During Friday’s episode of Emmerdale, Bear Wolf (Joshua Richards) sat with a counsellor called Lucy, and began to speak about the horror he went through on Celia Daniels’ (Jaye Griffiths) farm.

Ever since Bear returned to the village, he’s struggled to completely see that what he went through was wrong. This is down to the high level of manipulation and abuse he suffered, which left left Bear believing that Celia was helping vulnerable people, and that Ray was his friend.

Paddy Kirk (Dominic Brunt) has tried to help his dad see the reality of what he went through, but he realised a couple of days ago that Bear wasn’t going to completely heal without some therapy from a professional.

Charles Anderson (Kevin Mathurin) then organised for Lucy to visit the village. As a victim of exploitation herself, Lucy knew exactly how to approach the session with Bear. She gently tried to steer him in the direction of seeing Ray as a monster, but it wasn’t easy.

This was because Bear spent a lot of time being plagued with visions of Ray. Whenever Lucy spoke the truth, Ray would appear as a figment of Bear’s imagination and counteract her comment.

A breakthrough happened when Bear opened up about his friend and fellow slave Anya, who died as a result of Celia and Ray failing to get her any medication for her ill health. Telling Lucy about Anya’s death saw Bear slowly start to realise that Ray most certainly wasn’t his friend.

The situation for Bear changed when Lucy called him a good man. Overwhelmed with the pressure of keeping his murderous secret, Bear fell apart and confessed to killing the man who kept him prisoner for months.

The instalment ended with a horrified Paddy watching his dad get into a police car. The beloved character has already been through so much, and it sadly isn’t over yet.

Calling Bear’s killing of Ray ‘poetic justice’, actor Joshua Richards recently opened up about the next part of Bear’s story, which will see him questioned by DS Walsh at first.

‘It sets off another dilemma, of course, because this isn’t the end of the horror. Horror continues’, he said.

Teasing what lies ahead in the coming days, Joshua added: ‘I think the police officer is particularly ruthless and obviously wants to get this crime sorted, but also wants to nail as many people as possible. I mean, her remit seems to be quite wide with Moira after Cain and after Paddy, after Dylan, after Bear. She doesn’t want one person, she wants everybody.’

DS Walsh will charge Bear with manslaughter. According to Joshua, his character believes he should face the consequences for his actions.

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‘I think in his mind, taking a life is taking a life, it’s a life for a life…even if it was in self-defence. He was almost the victim of a nervous breakdown and being practically insane at the time, but he still believes he should take the consequences.’

Joshua noted: ‘I think he has this mistaken sense of honour, and that he’s got to own up to what he did, even though he was totally unaware of what he did at the time he was doing it.

‘And it’s just this old-fashioned sort of “Well, I did it, therefore I should take the consequences.” It’s misguided and wrong, but he firmly believes that that’s the honourable thing to do.’

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton clashed with a Czech political leader at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday.

Clinton was speaking during a panel on the state of the West where she heavily criticized President Donald Trump for his dealings with Europe. Petr Macinka, a Czech deputy prime minister, defended the Trump administration as Clinton repeatedly mocked his statements and tried to speak over him.

“First, I think you really don’t like him,” Macinka said as he began to respond to Clinton’s Trump-bashing.

“You know, that is absolutely true,” Clinton said. “But not only do I not like him, but I don’t like what he’s actually doing to the United States and the world, and I think you should take a hard look at it if you think there is something good that will come of it.”

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Hillary Clinton appeared at the Munich Security Conference this weekend. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

“Well, what Trump is doing in America, I think that it is a reaction. Reaction for some policies that really went too far, too far from the regular people,” Macinka said as Clinton interjected to ask for examples.

Macinka referenced “woke” ideologies, gender theories and cancel culture that ran rampant throughout the U.S. in recent years.

Clinton then mocked him, suggesting he was opposed to “women getting their rights.”

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Macinka then rebuffed her hostility, saying he can tell he was making her “nervous.”

The exchange came during the same panel where Clinton discussed immigration in the U.S., admitting that it had gone “too far.”

“It went too far, it’s been disruptive and destabilizing, and it needs to be fixed in a humane way with secure borders that don’t torture and kill people and how we’re going to have a strong family structure because it is at the base of civilization,” she added.

Clinton acknowledged that there are places where a physical barrier is appropriate but opposed large-scale expansion of a border wall during her 2016 presidential campaign.

President Donald Trump’s administration has cracked down on illegal immigration. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia, File)

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At the time, she supported then-President Barack Obama’s executive actions that deferred immigration enforcement against millions of children and parents in the country illegally and wanted to end the practice of family detention.

Clinton also planned on continuing Obama’s policy of deporting violent criminals, but wanted to scale back immigration raids, which she said at the time produced “unnecessary fear and disruption in communities,” Fox News Digital previously reported.

Fox News’ Ashley DiMella contributed to this report.

MILAN — Neither of the favorites has been tested at these Olympics yet, not truly. But Team Canada spent the preliminary round marking out its territory as the dominant force of the men’s hockey tournament here in Milan.

Through three games, the last of which was an easy 10-2 win over France on Sunday afternoon, the Canadians outscored opponents 20-3. Twelve different players scored goals in the preliminaries; nine different players did so on Sunday. Canada never trailed.

None of its pairs or line combinations — with Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon and Sidney Crosby as the top three centermen — struggled, but for good measure, coach Jon Cooper combined McDavid and Macklin Celebrini with MacKinnon in Canada’s second game, a 5-1 win over Switzerland. What he got was a Death Star-like weapon, though he opted against using it against the French, who were predictably and totally overmatched on Sunday.

The closest thing to suspense on Sunday afternoon came when Floran Douay tied the game at one just 13 seconds after Tom Wilson opened the scoring for Canada. The suspense lasted 39 seconds before Devon Toews scored, and that was pretty much it.

From there, the most exciting thing was Wilson dropping gloves with Frenchman Pierre Crinon in the third period, with both players promptly getting ejected, as fighting is illegal under IIHF rules. Crinon had caught MacKinnon with an elbow up high a few minutes prior.

The Canadians all but officially sealed the No. 1 seed in the knockout round due to the lopsided margin. The United States could, technically, catch them later on Sunday, but entered their game against Germany needing to make up 10 goals. The No. 2 seed will be in line to face Sweden, widely believed to be the third-best team in the tournament, in the quarterfinals, a result of the Swedes dropping a game to the Finns and failing to run up the goal differential in their other games.

Of course, that is only the expectation for this wildly talented Team Canada. Everything, though, is humming along as smoothly as can be.

McDavid is the tournament’s points leader, averaging one per period of play, and appears on a mission for gold. Crosby’s three points on Sunday made him Canada’s all-time leading point-getter in the NHL’s Olympic Era. Celebrini, who became the first NHL player to convert a penalty shot at the Olympics on Sunday, is dominating the Games at 19 years old. Go down the roster and not a single player is underperforming.

To the extent there is concern, it is that Josh Morrissey was hurt in Canada’s first game (Cooper said he will return before the Olympics are over), and that Jordan Binnington let in two goals against France.

If there’s a crack in this team, it hasn’t shown yet.

Virginia Mearns probably did not expect to be thrust into the centre of a major geopolitical incident when she started as Canada’s Arctic ambassador last July.

But Mearns was front and centre last week when Canada opened its new consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, in the aftermath of U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to annex the self-governing Danish territory.

Mearns’s agenda will likely only get busier as Canada seeks to beef up both its military and diplomatic presence in the Arctic amid another global surge in interest in the region.

She spoke with CBC Nunavut’s Carl Cardinal.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

How has it been so far, being appointed and taking on such an important role for the Arctic?

It’s definitely been an incredibly humbling experience to be appointed into such a role. This is something that I think we all recognize as significant in being able to bring positive attention to the Canadian Arctic and also create opportunities to strengthen relations between our Arctic region and the rest of Canada, and internationally as well.

What are your priorities as the new Arctic ambassador? 

One focal point that I’m hoping to be able to achieve is strengthening the voice of our northern Arctic community members, especially at the international level, to be able to give a real-time perspective as to the realities that exist in our communities, but also echoing the voices that have already been doing a lot of really important work from our communities, for our communities, and to ensure that, where possible, we can shine a light on the achievements of our Indigenous and Inuit communities.

Speaking of that, the new consulate in Nuuk opened last week. How did you find that support coming from Inuit organizations, together with you and Minister of Foreign Affairs [Anita Anand] together? 

It was an incredibly special gesture on the part of Inuit leadership from Canada to demonstrate solidarity with Inuit in Greenland, but also I think it brought to the surface how close our ties actually are between Canada and Greenland. I was able to see a lot of Inuit from Canada reconnect with friends and family in Nuuk that have longstanding relationships, whether they’re professional or personal or both. 

But I think for the moment in time, it was such a strong, powerful message that Inuit from Canada could convey that they stand with Greenland and that they are there to support each other. And so it was such a lovely way to add to the official opening of our consulate in Nuuk.

Do you feel that Inuit now have a special place within the federal government?

There’s definitely been decades of work that Inuit leadership have carried out to strengthen the relationship with the Government of Canada. And I think that has been showing up through the work that’s carried out through the Inuit-Crown partnership committee. That committee has created a structure in which Inuit and the Government of Canada can focus on agreed-to priorities, such as the Arctic foreign policy, where ultimately the commitment to open the consulate in Nuuk was brought to surface.

And of course, we were able to fulfill this last week in Nuuk, which is incredible. This is a testament to the dedication of Inuit leadership throughout the years. And it is an example of the strengthening relationships between the Government of Canada and the Canadian Arctic.

As an Inuk woman, does it bring back painful memories of colonialism, seeing that the U.S. was threatening the sovereignty of Greenland?

It definitely has been concerning. And I feel that for Inuit communities, whether they’re in Canada or in Greenland, the impacts of colonialism definitely came to the surface. And recognizing that this type of rhetoric does bring a lot of concern and anxiety for communities that are impacted.

And for our northern communities, especially those in Nunavut, it definitely has brought this to the surface and very close to our homes. We’re not accustomed to it. The Arctic region has predominantly been an area of peace and collaboration.

So I think as we continue to work through reconciliation for the impacts of colonialism here in Canada and on our Indigenous communities, there’s still a lot of work. But we are making progress.

What are some future projects that are on the go for you?

 There are definitely a lot of priorities that we’ve committed to implementing through the Arctic foreign policy. And so ongoing engagement and dialogue around Arctic security and sovereignty is most definitely going to be an area that we focus on.

Other areas include science and research, and Indigenous knowledge in research for the Arctic region is going to continue to be a priority of our office. And also, I think more on the horizon, is the finalization of the mandate for my office. This is being formed by the engagements that I was able to carry out between September and December with northern and Arctic partners.

Ultimately, we’re aiming for the spring to be able to release that.

An Amherst, N.S., public library employee warns that reduced staff hours will slow services and book deliveries between libraries, negatively impacting users.

Adam Davies, a library assistant at the Four Fathers Memorial Library, told CBC News on Friday that he received a letter earlier in the week telling him and seven other employees they will be working 10 per cent fewer hours.

“We’ve taken on so many other responsibilities, especially after COVID,” he said. “A lot of our public libraries are focused on social cohesion. We’re focused on well-being. We were really developing programs that engage our youngest readers.”

The person responsible for children’s programming at the branches saw their hours cut, said Davies.

The cuts affect employees who work at the headquarters for Cumberland Public Libraries, of which there are seven branches.

“The job is pretty full and pretty demanding and there’s lots of things to do … We’re not having the time to get these things accomplished,” said Davies.

CBC News contacted the Cumberland Regional Library Board for comment, but did not receive a response.

Ashley Nunn-Smith is the chair of the Council of Regional Librarians, which represents the nine regional library systems. She said over the past few years, libraries around the province have been silently making cuts, but that “2026 represents a real cliff.”

“We have stretched our budget as far as it can be stretched. There is no way to stretch it any further,” said Nunn-Smith.

A year ago, the council requested an additional $1.6 million in emergency funding, which was granted by the province.

However, the council’s request to change a funding formula that better reflects higher costs and inflationary pressures has not happened.

What the province is saying

The province said it is reviewing the recommendations.

“The annual budget is currently underway and decisions about library funding are made through this process,” wrote a spokesperson for the Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage in an emailed statement.

“More information will be available when the provincial budget is tabled.”

The budget will be released during the upcoming sitting of the legislature, which begins Feb. 23.

Public libraries received $16.4 million in from the province in the 2024-25 fiscal year, with the same amount budgeted for 2025-26.

Financial pinch

As for Davies, he said the reduced hours will cost him $5,000 annually.

“My son just started university, he’s in his first year of university,” he said. “We’re all kind of feeling that financial pinch and this is one that we’re going to have to make some adjustments to build into our financial plan now.”

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Monday, Feb. 16 is Islander Day, a provincial holiday in P.E.I. All provincial government offices are closed, as are most stores. 

Statutory holiday falls on Feb. 16 this year

Gwyneth Egan · CBC News · Posted: Feb 15, 2026 5:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

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Monday, Feb. 16 is Islander Day, a provincial holiday in P.E.I. All provincial government offices are closed, as are most stores. 

Many federal services will operate as normal, including Canada Post’s mail collection.

Some bars, restaurants and local businesses will remain open, but others will shut down for the day. If you’re planning an outing, it’s best to call ahead.

Here’s a partial list of what’s open and what’s closed:

Government offices and services

• All provincial government offices will be closed, including Access P.E.I. and public libraries. 
• Charlottetown and Summerside city halls will be closed.
• Canada Post’s regular mail collection service will continue as usual.
• T3 Transit will not be operating.
• Island Waste Management Corporation will not be doing curbside garbage collection. Waste will be picked up on Saturday, Feb. 21 instead. Waste Watch drop-off centres will also be closed.
• P.E.I. liquor and cannabis stores across the province will be closed for the day.

Grocery and retail

• Sobeys stores across the Island are closed for the day.
• Co-Op and Foodland stores are closed, except for the Souris location, which is open from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m.
• Royalty Crossing mall in Charlottetown is closed for the day.
• Charlottetown’s Confederation Court Mall is closed.
• County Fair Mall in Summerside is closed, though the Lawtons Drugs inside the mall is open from noon to 5 p.m.
• Walmart stores in Charlottetown and Summerside are closed.
• Atlantic Superstores are closed.
• Kensington Food Basket is open regular hours, 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
• Panda Mart in Charlottetown is also open regular hours, 9:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Pharmacies

• Murphy’s Pharmacy locations have varied hours; click here for details.
• Lawtons Drugs locations are operating on their usual Sunday hours: Sherwood is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friendly’s in the Charlottetown Polyclinic is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the location in the County Fair Mall in Summerside is open from noon until 5 p.m.
• Shoppers Drug Mart locations across the Island are open regular hours.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gwyneth Egan is a journalist with CBC Prince Edward Island. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Carleton University. You can reach her at gwyneth.egan1@cbc.ca