Kamsack RCMP are conducting an urban search in the community as they’re working to locate a missing 40‑year‑old man, Stanley Severight.

Severight was reported missing on Feb. 18 at around 4:30 p.m. and was last seen on Feb. 15 at about 5 p.m. in Kamsack, located about 270 kilometres northeast of Regina.

In an update sent Saturday afternoon, Saskatchewan RCMP said the search and rescue unit has been brought in to assist, and residents can expect an increased police presence between Feb. 21 and Feb. 22.

Officers are searching areas near downtown Kamsack including back alleys.

Police are asking property owners in the community to check sheds, outbuildings and other structures for anything unusual as the search continues.

He also goes by the names Stanley Strongquill and Junior Strongquill.

He is described as six-foot and three inches tall and 230 pounds with brown eyes and short brown hair with red or orange colouring.

He was last seen wearing a black hoodie and red pants. He also has letters tattooed on a finger and a small handprint tattooed on his right hand.

Severight is known to travel to Yorkton, Saskatoon and Regina.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to contact Kamsack RCMP. Anonymous tips can be shared with Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers.

Saskatchewan’s lone Liberal MP Buckley Belanger visited Regina on Sunday to announce the federal government’s support for a clean‑technology innovation project on Cowessess First Nation.

An investment of $855,000 through the Government of Canada’s PrairiesCan was announced to build a rapid composting and bio-fertilizer facility on Cowessess First Nation, which aims to provide low-cost nutrients to boost greenhouse and agricultural production.

“As global markets shift, value-added agriculture and local production matter more than ever. Families see it at the grocery store, costs are up. The pressure is real and that means we need smarter global solutions for food waste and year-round production,” Belanger said at a news conference on Sunday.

“That’s why, on behalf of the Honourable Eleanor Olszewski, I’m proud to announce $855,000 through PrairiesCan for the Cowessess Ventures Ltd.”

As part of the project, a unique waste-disposal bin was designed by Pro Metal Industries and B-Nature Biotech to help Cowessess enhance food production on its own land.

Cowessess will also install and operate a growing dome for year-round food production to support feeding people in their community, as well as Pasqua First Nation.

“It will not only create jobs for people and communities, both Pasqua and Cowessess, but it’ll contribute to educating our youth in the full-circle economy, creating our own food, taking care of our elders and our seniors, people in need,” said Rebecca Âcikahtê, business development manager of sustainability of Cowessess Ventures Ltd.

“Hopefully we can scale up and contribute to our urban population. Cowessess is the biggest nation in Treaty 4. We have 2,000 members just in Regina, we’d like to be able to help this contribute to feeding everybody.”

The bin was customized and created locally to keep waste safe from Prairie weather conditions and wildlife.

B-Nature Biotech said the initiative will help lead the next generation of Indigenous-led clean technology.

“This project is not just about composting. It’s about building local capacity, technical agriculturr and economy in a way that aligns with the community priorities and environmental responsibility,” said Raj Behari of B-Nature Biotech.

“We are deeply grateful to PrairiesCan for recognizing the importance of clean technology deployment in rural and Indigenous communities.”

He added that 10 more waste-disposable bins are expected to be delivered by August.

Belanger said the project also promotes Indigenous economic development while working towards food security.

“As we learn from the First Nations how to sustain our community better with great science behind it, this is something that we need to certainly support,” Belanger said.

“From the highest mountains, telling folks we can grow our own food faster, better, and for our own needs at less cost.”

An armed man drove into the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, U.S. President Donald Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Florida, before being shot and killed early Sunday morning, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service. Trump was not there but was at the White House in Washington.

The man, who was in his early 20s and from North Carolina, had a gas can and a shotgun, according to Anthony Guglielmi, the spokesman. He said a box for the weapon was discovered in the man’s vehicle after the incident, which took place around 1:30 a.m.

Investigators identified the man killed as 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person was not authorized to publicly discuss details of the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Trump has faced threats to his life before, including two assassination attempts during the 2024 campaign.

Motive still under investigation

The man entered the north gate of the property as another vehicle was exiting and was confronted by two Secret Service agents and a Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy, according to Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw.

“He was ordered to drop those two pieces of equipment that he had with him. At which time he put down the gas can, raised the shotgun to a shooting position,” Bradshaw said at a brief press conference. The two agents and the deputy “fired their weapons to neutralize the threat.”

The Moore County Sheriff’s Department in North Carolina said a relative of Martin’s reported him missing early Sunday morning. Investigators believe he picked up the shotgun on his way south.

Investigators are working to compile a psychological profile, and a motive is still under investigation. Asked whether the man was known to law enforcement, Bradshaw said “not right now.”

The FBI asked residents who live near Mar-a-Lago to check any security cameras they may have for footage that could help investigators.

In a post on X, FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau would be “dedicating all necessary resources” to the investigation.

Although the president often spends weekends at his resort, he and first lady Melania Trump were at the White House when the breach at Mar-a-Lago occurred.

Martin was described by family as quiet and averse to guns

On Sunday afternoon, vehicles blocked the entrance to a property listed in public records as an address for Martin at the end of a private road in Cameron, North Carolina.

Braeden Fields, Martin’s cousin, reacted with disbelief. He described Martin as quiet, afraid of guns and from a family of avid Trump supporters.

“He’s a good kid,” Fields, 19, said. He said they grew up together. “I wouldn’t believe he would do something like this. It’s mind-blowing,” Fields said.

He said Martin worked at a local golf course and would send money from each paycheck to charity.

“He wouldn’t even hurt an ant. He doesn’t even know how to use a gun,” Fields said.

He said his cousin didn’t discuss politics.

“We are big Trump supporters, all of us. Everybody,” Fields said, but his cousin was “real quiet, never really talked about anything.”

Trump faced two assassination attempts during his last campaign

Sunday’s incursion at Mar-a-Lago took place a few miles from Trump’s West Palm Beach club where a man tried to assassinate him while he played golf during the 2024 campaign.

A Secret Service agent spotted that man, Ryan Routh, aiming a rifle through the shrubbery before Trump came into view. Officials said Routh aimed his rifle at the agent, who opened fire and caused Routh to drop his weapon.

Routh was found guilty last year and sentenced this month to life in prison.

Trump also survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. That gunman fired eight shots before being killed by a Secret Service counter sniper. One rally attendee was killed by the gunman.

White House brings in shutdown politics

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a post on X that “the United States Secret Service acted quickly and decisively to neutralize a crazy person, armed with a gun and a gas canister, who intruded President Trump’s home.”

Leavitt used her post to blame Democratic lawmakers in Congress for the partial government shutdown affecting the Homeland Security Department, which began Feb. 14 after Democrats demanded changes to the president’s deportation campaign.

The Secret Service is among the agencies where the vast majority of employees are continuing their work but missing a paycheck.

“Federal law enforcement are working 24/7 to keep our country safe and protect all Americans,” Leavitt said. “It’s shameful and reckless that Democrats have chosen to shut down their Department.”

The White House referred all questions to the Secret Service and FBI. Both Trump and his wife posted statements on social media after the incident, but they were unrelated to the shooting.

Numerous recent acts of politically motivated violence

In the past year, there was the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk; the assassination of the Democratic leader in the Minnesota state House and her husband and the shooting of another lawmaker and his wife; and an arson attack at the official residence of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.

Five days ago, a Georgia man armed with a shotgun was arrested as he sprinted toward the west side of the U.S. Capitol.

The federal government has ordered Canadians in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to shelter in place due to violence erupting in the region.

Follow for key updates as they occur:

WestJet diverts flights enroute to Puerto Vallarta

In a statement to CTV News, WestJet said it has diverted seven flights that were enroute to Puerto Vallarta (PVR) and cancelled 37 flights to and from Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara (GDL) and Manzanillo (ZLO).

A WestJet spokesperson said 11 flights in Calgary have been impacted as a result.

“WestJet’s flexible/change policy has been put into effect for guests travelling to PVR, GDL and ZLO over the next two days. For guests currently in destination, WestJet and Sunwing are arranging extended stays so guests can comply with local official guidelines, the statement said.

“As conditions evolve, additional cancellations may be required to ensure the safety of everyone in WestJet’s world. We are advising all guests with imminent travel plans to Mexico check the status of their flight before heading to the airport.”

Mexican president urges calm

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum urged citizens on Sunday to remain calm and stay informed following the operation that led to the death of narcotrafficking kingpin Nemesio Oseguera, one of the most-wanted criminals in the country.

“There is absolute coordination with governments in every state; we should keep ourselves informed and stay calm,” Sheinbaum wrote on X.

Following the military operation, armed men blocked off multiple highways and burned businesses in the states of Jalisco, Michoacan, Guanajuato, Puebla and Sinaloa.

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‘Chaotic and fast-moving situation’

Ryan Voutilainen, who was scheduled to fly home to B.C. Sunday, is sheltering in place at his Airbnb amid violence in Puerto Vallarta.

Voutilainen told CTV News the first sign something was wrong came from a friend in a nearby hotel, who sent video of vehicles being set on fire around the “main drag” popular with tourists.

After taking shelter on the roof of his building, he said he saw “people on motorbikes pushing a car into an intersection and setting it ablaze and then actually looting the local corner store.”

While he felt relatively safe where he was, he said the uncertainty was unnerving.

“You don’t know what they’re going to do,” he said, adding, “it’s a very chaotic and fast-moving situation currently down here.”

For now, all he knows for sure is that he can’t leave.

‘People are trying to rebook’

“There’s black smoke you can see rising in the distance at several points around on the horizon, and the lobby is just absolutely jam packed where I am with tourists whose flights have been cancelled,” CP24.com journalist Joshua Freeman said from a resort located a few kilometres north of Puerto Vallarta.

“People are trying to rebook. I spoke to a couple of people in the lobby and they’re not quite sure what they’re going to do, because it’s a busy season right now, and hotels and resorts are full. So, a lot of uncertainty for travellers here.”

The area is a popular destination for Canadian tourists. At a resort north of the affected region, the beach remains open.

“You can see smoke rising off in the horizon and you don’t quite know what it’s about, but there’s not really much of a sense of, you know, not being safe here,” he said. The main road, he added, which is usually fairly busy is currently “dead quiet.”

‘It’s quite, quite tense’

Artur Wilczynski, a Canadian security expert in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, says he had a flight back to Ottawa today that was cancelled.

“The information that we have from our airline is that the soonest they can get us out will be Wednesday,” Wilczynski told CTV News Channel on Sunday.

“We booked a few more days here at the hotel to make sure we have a place to stay, and we’re going to play it by ear to see if we’ll be able to get out sometime hopefully tomorrow or Tuesday, but right now we’re scheduled with our airline for Wednesday.”

Wilczynski said he saw smoke outside his hotel this morning, and shortly after across the city, along with a few explosions. With little information at the time, he went to the beach to find out what was happening and returned when he learned more.

“It’s quite, quite tense,” he said. “We’re not allowed to leave the hotel. Our flights have been cancelled. All of the ride shares are cancelled. We could see from the rooftop of our hotel the road to the airport, and there was a fire set across from the cruise terminal next to a large shopping mall.”

Canada ‘deeply alarmed’

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada is closely monitoring what she described as a “serious and rapidly evolving” security situation in Mexico’s Jalisco state, including in and around Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta.

In a social media post on Sunday, Anand said the federal government is “deeply alarmed” by reports of violence and officials with Global Affairs Canada are in close contact with local authorities and stand ready to provide consular assistance to Canadians in the region.

“The safety and security of Canadians abroad remains our highest priority and it is for this reason that we are issuing an updated travel advisory,” Anand said.

Canadians told to ‘keep a low profile’

Global Affairs Canada (GAC) confirmed to CTV News that it was aware of reports of criminal groups setting up roadblocks with burning vehicles in several cities in Jalisco state, including Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

“A shelter-in-place order is in effect in Puerto Vallarta. All taxi and rideshare services are suspended until further notice,” a spokesperson for GAC said in an email to CTV News.

Canadians in Jalisco state are advised to keep a “low profile” and stay alert about the “rapidly evolving situation” via local and international media, GAC said. They are also advised to follow the advice of local authorities, including orders to shelter in place.

There are currently 18,703 Canadians registered as being in Mexico, including 4,672 in Jalisco state, according to Global Affairs Canada’s Registration of Canadians Abroad system.

However, officials noted that these numbers provide only an estimate of the voluntarily registered number of Canadians and are not exact, since some people may have registered with no travel plans.

“Canadian officials are providing consular assistance. Due to privacy considerations, no further information can be disclosed,” a GAC spokesperson said.

A 49-year-old man has been charged after a woman was killed in a collision in December 2025.

Shortly before 7:40 a.m. on Dec. 16, police were called to the intersection of Kress Street and Longman Crescent after a pick-up truck struck a female pedestrian. The 26-year-old woman was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries and later died.

The driver, Kevin Rieger, remained at the scene and contacted police.

Following a nearly two-month investigation by the Regina Police Service Investigative Collision Analysis Reconstruction Team and consultation with the Crown, Rieger is charged with unlawfully operating a motor vehicle at a speed greater than reasonable and safe.

He is scheduled to appear in Regina Provincial Court on March 30, 2026.

Lawyers for imprisoned British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell are fighting the requested release of 90,000 pages related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell, saying a law used to force the public release of millions of documents is unconstitutional.

The lawyers filed papers late Friday in Manhattan federal court to try to block the release of documents from a since-settled civil defamation lawsuit brought a decade ago by the late Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre against Maxwell. The Justice Department recently asked a judge to lift secrecy requirements on the files.

Maxwell’s attorneys said the Justice Department obtained the documents — otherwise subject to secrecy orders — improperly during its criminal probe of Maxwell. They said the documents include transcripts of over 30 depositions and private information regarding financial and sexual matters related to Maxwell and others.

Some records from the year-long exchange of evidence in the lawsuit battle were already released publicly in response to a federal appeals court order.

Maxwell’s lawyers say a law Congress passed in December to force the release of millions of Epstein-related documents violates the Constitution’s separation of powers doctrine.

“Congress cannot, by statute, strip this Court of the power or relieve it of the responsibility to protect its files from misuse. To do so violates the separation of powers,” wrote the lawyers, Laura Menninger and Jeffrey Pagliuca about the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

“Under the Constitution’s separation of powers, neither Congress nor the Executive Branch may intrude on the judicial power. That power includes the power to definitively and finally resolve cases and disputes,” the lawyers added.

The release of Epstein-related documents from criminal probes that began weeks ago has resulted in new revelations about Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse of women and teenage girls. Some victims have complained that their names and personal information were revealed in documents while the names of their abusers were blacked out.

Members of Congress have complained that only about half of existing documents, many with redactions, have been made public even as Justice Department officials have said everything has been released, except for some files that can’t be made public until a judge gives the go-ahead.

Giuffre said Epstein had trafficked her to other men, including the former Prince Andrew, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. She sued Mountbatten-Windsor in 2021, claiming that they had sex when she was 17.

He denied her claims and the two settled the lawsuit in 2022. Days ago, he was arrested and held in custody for nearly 11 hours on suspicion of misconduct in having shared confidential trade information with Epstein.

In a memoir published after she killed herself last year, Giuffre wrote that prosecutors told her they didn’t include her in the sex trafficking prosecution of Maxwell because they didn’t want her allegations to distract the jury.

Maxwell, 64, was convicted in December 2021 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Epstein took his own life in a federal lockup in August 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges. Maxwell was moved from a federal prison in Florida to a low-security prison camp in Texas last summer after she participated in two days of interviews with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Two weeks ago, she declined to answer questions from House Oversight Committee lawmakers in a deposition conducted in a a video call to her federal prison camp, though she indicated through a statement from her lawyer that she was “prepared to speak fully and honestly” if granted clemency.

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Saturday.

Brad Jacobs skipped the Canadian men’s curling team to a gold medal on Saturday at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

His Calgary-based team of Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert defeated Great Britain’s Bruce Mouat 9-6 in the final at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium.

Jacobs scored three points in the ninth end and stole a point in the 10th when Mouat’s final shot to force an extra end was slightly wide.

It was a back-and-forth battle between two of the best teams in the world on the sport’s biggest stage.

Great Britain missed a couple of double-takeouts in the ninth end and then bumped a freeze attempt. That allowed Jacobs to pick out the opposing stone near the button to take a two-point lead.

Up 8-6 in the 10th end, Jacobs made a big-weight hit with his final throw — with just 7.2 seconds left on the clock — to force Mouat to make a tricky shot to score two to tie.

When Great Britain’s rock overcurled, Canada scored a single and the celebration was on. Brooms flew in the air and the players and coaches hugged by the bench.

The Canadians walked over to a section of friends, family and supporters to share the moment. Kennedy hopped on the boards with his arms extended in the air, and Jacobs joined him as he held the Canadian flag with outstretched arms.

It felt like a road game for the Canadian team as the near-capacity crowd was strongly pro-Mouat.

The young team from Scotland was boosted by their sections of chanting, flag-waving supporters, who would frequently bang their feet on the grandstands.

Canada opened with hammer, but it was wrested away with an early force. Mouat made a draw for a deuce in the second end and Jacobs answered with a pair of his own.

The top-ranked Mouat made a mistake in the fourth end when he ticked a guard and rolled out of the rings. Jacobs, who rose to No. 2 in the world with the win — had a chance to set up a steal, but his draw was heavy. Great Britain was able to hit for one.

Jacobs made an error when he tried to blank the fifth end with a double-takeout but he hit the rock on the nose for one.

Canada controlled the sixth end but still gave Mouat a chance for a cross-house double-takeout. He nailed it as his teammates pumped their fists in the air and the crowd roared.

There was little room for slight mistakes against Mouat’s side of Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie and Hammy McMillan.

When Kennedy’s runback in the seventh left a Great Britain stone biting the 12-foot ring, Mouat made a great come-around that forced the Canadians to one.

Jacobs forced right back in the eighth as Mouat took a 6-5 lead.

When Mouat’s freeze attempt in the ninth slightly bumped the stone near the button, Lammie couldn’t hide his frustration. He swiped at his broomhead and sent the pad flying onto the other sheet.

The teams were joined by bronze medallist Yannick Schwaller and his Swiss team at the medal ceremony.

It was the second straight Olympic silver for Mouat’s foursome. Great Britain lost to Sweden’s Niklas Edin in the 2022 final in Beijing.

Gallant won bronze with skip Brad Gushue that year. Jacobs skipped a different team to an Olympic title in 2014 at Sochi, Russia.

Hebert and Kennedy won gold with skip Kevin Martin at the 2010 Vancouver Games.

The family of a 12-year-old girl who was critically injured in the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge say she is showing remarkable progress as she fights for her life in BC Children’s Hospital.

Maya Gebala opened one of her eyes for the first time Saturday, her mom Cia Edmonds said in a social media video filmed in the girl’s hospital room.

“Her eye is open and she’s responding and moving around, and she is moving her hands,” Edmonds said in the update to the thousands of people who have been following her daughter’s recovery journey on Facebook.

Earlier this week, Maya’s dad David Gebala shared that the Grade 7 student had begun taking her own breaths.

“Every single day, you show us just how strong, determined, and incredible you truly are,” her dad wrote in an update on the GoFundMe page set up to support the victim and her family. “You continue to defy every expectation the doctors and surgeons once prepared us for. We were told we only had hours and yet here you are, still fighting, still with us.”

The fundraiser has garnered more than $450,000 in donations as of Saturday afternoon.

Gebala was shot in the head and neck and the outcome of her recovery is still unknown, according to her family.

In a GoFundMe update Saturday, relative Krysta Hunt thanked everyone for the prayers, words of support, food, donations, flowers and cards that have flooded Maya’s way since the Feb. 10 tragedy.

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