A 13-year-old is dead following a serious crash in north Regina, police say.

In an update issued just after 2 p.m. Thursday, the Regina Police Service (RPS) revealed that the collision that had shut down the area surrounding 6th Avenue North and Smith Street was fatal.

The 13-year-old victim, who had been a passenger in the vehicle, was declared dead at the scene.

Photos from the scene show a convertible sedan lying on its passenger side. Behind it, a power pole appears to have been sheered in half by the vehicle – as a large section of the pole could be seen under the car.

According to RPS, officers responded to the scene around 5:30 a.m. When officers arrived, they found a vehicle that appeared to have collided with a power pole and then rolled.

The service’s investigative collision analysis reconstruction team were called to the scene and began investigating.

Police say the investigation is ongoing and charges are expected.

“The road is once again open and motorists can resume their regular activities,” the update read.

RPS concluded by saying more information will be released at “a later time.”

A teenager has died in what RCMP believe was a rollover west of the village of Morrin.

Early Thursday afternoon, Three Hills RCMP responded to a call for an abandoned vehicle on Highway 27 at Range Road 213.

When they arrived, they found one person dead, apparently ejected from the sedan.

RCMP say the victim is a 17-year-old boy from Saskatchewan.

No other vehicles were involved in the crash.

Anyone with information about the crash is asked to contact the Drumheller RCMP at 403-823-7590 or your local police.

A child has died after he was hit by a vehicle while riding his bike in Ogema, Sask. on Thursday.

Coronach RCMP first received a report of a serious collision at the intersection of Bradley Street and Saskatchewan Avenue around 5:30 p.m., according to a news release from Saskatchewan RCMP.

Local fire and EMS crews also responded to the scene, with investigation determining the a vehicle and a child on a bicycle collided.

EMS declared the child, a boy under the age of 10, dead at the scene. The driver of the vehicle stayed at the scene while investigation took place.

RCMP say the child’s family has been notified.

A collision reconstructionist and Coronach RCMP continue to investigate the collision’s cause.

Ogema, Sask. is located about 116 kilometres south of Regina.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says U.S. President Donald Trump’s new 35 per cent tariffs are disappointing and that Canada should refrain from any retaliatory measures that would cause harm to Canada’s economy.

However, he says that efforts remain in effect to ensure the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade agreement (CUSMA) remains in effect.

“While Saskatchewan is disappointed in the Trump administration’s decision to increase tariffs on non-CUSMA compliant Canadian goods to 35 per cent, Canada’s efforts to ensure CUSMA remains in effect means that 95 per cent of Saskatchewan exports to the U.S. will remain tariff-free,” he said in a statement.

Moe says CUSMA remaining in effect is very significant given the U.S. has imposed across-the-board tariffs on many countries.

Trump signed an executive order activating tariffs against 68 countries and the European Union Thursday evening. New tariffs of 35 per cent on Canadian exports, effective Friday, exclude products under CUSMA, the White House has said.

Moe says Canadian exports that remain tariff-free now have a competitive advantage relative to other countries facing tariffs on the same products.

“Our government will continue to engage with U.S. businesses and lawmakers to improve our trade relationship while continuing to expand our export markets to over 160 countries around the world that buy Saskatchewan products,” he said.

He says Saskatchewan will also continue to press the federal government to adopt the “Strong Saskatchewan, Strong Canada Plan” to approve economic infrastructure projects and eliminate regulations hindering economic development.

A shooting at a Montana bar left four people dead Friday, prompting a lockdown in a neighborhood several miles away as authorities searched for the suspect in a wooded, mountainous area.

The shooting happened around 10:30 a.m. at The Owl Bar in Anaconda, according to the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation, which is leading the investigation. The agency confirmed four people were pronounced dead at the scene.

The suspect, identified as 45-year-old military veteran Michael Paul Brown, lived next door, according to public records and bar owner David Gwerder.

The bartender and three patrons were killed, said Gwerder, who was not there at the time. He believed the four victims were the only ones present during the shooting, and was not aware of any prior conflicts between them and Brown.

“He knew everybody that was in that bar. I guarantee you that,” Gwerder said. “He didn’t have any running dispute with any of them. I just think he snapped.”

Brown’s home was cleared by a SWAT team and he was last seen in the Stump Town area, just west of Anaconda, authorities said.

More than a dozen officers from local and state police converged on that area, locking it down so no one was allowed in or out. A helicopter also hovered over a nearby mountainside as officers moved among the trees, said Randy Clark, a retired police officer who lives there.

Brown was believed to be armed, the Montana Highway Patrol said in a statement.

Brown served in the U.S. Army as an armor crewman from 2001 to 2005 and deployed to Iraq from early 2004 until March 2005, according to Lt. Col. Ruth Castro, an Army spokesperson. Brown was in the Montana National Guard from 2006 to March 2009, Castro said. He left military service in the rank of sergeant.

As reports of the shooting spread through town, business owners locked their doors and sheltered inside with customers. At Caterpillars to Butterflies Childcare, a nursery a few blocks from the shooting scene, owner Sage Huot said she’d kept the children inside all day after someone called to let her know about the violence.

“We’re constantly doing practice drills, fire drills and active shooter drills, so we locked down the facility, locked the doors, and we have a quiet spot where we play activities away from all of our windows and doors,” Huot said.

Anaconda is about 75 miles (120 kilometres) southeast of Missoula in a valley hemmed in by mountains. A town of about 9,000 people, it was founded by copper barons who profited off nearby mines in the late 1800s. A smelter stack that’s no longer operational looms over the valley.

The owner of the Firefly Cafe in Anaconda said she locked up her business at about 11 a.m. Friday after getting alerted to the shooting by a friend.

“We are Montana, so guns are not new to us,” cafe owner Barbie Nelson said. “For our town to be locked down, everybody’s pretty rattled.”

Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas as her criminal case generates renewed public attention.

The federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday that Maxwell had been transferred to Bryan, Texas, but did not explain the circumstances. Her attorney confirmed the move but also declined to discuss the reasons for it.

Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of helping Epstein sexually abuse underage girls and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. She had been held at a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida, until her transfer to the prison camp in Texas, where other inmates include Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and Jen Shah of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.”

Minimum-security federal prison camps house inmates the Bureau of Prisons considers to be the lowest security risk. Some don’t even have fences.

The prison camps were originally designed with low security to make operations easier and to allow inmates tasked with performing work at the prison, like landscaping and maintenance, to avoid repeatedly checking in and out of a main prison facility.

Maxwell’s case has been the subject of heightened public focus since an outcry over the Justice Department’s statement last month saying that it would not be releasing any additional documents from the Epstein sex trafficking investigation.

Since then, administration officials have tried to cast themselves as promoting transparency in the case, including by requesting from courts the unsealing of grand jury transcripts.

Maxwell was interviewed at a Florida courthouse over two days last week by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

The House Oversight Committee has separately said that it wants to speak with Maxwell. Her lawyers said this week that she would be open to an interview but only if the panel were to give her immunity from prosecution for anything she said.

A retired dentist who admitted he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a patient has been ordered to pay a $30,000 fine.

Gary Levine, a former member of the Manitoba Dental Association (MDA) who retired in 2024, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct charges before an MDA inquiry panel in April.

According to a summary of the panel’s decision, a former patient of Levine complained to the association alleging the dentist had been involved in an inappropriate sexual relationship with her.

The panel found Levine’s conduct was “clearly and demonstrably” in breach of the MDA’s code of ethics when he pursued and engaged in sexual relations with a “financially vulnerable” patient and provided dental services for free to further the relationship.

“His conduct constituted sexual harassment of the patient,” the summary wrote.

The panel heard the patient met Levine in 2005 when she brought her son in for dental correction. The summary said Levine proposed a payment plan for the woman and her two sons to get braces after he found out she was a single mother.

The summary said the woman became a regular patient of Levine’s for five years and received additional dental work from him in subsequent years.

“Shortly after the patient’s first appointment, Dr. Levine began engaging in flirtatious behaviour with the patient, which progressed to sexual encounters and intercourse between Dr. Levine and the patient, both at Dr. Levine’s home and at his clinic,” the summary said.

The panel heard Dr. Levine stopped charging the patient fees for dental services after their sexual relationship started.

“Carrying on a sexual relationship at the clinic and the subsequent waiver of fees was deemed entirely unacceptable,” the summary stated.

The summary said Levine had no disciplinary history with the MDA prior to the complaint and noted the dentist was cooperative during the inquiry process.

Levine was reprimanded by the panel and must pay $30,000 to the MDA for the investigation and hearing. He is also ineligible to seek registration with the MDA for six months.

The summary noted if Levine seeks registration following that period, he must have a chaperone present for any interaction involving a female patient.

Levine would also be required to complete an educational course on maintaining professional boundaries with patients.

Unionized workers at Canada Post have voted to reject the Crown corporation’s latest contract offer.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers said Friday that 68.5 per cent of urban mail carriers who voted were against the deal, while their rural and suburban colleagues were 69.4 per cent against.

The offer included wage hikes of about 13 per cent over four years but also added part-time workers that Canada Post has said are necessary to keep the postal service afloat.

The union had urged the roughly 55,000 postal service workers it represents to reject the proposal.

“It’s time for Canada Post to come back to the bargaining table and start seriously negotiating,” it said in a bulletin.

“With these votes behind us, Canada Post must now recognize that the only way forward is to negotiate ratifiable collective agreements that meet postal workers’ needs.”

A national overtime ban for members remains in effect.

Canada Post had said the offer reflected the company’s “current realities while protecting items that are important to employees” and accounting for “needed changes to help begin to rebuild the company’s parcel business.”

The Crown corporation has previously said its operating losses amounted to $10 million a day in June.

“While we are disappointed in the results, we want to thank employees for participating in the process,” the postal service said in a statement on Friday, adding that it’s evaluating next steps.

The vote, which opened July 21, was administered by the Canada Industrial Relations Board, which stepped in earlier this year after federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu intervened in the labour dispute.

Hajdu said Friday that after 18 months of negotiations, “it was important for workers’ voices to be heard.”

“Federal mediators have supported parties since August 2024 and will remain available to assist the parties until they reach a deal,” Hajdu said in a statement.

“The government is monitoring this situation closely and expects the parties to reach a resolution as soon as possible.”

Canada Post and the union have been at odds with one another for more than a year and a half.

Last holiday season, postal workers went on strike, leaving mail and parcels undelivered and many post offices closed.

They returned to work the week before Christmas, when the labour minister established a process with the Canada Industrial Relations Board to assess the likelihood of Canada Post and the union reaching an agreement by the end of 2024.

The board, led by Commissioner William Kaplan, eventually found that Canada Post was essentially bankrupt.

The board’s final report tabled in May showed Kaplan recommended an end to daily door-to-door mail delivery and an expansion of community mailboxes, among other measures to keep the postal service in business.

He also endorsed Canada Post’s model for adding part-time mail workers — one sticking point in negotiations — and largely blamed the stalled negotiations on CUPW defending “business as usual.”

Dan Kelly, the president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, called Friday’s results “extremely disappointing.”

“This just brings more uncertainty at a time when small businesses are already struggling to plan ahead,” Kelly said in a statement.

“We can’t keep doing this. If there’s another strike, two in three businesses may walk away from Canada Post permanently.”

Kelly called on the federal government to extend the current agreement for the “foreseeable future” to prevent another strike from happening.

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