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Prime Minister Mark Carney will have to navigate a delicate balance during his first in-person meeting with Donald Trump today, following months of the U.S. president targeting Canada with tariffs and taunts.

Carney and Trump will meet at the White House and the prime minister has said he expects "difficult, but constructive" conversations.

Carney has said the meeting will mark the beginning of a larger economic and security agreement between Canada and the United States.

Newly elected Conservatives and returning MPs are set to meet in Ottawa this morning as the party charts its path forward after last week's election loss to the Liberals.

Leader Pierre Poilievre, who lost his bid to continue representing the riding of Carleton after 20 years as the area's MP, will not be in the House of Commons when it opens later this month.

In a video posted on social media Monday afternoon, Poilievre says he has a lot to be thankful for after the election, including an expanded coalition of Conservative voters.

 Alliance will remain a 'standalone' brand under Canterra ownership.

The lone remaining shareholder in a pedigreed seed company formed by a group of independent grain handling companies in Western Canada is selling that business to another Prairie seed firm.

Canterra Seeds announced May 1 it has acquired Alliance Seed for an undisclosed amount, and will continue to operate Alliance as “a standalone brand under Canterra Seeds’ umbrella, with key staff transitioning to maintain continuity and customer relationships.”

SASKATOON — Canada has far fewer green peas than the government is reporting, says an analyst.

“Purely from a price perspective, markets believe the Canadian harvest was smaller than estimated by Statistics Canada,” Stat Publishing noted in a recent article.

Using crop insurance data, a “strong argument” can be made that growers planted 358,000 acres of green peas last year, well below Statistics Canada’s 463,000-acre estimate.

Stat believes the area has been over-reported since 2021.

Root rots are the number one disease issue for pulse crops, significantly impacting pea and lentil fields across the Prairies.  Studies show that the disease which thrives in warm, wet conditions can cause a yield loss of anywhere from 60 to 84 percent.

Last year, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture conducted a pulse disease survey, which focused on the root rot disease complex.

Jason Ganske of Rocky Mountain house won $265,405.10 on the March 28 Lotto Max draw!

Ganske said he scanned the ticket in-store and was so excited, he took a video of the win notification and immediately sent it to his wife. “When I sent her the video of the win coming up, she said, ‘What does that mean?’” he laughed. “I was just still in shock!”

On the night of Saturday, May 3, and into the early morning hours of Sunday, May 4, Red Deer RCMP received multiple reports of property damage, including numerous windows being smashed in both the downtown and south areas of the city.

A lone suspect was arrested in connection to these incidents.

The suspect, identified as Creed Goodrunning, a 26-year-old resident of Rocky Mountain House, has been charged with;

Lacrosse is set to take over Sylvan Lake from May 9 to 11, with the return of "War on the Shore".

Now in its sixth year, the tournament—hosted by Sylvan Lake Lacrosse—will see up to 320 players, along with their friends and families, come to town.

Rimbey Elementary School (RES) is celebrating a major win for its students after receiving a $5,000 grant from Hockey Alberta. The grant funded much-needed safety equipment for RES’s popular skating and sports programs.

The school’s skating program, where every class gets the chance to hit the ice twice a year, relies on a full set of helmets to keep students safe. But at the start of this school year, staff discovered that nearly all their helmets had expired.

The Red Deer Rebels have announced that recently acquired 17-year-old forward Zane Torre has signed a WHL Scholarship and Development Agreement with the team.

Torre was acquired by the Rebels from the Seattle Thunderbirds last month in exchange for a fourth-round pick at this week’s 2025 WHL Prospects Draft (via Everett) and a conditional fourth-round pick at the 2028 WHL Prospects Draft.