- The Carney government will be buying a fleet of Saab GlobalEye reconnaissance planes from Sweden instead of the Boeing E-7. The GlobalEye is actually a modification of Bombardier's Global 6500 business jet; the E-7 is derived from the Boeing 737. No word on what the Americans have to say about this yet. There are also indications that Canada is interested in ordering four submarines from Germany's ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, who say they can deliver them by 2036. However, South Korea's Hanwha claim they can deliver a year earlier, in time for the scheduled retirement of Canada's current fleet of Victoria-class subs.
- Liberal MP Steven Guilbault, who served as environment minister under Justin Trudeau, will be resigning his seat when the House of Commons rises for the summer. He say that Canada is backsliding on climate, citing the Carney government's efforts to negotiate with Danielle Smith's government in Alberta. Guilbault also warns that this is "rewarding bad behaviour" on the part of Alberta and that this is the sort of thing that could "fan the flames" of Quebec separatism.
- An apartment building in inner city Winnipeg is being converted to a mix of transitional and long-term affordable housing with the assistance of St. Boniface Street Links. Existing tenants will be allowed to stay; however the owner and the organization have had to remove squatters from the building and hire 24 hour security.
- The number of hate crimes reported to Winnipeg police in 2025 was more than double that of the previous year. The majority of these crimes would be considered simple mischief in the absence of the hate component, but these also included criminal harassment, threats, and assault.
- A man working on a uranium exploration site in Saskatchewan was killed by a black bear earlier this month. Hrishikesh Koloth, 27, was experienced in mixed martial arts, but that was evidently no match for a bear. This was only the fourth fatal bear attack in the recorded history of the province; it's noteworthy, though, that the third happened only six years ago.
- A large wooden play structure was stolen from a schoolyard in Headingley, Manitoba by thieves who apparently drove a vehicle through the school's fence. The structure was later recovered from a home in Winnipeg, along with an RV that had also been reported stolen; a 35 year old man has been arrested.
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