Canadians across the country are in for a celestial treat starting overnight.

NASA says a total lunar eclipse will redden the moon Tuesday and will be visible across the country.

A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth passes between the sun and the moon. When that happens, a gigantic shadow is cast across the lunar surface, turning it into a “blood moon” due to its deep reddish-orange colour, NASA said in a post on its website.

The alignment can only occur during a full moon phase.

The show will unfold over several hours, with totality lasting about an hour.

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Compared with a solar eclipse, “the lunar eclipse is a little more of a relaxed pace,” Catherine Miller with Middlebury College’s Mittelman Observatory told The Associated Press.

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For those in the path, there’s no need for any special equipment to observe — just a clear, cloudless view of the sky.

NASA says the eclipse’s penumbral phase begins at 3:44 a.m. eastern (12:44 a.m. Pacific). Totality begins at 6:04 a.m. eastern (3:04 a.m. Pacific) and will last for an hour. The eclipse will dissipate by 9:23 a.m. eastern (6:23 a.m. Pacific).

A partial lunar eclipse is also set for August, and will be visible across the Americas, Europe, Africa and west Asia. Solar and lunar eclipses happen between four and seven times a year, NASA states.

The next total lunar eclipse is expected to occur in late 2028.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday in New Delhi, where the two leaders announced a series of agreements, including a strategic energy partnership.

The deals come as new allegations emerge about the Indian government’s involvement in the murder of a Canadian Sikh activist.

“There has been more engagement between the Canadian and Indian governments in the last year than there has been in than two decades combined,” Carney said in joint remarks with Modi.

“So this is not merely the renewal of a relationship. It is the expansion of a valued partnership with new ambition.”

The agreements announced by Carney and Modi Monday include a $2.6 billion agreement in which Saskatoon-based Cameco would supply just under 22 million pounds of uranium to India for nuclear energy generation, and two memorandums of understanding that cover topics including critical minerals and energy sources.

A government release says the visit also led to 10 commercial agreements worth more than $5.5 billion.

The Carney-Modi meetings — a bilateral with respective delegations followed by a 35-minute private one-on-one — ran long, leading to the cancellation of lunch meeting with additional staff and the delay of a joint announcement.

Then a news conference with Carney, the first time the prime minister was set to answer questions from the media since the trip began Thursday, was cancelled just before it was scheduled to begin.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu held a media scrum in Carney’s place.

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Carney’s government has been under pressure to clarify whether it believes India is still engaged in foreign interference. The Globe and Mail published a report late Sunday about the alleged role Indian consular staff played in the murder of a Canadian Sikh activist three years ago.

Hardeep Singh Nijjar, an advocate for an independent Sikh homeland and president of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara, was killed in Surrey, B.C., in June 2023.

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The Globe and Mail cited two anonymous sources who said consular staff in Vancouver provided information to help with the killing.

Anand said it would be “irresponsible” to speak directly about an active RCMP investigation while it is ongoing.

The foreign minister said that she raised broader issues of Indian foreign interference and transnational repression while meeting with officials from the Modi government.

“There is agreement between Canada and India to continue to ensure the safety and security of the Canadian population and we need to be at the table, we need to engage, we needs to have these diplomatic conversations in order to make progress of this sort,” Anand said.

“It’s extremely important to remember that diplomacy is not about retreating and hiving yourself off from having difficult conversations. It’s very much about ensuring that the written word is marking the path forward on national security.”

A news release suggested Carney had raised the issue of foreign interference, noting the prime minister had “underscored that Canada will continue to take measures to combat transnational repression.”

Anand repeatedly referred to that news release in response to multiple questions on the Nijjar investigation.

She also pointed to actions taken by the Canadian government including listing the Bishnoi Gang as a terrorist entity, working to pass bail reform legislation aimed at tackling a rise in extortion and the expulsion of Indian diplomats in 2024.

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Anand won’t say if feds believe India still engaged in foreign interference in Canada

During a background briefing with reporters before the trip to India, a senior government official said Canada is confident Indian foreign interference is not happening anymore.

The official said that Canada believed India was still interfering in its democracy, Carney would not be making this trip.

Anand said Canada remains focused on protecting Canadian citizens and national security.

“The words of the senior official are not words that I personally would use. I agree with his comments relating to the guardrails that we have in place,” she said.

Earlier in the trip, Carney first announced the two countries were working toward signing a comprehensive trade deal by the end of the year. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand also announced a new Canada-India strategy on talent and innovation, which includes 13 new partnerships between Canadian and Indian universities.

Carney landed in India on Friday, the first visit by a Canadian prime minister since diplomatic relations disintegrated two years ago, after then prime minister Justin Trudeau accused agents of the Indian government of being involved in Nijjar’s killing.

After the allegations around Nijjar’s death, the RCMP said there was evidence of a wider campaign of intimidation and violence.

Carney has set out to reset Canada’s relationship with India, inviting Modi to the G7 summit Canada hosted last year.

In his remarks, Modi said Carney was responsible for the improved relationship.

“I give the entire credit for this increasing momentum in every area of co-operation to my friend, prime minister Carney,” Modi said in remarks translated by the Indian government.

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The rate of young men contacting Ontario’s mental health helpline for gambling-related problems has increased by more than 300 per cent after the province allowed private online gambling, a new study suggests.

The researchers behind the study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday say the findings represent a need for stronger harm-reduction measures and more access to treatment.

The study analyzed the number of contacts to ConnexOntario, the province’s free 24-hour mental health and addictions helpline, for gambling-related concerns from January 2012 to September 2025.

It noted an increase after January 2015, when the government launched the gambling platform PlayOLG, as well as after the province expanded private online gambling in April 2022.

Over the 13-year period researchers looked at, ConnexOntario was contacted more than 745,700 times, the study said, and about 37,000 of those contacts were gambling-related.

The study found that among boys and men aged 15 to 24, the mean monthly rate of gambling-related outreach per million people rose by 317 per cent from the time before Ontario’s launch of PlayOLG to the period after the privatization of online gambling.

The rate increased about 108 per cent over the same time frame for men aged 25 to 44, the study further found. Prior to the policy changes, the rates were stable, it said.

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While better awareness of the hotline could be a factor, the spike may not be solely explained by people seeking help for existing problems, said Dr. Daniel Myran, a research chair at North York General Hospital who co-authored the study.

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“There’s very good evidence that most people with gambling disorders or gambling problems don’t seek care, and when they do seek care, it’s often through helplines like ConnexOntario,” said Myran.

“The increases that we’re seeing in these contacts to the helpline — is it the tip of the iceberg of much larger increases in the number of people who are engaged in gambling in harmful patterns?”

Myran noted there has been a higher volume of gambling marketing since the privatization of betting in the province.

“I think that we need to think very carefully about who these ads are reaching and the messages that they’re conveying. And I think we need move to place restrictions on them because they’re right now occurring in venues that are widely seen by youth,” he said.

“When we see that the visits or the contacts have really gone up in young men, I think that this is exactly who’s being targeted by the advertisements and who’s going to be placing sports bets.”

The study further found that between the dawn of online gambling privatization in April 2022 and August of last year, the number of active player accounts per 100,000 people aged 15 or older increased from roughly 2,160 to more than 7,300 — a 239 per cent increase.

Myran added there are concerns around micro-betting and other types of gambling that are associated with higher risk of addiction.

“Let’s say that you bet on the outcome of the Super Bowl. It’s one bet that you’ve made. … But you can now actually bet on events that occur within the game itself,” he said.

“That means that if you lose money, you might do what’s called loss chasing, where you try and re-wager it to win more, and it can really accelerate people into gambling disorders.”

Ultimately, the study’s findings underscore why gambling disorders need to be treated as a public health issue and treatment should be readily available, said Myran.

“Gambling can have really severe consequences to individuals. People who have gambling disorders are really at high risk of mental health conditions including self-harm and suicide,” said Myran.

“It can also have much broader impacts on families and communities around them,” he added. “I think that we have not adequately considered how some of the changes that have occurred may have much broader health implications for society.”

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A 23-year-old man died Saturday after an avalanche was triggered in British Columbia’s Kootenay Pass, RCMP say.

The man was riding a snowmobile at the time, police said, adding they were notified of the incident around 12:10 p.m. on Saturday.

An SOS activation from a Garmin device led them to the area. The avalanche was determined to be a size 2.5 in the transmission line behind Camel’s Hump.

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Two snowmobilers were involved, police said.

“Other snowmobilers in the area provided assistance to the two snowmobilers involved while emergency personnel from the Creston RCMP, Search and Rescue, and BC Emergency Health Services responded,” they said in a news release Monday.

“Both men were extracted by the other snowmobilers, but sadly a 23-year-old man died at scene.”

No other information was released.

The death comes just a day after another avalanche killed a 15-year-old skier in Alberta.

The avalanche occurred in the Naskiska area, about 100 kilometres west of Calgary.

Avalanche Canada issued a warning that strong winds and new snow had fallen in the area overnight Thursday and into Friday, meaning the avalanche danger in the area was high.

There are now six avalanche-related fatalities in Western Canada so far this winter.

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The Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation says incidents like the Evan Hardy attack and Tumbler Ridge school shooting in B.C. are evidence of what is to come from the everyday violence in classrooms going under the radar.

Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation president Samantha Becotte says classroom violence has been escalating in recent years and data collecting is only just beginning.

“Teachers are trying to manage the situation that they have. They’re often triaging the needs within their classrooms,” said Becotte.

Becotte points to a lack of support not only for straining teachers but contributing to violent behaviours.

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She says while resources are coming, it’s not enough.

“There’s one full-time equivalent position for schools with a population of over 150. We have some high schools that are,” said Becotte. “With a student population of 1,500, 1,600 and higher, one teacher can’t solve all of the class complexity challenges that are associated with that.”

Becotte says some teachers in Saskatchewan have stopped reporting violence because they were often either not addressed or there was no support was available.

“Teachers don’t blame students for any of this. It’s because their needs are not being met in so many cases, and that’s a systemic problem,” says Becotte.

A 2024 report from the Canadian Teachers Federation, School-Based Violence across Canada, suggests violent incidents have been increasing since at least 2017.

“We can’t expect a teacher alone to be able to solve all of the problems, especially as those challenges become more complex. We need to see the government continue to have their actions match their words,” says Becotte.

The STF says with rising recognition of the issue and the provincial government naming education as a top priority, next month’s budget is the next moment for accountability.

The Ministry of Education has said the Government of Saskatchewan is working with the Saskatchewan School Boards Association and the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation toward policies and solutions to address violence in classrooms.

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Calls for an independent investigation into the shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., where eight people, including six children were shot last month, are growing.

Federal Conservative MP Bob Zimmer, who represents the community in northeastern B.C., said the mourning families need answers around various aspects, including the shooter’s mental health and access to guns, as well as the role of artificial intelligence and the protection of the victims’ families.

“What do you say to a Mom who lost her daughter or to a Dad who lost his son?” Zimmer said in a statement. “We need answers for those Moms and Dads.”

That is why it is time for an independent public inquiry, said Zimmer’s Conservative caucus colleague Frank Caputo, who is also his party’s shadow minister for public safety, at a joint press conference with Zimmer in Vancouver.

The two Conservative MPs said the inquiry should be done under the federal Inquires Act.

Their call echoes an earlier appeal from B.C. Conservative Party MLA Larry Neufeld, who said that it is time for the province to establish a public inquiry under provincial law.

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Neufeld, who represents Tumbler Ridge in the provincial legislature, said that members of the community and grieving families keep coming back to the same question, of how this incident could have happened in the first place.

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“They deserve honest answers,” Neufeld said. “A public inquiry is how we get the full truth, with witnesses compelled, documents produced, and evidence tested in public.”

B.C. Premier David Eby has said in the legislature that his government will use “any tools available” to make sure all questions about this “tragedy” are answered, whether it be through a coroner’s inquest or a public inquiry after the police has wrapped up its investigation.

When Neufeld pressed Eby for a more precise timeline, the premier said that a public inquiry could not start until police had wrapped the investigation.

Eby said any public inquiry or inquest would take place after that.

When Caputo was asked about changing the focus of his proposed inquiry on the mental health of children and youth in Canada against the backdrop of a potential provincial inquiry, he said he was open to the possibility.

“At the end of the day, we want to get to the bottom of what happened to provide answers, to provide healing, and to provide prevention for this happening in the future,” he said.

On Feb. 10, Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, shot and killed her mother and half-brother at their home in Tumbler Ridge before going to the school and killing six people and then herself.

Students, meanwhile, are readying themselves for the week ahead.

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A message to parents posted on the Peace River South school district website says all students attending Tumbler Ridge Elementary will return to their regular schedule, starting Monday after learning had resumed Thursday and Friday with shortened days.

The same message also says students attending the secondary school will learn from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. starting Monday under a “tentative plan” that “may change based on needs.”

Learning will take place in portables, which the province had sent up in mid-February, and the district says on its website that counsellors will support staff and students in the safe transition to the new buildings.

It adds that counsellors will continue to be available at the new school site, with counselling and trauma supports also available at Tumbler Ridge Community Centre.

The school has also hired a security service to patrol the perimeter around the entire school campus, adding that cameras will provide additional security and that RCMP have conducted a security review of the area.

The mother of 12-year-old Maya Gebala, who was critically injured during the shooting and continues to receive treatment at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, posted a social media update on Saturday.

“She seems focused on one of her favourite shows,” Cia Edmonds wrote. “(It’s) nice to see a part of her coming through in such a way. This show was a ritual at bedtime for her.”

The note concluded with an addendum. “(Maya’s) nightly show of choice is Henry Danger. (It’s) about a teenage superhero.”

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“I don’t know if you just heard that, but it sounded like something just went off.”

Those are the words of Graison Foster, a Canadian living in Dubai, in an interview with Global News on Sunday as Iran was launching missiles at various Middle East countries.

The missile strikes are part of Iran’s retaliation as the U.S. and Israel continue their bombardment of the country, which led to the death of its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday.

Iran has launched strikes at the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain and Israel, as well as several other nations in the region.

Foster told Global News she was getting out of her rental car Saturday night when she saw something.

“I saw something go over and I thought, ‘Huh, that’s interesting, what is that?’ And you know the sound when a jet goes over and you hear that (sound) and all of a sudden it was boom and the explosion hit,” she said.

She said the missile hit the Fairmont The Palm hotel located in the Palm Jumeirah, where she lives. Photos taken by Reuters on Sunday show damage to the hotel.

After the missile hit, Foster said people started filming and taking photos before a “bunch of missiles started to come over.”

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“Of course, they’re intercepting them so they’re exploding up in the sky,” she said. “But the sound of it and the visuals of it is of course very daunting and surreal. I’ve never experienced anything like this in my life, of course, growing up in Canada.”

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The people who had gathered, including Foster, ran into a nearby restaurant and stayed there for several hours.

Foster said emergency alerts have made the situation more stressful.

“I tried to go to sleep last night at about 1:30 in the morning,” she said. “They put out an emergency alert system, we’ve gotten a few of those on our phones. Missiles were definitely being intercepted, so that sound, it is the sound that is jarring and it makes you panic.”

Foster added the government in Dubai has put out statements on social media about where safe spaces are located, and advised people to pack necessities in case they are needed.

Canadians urged to shelter in place, register for information

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand on Sunday posted on X urging Canadians in Middle East and Gulf States to remain sheltered in place as hostilities continue in the region.

“Canadians in the broader region should follow local guidance and evacuate only when safe to do so,” Anand wrote.

She went on to say surge consular support under Canada’s standing rapid deployment team has been deployed to the surrounding region to help Canadians in multiple countries. Those countries include Turkiye, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Jordan and Israel.

People are asked to sign up at Registration of Canadians Abroad in order to receive up to date information.

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“We condemn the Iranian Regime’s indiscriminate attacks against civilian infrastructure across the region, including the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Jordan,” Anand wrote. “These attacks are a dangerous threat to regional stability and civilian safety.”

According to Global Affairs Canada, 2,934 Canadians and permanent residents were registered as being in Iran as of Feb. 27. Another 22,944 were in Lebanon, 5,527 in Israel, and 434 in Palestine.

The agency said there are more than 75,000 registrations across the broader Middle East, but added the numbers are a general estimate as registration is voluntary.

Global News requested updated numbers as of Sunday, but did not hear back by publication.

Queen’s University students stranded in Doha

Foster is just one of many people from Canada living in or visiting one of the several countries being targeted by Iran.

It’s been an equally difficult situation for several Queen’s University students who are stranded at an airport in Doha, Qatar.

The group had boarded a flight home to Toronto following a field course in Sri Lanka, with a stopover in Doha, when they heard an announcement mid-flight that the airspace was closed.

“There was an initial panic among me and my classmates,” said fourth-year undergraduate biology student Claire Haffner.

She said the Qatar Airways flight returned to Doha, where passengers were kept on board before disembarking into what she described as a “chaotic scene” inside the airport.

The group is now waiting to find out when they will be able to leave as the airspace remains closed.

—with files from Global News’ Prisha Dev, Heidi Petracek and Aaron D’Andrea, and The Associated Press

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