this strike.

“We just want to get back to work and we’re not looking to harm these people,” said Corner.

Souls Harbour Rescue Mission guest Mike Thomey said he appreciates the generosity he has received and realizes Porter and her team of volunteers are now scrambling to find a solution.

“I hope they have some alternative service to get them what they need, and I hope the city government will also help them to be able to provide,” said Thomey.

Porter has a message to donors, who usually send money in the mail.

“If you are able to give a different way than the mail, please call your charity, go online,” said Porter.

Those are options that could help Souls Harbour Rescue Mission as it searches for solutions to make sure donations keep coming in.

Ford has issued a recall for more than 14,000 trucks that could lose steering control due to a defective part.

The recall, announced through Transport Canada, affects 14,125 vehicles from the 2020 model year.

”On certain vehicles, the upper steering shaft could separate and cause a loss of steering control, the notice said.

Ford warned that a sudden loss of steering control increases the risk of a crash.

The recall included:

• FORD     F-250 CHASSIS CAB    2020
• FORD     F-250 SUPER DUTY    2020
• FORD     F-350 CHASSIS CAB   2020
• FORD     F-350 SUPER DUTY    2020
• FORD     F-450 CHASSIS CAB   2020
• FORD     F-450 SUPER DUTY    2020

Ford says it will contact affected owners by mail with instructions to take their vehicle to a dealership. Dealers will inspect the upper steering shaft and repair or replace it if needed.

Owners can check their vehicle’s status by visiting ford.ca/support/recalls or calling Ford Canada at 1-800-565-3673.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he was slapping 10 per cent tariffs on imported timber and lumber and 25 per cent duties on imported kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities and upholstered furniture, with the rate on the latter categories to jump next year.

Trump signed a presidential proclamation laying out his argument that timber, lumber and furniture imports are eroding U.S. national security to justify the new duties under Section 232 of the Trade Act of 1974.

The proclamation said the tariff rates would start on Oct. 14, but added that duties will increase on Jan. 1, 2026 to 30 per cent for upholstered wooden products and to 50 per cent for kitchen cabinets and vanities imported from countries that fail to reach an agreement with the United States.

The action is the first in three sectors that Trump said last week would get steep new duties as early as Oct. 1, including patented pharmaceutical imports, and heavy truck imports. But Monday’s proclamation sets the start of the lumber and furniture duties two weeks later, at 12:01 a.m. ET on Oct. 14.

Trump’s proclamation said wood product imports are weakening the U.S. economy, resulting in the persistent threats of closures of wood mills and disruptions of wood product supply chains and diminishing utilization of the U.S. domestic wood industry.

“Because of the state of the United States wood industry, the United States may be unable to meet demands for wood products that are crucial to the national defense and critical infrastructure,” the statement said.

The order added that wood products are used for “building infrastructure for operational testing, housing and storage for personnel and materiel, transporting munitions, as an ingredient in munitions, and as a component in missile-defense systems and thermal-protection systems for nuclear-reentry vehicles.”

The order added that wood products are used for “building infrastructure for operational testing, housing and storage for personnel and materiel, transporting munitions, as an ingredient in munitions, and as a component in missile-defense systems and thermal-protection systems for nuclear-reentry vehicles.”

A longtime Bryan Adams fan, who uses a wheelchair, was almost denied a VIP experience with the singer due to accessibility restrictions at the Brandt Centre in Regina.

Jodi MacEachern, who lives in Regina, first received tickets as a birthday gift from her sister back in May and was hoping to meet her favourite artist at his concert on Sunday.

However, MacEarchern’s sister Cy-Lyn Crupi explained that since there was no VIP package available for those in a wheelchair, she had been in contact with the Brandt Centre and Ticketmaster for months to get things straightened out.

“She’s being denied the opportunity of interacting with him [Adams] firsthand because the Brandt Centre can’t accommodate her special needs,” Crupi said. “So, it’s very discriminatory to somebody with special needs.”

Crupi was told by ticket administrators that having a wheelchair in the VIP section for this concert would be against fire regulations.

In a statement to CTV News, the REAL District says the Brandt Centre is committed to providing a safe, welcoming, and inclusive environment for all guests and is working with the customer to address their concerns directly and privately.

REAL also says that the older facility faces challenges in meeting today’s accessibility standards and expectations.

On Thursday afternoon, Crupi was offered complimentary tickets for her sister on the concourse level. She also said the Brandt Centre has been in contact with the tour manager and McEachern is going to get the full VIP experience.

“The REAL District, after the manager got involved, really stepped up to the plate to remedy things and is really going to try to make this a very, very enjoyable experience for my sister,” Crupi said.

What was a tough few months for the sisters now seems like a gift straight from the heart of her favourite musician.

Bryan Adams will take the stage at the Brandt Centre on Sunday evening.

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