The Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) has activated emergency operations as floodwaters forced members of two Saskatchewan First Nations from their homes Monday evening.

Shoal Lake Cree Nation and Red Earth Cree Nation, neighbouring communities about 220 kilometres northeast of Prince Albert, started moving the most vulnerable members off the reserves late Monday as flooding along the Shell and Carrot rivers washed over low-lying land.

Evacuations expanded Tuesday to elders, pre and postnatal members and other high-risk individuals.

In a news release Tuesday, the PAGC said river flows have reached record levels, peaking at 980 cubic metres per second Tuesday morning — the highest the Water Security Agency has recorded on the river. Water levels have risen nearly three metres since April 29.

“Officials say the updated peak-flow estimate is 1,050 cubic metres per second, which would amount to a one-in-100-year event,” PAGC said.

“The previous record at the station was 816 cubic metres per second, set in 1972. Monitoring continues, and the peak may not arrive until around May 9.”

A photo from the tribal council, one of the largest in Canada representing 44,000 members, shows residents of Red Earth travelling through the community by canoe.

PAGC Grand Chief Brian Hardlotte said the tribal council is working with provincial officials to track flooding in both systems and to keep communications open with First Nations leadership and other partners.

“Water has its own way of returning to the land. That is nature’s way,” said Hardlotte.

“But when it comes back like this, it creates serious problems for our communities, our roads, our homes and our families. Our priority right now is safety, communication and making sure our First Nations have the support they need.”

The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency and Saskatchewan First Nations Emergency Management are working with PAGC to coordinate support and monitor rapidly changing conditions, and the Canadian Red Cross is preparing supports for evacuated members as they register for assistance.

In a statement to CTV News, a Canadian Red Cross spokesperson said it’s supporting PAGC through a standing agreement with Indigenous Services Canada.

The Red Cross says support includes emergency hotel accommodations in Saskatoon and Prince Albert, reception services, food and wellbeing supports.

At the request of community leadership and through a standing agreement with Indigenous Services Canada, the Canadian Red Cross is supporting community members within the Prince Albert Grand Council who were evacuated due to flooding. Support includes registration, accommodations, food, and wellbeing supports.

PAGC Vice-Chief Christopher Jobb says the emergency operations centre is focused on helping keep community members safe as they prepare for several more days of high water. The tribal council warns that high water brings strong currents that can destabilize riverbanks and damage roads, and things can turn dangerous without warning.

“We are doing our best and opening lines of communication with our communities and emergency partners,” said Jobb.

“We are asking everyone to be safe out there. Please listen to your local leadership, avoid flooded areas and give emergency crews the room they need to do their work.”

Two men have been charged after allegedly speeding down the streets of Regina in a dangerous fashion. One of the men is accused of travelling over 200 km/h.

Regina police say the first incident occurred on Friday around 7:45 p.m. when officers saw a group of motorcycles travelling without license plates around Albert Street and Gordon Road.

The officers then alerted Regina Police Service’s (RPS) Aerial Support Unit, which continued to follow the group from the sky, according to a Tuesday news release.

The release said one of the motorcycles was seen driving 100 k/h past Candy Cane Park while the area was filled with families and others enjoying the area.

The group was followed to Lakeshore Drive where officers conducted a traffic stop. Police say the motorcyclist who had been driving dangerously was identified and charged while the others were released.

The 26-year-old man was charged with operating a conveyance dangerous to the public and breaching a conditional sentence order.

RPS said the second incident that occurred on Saturday at 8:40 p.m. when officers in an unmarked police vehicle noted a motorcycle driving without a license plate near Parliament Avenue and Albert Street.

According to the release, police attempted to pull the driver over near the Wascana Parkway exit near Ring Road, but the driver instead accelerated and exited onto Ring Road where the air unit saw him travelling “well over” 200 k/h and weaving in and out of traffic.

After driving to the east end of the city, the driver made his way back south to Orchard Crescent and Dufferin Road before eventually leaving the city west on Highway 1, allegedly ignoring attempts to stop from emergency units along the way.

Police say the aerial unit saw him return to the city a short time later.

RPS said he was seen driving down walking paths as he made his way to a residence on Logan Crescent.

Officers arrived at the address moments later and took him into custody, according to RPS.

The 22-year-old driver has been charged with operating a conveyance dangerous to the public and with flight from a peace officer.

He’s scheduled to appear in court on June 11, 2026.

Following his first pitch to city councillors last week at executive committee, Brandt owner Shaun Semple’s proposal to buy several buildings on the REAL District Campus is now just one council vote away from reality.

“This is like winning the lottery,” Semple told committee members last week. “If you won the lottery, would you say, ‘Hang on, don’t give me that money. I want to check it out first to see whether or not it’s any good. I don’t know if I want to take it.’”

“You’re winning the lottery here today,” he added.

The proposed $6.5 million deal to purchase large portions of Regina’s REAL District cleared a major hurdle April 29 after passing through committee 7-4.

The properties include the Ag-Ex Building, Canada Centre Building, Commercial Cattle Barn, Queensbury Convention Centre, Stockman’s Building, the Brandt Centre, the Agribition Building, the land lease for the McDonalds located at 1810 Exhibition Parkway and the parking lot west of Mosaic Stadium.

According to the terms of the agreement, “The city will exempt the purchased assets operated by [Brandt] from the municipal and library portion of the applicable property taxes for a period of five years after closing.”

The terms also outline Brandt will have access to the stadium to host two events per year, including rights to food and beverage revenues and City services for policing, fire and bylaw enforcement services.

As part of the deal, Brandt will be assuming existing leases, sponsorship, food and beverage and service agreements related to the buildings, as well as all event bookings or contracts.

Brandt will also assume all REAL employment contracts and union-related obligations, including those associated with applicable collective agreements.

“There’s risk in any deal,” said Mayor Chad Bachynksi, who supported the deal at executive, after last week’s meeting. “At the end of the day, when I weigh the pros and cons of what’s in front of us, there is a high risk of us not being able to keep those facilities running and we heard that.”

“When we look at the evaluation and the condition of those assets, when I think about the events, the concerts, the conferences, the sports, that are happening in those facilities: Those will go away if they are deemed unsafe or have leaks or other problems, mechanical issues, let’s say, which come up where we can’t even use the assets,” he added.

Longer list of delegates

Another long list of delegates is set to speak Wednesday to council.

Thirteen individuals have registered to appear in front of councillors at the meeting.

Six others have submitted written delegations, including The Mosaic Company. Three residents have given their own submissions – one appears to be in favour, while the other two have raised concerns about the proposal.

Some appeared at last week’s meeting, while others – including former Mayor Michael Fougere – did not.

Former REAL financial analyst Ali Shayan Khan is also prepared to give a presentation.

Semple himself will go through another round of questions from councillors.

Regina city council is set to debate the deal again Wednesday afternoon.

The meeting is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.

The Saskatchewan government passed the Compassionate Intervention Act on Tuesday, allowing for involuntary addictions treatment in certain extreme cases.

The province says the legislation is intended to support people with severe addictions who are unable to seek help on their own despite serious health and safety risks.

“We have individuals who are a harm to themselves, a harm to others, who don’t have the capacity to actually make that decision to get the treatment that they need, and they have family members and loved ones that have tried to get them that help,” Mental Health and Addictions Minister Lori Carr told reporters Tuesday.

“We’re hoping through this process we can truly get individuals that don’t have that capacity the help they need.”

Under the legislation, family members can apply through the courts to have a loved one assessed for treatment through a judge’s warrant. Police may also intervene if a person’s substance use is considered a serious risk to themselves or others.

“This is not a jail,” Carr said.

“It’s a different set of circumstances where we look to get individuals the help that they need to get into a life of recovery.”

The first Compassionate Intervention Assessment Centre will be located in North Battleford, along with the involuntary inpatient unit at Saskatchewan Hospital North Battleford.

The legislation has faced criticism from the Opposition NDP, which proposed 17 amendments to the bill that were voted down Tuesday.

“We understand that in the most severe cases where people who are in the throes are actively a danger to themselves, a danger to the public, however that needs to be with proper supports and protections in place and it also has to be a lost resort,” said NDP Leader Carla Beck.

The NDP has repeatedly concerns about the province’s partnership with the privately-owned Edgewood Health Network to deliver treatment.

Beck also said the bill doesn’t make up for other shortcomings, such as a lack of voluntary treatment beds and a failure to consider prevention.

“Our team will continue to work with the people of this province, this was too important,” Beck said.

“This vote on this bill was not the last step. We will continue to advocate for better to address issues of mental health and addictions [and] public safety in our province.”

The act is set to take effect in the fall once fully finalized.

A Lethbridge, Alta., man has been charged after allegedly violating the conditions of his release after serving time for child sexual offences.

James Robert George Martinac, 47, was released from custody at 7 a.m. on May 1 after completing a four-year sentence for sexual interference, child luring, possession of child pornography, sexual exploitation and uttering threats.

Less than five hours later, police say Martinac was observed by officers at a public library, using a social media account to view images of children online, contrary to a lifetime prohibition order.

“The order was issued after the male’s conviction for sexually assaulting and exploiting two young girls in 2021 and 2022, and includes lifetime prohibitions from attending any community centre, using the internet or other digital network unless in accordance with the conditions set by the court and using any social media application designed to connect with strangers,” police said in a Tuesday news release.

Martinac has been charged with four counts of failing to comply with a prohibition order.

He was remanded into custody and is expected in court on May 6.

At 23, Jenny Milne was told her gall bladder stopped working, which after months of tests and investigation, turned out to be heart failure.

The doctors couldn’t figure out why her white blood cell count was so high, why she was always out of breath and why she had free fluid in her abdomen.

“I couldn’t walk five feet in front of me without taking a break,” the Chilliwack, B.C. native told CTVNews.ca on Monday, adding that she thought it was just asthma.

At her doctor’s request, she took a COVID-19 test, which turned out to be negative. Her doctor was puzzled as she kept getting worse.

Two weeks later, Milne noticed that her legs had swollen. This led to a series of heart activity tests, including a Holter monitor test, an electrocardiogram (ECG), an echo cardiogram and a cardiac MRI.

She was told her heart was enlarged and there was something infiltrating it. She was also diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism and a clot in one of her lungs.

“Through that, my internal medicine doctor quickly realized that my heart was failing (and) was not going to be managed through internal medicine,” Milne, who is now 29, said.

After the doctors found out through a biopsy that she also had endomyocardial fibrosis , Milne was told that she needed a heart and lung transplant.

A year after her diagnosis, Milne had to get her mitral valve replaced. She says the surgery went well, and the replacement worked better than expected, sending her heart failure into remission.

“I was very lucky that my (general practitioner, or GP) has a special interest in cardiology and recognized the signs, and I wasn’t dismissed,” Milne, who now works with the HeartLife Foundation to help people living with heart disease, said.

The Canadian Heart Failure Society and Canadian Cardiovascular Society is calling attention to a rise in cases of heart failure and heart-related diseases in young Canadians, to mark the eighth annual National Heart Failure Awareness Week.

According to a news release published last week, heart failure is one of the fastest-growing cardiovascular diseases in Canada, and it is now manifesting at earlier ages. Research from the Canadian Journal of Cardiology showed hospitalizations rose “significantly” among adults aged 20 to 39 between 2007 and 2016.

Additionally, more than 5,000 Canadians between the ages of 40 and 49 were newly diagnosed with heart failure in 2023-24, according to Heart & Stroke’s Analysis of Data from the Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System.

A ‘perfect storm’

Dr. Margot Davis, a cardiologist from Vancouver, B.C. and president of the Canadian Heart Failure Society, told CTVNews.ca on Monday there has been an increase in the number of younger Canadians being diagnosed with this disease at their heart failure clinics between the ages of 20 and 40.

“In the recent decade or two, we’ve seen that the proportion of older patients who are being diagnosed with heart failure and are dying of heart failure remain relatively static,” Davis explained. ”(They) might even be improving a little bit as we’re getting better at treating it – but at the same time, we’re seeing an increasing rate in the younger patients, so that they’re now making up a greater proportion of our heart failure population.”

There is a “greater burden” of risk factors for heart failure among people from the younger demographic, leading to an earlier onset, the cardiologist explained.

“There’s a lot of heart failure that’s caused by these risk factors – things like diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, coronary artery disease – all of these things that used to be much more prevalent in older patients are increasingly common in younger patients as well,” Davis said.

Davis called a confluence of these risk factors a “perfect storm” that leads to cases of heart disease in younger people who aren’t aware that they’re at risk for organ failure.

“Oftentimes their health-care providers also aren’t really thinking of heart failure for younger patients when they come in with shortness of breath,” the cardiologist said, adding that this is why spreading awareness about it was important.

“Otherwise, what happens is, they go undiagnosed until they have much more advanced disease, and then it’s much harder to treat, and we have worse outcomes for our patients.”

Younger people are usually stronger than older patients with heart disease and chalk up their breathlessness during activities or exercise to asthma, allergies, or bronchitis, without realizing that they could be at risk for heart failure, leading to a difficulty in diagnosing.

“And that’s true for both patients and providers,” she said.

Heart failure in young people is treated in the same manner as it would be if it were an older person who presented with symptoms of heart failure, the cardiologist explained.

“Cause for breathlessness in a young person should always be investigated,” Davis said.

To stay the course, Canada’s prime minister says of his approach regarding Alberta separatists’ continued push for a referendum.

Earlier this week, Stay Free Alberta submitted thousands of petition signatures calling for Albertans to be asked whether the province should leave the country.

They claim they’ve collected more than 300,000 signatures.

That’s well over the 178,000 required and well under the million separatist lawyer Jeffrey Rath predicted they’d collect.

Elections Alberta still has to confirm the number.

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney was asked about the movement to split as he announced Louise Arbour as the next governor general.

Carney was asked what he and his government intend to do to turn that tide.

“To continue to act as we have from the start,” he said.

“Which is in the spirit of co-operative federalism (and) making the country work—making it work for Albertans, making it work for Indigenous Peoples (and) making it work for all Canadians.”

Carney said there are other things to consider.

“There’s the rule of law. There’s the Clarity Act, which has been opined upon by the Supreme Court,” he said.

“Any referenda in any part of Canada need to be consistent with that.”

“There’s a judicial challenge separately but relatedly by Indigenous Nations in Alberta regarding the question,” he said.

“Those processes have to be followed through.”

Carney was also asked what the governor general’s role is as far as promoting national unity in troubled times.

He said the governor general represents all Canadians.

“And I think, very importantly, represents what’s at the heart of our institutions and the spirit of Canada,” he said.

“That we’re all equal.”

“That the rule of law applies to everyone—the powerful as well as the powerless,” he said.

“That we believe in democracy and the processes.”

Albertans could see the question on separation on a ballot in October.

Meanwhile, an Edmonton judge is expected to rule on a court challenge of the petition launched by a group of First Nations who say it violates treaty rights.

Honda Motors will suspend plans to build an electric vehicle plant in Canada after slow U.S. demand pushed the Japanese automaker “to put hybrids at the centre of its North American strategy,” Nikkei Asia reported on Tuesday.

CTV News reached out to Industry Minister Melanie Joly for comment on the report, to which her office said the global automotive sector is experiencing “significant change.”

“American tariffs and changes to U.S. domestic policies are creating real pressures for automakers, prompting some to delay or scale back investments in electric vehicle and battery projects,” the office of the minister said in a response.

The plant, which Honda had expected to invest a total of $15 billion into, was slated to begin operating as early as 2028.

“Canada will continue to support and protect existing automotive facilities by mitigating tariff pressures and sustaining the production of fuel-efficient vehicles, while positioning the sector for long-term growth, resilience and global competitiveness,” Joly’s office added in its response.

In a statement to CTV News, Honda Canada said the company has “nothing to report at this time.”

In May 2025, Honda announced it would delay the project for two years, with Honda chief executive Toshihiro Mibe saying the company would examine where the EV market is before deciding whether to move forward with the project.

“What happens after two years and the starting time of the project, we have to observe what is happening and ultimately make the decision,” he said, based on translated remarks.

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