The Regina Police Service (RPS) says the possible remains discovered near Mosaic Stadium earlier today were not bones at all.

In an update issued Wednesday afternoon, RPS confirmed the apparent ‘bones’ that were discovered was actually a calcified piece of metal.

Officers were called to the 1700 block of Elphinstone Street just after 10 a.m. after what appeared to be bones were found by a crew working in the area.

The service’s major crimes and forensic identification units did respond to the scene.

RPS thanked the public and its investigative partners for their assistance.

Two weak tornadoes from a series of storms on Aug. 30 have added to the total number of twisters in an extremely active 2026 tornado season in Saskatchewan.

New data from the Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP), a research team from Ontario-based Western University, confirms both late season tornadoes touched down in the Wawota area.

The first is described as a “vortex-funnel cloud aloft west of Wawota,” but NTP said the view of the surface below was unclear.

No damage was reported, but satellite images revealed a path of crop damages in the area. It’s been given the default intensity rating of EF-0.

The second new tornado was near Vandura, about 18 kilometres northwest of Wawota. Satellite data shows the tornado touched down about 40 minutes after the first, despite trees obscuring the surface below in witness video of the funnel cloud.

It was on the ground for less than a kilometre, and was also given the EF-0 default.

The new confirmations are in addition to a previously-verified tornado at Maryfield the same day. Updated data did reveal a path of crop damages, with the tornado on the ground for just under three kilometres. The preliminary rating of EF-0 default was unchanged.

Alongside the two added tornadoes in Saskatchewan, NTP has also accounted for two new tornadoes in Manitoba and one in Alberta, also from Aug. 30.

Saskatchewan’s count of 39 tornadoes as of Sept. 24 makes 2026 by far the busiest tornado season since NTP began collecting data in 2017.

The high count was partially caused by major storms on July 10 and July 11.

The strongest tornado of the season was an EF-3, which touched down near North Portal and stayed on the ground for 32 kilometres.

Tornadoes in Saskatchewan by year (NTP)

• 2017 – 12
• 2018 – 20
• 2019 – 15
• 2020 – 7
• 2021 – 11
• 2022 – 26
• 2023 – 1
• 2024 – 19
• 2025 – 23
• 2026 – 39 (As of Sept. 24, 2026)

Farmers across Saskatchewan are facing delays in their harvest progress, with the province reporting 41 per cent of crops are in the bin – well behind the five-year average of 82 per cent.

The delay in harvest operations are mainly due to rainfall, humidity and wet field conditions, according to the province’s latest crop report for Sept. 15 to 21.

The southwest is reported to have completed 67 per cent of its harvest, followed by the west-central region at 45 per cent, the southeast at 38 per cent, and the east-central areas of the province at 29 per cent.

Sitting at the bottom of the report is the northwest at 26 per cent and the northeast at 24 per cent completion.

John Kotylak, who farms mostly canola and wheat in the Balcarres area, said he is around 32 per cent done his harvest. Although behind, he credits his progress so far to his grain dryer, noting the wet conditions have dragged the entire process out.

“Not much dry grain has been taken off. It’s all gone through the dryer,” Kotylak told CTV News Thursday morning, as he waited for the fog to clear up before heading out in the field.

“If you do get a day here or there then, you are progressing, but those days are few and far between this year.”

Kotylak said he had 60 per cent of his crops off the field at this time last year. However, the constant humidity has continuously interrupted this year’s progress.

“We were doing some fall pre-work on other fields whereas this year we’re moving grain every day, from the wet bins into the dryer, from the dry bins into bigger bins,” Kotylak explained.

“Your days, it’s not just fill up the combines fix whatever, you’re going from when the sun comes up till the sun goes down.”

The crop report accounts for winter cereals, pulses and spring-seeded cereal crops of harvest progress, with winter cereal harvest reporting to be nearly complete.

Overall crop damage still unclear, says specialist

Wet field conditions throughout the season have played a role into the delay of harvest, according to Kim Stonehouse, a crops extension specialist with the Ministry of Agriculture.

“We had slow progress at seeding time due to the late warm up and high snowfall from last year that created an excessive amount of runoff when it happened all at once, which delayed seeding,” Stonehouse explained.

“Then, that would have pushed back maturity and of course then that leads to a later harvest.”

This week’s report also outlines the damage to crops were caused by flooding and wind, with some reports of low-lying areas lost to water accumulation.

“We won’t know the extent of this damage until the crop is in the bin,” Stonehouse said.

“The crops that are laying in the field are affected adversely by high moisture conditions, particularly when we have rainfall and whatnot. That causes downgrading of cereals as well as sprouting of crops.”

He added there has been cases of sprouting in canola and lentils.

Moist conditions remain as the top concern for Kotylak. If a crop’s moisture levels are over a certain percentage, quality degrades and buyers will not take it.

“It’s going to be a tough year to move this crop because the south doesn’t typically have dry grain this year. Other years we’ve shipped grain to Moose Jaw because south of Moose Jaw, everything coming in is dry,” he explained.

“We’ve got, let’s say 15 [per cent] wheat, well they can blend it with the stuff south, but this year we don’t have.”

“Everybody’s got the same problem,” he added.

With temperatures expected to rise this weekend, Stonehouse said he is hopeful for next week’s crop report.

“The higher temperatures that we’ve experienced over this last weekend and into this week have helped farmers progress considerably and moving towards the finish line,” he said.

“… Next week there will be a report, I’m hoping that the numbers will be well beyond what they are right now.”

A $35 million overpass project in Moose Jaw is almost complete.

The new Highway 2 overpass over Highway 1 is part of a project that saw the demolition of two 60-year-old bridges that previously linked the two highways.

It also replaces an older cloverleaf interchange with a modern diamond to improve traffic flow and safety, while also lowering the amount of maintenance needed, according to the province.

During construction, the new overpass has lower clearance than its predecessor. However, the final clearance height will be almost a full metre higher once work is complete.

Minister of Highways Kim Gartner explained the importance of the height.

“We’re raising the elevation of the bridges to allow the flow of traffic underneath. We’ve had a number of bridge strikes at this location over the years, and we’re trying to make the highways as safe as possible, bring it up to our new standard which is 5.3 metres in height.”

The entire project is expected to be complete by mid October as long as weather co-operates, with final paving, fine grading and site restoration still on the to-do list.

Canada’s first F-35 has taken to the skies. It’s the first new model of fighter jet with Canadian markings in 44 years.

The historic first flight took place Wednesday in Fort Worth, Texas, home to Lockheed Martin’s final assembly plant.

The F-35 will replace at least some of the Royal Canadian Air Force’s (RCAF) aging CF-18 Hornets, which Canada first took delivery of in 1982.

Canada signed on in 2023 to buy 88 of the jets, but Prime Minister Mark Carney ordered a review in March 2025 amid tensions with the United States. The first 16 aircraft are committed, while the government weighs whether to buy the remaining 72 or turn to alternatives such as Sweden’s Saab Gripen.

The CF-35A Lightning II with “Canada” painted behind the cockpit and a maple leaf on the tail, took off just before noon for what witnesses say was a roughly 90-minute flight.

Gherardo and Victoria Mae Fontana, a husband-and-wife team of aviation enthusiasts and photographers, captured the moment and posted it on Instagram. Video shared by them shows the Canadian jet coming in to land, trailed by a second F-35 flying as a chase plane.

“There were quite a few people!” Victoria Fontana told CTV News in a message when asked if there was a crowd. She said the Dallas-Fort Worth area has a sizable plane-spotting community that are interested in both military and commercial aircraft.

The only apparent official acknowledgement came from Lockheed Martin Canada’s X account, which posted: “The first CF-35A took to the skies for the first time today.”

Asked for more details, a spokesperson for Lockheed Martin said, “questions would be best addressed by the Department of National Defence (DND).” CTV News has reached out to the DND for comment but has not yet received a response.

“I think the silence is ordered,” says Scott Clancy, a retired RCAF major-general, an adviser at Henley Strategies and a fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.

“So, this is now just a political decision and that’s why the Canadian Armed Forces has been specifically told you will not comment on that,” said Clancy.

Clancy said pilots in the Canadian Armed Forces including future F-35 pilots are excited for the new plane.

“They’re very excited about this generational advancement that they’re going to make in terms of technology and they are preparing hard for that.”

Despite the controversy around the purchase of the jet, Clancy said Canadians should take notice of the first flight.

“I think we should be proud because a significant portion of that jet, although we call it an American jet, is Canadian,” he said.

Lockheed Martin says each F-35 contains more than $3 million in Canadian-made components from suppliers in six provinces, including the F-35A’s horizontal tail assemblies built by Magellan Aerospace in Winnipeg.

After a woman died of severe hepatitis caused by an accidental Tylenol overdose at her home, a Quebec coroner is recommending reducing the size of over-the-counter containers.

Coroner Dr. Edgard Nassif’s report says that a relative of the 81-year-old single woman living in Dorval called 911 on July 1 after noticing that the woman was confused.

The woman’s name is redacted in the report.

Paramedics arrived to find her confused about the time of day and transported her to the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM)’s emergency department, where she was treated for hypoglycemia.

After more tests, doctors found she had severe liver damage and was developing hepatic encephalopathy, a decline in brain function due to liver dysfunction.

Due to her declining health, the woman’s family opted for palliative care over aggressive medical treatment, and she died on July 5.

The woman, according to the report, suffered from high blood pressure and dyslipidemia (unbalanced cholesterol or triglyceride levels) and struggled with alcoholism.

However, she was independent, had friends, and a close relative spoke with her every day.

Acetaminophen poisonings rising

Health Canada says that acetaminophen (the ingredient in Tylenol and other pain relievers) poisoning can occur when the product is used longer than recommended or a user takes more than the maximum recommended daily dose (four grams per day).

“While acetaminophen is broken down by the liver, if you take too much, it can build up and become toxic,” Health Canada says. “A buildup of acetaminophen can cause a form of liver injury called drug-induced hepatitis. If severe enough, it can affect the way your liver works or even cause your liver to stop working.”

Health Canada adds that around 4,500 hospitalizations in the country are the result of acetaminophen overdoses, and around 700 of those were reported as accidental or unintentional.

The Quebec Poison Control Centre said that in 2025, there were 3,562 acetaminophen poisoning cases and 5,696 cases involving multiple drugs, including acetaminophen.

The centre says that number has been steadily increasing since 2022.

About six per cent of the total cases in Canada result in liver injuries, including liver failure, which could lead to the need for a transplant or death.

Tests revealed fulminant hepatitis in the Dorval woman when admitted at the CHUM. Her chronic alcohol consumption may have led to a lower tolerance threshold for the medication, the report says.

“Furthermore, taking other medications can increase the risk of poisoning,” the coroner’s report says. “A relative found an empty acetaminophen bottle in her apartment ... It is highly likely that (the woman) took several acetaminophen tablets without realizing it or remembering the time interval between doses. Her memory lapses and alcohol consumption may have contributed to an uncoordinated ingestion of acetaminophen.”

Smaller bottles

The coroner’s report points out that, though deaths like the Dorval woman’s are not common, the “costs and long-term effects resulting from poisoning can be significant.”

Nassif writes that North American research shows excessive acetaminophen consumption is the leading cause of liver failure and that England enacted legislation limiting the size of over-the-counter packaging, “which has reduced the number of deaths caused by this medication by 43 per cent, as well as reducing the number of hospitalizations and liver transplants.”

In 2016, Health Canada changed its labelling standards with clearer instructions and stronger warnings to help consumers use the pills more safely.

Nassif recommends that Health Canada “study the effectiveness of reducing the size of over-the-counter and pharmacy-sold acetaminophen containers to assess its potential to reduce accidental or intentional poisonings.”

A Canadian warship is pressing ahead with exercises in the Indo-Pacific region despite a warning from North Korea that it would “mobilize all means available” in response to the multinational drills.

HMCS Regina had just wrapped up its participation in Pacific Vanguard 2026, a multilateral exercise led by the U.S. Navy with the navies of Japan, Australia and South Korea, when Pyongyang denounced the maneuvers as a “war rehearsal” aimed at the country.

The warning came from Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, as the Canadian frigate prepares to take part in another large-scale exercise with the U.S. and Japan.

The ship’s commanding officer downplayed the threat this week in a video call from the frigate near Cambodia.

“This is what navies do—and what they’ve been doing since they’ve existed—is practising for worst-case scenarios,” Cmdr. Darren Sleen told CTV News.

“The exercise is not designed with any specific campaign plan in mind,” he said, adding that the training is intended to strengthen partnerships with allies and demonstrate collective deterrence.

Both Pacific Vanguard and the upcoming Keen Sword exercise focus on air defence and anti-submarine warfare with partner militaries from across the region. But in an era of simmering conflict, Sleen said the scope of the exercises has been fluid.

“Right now, the geopolitical climate, as you know well, is very dynamic,” he said. “So, ships that actually show up to the exercise have been a little bit different than we expected because assets are being pulled all over the world to deal with whatever their governments need them to deal with.”

Missile test aborted

HMCS Regina left British Columbia for a six-month deployment in June. The vessel joined the Rim of the Pacific exercise in Hawaii, where it was expected to conduct a live firing of the Evolved Sea Sparrow Block II missile, the navy’s most advanced air-defence weapon.

The test was aborted at the last minute, however, after faults were discovered with two of the drone-like targets used at the U.S. missile range.

“There was a technical failure with two of the targets, and so we didn’t actually fire the missile because it just didn’t make sense to expend those resources,” Sleen said.

The fast-moving targets were supposed to follow a specific flight path before being engaged by the interceptor missile, but a problem with the target’s control system forced the crew to abandon the test.

“The team worked for about three months prior to that, running through all of the requirements to fire that missile and to practise those tactics,” Sleen said.

“We got we got all of the training value, except we didn’t get the thrilling conclusion to actually see the missile fly—a big disappointment for the team.”

The ship is expected to undergo two weeks of maintenance in South Korea before conducting patrols under Operation Neon, the Canadian military’s longstanding contribution to enforcing United Nations sanctions on North Korea.

The Department of National Defence says its participation in the maritime interdiction efforts limit North Korea’s ability to finance the development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.

HMCS Regina is expected to return to Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt in December.

Israel’s increasingly isolated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took center stage at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, defending his decision to attack Iran as an easy one.

Hamas said it was ready to move forward on a Gaza peace agreement, while a top European Union official said only a small amount of the funds needed to rebuild the Gaza Strip has been collected.

Here is a look at the latest news from the Middle East.

Netanyahu calls claims of Gaza genocide the ‘lie of the century’

Allegations of Israeli genocide in Gaza are “the biggest lie of the century,” Netanyahu told world leaders in a defiant speech before the UN General Assembly.

Netanyahu’s appearance in the hall was met with a mix of cheers, boos and mass walkouts. Scores of delegates trooped out and a majority of seats sat empty as he spoke.

“If there are any other moral cowards who have not yet left the hall, please do so now,” Netanyahu said.

His voice rising in emphasis, Netanyahu said attacking Iran “was one of the easiest decisions I’ve ever had to make” and denounced as “moral cowards” delegates who walked out of the hall.

Abbas addresses UN by video after visa is denied

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was forced to address the UN in a prerecorded video after the United States again denied him a visa to attend the General Assembly.

The 90-year-old leader’s popularity at home and relevance abroad have both waned. But in his remarks, Abbas made clear he did not intend to quietly accept being sidelined.

“We will not leave our homeland. We will not accept displacement. And we will not allow anyone to decide our future on our behalf,” Abbas said.

Though world leaders have repeatedly invoked the plight of Palestinians in speeches throughout the week, Abbas urged the international community to take more tangible action against Israel.

It was the second straight year Abbas was denied a visa.

Hamas says it’s ready to advance Gaza peace agreement

A Hamas spokesman said the group is ready to move forward with the next steps of a peace agreement, after Trump’s Board of Peace unveiled a six-month, US$2.45-billion plan for Gaza’s reconstruction.

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem expressed the Palestinian militant group’s “full readiness to implement the Board of Peace’s roadmap” but made no mention of any disarmament plans.

Israel has said it will not allow reconstruction until Hamas disarms.

Last year, Hamas agreed to a plan that includes disarmament but has since traded accusations with Israel of ceasefire violations and has accused Israel of violating the agreement by continuing to occupy much of Gaza.

A top EU official said only one billion euros (US$1.1 billion) has been raised of the 71 billion euros (US$80.8 billion) that the United Nations, the World Bank and the 27-nation European Union estimate are needed to rebuild Gaza.

Houthis claim attacks on Saudi targets

Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed attacks on a “sensitive target” in the Saudi capital of Riyadh and on Aramco oil company facilities in the Saudi port city of Yanbu, but did not provide evidence of those claims.

Houthi military spokesperson Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said in a statement that cruise and ballistic missiles and drones were used, but did not specify when. It was the second claim of an attack against the Saudi capital in days.

The rebels also said they fired dozens of missiles and drones on the southwestern Saudi province of Jazan. Saree said that they were in response to the “unjust siege and the launching of aggressive airstrikes” from Saudi territory.

The Associated Press couldn’t independently verify the claims.

The Saudi government and Aramco did not immediately respond to requests for comments. A Saudi military spokesman, Maj. Gen. Turki al-Malki, had said earlier that six ballistic missiles targeting Saudi Arabia‘s Red Sea port of Yanbu and southwestern city of Taif had been intercepted.

At the UN, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, said he wasn’t worried about a Houthi takeover of parts of Yemen, and that the government is “very capable of defending the territory it controls.”

Asked about the U.S. decision to not get militarily involved against the Houthis, the prince deflected. He also refused to say whether Saudi Arabia would join the Abraham Accords, saying that the full implementation of the Gaza peace plan must happen before anything else.

UN urges access to humanitarian aid for civilians in Yemen

The UN pleaded for the fast delivery of humanitarian aid in Yemen as fighting between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and Saudi-backed government forces intensifies an already dire humanitarian situation.

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk said people fleeing violence need access to food, shelter and healthcare. Ground fighting, artillery and aerial strikes have killed and wounded at least 125 civilians since the beginning of August. also called for the release of 73 UN staffers detained by the Houthis in the past few years.

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