A referendum on whether Alberta should separate from Canada “can have an effect” on investor confidence in the province, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Friday.

Carney was in Nova Scotia, speaking to the Halifax Chamber of Commerce. When asked whether he thought an Alberta referendum could impact investor confidence, Carney said, “It can, yeah. It can have an effect.”

Ottawa will continue working with Alberta on energy co-operation, he added.

“Our strategy with Alberta has been to go right to the heart of the issue, which is the pipeline. But what else comes with the pipeline pathways? An actual carbon market that works in Alberta,” he said, adding that Canada would also seek to build more nuclear power infrastructure in the province.

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“Having everything on the table, rolling up your sleeves, working on it — that’s the way to address it. Showing that the federation works, and it has benefit. It has a huge immediate payoff if we get it right,” he said.

“We’re making good progress with Alberta. There’s more to be done, but we’re making very good progress.”

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Carney says potential Pacific oil pipeline would be ‘twin with the pathways project’

In November 2025, the federal government and Alberta signed a memorandum of understanding that commits them to working toward building an oil pipeline to the West Coast.

The two governments agreed to terms that commit Ottawa to adjusting the West Coast tanker ban if a pipeline project is approved as a project of national interest under the Building Canada Act and provides “opportunities for Indigenous co-ownership and shared economic benefits.”

Last month, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said immigration levels are overwhelming the province’s core social services and announced that a referendum will take place this year, asking residents to weigh in on nine questions addressing both that and possible changes to Canada’s Constitution.

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A trial date has been set for an Ontario man facing 12 charges in connection with a fatal May long weekend boat crash two years ago.

Riley Orr, Juliette Cote and Kaila Bearman died on May 18, 2024, after a speedboat collided with a fishing boat on Bobs Lake, which is just north of Kingston.

The collision occurred just after 9:30 p.m. that day. Orr, Cote and Bearman, who were all between the ages of 21 and 23, died at the scene. Five other people, ranging in age from 21 to 44, were injured and taken to hospital.

Recordings of emergency dispatches posted online shortly after the crash revealed a chaotic scene as paramedics, police, and firefighters raced to the area.

“OPP and ambulance are reporting two boats have crashed. They can hear people screaming for help,” a dispatcher from South Frontenac Fire and Rescue said around 9:45 p.m. May 18.

Around 10:10 p.m., first responders found most of the crash victims wedged together on the boats next to a concrete dock near a few cottages.

Two people were without vital signs, while another was in and out of consciousness, a firefighter told dispatch.

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Deadly boat collision near Kingston, Ont., leaves 3 dead, 5 injured over long weekend

The crash occurred on a narrow channel that connects Bobs Lake and Buck Bay. Area resident Tony Hammond told Global News at the time that he saw a group of young people listening to music on board a boat, which wasn’t far from its dock, when he heard another boat approaching.

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Everything happened so fast that he said he did not have time to react.

“I was just hoping not to hear the crunch, and then I heard the crunch,” he said.

“Before any of the actual first responders [arrived], everyone was doing what they could. There’s no way to describe it, except that anyone who ever hears it knows that sound is go time.”

Five months after the collision, Ontario Provincial Police arrested and charged Matthew Splinter of South Frontenac Township.

He was charged with three counts each of dangerous operation of a conveyance causing death, dangerous operation of a conveyance causing bodily harm, impaired operation causing death and impaired operation causing bodily harm.

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2nd man facing charges in deadly Ontario boat crash

Another South Frontenac Township man was also charged under the Canada Shipping Act with failing to exhibit a stern light on a power-driven vessel underway, failing to exhibit sidelights on a power-driven vessel underway and operating a non-human-powered pleasure craft without a personal flotation device or life-jacket of appropriate size for each person on board.

The OPP did not release his identity when it announced the charges.

Det. Insp. Marty McConnell told reporters on Oct. 30, 2024 that investigations like these are “very complex.”

“They require a great deal of resources, and tragically, three lives were lost that day and serious injuries,” he said.

“With the resources involved in this, I wanted to ensure that a fulsome and fair investigation was brought forward to the courts.”

He also thanked the community for their actions that night.

“So many local residents and cottagers ran to assist the victims after the collision and offered support afterwards,” he said.

“I also want to thank those that came forward to share information and assist our investigators.”

Splinter’s trial is scheduled to begin on April 5, 2027.

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Italy finally won a match in the World Cup playoffs. Now the four-time champion needs to win one more to avoid failing to qualify for a third straight time.

The Azzurri beat Northern Ireland 2-0 in the European semifinals on Thursday.

Sandro Tonali broke the deadlock with a half-volley early in the second half for Italy at home in Bergamo and then set up another goal for Moise Kean.

“After taking the lead, we cleared our minds,” Italy coach Gennaro Gattuso said. “We put in a good performance. This should be a confidence boost for Tuesday. … We have to win. We have no other choice.”

Also advancing to the playoff finals scheduled for Tuesday were Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sweden, Poland, Turkey, Kosovo, Denmark and the Czech Republic.

Italy next visits Bosnia and Herzegovina needing another victory to reach the upcoming tournament in North America and avoid going at least 16 years without even playing a match at soccer’s biggest event.

The winner of that match will open their World Cup on June 12th against Canada in Toronto.

Bosnia beat Wales, and the Czech Republic beat Ireland in penalty shootouts.

The other finals matchups are: Sweden vs. Poland; Turkey vs. Kosovo; and Denmark vs. the Czech Republic.

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Italy was eliminated by Sweden over two winless legs in the playoffs for the 2018 World Cup then was stunned by North Macedonia in the semifinal round in 2022.

Italy’s World Cup struggles go back all the way to 2010 and 2014, having failed to advance from its group on both occasions.

The Azzurri’s last World Cup knockout match was when they won the title in 2006 by beating France in a penalty shootout.

Italy produced seven shots on goal while Northern Ireland had none.

For the second goal, Tonali’s cross-field pass set up Kean, who made an expert control and finish.

“We didn’t have many moments of quality, but we did well to make the most of them when we did,” Tonali said. “We focused on not giving them their strengths and were concentrated on the set plays, so when we do that, it’s unlikely we’ll concede to this kind of team.

“We’ve been feeling positive since the coach arrived, we’ve got to continue like this, there’s no other option but to win,” Tonali said of Gattuso, who replaced the fired Luciano Spalletti in June.

Gyökeres scores three for Sweden

Viktor Gyökeres hit a hat trick to send Sweden past Ukraine 3-1 despite not having scored for his country since 2024. Until Thursday, Gyökeres was scoreless and Sweden winless in a miserable qualifying group campaign.

The game was played in Spain because Ukraine hasn’t hosted international games since the Russian invasion of 2022.

Sweden will face Poland after 37-year-old Robert Lewandowski scored a crucial header in a 2-1 win over Albania, keeping alive the Barcelona striker’s bid to reach a third World Cup.

Albania took the lead through Arber Hoxha just before halftime after a defensive blunder by Poland. Lewandowski’s header at a corner got his team back into the game before Piotr Zielinski’s goal put Poland in front.

Kosovo is a game away from its first-ever World Cup after twice recovering from a goal down to upset Slovakia 4-3. That sets up a playoff with Turkey for a World Cup spot, with the winner taking on Australia in Vancouver on June 14.

Gustav Isaksen scored twice in two minutes in a Denmark’s 4-0 win over North Macedonia.

Lucescu’s Romania eliminated

In an early match, Turkey beat Romania 1-0 and will face either Slovakia or Kosovo for a spot at its first World Cup since a third-place run in 2002.

Turkey took the lead shortly after the break when Ferdi Kadioglu was set up in front of the goal with a long, accurate pass from Arda Guler, a 21-year-old winger for Real Madrid who could become one of the World Cup’s younger standouts.

Vincenzo Montella’s Turkey squad reached the quarterfinals of the 2024 European Championship.

Romania’s elimination means that 80-year-old Mircea Lucescu won’t get a chance to coach at the World Cup for the first time. Lucescu captained Romania at the 1970 World Cup. He previously coached Turkey.

Nicolae Stanciu hit the post for Romania in the second half in Istanbul.

“We knew it would be a tough match. Lucescu knows us well and prepared accordingly,” Turkey captain Hakan Calhanoglu said. “In the first half, we could have made better runs in behind. In the second half, Ferdi scored with a ball in behind. … From then, it was ours.”

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A Holocaust survivor and educator says Montreal’s Vanier College failed in its responsibility to students after cancelling a planned Holocaust commemoration event this week over security concerns.

Eva Kuper, a volunteer with the Montreal Holocaust Museum and a retired educator who has taught early childhood education at Concordia University, said she was scheduled to speak at the event Wednesday before it was called off less than a week in advance.

“I was scheduled to participate and speak at a commemoration of the Shoah, the Holocaust,” Kuper told Global News in an interview.

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“It was very disappointing that Vanier decided to cancel the commemoration in fear, I was told, of demonstrations and problems with agitators outside the college.”

Vanier College said in a statement Wednesday that its 34th Symposium on the Holocaust and Genocide is continuing as planned, but the commemorative event was postponed.

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“While the College was not the target of a specific threat, in light of the current geopolitical context and information provided by our security team, we elected to review the event’s scheduling and format to err on the side of caution,” the statement said.

Kuper said the decision was based on fear rather than principle.

“When fear rules your decisions rather than conviction of what is right, that’s dangerous,” she said. “I think that it was cowardly.”

She said educational institutions have a duty to foster understanding and remembrance, particularly at a time of rising tensions.

“We live in a very fractured world now, and I think that we have to remember our history,” Kuper said. “I think that an educational institution such as Vanier has an obligation to educate their students and help them see each other as human beings.”

Kuper, who was born in 1940 and hidden as a child in Poland during the Second World War, said she survived with the help of non-Jewish rescuers and later immigrated to Canada in 1948.

She said her planned talk would have focused on responsibility and the importance of education.

“My talk was really going to be about our responsibilities as human beings, about the importance of remembrance, and how if education is the only tool, are we using it to the best of its possibilities,” she said over Zoom.

The Jewish Community Council of Montreal sharply criticized the college’s decision, calling it “a disgraceful act of capitulation.”

“When a Holocaust commemoration is deemed a ‘security risk,’ that is not a reason to cancel the event, it is proof that something has gone deeply wrong,” the organization said in its statement.

The group also pointed to the significance of survivor testimony.

“One of the last living witnesses to history was ready to share her testimony, and an institution of higher learning decided that it was safer to cancel her than to stand behind her. Cowardice.”

Kuper said the timing makes such events even more critical.

“If we don’t learn from our history, then we’re condemned to repeat it and we’re well on the way to repetition,” she said.

She added she hopes the college reconsiders in the future.

“I would hope that Vanier reconsiders this decision, if not for this year, then for next year, and allow students to learn from it.”

She said the Montreal Holocaust Museum is offering free admission to Vanier students in the coming weeks as a gesture of goodwill.

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An MP who left the Conservatives to join the Liberals is casting doubt on reports of human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region.
MP Michael Ma asked an expert during a parliamentary committee hearing Thursday whether she’d seen forced labour with her own eyes.

“Have you witnessed forced labour in Xinjiang? Have you witnessed forced labour? Just a short answer — have you witnessed forced labour in Xinjiang, yes or no?” Ma said while questioning Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a senior fellow at the University of Ottawa.”So did you get that from hearsay?” he added.

Ma crossed the floor to the Liberals in December and joined Prime Minister Mark Carney’s caucus and his official trip to Beijing in January.

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The House industry committee is examining a decision Carney made during that trip to lower Canadian restrictions on Chinese electric vehicles and clear some of those cars for sale in Canada.

McCuaig-Johnston told the committee Thursday that Chinese vehicles are made with products that come from slave labour performed by members of the Uyghur minority.
Ma’s suggestion that reports of forced labour in Xinjiang amounted to “hearsay” prompted outrage from Conservatives on the committee, one of whom apologized on Ma’s behalf. Ma, in turn, demanded an apology from the MP who offered the apology.

Ma told the committee he had asked “very legitimate questions” and had not expressed an opinion.”I had made no assertion of either support or deny it — I just asked whether she had witnessed it,” Ma said.

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Tory MP Michael Guglielmin moved a motion at the committee to condemn forced labour practices in China. “It’s just unclear if MP Ma’s remarks are at odds with the Liberal party’s position and the government’s position, or if he’s soft-launching for the prime minister’s new position on the Communist Party of China and their permissive view on enslavement,” Guglielmin said.

The Prime Minister’s Office did not immediately respond when asked whether Ottawa no longer believes Beijing uses slave labour in Xinjiang.

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The meeting was almost entirely consumed by debate about Ma’s questions and MPs from all parties lamented the fact that they had to dismiss the witnesses to debate the committee’s own behaviour.
McCuaig-Johnston, who is a former senior public servant, told The Canadian Press in an interview she was “kind of dumbfounded” by Ma’s line of questioning, but is glad the issue is getting more attention. “I looked around the committee as if to say, ‘Is he kidding?’ Because no Westerner can go to China and see forced labour. They would never let you anywhere close to that,” she said.

She said Ma seemed to be employing a tactic meant to downplay the issue of forced labour. “Certainly he was trying to undermine my credibility,” she said. “I think he failed at that.” McCuaig-Johnston said after the meeting wrapped, she offered Ma her copy of the Human Rights Watch report on forced labour. “And he said, ‘I don’t believe in reports, I only believe in things that I can see with my own eyes,’” she said, adding that Ma suggested the two of them could take a trip to China to see if there is forced labour in Xinjiang. She noted that she has been sanctioned by China and will not travel to the country.

Ma later apologized in a statement saying his line of questioning was meant to refer to auto manufacturing in a different part of China. “I regret this mistake and apologise to Ms. McCuaig-Johnston and my fellow committee members,” said the statement. “Canada has amongst the most rigorous forced-labour import laws in the world, and I am proud to support the government’s work to eradicate forced labour from supply chains and enforce Canada’s import prohibition.”

Asked about the episode during question period Thursday, MP Yasir Naqvi did not mention Xinjiang or China but said the government sees forced labour as “unacceptable.”

The United Nations reported in 2022 that China had committed serious human rights violations in its Xinjiang against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities that “may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.”

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A report issued that same year by Global Affairs Canada found China “is using otherwise legitimate programs for retraining and relocation of unemployed workers as instruments of a broader campaign of oppression, exploitation and indoctrination of the Uyghur Muslim population into Han (majority) Chinese culture.”

Beijing vehemently disputes those claims, arguing it has addressed terrorism threats while offering economic opportunities to minority populations.

Canada has repeatedly rejected Beijing’s framing. A June 2021 government response to a committee report decried “the mass, arbitrary detention of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in internment camps” in Xinjiang.

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Is China still Canada’s ‘biggest security threat’ after historic Carney-Xi meeting?

On Monday, Carney’s office said public servants “submitted in error” a report to Parliament that suggested Carney did not raise human rights with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his January visit to Beijing.

The Privy Council Office, which serves the prime minister, wrote this month that “human rights and foreign interference were not brought up proactively” by Carney when he met with Xi. His office later said a corrected document has been sent to Parliament.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 26, 2026.
— With files from Sarah Ritchie & Global News

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The Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) is taking another step towards establishing its own police force.

After months of public engagement, the tribal council is sharing a $1.4 million First Nations policing feasibility study funded by both the federal and provincial governments back in 2024.

The study lays out different policing models, risks and strategies of implementing an independent police force aimed at providing safety in a more community-driven way.

There are several benefits that an alternative policing model offers, said PAGC Vice Chief Joseph Tsannie.

“Language barriers, being able to relate to the situation, and de-escalating — I think those are some of the big things for me,” he said.

The feasibility study was passed by chiefs at a grand council meeting in February, acknowledging, accepting and endorsing it before sharing it with community partners.

Leaders of remote First Nations communities say it would offer services more promptly than the current RCMP policing model.

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“It takes a while to connect to the RCMP because you have to phone the main office in Regina, it’s not a local number,” said Clarisse Lecoq, councillor at Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation.

“By the time they reach that certain crime, it’s too late, or nothing happens.”

For Chief Bart Tasnnie of Hatchet Lake Denesuline First Nation, First Nations policing is about bolstering trust in policing services, as many in his community currently turn to him and other councillors rather than police when in need.

“A lot of times they should have called the RCMP, but instead they are calling us,” he said. “It’s hard to deal with what’s happening in the community.”

Despite the benefits, the study says a self-administered policing model requires significant time, resources and leadership commitments.

In its latest budget, the province is setting aside $26 million for First Nations policing.

In a statement to Global News, the Ministry of Community Safety says this funding is a 9.7 per cent increase from last year and includes funding for the First Nations Community Safety Officer initiative, which is appointed as a constable under The Police Act, allowing them to enforce provincial laws and respond to other low-risk safety calls.

“The funding commitment in 2026-27 will serve to strengthen and expand the program in existing and new First Nations,” the statement said.

But PGAC Chief Brian Hardlotte says he is looking to the provincial government for more support than that laid out in this year’s budget.

“I also say to the provincial government in a good way, a respectful way, if you can change the police act and include a marshal service in there, why can’t you include Indigenous policing?” said Hardlotte.

Consultation with communities on the police force will be an ongoing process, with a final decision to be made at PGAC’s annual assembly in October.

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News that two unhoused people died in 24 hours this week reduced Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferada to tears during a routine city announcement Thursday.

Asked by a reporter how she was feeling, she replied, “A day like today, a bit powerless.”

Ferada made the revelation during an announcement that the city will provide $412,000 to community organization l’Anonyme to help the unhoused living in the Notre-Dame Street encampments get off the streets.

City officials say the two men died at different shelters and were well known to community workers.

They had been living on the streets for years. Later in the day during an urban agglomeration council meeting, the mayor revealed the names of the two men: Serge and Valmont.

Benoit Langevin, Montreal city councillor and executive committee member responsible for social development and cohabitation, also expressed sorrow during the morning announcement.

The former outreach worker said he, too, feels frustrated.

“You feel powerless because you see the relationship you build with those people, with these neighbours,” he said, fighting back tears. “(Those feelings) always come back when these things happen.”

The two deaths weren’t the only recent losses in the homeless community. Workers who support the Indigenous unhoused community are also grieving this week.

“There is a person who I know personally for years who died just a few days ago and has been … in Cabot Square park,” David Chapman, head of Resilience Montreal, told Global News.

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That makes the number of unhoused people who died in Montreal in under a week at leaast three.

He added that the Indigenous woman who also passed away at a shelter — one that supports the Indigenous population — is just one of many from that group who died recently in Montreal.

According to him, “Just from (Resilience) alone, every two weeks somebody we know is dead and, obviously, it’s a lot to take for the staff. It’s traumatizing over time”

The number of deaths in Montreal’s Indigenous community is rising, a point he and Resilience staff made last November during a memorial to remember 32 of their clients who had died in less than two years.

“Twenty-six of the 32 were actually Indigenous,” Chapman stressed.

Most of the deaths he’s seeing are caused by drug overdoses at encampments.

The deaths at shelters announced by the mayor don’t come as a surprise to people like Sam Watts, Welcome Hall Mission CEO and executive director.

“I think in the ecosystem of care in Montreal it happens about once a month,” he noted, adding that it’s often for health reasons, because they don’t get the care they need.

“People who experience homelessness are often people who already are struggling with health concerns,” he observed.

Chapman acknowledges that there are programs being planned to help people on the streets, but insists that there has to be an official tally of the number of unhoused people dying in the province.

“Then perhaps we can begin to adapt our services accordingly,” he reasoned. “If we don’t know the number of unhoused deaths every year, with a certain degree of clarity, it’s going to be really difficult to calculate the sort of services that are needed.”

The mayor insists that all levels of government need to do more.

“We cry because we’re sad, but also because we’re mad,” she said through tears.  “We need to do better. All of us, all governments. We need to do better.”

Quebec Solidaire MNA Guillaume Cliche Rivard blames the CAQ government for not properly funding initiatives to fight homelessness.

“Quebec has the money,” he insisted, “and it’s a choice not to invest. We’ve been seeing that there is money for multiple other projects from the government.”

Those working with the unhoused say the deaths are a shame and are preventable.

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Families with young kids in Ardrossan are nervous after being told one of their daycares in the community east of Edmonton would be shutting down.

They’re now left wondering where their kids will go and why this is happening in the hamlet about seven kilometres east of Sherwood Park, in Strathcona County.

Where It’s at Country Daycare has welcomed hundreds of families, like Brianna Morris’, but that will soon be coming to an end.

“It’s a gut punch. I honestly can’t imagine sending them anywhere else,” Morris said.

“I don’t know what to do.”

Her kids, Hunter and Eden, have attended the daycare for years. Morris and her husband both have full-time jobs, and now have to find a new daycare before the end of the school year.

“We don’t know what’s going to happen. I don’t know what to do with my kids. I don’t have family here to look after them,” she said.

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Where It’s at Country Daycare opened in 2019 in a building on the grounds of Holy Redeemer Catholic School in Ardrossan.

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This winter, instead of their annual lease renewal, the daycare’s owner received a different message from their landlord, Elk Island Catholic Schools.

“On the 20th of March, I received a termination letter that says you have 90 days to be out of here,” said daycare owner Loraine Durocher.

“Needless to say, the panic set in.”

The daycare offers year-round services and outdoor programming. Around 30 families are currently registered and more are signed up.

“I have kids that are scheduled to start next week, I have kids scheduled for May, I have kids scheduled for September, I have kids scheduled for next September and the September after that,” Durocher said.

Where It’s at Country Daycare how has to turn everyone away.

The daycare and its families say despite asking why this is happening, they’ve heard nothing.

The situation is frustrating to Shannon Sawatzky. Her youngest daughter attends the daycare, and instead of going to school with the rest of her siblings, she’ll now have to go elsewhere.

“Now it means she’ll need to attend daycare in another community, go to school in another community, which is just something I’m really struggling with. That concept of having my kiddos, one in Fort Saskatchewan, while two are here. They’re all very excited that they’re going to be in school together,” said Sawatzky.

“It is really important that we keep this daycare running.

“We are a small community here, and it’s vital that our kids keep the comfort, the security for their well-being.”

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So why is the lease being terminated?

Global News reached out to Elk Island Catholic Schools for information and was told the division was “unable to provide a comment on the situation at this time as staff are currently on spring break.”

The daycare is asking families to stay optimistic for their kids, but they say it’s not easy.

“I need child care. So I’m really hoping the school will work with us to find a solution so that we can turn this around and my kids can keep coming to the place they love,” Morris said.

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The Prince Albert Raiders enter the playoffs this year, sitting comfortable at the top of the standings, having won 52 of the 68 games played in the regular season.

According to head coach Ryan McDonald, these victories are a result of dedication.

“Our guys have done a tremendous job with that day in, day out, managing pucks, making sure that you’re making the opposition come 200 feet, and capitalizing on your opportunities, and continuing to play that winning brand of hockey,” said McDonald.

Their opponent in the first round is the Red Deer Rebels. It’s not the first showdown between the two teams this season, with the two teams neck and neck.

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Two games won, two games lost. The Rebels are known for their strong forecheck, putting pressure on defence to perform. For captain Justice Christensen, it’s his last season on the blue line, and he intends to perform.

“Just get back to pucks quick, don’t give a lot of time to set up or get close to us when we’re going back for pucks, making sure we get to pucks quick, and trying not to take a lot of hits back there,” said Christensen.

The Raiders are eager to break the tie against the Rebels.

“We split the regular season with them, that’s alright. Not exactly how we wanted it, but that’s alright, we learned from those games we didn’t come out on top of. Heading into this series a lot of excitement, we know they’re a really good team and we cant take them lightly,” said Rebels defenceman Daxon Rudolph.

Although the Raiders are far ahead of the Rebels in the standings, their even record is still cause for concern. Coach McDonald says that they’re still going to have to bring their A-game.

“It’s sticking to our process, sticking to what has brought us success all season, and making sure we put a real premium on our starts,” said McDonald

The series is set to start in Prince Albert where the first two games will be played Friday and Saturday.

The Raiders will then hit the road to play Red Deer on March 31st.

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