It was a frustrating morning for hundreds of passengers aboard the BC Ferries Spirit of Vancouver Island on Tuesday.
The vessel, sailing from Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay, suffered a mechanical issue shortly after loading, which forced the cancellation of the 9 a.m. sailing.
A Global News crew, heading to Vancouver Island, was on board the ferry when the lights flickered.
The crew then came on the PA system and said there had been an electrical problem and they were trying to get a backup generator started.
About 20 minutes later, still in dock at Tsawwassen, they made another announcement saying two generators were down and the ship would not be able to sail.
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“We’ve lost two of our generators; we cannot sail,” the captain said over the PA system. “We’re going to ask passengers to return to their vehicles.”
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Every vehicle then had to back off the ferry to unload.
The Spirit of Vancouver Island has only been back in service for two days. It broke down over spring break and only became operational again on Sunday.
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In a service notice, BC Ferries said some sailings have been cancelled on Tuesday and a revised schedule is in place.
Prime Minister Mark Carney told a closed-door fundraiser crowd Monday night that floor-crossing MP Michael Ma represents “Liberal values,” after the former Conservative politician drew controversy over comments about forced labour in China.
In video obtained by Global News, Carney told the crowd at the GTA fundraiser that the Liberals were “glad” to welcome Ma to their ranks after the MP crossed from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives in December.
“(Ma) joined, he said, because he was guided by the values of building up others, delivering results — he’s a results-oriented individual — and choosing the path that creates opportunities for Canadians,” Carney said.
“These are fundamental Liberal values, fundamental Canadian values and that’s why Michael Ma has found a home in our party.”
The $1,775 per ticket fundraiser was closed to the media and the public, but Global News obtained video from a source who was in the room. The material reviewed by Global includes extended speeches from both Carney and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson.
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Ma was forced to apologize publicly last week after grilling a witness about forced labour in China at a House of Commons committee meeting on electric vehicles. The witness was suggesting that Chinese-made electric vehicles include parts produced by slave labour.
Ma demanded to know if Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a senior fellow at the University of Ottawa, had witnessed the practice with her own eyes.
“Have you witnessed forced labour in (the Chinese province of) Shenzhen? Have you witnessed forced labour? Just a short answer — have you witnessed forced labour in Shenzhen, yes or no?” Ma asked, suggesting the alternative was “hearsay.”
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Ma’s brusque remarks were initially misinterpreted by media outlets as referring to the western province of Xinjiang, which had been a major topic during the meeting. Human rights abuses against Xinjiang’s Uyghur Muslim population have been well-documented by international monitoring groups.
Several hours after his questions, Ma issued an apology and indicated he “inadvertently came across as dismissive of the serious issue of forced labour.”
“To be clear, my line of questioning referred to auto manufacturing in Shenzhen, China, and not in Xinjiang,” Ma’s statement read.
“I regret this mistake and apologize to Ms. McCuaig-Johnston and my fellow committee members.”
Ma added that he opposes forced labour “in all its forms.”
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Earlier Monday, Carney was repeatedly asked by reporters about Ma’s comments.
“Mr. Ma has apologized for his comments, as he should have,” Carney said.
“He’s recognized the seriousness of the issue in that apology.”
Ma joined the Liberal caucus in December, one of three MPs to leave Poilievre’s Conservatives to join Carney’s team since November.
The Markham-Unionville MP accompanied Carney on his trade mission to Beijing in January, shortly after joining the Liberal caucus.
At Monday’s fundraiser, Carney boasted about his Liberal party attracting floor crossers like Ma not only from Poilievre’s Conservatives, but also from the federal New Democrats and the Ontario NDP.
“The Liberal party is a big tent, and it’s getting bigger,” Carney said in video reviewed by Global News.
Carney has put an emphasis on diversifying Canadian trade away from the United States under President Donald Trump, whose unprovoked tariff war has led to a year of chaos for Canadian businesses heavily dependent on American trade.
That includes thawing relations with China and other economically important but dubiously reliable partners. Canada-China affairs have been frosty in recent years, after Beijing detained Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor on national security grounds — largely perceived as retaliation after Ottawa arrested Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. warrant.
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The prime minister’s January trip to Beijing was successful in reducing Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola and agricultural exports, and Carney agreed to let a limited number of Chinese electric vehicles into the Canadian market.
Carney was pressed on the Uyghurs’ situation at a press conference on Tuesday, and whether he believes — as the House of Commons unanimously agreed in 2021 — that it constitutes a “genocide.”
“There are serious issues that remain,” Carney said.
“That is why I’ve raised human rights issues with my Chinese counterparts in our engagements, and it’s why it’s essential in our dealings with China, in commercial dealings with China, that we have transparency in terms of where goods come from, the treatment of those workers, and that they fully meet our standards in terms of child labour, slave labour, human rights.”
Carney’s comments came as Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne departed for a five-day visit to China to meet with government and business leaders. Champagne’s office said the trip was an effort to “build strategic partnerships” and drum up investment “as part of Canada’s broader diversification imperative.”
In a statement, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said that Ma will be “moving forward” focusing on the government’s priorities, including addressing affordability issues, public safety and housing.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has said he is “absolutely not” considering proroguing Parliament if he were to secure a majority government.
“Absolutely not. It has never even entered my thinking, the possibility of that, so I couldn’t have been more surprised to see [the] suggestion that … was under consideration,” he said at an announcement in Wakefield, Que., surrounding the protection of land and waters on Tuesday.
“We are absolutely focused on working with Parliament, getting legislation through Parliament, adjusting legislation where it needs to be, where it’s better informed by discussions in Parliament, where we have to make compromise in order to do it. And we’ve shown that. We’ve shown that consistently.”
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The Globe and Mail had reported earlier Tuesday morning, citing sources, that Carney was considering proroguing Parliament if the results of three byelections on April 13 push him into a sought-after majority government.
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While a majority would give the Liberals enough votes to control the passing of legislation in the House of Commons, the membership of House of Commons committees doesn’t automatically reset and adjust to reflect a byelection.
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That means even with a majority, the Liberals could still face challenges with being outvoted or stalled by opposition members on some committees that study proposed legislation.
Prorogation ends a session of Parliament, kills any legislation currently in progress, and would require a new speech from the throne to restart a parliamentary session, including the re-establishment and re-appointing of MPs to committees.
Last month, MP Matt Jeneroux crossed the floor to the Liberals from the Conservatives, which was followed by Lori Idlout leaving the NDP on March 10. Two other former Conservatives, Michael Ma and Chris D’Entremont, crossed the floor late last year.
Carney currently needs three more seats to officially achieve a majority government.
Gilbert Rozon, the founder of Just for Laughs, has been ordered to pay a total of more than $880,000 to eight of the nine women who had accused him of sexual assault and misconduct.
Quebec Superior Court Justice Chantal Tremblay awarded the damages in a written decision released today.
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Rozon had been sued for a total of nearly $14 million in civil court for incidents that occurred between 1980 and 2004, during a period when he founded the international comedy festival.
He had denied the allegations and said that the women had formed a coalition against him with the aim of getting rich.
Rozon stepped down from Just for Laughs in 2017 and later sold the company.
The women who had sued Rozon are scheduled to speak with reporters later today.
Hours after announced its , reaction poured in from politicians, the public and on social media, including from billionaire Elon Musk.
The announcement about Michael Rousseau came after days of calls for him to resign amid controversy over his English-only video condolence following a deadly Air Canada crash at LaGuardia Airport that killed the pilots, one of whom was from Quebec.
The company said in a statement that its board had a “longstanding focus” on CEO succession planning. It added an external global search started in January 2026 to identify potential candidates to lead the airline.
But while Rousseau’s announced retirement was welcomed by political leaders, Musk took to the social media platform he owns to call the departure “crazy.”
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“That’s crazy,” Musk wrote in reply to a post on X about the retirement. “Moreover, it is not not reciprocal at all. There are many one-sided laws in Canada that mandate French at the expense of English. Extremely hypocritical and unfair!”
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Musk’s post was accompanied by a screengrab showing Grok, the AI chatbot, being asked, presumably by the X owner, to list all French mandate laws in Canada and how it’s “hypocritical” compared to no English mandate laws.
Grok notes Quebec’s Charter of the French language and, more recently, Bill 96, which includes requiring French to be used in government communications and to be “markedly predominant” on store signs.
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The AI chatbot also noted the Canadian government’s legislation that guarantees the right to be served and to work in French in businesses under federal jurisdiction in Quebec.
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The federal government’s bill was focused on strengthening protections around the French language and recognizing it as the only official language in Canada that is under threat and thus must be protected in federal workplaces.
Quebec’s laws have drawn the ire of people in the past, including the U.S., which last year listed Premier Francois Legault’s French-language reform as a barrier to trade. The U.S. reasoning focuses on the requirement by Quebec on companies to translate into French any part of their trademark on product packaging that contains generic terms or descriptions of items.
The province stressed at the time it wouldn’t be softening its language laws despite the U.S. criticism.
Following Rousseau’s video last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney was one of the first to criticize it, saying he was “very disappointed.”
“It doesn’t matter the circumstances but particularly in these circumstances: a lack of judgment and a lack of compassion,” Carney told reporters last Thursday.
“We live in a bilingual country. Companies like Air Canada, particularly, have a responsibility to always communicate in both official languages, regardless of the situation.”
Quebec’s legislative assembly also voted unanimously, with one abstention, demanding Rousseau resign.
Rousseau has previously apologized for being unable to express himself adequately in French.
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— With files from Global News’ Adriana Fallico and Sean Boynton, and The Canadian Press
Police on Vancouver Island say a youth who lives in Sooke, B.C., has been charged after allegedly making threats about a school shooting in online chats with a 15-year-old in the United States.
Sooke RCMP said in a statement Monday that the investigation was spurred after police in Louisville, Ky., made contact earlier this month about a 15-year-old there who had been communicating with “someone from Canada” over the gaming platform Discord.
Mounties said the B.C. youth is a student at Edward Milne Community School, and the arrest was made on Saturday.
Police said they searched the youth’s home and seized electronic devices and the investigation is ongoing.
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They said the homeland security unit of the Louisville Metro Police Department started investigating the alleged threats in July 2025.
RCMP said the Canadian youth is in custody before a bail hearing, and the case is subject to court-ordered publication bans.
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The charges come after a spate of threats against schools in B.C. this year and the deadly school shooting in Tumbler Ridge last month.
Burnaby RCMP said this month that two threats were made against Burnaby North Secondary School within a week, prompting lockdowns.
Campbell River RCMP said this month that “a series of online threats” escalated between a group of youths, and rumours “took off like wildfire” on social media about shootings at two schools in the city, but there was “no credible threat” to staff or students at the schools.
Elk Valley RCMP in southeastern B.C. also responded to online threats against a school in February, but they were found to have been made by a man well known to police there who was more than 1,000 kilometres away at the time.
Coquitlam RCMP also reported a series of threats against schools in February, but they found no evidence that the threats were credible.
“We understand the frustration and concern that the public may feel in response to these incidents,” Coquitlam RCMP spokeswoman Sgt. Adriana O’Malley said at the time. “However, we want to remind the public that these incidents are designed to create fear and gain publicity. Publicly circulating or amplifying unverified information can contribute to further disruptions.”
Alberta’s government is calling on Ottawa to change the Constitution to give provinces more of a say in how judges are appointed at the provincial level.
It comes after Premier Danielle Smith and the premiers of Ontario, Saskatchewan and Quebec wrote a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney last week saying they would like to see only judges who are approved and recommended by their governments be appointed.
That request was quickly brushed aside by federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser, and Alberta’s government says it now needs to up the ante.
Smith and Justice Minister Mickey Amery told reporters Monday that the government will pass a motion in the Alberta legislature later this week calling for the necessary changes to the Constitution to have their call put into place. They’re hoping other provinces, Parliament and the Senate will do the same.
Quebec had passed its own motion nearly a year ago, and Smith and Amery said their motion would be identical.
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“Thus far we’ve not had the progress that we were hoping for, especially through the sort of diplomatic routes,” Amery said of why the government was now formally calling for an amendment to the Constitution.
“We’re now looking for some more meaningful and consequential changes through the motion, and hopefully through the support of the Parliament.”
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The Constitution currently states Ottawa alone has the right to appoint provincial superior and appeal court judges. Changing it could be done in a couple of ways, such as approval in the House of Commons, the Senate and by at least seven provinces whose combined population represents more than half of all provinces combined.
Another option is constitutional changes that affect one or more, but not all, provinces.
The judicial appointment process put forward by the premiers has been criticized as a way to politicize the courts, but Smith says it’s important for provinces to have a say in how justice gets delivered.
“It’s time for Alberta to have a real voice in selecting the judges who serve Albertans,” she said.
Smith also reiterated her argument Monday that Canada is an outlier compared to some other countries, including the U.S. and Australia, where state- or provincial-level judges are appointed by state or provincial governments.
“Addressing this gap will strengthen public confidence in the justice system and ensure provinces have a meaningful voice in appointments that shape how justice is delivered in their communities,” Smith said Monday.
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Bianca Kratt, the president of the Canadian Bar Association, which represents more than 40,000 lawyers, judges and other legal professions, said in her own letter to Carney last week that comparing Canada to the U.S., for example, wasn’t applicable.
She said the justice system in each country works according to the respective constitutional framework and in Canada provincial judges have the authority to strike down federal law, whereas state-level judges are largely limited to state matters.
Opposition NDP critic Irfan Sabir told reporters Monday that Smith had “no credibility” when it came to upholding the justice system, noting various instances where she has criticized judges as being “activists” or called them “unelected judges.”
“Here we are supposed to trust them that they will do something that will strengthen our judiciary? No, this government cannot be trusted,” Sabir said.
“They just find every opportunity that they can (to) pick some needless fight with the federal government.”
Smith had sent another letter to Carney earlier this year asking for judicial reform, and threatened to withhold some court funding should Ottawa ignore the call. Amery said the threat wasn’t off the table but that normal funding had been maintained for the new fiscal year.
The first proposal, which was also quickly dismissed by Fraser, would see a new type of committee be struck to assess potential judicial appointees in Alberta. It would feature an equal number of provincial and federal representatives, Smith had said.
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The existing seven-person committee that assesses applications from lawyers to be appointed provincial court judges and makes recommendations to Ottawa features one representative from the provincial government and three from the federal government.
It also includes appointees from Alberta’s chief justice, the provincial law society and the Canadian Bar Association’s Alberta chapter.
Similar committees exist for every province and territory.
Ottawa is temporarily allowing the return of the rodent poison strychnine in Alberta and Saskatchewan as those provinces grapple with gopher infestations.
A statement from the federal ministers of health and agriculture says allowing its use will help farmers address damage caused by Richardson’s ground squirrels.
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The federal government banned strychnine in 2024 as it posed risks to other wildlife that consume poisoned carcasses.
The Prairie provinces have recently pushed Health Canada to reconsider, arguing gophers are threatening crops and causing millions of dollars’ worth of damage.
Health Canada initially rejected the proposal, but reversed course Monday after the provinces submitted a revised emergency-use request that included measures to lower environmental risks.
The ministers say the federal authorization will be in place until November 2027.
If Italy is going to qualify for its first World Cup in 12 years, the Azzurri’s defenders are going to have to contain a striker they respect and know well.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s 40-year-old forward Edin Dzeko has been a club teammate of all three of Italy’s starting defenders.
Dzeko played with Gianluca Mancini and Riccardo Calafiori while he was at Roma from 2015-21. Having then moved to Inter Milan, Dzeko teamed with Alessandro Bastoni on the squad that reached the 2023 Champions League final.
Italy and Inter winger Federico Dimarco contacted Dzeko to congratulate him after Bosnia beat Wales in a penalty shootout last week to set up Tuesday’s playoff final against the four-time World Cup champion.
Dzeko’s headed equalizer in the second half against Wales was his 73rd international goal. At 6-foot-4 (1.93 meters), Dzeko excels in the air — where Italy’s defenders often struggle.
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“Edin is a great player and a great person,” Dimarco said. “I saw him on vacation over the summer and I’ve maintained a nice relationship with him.”
Dimarco will have to momentarily set aside the relationship, though, with Italy desperate to avoid missing out on a third consecutive World Cup.
Italy was eliminated by Sweden and North Macedonia, respectively, in qualifying playoffs for the last two World Cups.
In last week’s European playoff semifinals, Italy beat Northern Ireland 2-0. Bosnia beat Wales in a penalty shootout, setting up Tuesday’s qualifying final; the winner will play Canada in Toronto on June 12.
Tuesdays’ other playoff finals are: Sweden vs. Poland; Turkey vs. Kosovo; and Denmark vs. the Czech Republic.
Bosnia has chosen to host the playoff in the 14,000-seat Bilino Polje Stadium in Zenica, which is surrounded by apartment towers overlooking the field.
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The stadium’s capacity will be reduced by 20 per cent following punishment from FIFA for discriminatory and racist abuse by fans during Bosnia’s game against Romania in November.
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Italy is concerned over the status of the stadium’s pitch after a recent snowfall in Bosnia.
“We’re expecting a difficult atmosphere,” Dimarco said. “But if we’re able to remain in the right frame of mind for 95 minutes, I think we can get the result.”
Added Italy coach Gennaro Gattuso: “If it’s in rough shape then it’s rough for them, too. It’s a weakness to look for alibis. I think the pitch suffices. What matters is our mental approach and attitude.”
Bosnia has seized upon video footage of Italy’s players celebrating after seeing the victory over Wales — as if they considered Bosnia an easier opponent than Wales.
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“It was an instinctive reaction,” Dimarco said. “I certainly did not disrespect either Bosnia or Bosnians.”
The referee for the match in Bosnia will be Clement Turpin of France, who was also in charge when Italy was beaten at home by North Macedonia 1-0 in the playoff semifinals four years ago.
“We all have our preferences. Mine was not to play against Italy,” Dzeko said on Monday. “If they’re afraid of playing in Wales, there’s something wrong. Maybe they’ll struggle a lot with this match, too, because they’re playing to make up for the two World Cups they missed. It means they’re afraid.”
Dimarco has been a consistent force on the left wing for Serie A leader Inter this season with six goals and 15 assists.
The only World Cup he’s played in was the under-20 version in 2017 when Italy finished third with Dimarco scoring in the quarterfinals.
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“I’ve always said that goals and assists don’t interest me unless they help the team achieve results,” Dimarco said.
Italy’s attack got a boost in the second half against Northern Ireland when Pio Esposito replaced Mateo Retegui. Now the 20-year-old Esposito could start in Retegui’s place alongside Moise Kean in Bosnia.
Dimarco also plays with Esposito at Inter.
“He’s a special kid,” Dimarco said. “He’s mature for his age and always gives 100 per cent — both in matches and in training. … He just needs to be left alone and we shouldn’t put too much pressure on him.”
The pressure is on Italy since an entire generation — basically anyone under 15 — has no memory of the last time the Azzurri played in the World Cup. An elimination loss to Uruguay in 2014 in Brazil is mostly remembered for Luis Suarez’s bite of Giorgio Chiellini’s shoulder.
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Just ask right winger Matteo Politano, who has won two Italian league titles at Napoli but at 32 has still never played in a World Cup.
“We all know what we’re playing for,” Politano said. “For me, and for a few of the other senior players, it’s probably our last chance.”
Two Canadian astronauts are set to play important roles in getting NASA back to the moon if all goes well this week.
Jeremy Hansen and Jenni Gibbons are members of the Artemis II mission, a 10-day lunar fly-around and the first crewed mission to the moon since the Apollo missions more than 50 years ago.
Hansen, 50, of London, Ont., will serve as the mission specialist and become the first non-American to travel beyond low Earth orbit. He will be joined by veteran NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch aboard the Orion spacecraft.
Gibbons, 37, of Calgary, Alta., will serve as Hansen’s backup in the unlikely event he can’t fly; she has gone through years of the same training as those on the rocket and during the mission Gibbons will serve as a voice link to space from Earth.
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NASA has targeted an April 1 launch for Artemis II, with a six-day launch window running through April 6.
Here is what you need to know about Hansen and Gibbons:
Hansen is a former fighter pilot
Hansen’s journey into aviation began at the age of 12 when he joined the 614 Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron in London, his biography on the Canadian Space Agency’s website reads.
Artemis II crew member mission specialist Jeremy Hansen, of Canada, gestures while speaking to the media after the crew arrived at the Kennedy Space Center, March 27, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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He eventually earned his pilot licenses and wings and graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ont., in 1999.
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Between 2004 and 2009, Hansen served as a CF-18 fighter pilot with the 441 Tactical Fighter Squadron and the 409 Tactical Fighter Squadron, as well as the combat operations officer at 4 Wing Operations, where his responsibilities included effectiveness of NORAD operations, deployed exercises and Arctic flying operations.
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Hansen, who achieved the rank of colonel, was recruited into the Canadian Space Agency in 2009; he graduated from astronaut candidate training in 2011, and six years later, he became the first Canadian to lead a NASA training astronaut class.
Jeremy Hansen poised to make lunar history for Canada with upcoming Artemis Mission
Three years ago, he was assigned to Artemis II as a mission specialist; the objective of the mission is to test Orion’s systems, perform various science and operational tasks, conduct a lunar flyby and take photos of the moon’s surface before returning to Earth.
While the commander and pilot will take care of the launch and landing operations, the whole crew will split all the other operations, the Canadian Space Agency said.
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Gibbons has a background in engineering
A decade ago, Gibbons was working as an assistant professor in internal combustion engines at the University of Cambridge. She was recruited into the Canadian Space Agency just a year later and graduated in 2020.
Canadian Space Agency astronaut and NASA Artemis II backup crew member, Jenni Gibbons, speaks to the press during an Artemis media event in the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Dec. 16, 2024.
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That same year, she managed the Mission Control Capcom Console as International Space Station Lead Capcom and supported the on-orbit crew and their families during Expedition 63, the Canadian Space Agency said.
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In 2022, she was assigned to mentor the 2021 astronaut class through their spacewalk training and was named Hansen’s backup on Artemis II a year later.
During the mission, Gibbons will be part of a team coaching Hansen and the other astronauts on key mission objectives.
The Canadian Space Agency added Gibbons will be a key contributor to defining and validating crew training requirements and processes for future moon missions. Gibbons will also train to act as a capcom (capsule communicator) to support future missions to the moon and as an astronaut support person, who buckles the crew into Orion and prepares them for launch.
Calgary astronaut to train for Artemis II mission to the moon
Once the Artemis II mission is complete, Artemis III will test rendezvous and docking capabilities between Orion and commercial spacecraft needed to land astronauts on the moon.
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NASA is scheduled to announce specifics on the Artemis III mission design and crew closer to launch in 2027; it plans on returning humans to the lunar surface in early 2028 as part of Artemis IV.
