Sam Rivers, the bass player in the nu metal band Limp Bizkit, died on Saturday, according to social media posts by his band mates.

The band did not disclose where Rivers died or the circumstances, but praised him as “pure magic” and “the soul in the sound.”

“From the first note we ever played together, Sam brought a light and a rhythm that could never be replaced,” they wrote in a group Instagram post. “His talent was effortless, his presence unforgettable, his heart enormous.”

Fred Durst, the band’s front man and lead vocalist, posted a video Sunday morning that recounted how they met at a club in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, and went on to music stardom and performances around the globe. Durst said he has shed “gallons and gallons of tears since yesterday.”

“He really did have an impact on the world and his music and his gift is the one that’s going to keep on giving,” Durst said. “I just love him so much.”

Rivers, 48, had spoken of heavy drinking that had caused liver disease. He left the band in 2015 and received a liver transplant before reuniting with Limp Bizkit three years later.

Limp Bizkit has scheduled a tour of Central and South America to begin in Mexico City in late November.

Durst said he and Rivers shared a love of grunge music, naming the bands Mother Love Bone, Alice in Chains and Stone Temple Pilots.

“He had this kind of ability to pull this beautiful sadness out of the bass that I’d never heard,” Durst said, calling Rivers “so talented I can’t explain.”

Limp Bizkit, with roots in Jacksonville, Florida, emerged in the late 1990s with a sound that melds altenative rock, heavy metal and rap.

Their off-the-wall sense of humor is reflected in the titles of their mega-selling 2000 album, “Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water,” and a single released last month, “Making Love to Morgan Wallen.”

HONG KONG — A cargo aircraft skidded off a Hong Kong runway into the sea when landing early Monday, killing two people.

The Emirates flight, arriving from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, was landing at Hong Kong International Airport around 3:50 a.m., according to Hong Kong’s airport authority.

Four crew members on the plane were rescued and taken to a hospital. Initial reports from police said two people in an airport ground vehicle were killed.

Emirates said the Boeing 747 freighter flying as EK9788 was wet leased and operated by Turkish cargo carrier Act Airlines. In wet leases, the company supplying the plane also provides the crew, maintenance and insurance. The airline said there was cargo on board.

Local Hong Kong broadcasters showed the aircraft partially submerged just off the edge of the airport’s sea wall. The aircraft’s front half and cockpit were visible above water but the tail end appearing to have broken off.

The crash occurred on the north runway of Hong Kong’s airport, one of Asia’s busiest. That runway remained closed, while the two other runways at the airport continue to operate.

Hong Kong’s Civil Aviation Department said in a statement it was following up with the airlines and other parties involved in the crash.

PARIS — In a minutes-long strike Sunday inside the world’s most-visited museum, thieves rode a basket lift up the Louvre ‘s facade, forced a window, smashed display cases and fled with priceless Napoleonic jewels, officials said.

The daylight heist about 30 minutes after opening, with visitors already inside, was among the highest-profile museum thefts in living memory and comes as staff complained that crowding and thin staffing are straining security.

The theft unfolded just 250 metres (270 yards) from the Mona Lisa, in what Culture Minister Rachida Dati described as a professional “four-minute operation.”

One object, the emerald-set imperial crown of Napoleon III’s wife, Empress Eugenie, containing more than 1,300 diamonds, was later found outside the museum, French authorities said. It was reportedly recovered broken.

Images from the scene showed confused tourists being steered out of the glass pyramid and adjoining courtyards as officers closed nearby streets along the Seine.

A lift -- which officials say the thieves brought and which was later removed -- stood against the Seine-facing facade, their entry route and, observers said, a revealing weakness: that such machinery could be brought to a palace-museum unchecked.

A museum already under strain

Around 9:30 a.m., several intruders forced a window, cut panes with a disc cutter and went straight for the glass display cases, officials said. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the crew entered from outside using a basket lift via the riverfront facade to reach the hall with the 23-item royal collection.

Their target was the gilded Apollon Gallery, where the Crown Diamonds are displayed, including the Regent, the Sancy and the Hortensia.

The thieves smashed two display cases and fled on motorbikes, Nunez said. No one was hurt. Alarms brought Louvre agents to the room, forcing the intruders to bolt, but the theft was already done.

Eight objects were taken, according to officials: a sapphire diadem, necklace and single earring from a matching set linked to 19th-century French queens Marie-Amelie and Hortense; an emerald necklace and earrings from the matching set of Empress Marie-Louise, Napoleon Bonaparte’s second wife; a reliquary brooch; Empress Eugenie’s diadem; and her large corsage-bow brooch -- a prized 19th-century imperial ensemble.

“It’s a major robbery,” Nunez said, noting that security measures at the Louvre had been strengthened in recent years and would be reinforced further as part of the museum’s upcoming overhaul plan. Officials said security upgrades include new-generation cameras, perimeter detection, and a new security control room. But critics say the measures come far too late.

The Louvre closed for the rest of Sunday for the forensic investigation to begin as police sealed gates, cleared courtyards and shut nearby streets along the Seine.

Daylight robberies during public hours are rare. Pulling one off inside the Louvre with visitors present ranks among Europe’s most audacious in recent history, and at least since Dresden’s Green Vault museum in 2019.

It also collides with a deeper tension the Louvre has struggled to resolve: swelling crowds and stretched staff. The museum delayed opening during a June staff walkout over overcrowding and chronic understaffing. Unions say mass tourism leaves too few eyes on too many rooms and creates pressure points where construction zones, freight routes and visitor flows meet.

Security around marquee works remains tight -- the Mona Lisa sits behind bulletproof glass in a climate-controlled case -- but Sunday’s theft also underscored that protections are not uniformly as robust across the museum’s more than 33,000 objects.

The theft is a fresh embarrassment for a museum already under scrutiny.

“How can they ride a lift to a window and take jewels in the middle of the day?” said Magali Cunel, a French teacher from near Lyon. “It’s just unbelievable that a museum this famous can have such obvious security gaps.”

The Louvre has a long history of thefts and attempted robberies. The most famous came in 1911, when the Mona Lisa vanished from its frame, stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia and recovered two years later in Florence. Another notorious episode came in 1956, when a visitor hurled a stone at her world-famous smile, chipping paint near her left elbow and hastening the move to display the work behind protective glass.

Today the former royal palace holds a roll call of civilization: Leonardo’s Mona Lisa; the armless serenity of the Venus de Milo; the Winged Victory of Samothrace, wind-lashed on the Daru staircase; the Code of Hammurabi’s carved laws; Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People; Gericault’s The Raft of the Medusa. The objects -- from Mesopotamia, Egypt and the classical world to Europe’s masters -- draw a daily tide of up to 30,000 visitors even as investigators now begin to sweep those gilded corridors for clues.

Politics at the door

The heist spilled instantly into politics. Far-right leader Jordan Bardella used it to attack President Emmanuel Macron, weakened at home and facing a fractured parliament.

“The Louvre is a global symbol of our culture,” Bardella wrote on X. “This robbery, which allowed thieves to steal jewels from the French Crown, is an unbearable humiliation for our country. How far will the decay of the state go?”

The criticism lands as Macron touts a decade-long “Louvre New Renaissance” plan -- about (euro)700 million ($760 million) to modernize infrastructure, ease crowding and give the Mona Lisa a dedicated gallery by 2031. For workers on the floor, the relief has felt slower than the pressure.

What we know - and don’t

Forensic teams are examining the site of the crime and adjoining access points while a full inventory is taken, authorities said. Officials have described the haul as of “inestimable” historical value.

Recovery may prove difficult. “It’s unlikely these jewels will ever be seen again,” said Tobias Kormind, managing director of 77 Diamonds. “Professional crews often break down and re-cut large, recognizable stones to evade detection, effectively erasing their provenance.”

Key questions still unanswered are how many people took part in the theft and whether they had inside assistance, authorities said. According to French media, there were four perpetrators: two dressed as construction workers in yellow safety vests on the lift, and two each on a scooter. French authorities did not immediately comment on this.

Investigators are reviewing CCTV from the Denon wing and the riverfront, inspecting the basket lift used to reach the gallery and interviewing staff who were on site when the museum opened, authorities said.

With harvest complete in nearly every part of the province, Saskatchewan farmers have turned their attention towards Chinese canola tariffs.

Without any meaningful updates, many farmers are waiting before marketing and selling their crop.

“It’s just not as easy as a stroke of a pen to get rid of them, but we have been frustrated with the lack of support,” Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) president Bill Huber said.

Canola prices have seen a sharp drop since China announced a 100 per cent tariff on Canadian canola oil and meal and a 75.8 per cent tariff on canola seed over the last year.

The tariffs came in response to Canada’s 100 per cent tariffs on all EVs imported from China since last October.

Canada also has 25 per cent tariffs in place on Chinese steel and aluminum.

Huber says many farmers are choosing to leave their canola in the bin until market conditions improve, and the strained trade relations are creating even more unease this fall for an industry surrounded by uncertainty.

“This is the first year in 55 years that I’ve farmed that we have never sold a bushel of canola off the combine,” Huber said. “We are optimists, and we are realists, and we need this market back.”

Ambassador Wang Di made the comments in an exclusive interview with CTV Question Period last week, telling host Vassy Kapelos through a translator that China will “reciprocate accordingly” if Canada removes the “unilateral unjustified tariffs” on Chinese products.

Prime Minister Mark Carney wouldn’t say if he would drop the tariffs at a separate announcement on Thursday as he faces pressure from premiers on the prairies to defend canola producers, while facing equal pressure from Ontario premier Doug Ford to defend the auto sector.

“It’s almost like being in an episode of the movie Hunger Games,” Keith Willoughby, the Dean of Edwards School of Business at the University of Saskatchewan, said.

“You’ve obviously you’ve got two very strong industries, and the job as a Prime Minister now to balance these two very large, dominant industries in the country.”

With competing interests, supply chain considerations and added issues of trade relations in an increasingly uncertain period of protectionism, Willoughby says the Prime Minister faces a difficult circumstance to sort out.

“In this situation, it’s hard to identify if there’s a path that would make all parties reasonably satisfied,” Willoughby said.

Huber is heading to Ottawa next week to meet with federal Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald to express SARM’s concerns. SARM is calling for the federal government to remove trade barriers and open China as a market before things get worse.

In the meantime, grain bins in Saskatchewan remain full.

“Producers are hesitant to sell in a market that doesn’t meet their cost of production,” Huber said.

Two men from British Columbia are facing several drug trafficking related charges after an investigation in Regina yielded cash and drugs with an estimated value of over $250,000.

Officers arrested a man in relation to the investigation on Thursday, with a search uncovering $4,040 in cash and 41 grams of fentanyl, according to a release from the Regina Police Service (RPS).

According to RPS, police searched the surrounding area where the arrest took place, which found another 340 grams of fentanyl and 130 grams of methamphetamine.

A search warrant was also executed in a home on the 5100 block of E Simard Ave., where police found about 1.8 kilograms of methamphetamine, about 715 grams of fentanyl, about 691 grams of cocaine, and $5000 in cash, police said.

Two men, one from Delta, B.C. and one from Surrey, B.C. are both charged with possession of s scheduled substance for the purpose of trafficking cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl, as well as possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000.

The pair made their court appearance in Regina on Friday.

The Snowbirds closed off their 2025 season with a special performance for family and friends.

It was nearly perfect conditions at 15 Wing Moose Jaw as aerobatics flight team took to the air, performing several maneuvers on Friday.

Capt. Marc-Andre Plante from the Snowbirds said he happy with the way the season went despite a filled schedule.

“We basically got to every show that was planned for and the weather was very fortunate,” he said, adding that only one show out of the entire summer was missed due to weather.

Last weekend, the Snowbirds were scheduled to be the opening act at an air show in Huntington Beach, CA.

Due to U.S. military aircraft being grounded because of the federal government shutdown, the Snowbirds became the headlining act.

“We were just happy to step up to the plate despite the circumstances. We were more than happy to do it. We are just happy to perform,” Plante said.

Capt. Caitie Clapp has been with the Snowbirds for three years. The private show was her final flight as a member.

The performances of past members and keeping up with the high-quality show is a common goal within the Snowbirds.

“Trying your best every single time. You want to uphold the Snowbird name and what it means to yourself, your teammates, and Canada,” Clapp said.

Although the 2025 season for the Snowbirds has come to an end, planning for the 2026 season is only two weeks away.

This season, the Snowbirds performed shows all across Canada. They also made appearances in California, Minnesota and Oregon.

Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan Bernadette McIntyre was on hand at Government House on Friday to present bravery awards for deeds of heroism.

“These are people who came on a situation, for the most part, and had to take action on moments notice to save someone else’s life. So, there are the pinnacle of almost giving their lives to save another life,” she said.

The awards are handed out by the Royal Canadian Humane Association.

Regina RCMP Cpl. Donna Davies received an award for a water rescue back in 2023, when her and two other RCMP members, David McClarty and Jeffery Ball, saved a mentally ill man from drowning at Last Mountain Lake.

“I feel very honoured,” Davies said. “This is just something that I showed up to do on my day-to-day job and it’s not something that I expect to receive. However, I am certainly honoured and appreciative of the award.”

Will Rodwin was recognized for rescuing a civilian from a burning vehicle in August of 2022 near Guernsey.

His experience as a volunteer firefighter helped him in knowing how to handle the situation.

“I kind of knew what I was walking into, but I had no tools, no safety, no nothing like that. To me, it was just get him out of there because I’d rather save a life than watch somebody burn,” he explained.

Mark Dmyterko’s rescue attempt unfortunately did not have a happy ending.

In October of 2024, he came across a vehicle that had slid off the highway near Langham and into a slough.

There was an unresponsive person in the front seat, who Dmyterko and another citizen, Dana Ahenakew Andres, attempted to save, but were ultimately unsuccessful.

“We did what we could try to get them out, so I can live with that. But to have seen it and watched it just go down and done nothing, I don’t know that I’d be comfortable living with that,” Dmyterko said.

There was a common thread among those honoured on Friday, as they did not have to think twice about risking their own lives to try to save another.

A unique relay race was held at Wascana Rehabilitation Centre on Saturday, bringing back a longstanding tradition for people living with spinal cord injuries and other physical disabilities.

The 2025 Regina Wheelchair Race took place to help spread awareness about the different services and support programs Spinal Cord Injury Saskatchewan Inc. offers, while providing people an opportunity to have fun racing one another.

“We’ve got people from the disability community; we have people of all abilities. It doesn’t matter what your ability is, what your age is, you can come out and have fun, participate or cheer people on,” said Delynne Bortis, executive director of Spinal Cord Injury Saskatchewan Inc.

This is now the second consecutive year for the race, which used to happen annually before the COVID-19 pandemic.

One participant said it’s great to see people across the city show their support for the cause.

“Last year was our first year back after COVID. We’re just trying to build it by getting more people involved, get more awareness around Spinal Cord Injury Saskatchewan,” Braden Pettinger said.

“Also [bring] more awareness regarding people with spinal fluid injuries and also people with physical disabilities.”

The event also serves as a fundraiser to support the 1,100 people the organization aims to help.

“It’s really important to raise money. This money all goes towards supporting our programs and services,” Bortis explained. “Whether we’re working with accessibility and inclusion, or peer support services, education and employment, the money stays in the province of Saskatchewan and goes to support all of our services.”

Last year, Spinal Cord Injury Saskatchewan Inc. raised close to $10,000. Bortis said the initiative continues to grow more every year with more sponsors putting their names behind the wheel.

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