The Weeknd wins big at pre-telecast Junos, Arkells take sixth group of the year awardTORONTO — The Weeknd has another armful of Juno Awards for his shelf this year, but the Canadian superstar didn't show up in Edmonton to accept them. He's up for another two Junos on the Monday broadcast: album of the year and the fan choice award voted on by viewers. Other musicians vaulted obstacles to make the Junos, including members of Arkells who battled flight cancellations in Newfoundland. Three of them made flights in time to win their sixth group of the year honour. The pre-telecast Junos saw more than 40 awards handed out at the Edmonton Convention Centre with "Run the Burbs" star Andrew Phung and CBC Music's Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe co-hosting the event.

CBC Radio’s Ismaila Alfa is leaving “Metro Morning” to host a weekend show after three years. CBC announced the news Friday, saying Alfa will be the new host of Radio One’s “Fresh Air,” starting on March 25. “(I am making this move for) a number of very selfish reasons,” Alfa said on Friday speaking on “Metro Morning” as a guest. “We will now begin the search for a new host.”Nigeria-born, Winnipeg-raised Alfa has been hosting “Metro Morning” since the summer of 2020. Alfa has been with the CBC since 2008 and previous to Metro Morning, he hosted CBC Radio One’s “Up to Speed,” Winnipeg’s afternoon news and current affairs program.

Vision-impaired curlers compete in Winnipeg for a spot at nationalsDuration: 02:32CBC's Riley Laychuk visits Charleswood Curling Club in Winnipeg, where the Western Canadian Blind Curling Championships are being held. With two Manitoba rinks represented, the winners will qualify for the national championships.

“They're the only organisms that are causing extinctions in real time. There are millions of different kinds of fungal species out there, and they cause different kinds of infections,” Cowen, a professor in the department of molecular genetics in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, told host Matt Galloway. “Some of them you can acquire by inhaling spores that are widespread in the environment. Some of them are already inside your body and living there as sort of natural members of your microbiota. Cowen, who admits she hasn’t yet seen The Last of Us, said that understanding fungi could help us better understand ourselves.

Liberals begin consultations on foreign influence registry, but with no timelineOTTAWA — The Liberal government is beginning consultations to create a foreign influence registry, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino announced Friday, but he refused to say when the measure could be up and running. "There are few greater challenges that we face than foreign interference," Mendicino said at a news conference on Parliament Hill. The registry would require people who act on behalf of a foreign state to advance its goals to disclose their ties to the government employing them. The consultations will begin Friday and run until May 9, including through a virtual portal on the Department of Public Safety's website. Mendicino signalled late last year that the Liberal government wanted to hear from experts and the broader public, including members of affected communities, about creating a registry.

The Winnipeg-based Centre for Child Protection runs Cybertip, Canada’s tip line for reporting online child sexual abuse. It has reported receiving “an unprecedented volume of reports from youth, and sometimes their concerned parents, about falling prey to aggressive sextortion tactics,” amounting to about 300 online sextortion cases a month. Cybertip is now warning about sextortion recovery scams, wherefraudsters target the same people who were victims of the extortion scam, claiming they will be able to recover intimate images for a fee. Attorney General Niki Sharma tabled legislation Monday that would provide additional protections for people whose intimate images are shared without permission. Steve Brighton, who works for the Southern Alberta Internet Child Exploitation Unit, said police are also concerned about the rise of sextortion recovery scams.

Climate change slowing down, not speeding up, movement of large Arctic rivers: studyYELLOWKNIFE — Scientists have long believed that rapid warming in the Arctic would cause river channels to move faster, but a new study has found the opposite may be true for large, winding rivers in the region. "If the temperature goes up and the frozen ground is progressively melting, the reverse would have found less resistance to erosion." The study focuses on 10 sinuous rivers wider than 100 metres in permafrost terrain, including the Mackenzie, Porcupine, and Yukon rivers. This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 10, 2023. This story was produced with the financial assistance of the Meta and Canadian Press News Fellowship.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League’s Player Safety Committee today announced that Laval Rocket forward Riley McKay has been suspended for one (1) game as a consequence of his actions in a game vs. Belleville on Mar. McKay received an automatic one-game suspension under the provisions of AHL Rule 23.3 for accumulating his third game misconduct in the “general” category this season. He will miss Laval’s game tonight (Mar. 10) at Syracuse.

Ten years removed from the Stars selecting winger Valeri Nichushkin and center Jason Dickinson, ESPN’s Greg Wyshynski did a re-draft of the 2013 NHL draft. 29 slot by Dallas, would not have been drafted in the first round at all in this scenario. With Nichushkin taken by the Red Wings, the Stars would be free to draft winger Anthony Mantha, who Detroit actually drafted in 2013 with its first-round selection. In the re-draft, Domi would be taken by the Maple Leafs with their pick at No. Dallas recently traded for Domi from the Chicago Blackhawks, but had he been drafted by Toronto would a deal to bring him to the Stars ever have happened?

It’s past time to regulate PFAS to protect the health of everyone who drinks water and consumes fish from contaminated waters. PFAS-contaminated freshwater fish PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, is a class of more than 9,000 chemicals with strong carbon-fluorine bonds that make them highly persistent in the environment. These monitoring studies have found detectable levels of at least 5 different PFAS chemicals in most fish sampled, even though the fish were collected from randomly selected sites instead of known or suspected PFAS hotspots. We need PFAS fish consumption advisories Given their widespread use and persistence, it is not surprising that PFAS chemicals have contaminated fish throughout the country. PFAS monitoring More PFAS monitoring —using better analytical methods — is also essential.

The investigation found that the people behind or associated with Paper Excellence appear to have a pattern of using thickets of corporations, including in tax havens, effectively shielding transactions and assets from public and government scrutiny. Paper Excellence maintains it is completely independent from APP and is owned solely by Jackson Wijaya. He said it shouldn't take investigative journalism for Canadians to know how Paper Excellence operates. Simard said he would like Paper Excellence to reveal its business plan and spell out its plans to invest in Resolute's mills in Quebec. Green Party Co-Leader Elizabeth May said she has long had concerns about Paper Excellence as she watched it grow in Canada over the years.

Wilson Williams (Sxwíxwtn), a Squamish Nation Councillor and Spokesperson, will deliver the keynote address at VIU’s Indigenous Speakers Series event on March 20. One aspect of history that Sxwíxwtn, now a Squamish Nation councillor and spokesperson, learned about was the fate of the Nation’s traditional village in what is now downtown Vancouver. In 1867, when First Nations were put on reservations, 88 acres were allocated to the Nation at Sen̓áḵw. “My great grandfather and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh lawyers, environmentalists and activists fiercely fought for decades to have these lands rightfully returned to our Nation,” said Sxwíxwtn. “We hope this development inspires more Indigenous governments to start their own economic development projects,” said Sxwíxwtn.

Traders work the floor of the Vancouver Stock Exchange, June 29, 1979. But what Adastra Labs legitimately has is one of the first Health Canada licences to possess, produce, package and sell cocaine. The project permits drug users to possess up to 2.5 grams of opioids, such as cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and fentanyl. An investor, in theory, may have read the release and perhaps reasonably concluded that Adastra Labs could legally sell cocaine to anybody. Hale is polite and friendly in conversation, but not one for chatting much about his time at Adastra Labs.

Comedian Sarah Silverman said during an interview on CBC Radio One’s “Q with Tom Power” that she cringes at some jokes from her past, but claimed it’s a normal learning process as time goes on. Silverman has made a career out of using shoc value in her comedy, from saying, “I hope the Jews did kill Christ, I’d do it again” in a standup routine, to wearing blackface in a past comedy skit. M-word for little person.”Sarah Silverman said in an interview on “Q with Tom Power” that she cringes at some jokes from her past, but noted it’s a normal learning process as time goes on. Silverman said that learning from the past and growing is a natural process that entertainers and society as a whole must accept. Silverman, who is known for her shock value in comedy, had performed in blackface in the past.

The “Everything Everywhere All at Once” star and best actress nominee shared screenshots, which she later deleted, of a Vogue article that mentions a fellow nominee, as reported by Variety. The article titled “It’s Been Over Two Decades Since We’ve Had a Non-White Best Actress Winner. Will that change in 2023?” mostly highlights a historic lack of representation at the Academy Awards. Yeoh’s Everything Everywhere All at Once is leading the awards this year with 11 nominations among them Best Picture, Best Director (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh), Best Supporting Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu) and Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan). The 95th Academy Awards will be taking place on Sunday, March 12 in Los Angeles.