A man and woman are facing charges following a break and enter at a home in the 1200 block of Cameron Street.

According to a Regina Police Service news release, officers were called at 11:40 p.m. on June 9 for a reported break and enter in progress.

Upon arriving on scene, police located the suspects inside the home and both were taken into custody without incident, according to the release.

Following the arrest, the release said officers found a pair of brass knuckles and a quantity of drugs on the suspects.

Police say the man arrested was found to have been in breach of a conditional release, prompting a warrant of apprehension to be issued as a result.

Both are charged with breaking and entering with intent while the man was additionally charged with failing to comply with condition of an undertaking.

Both made their first appearance in Regina Provincial Court on June 10.

A Saskatoon podcast host has ended her collaboration with Mark Drapak after he was recently charged with voyeurism.

Drapak, 45, co-hosted the Legacy of Abuse Podcast with Caitlin Erickson, which detailed their experiences as students at Saskatoon’s private Legacy Christian Academy, now called Valour Academy.

The school and its affiliate church (Mile Two Church) were at the centre of a $25 million class-action lawsuit that alleged years of abuse — in which Erickson and Drapak were among the plaintiffs.

Drapak is accused of taking inappropriate photos of women without their consent during a University of Saskatchewan (U of S) convocation ceremony on June 4.

In a statement, Erickson said she cut collaboration with Drapak immediately.

“Frankly, I am still processing the information and am stunned,” Erickson said.

“Anyone who knows me knows I am a strong advocate for justice and absolutely decry any of the alleged behaviour.”

The U of S confirmed Drapak is an employee and has been suspended.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Drapak has worked as an IT specialist at the university since 2008.

The Legacy of Abuse Podcast featured conversations with former students and discussions about the lawsuit.

In June 2025, the lawsuit was stayed after a judge ruled the plaintiffs failed to immediately disclose settlement agreements with three defendants.

The plaintiffs appealed the decision to Saskatchewan’s highest court.

In an affidavit filed as part of the lawsuit, Drapak alleges he was subjected to corporal punishment, psychological control and humiliation while attending Christian Centre Academy (the school’s name at the time) and Mile Two Church.

Those allegations have not been proven in court.

Drapak is scheduled to appear at Saskatoon Provincial Court on July 6.

The Regina Police Service (RPS) and the Saskatchewan Coroners Service are investigating after human remains were discovered earlier this week.

Police were dispatched to the 1300 block of Retallack Street at around 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday, June 9.

Once they arrived, officers found what appeared to be human remains outside a home in the area.

Additional units were called in and an investigation began.

The death is considered suspicious. However, as the investigation is in its early stages, no further details were provided.

RPS did note the discovery is unconnected to the ongoing search for 35-year-old Camille Jeanette Hilderman.

Anyone with information which could assist the investigation is asked to contact RPS or Crime Stoppers.

An overdose alert has been issued for Regina, as the Queen City has already experienced 100 overdoses in the month of June so far.

One hundred overdoses have been reported from June 1-10, according to data from the Regina Overdose Outreach Team and Regina Fire and Protective Services.

In Wednesday’s alert, the Ministry of Health said at least two suspected overdose-related deaths have also occurred during this period.

“These fatalities indicate a higher risk of overdose and death from drugs in the Regina area,” the ministry said.

It added that the opioid antagonist naloxone was used and effective in many instances, however the drug can’t be used to counter the effects of substances like benzodiazepines.

The substance that triggered the alert is unknown but in one reported case it was described as a pink-coloured product. The alert also said it was possibly sold as meth in one instance.

The alert is set to expire on June 17.

‘Data speaks for itself’

The Queen City saw a huge surge in drug overdoses in April.

According to data from the Regina Police Service (RPS), there were 415 overdoses in April – a large jump from 244 reported in March.

Seven people in Regina died from overdoses in April – adding up to 21 since January.

The opposition NDP said these numbers are climbing in spite of the province’s expansion of treatment spaces.

“This data speaks for itself. Overdoses are rising, and lives are at risk,” said Leroy Laliberte, the NDP’s critic for mental health and addictions.

“This is not a new problem. The Sask. Party government has had nearly 20 years to get a handle on the addictions crisis. We need immediate, decisive action — but instead, they continue to shift responsibility onto frontline workers who are already stretched thin.”

The RPS data revealed that police attended 63 of April’s reported overdoses and administered the opioid antagonist Narcan (naloxone) in 14 incidents.

“The Government of Saskatchewan is concerned about the number of overdoses in Regina, and all across our province, and the impact they are having on individuals, families, and communities. We are committed to finding solutions to address this complex issue with our partners,” read a statement from the Ministry of Health Wednesday.

“Under our multi-year Action Plan for Mental Health and Addictions, the Government of Saskatchewan is focused on getting more people the addictions treatment they need to overcome their addictions and live healthy, safe lives in recovery.”

The Official Opposition also pointed to the data from the Saskatoon Fire Department, which has responded to 680 overdoses in April.

The NDP said these numbers follow the closure of Saskatoon’s Prairie harm Reduction on April 9.

“The fact that this government can see more than 1,000 overdoses in a single month across our two largest cities and fail to act urgently is deeply concerning,” Laliberte added.

The Ministry of Health stated that reducing wait times continues to be a priority, adding this includes the creation 500 addiction treatment spaces across the province.

Of the 500 announced spaces, 333 have been made available as of Wednesday, according to the ministry.

These include:

• 16 sober living spaces at Pine Lodge Addiction Recovery in Regina;
• 60 inpatient spaces at Willowview Recovery Centre in Lumsden;
• 41 sober living spaces at St. Joseph’s Addiction Recovery Centre in Estevan; and
• 42 virtual spaces through EHN Canada.

The ministry also touted the newly passed Compassionate Intervention Act as a new tool to help combat the growing crisis. The Act allows for involuntary treatment in certain cases.

Saskatchewan’s southeast has yet again been battered by severe weather — the latest wave of storm activity involving a severe tornado near Oxbow.

Tanner Churchill was out for dinner celebrating his mom’s birthday Tuesday evening at Sandugo Bistro in Oxbow, located 240 kilometres southeast of Regina.

It was at this moment he received an emergency alert on his phone.

“Everybody kind of looked at each other and was like, ‘What the hell?’ Then I got up because I wanted to see what was going on,” Churchill said, referring to when he left the restaurant to take a look outside.

“We all just stood out here on the balcony and watched it for a minute or two and came back inside. It started raining and hailing soon after.”

Churchill captured the moment on his phone and called his childhood best friend Dustin Monsinger.

The two got in their cars and chased the storm together.

Numerous posts to social media from that evening captured what appeared to be a significant supercell tornado near Oxbow.

Footage submitted to CTV News captured what appeared to be a cone-shaped cloud forming. A separate video depicted what appeared to be a tornado touching down.

“I was in shock honestly,” Churchill said. “I had never seen a tornado that big or anything like that before and seeing it that close to town, it was scary. I was worried for Oxbow because it did look like it was coming this way. I’m glad we got missed.”

Monsinger said he received various phone calls from members of his family to stay safe, but insisted on going closer to the tornado.

“As soon as I got the alert, I got phone calls from one of my family members asking me to stay in the house in the basement,” Monsinger told CTV News.

“They were all telling me to stay home and I told them straight up … I’m not staying home for this. I’m going out. I’m going to go chase it.”

Although thrilled to have witnessed a tornado, both said they are happy the town didn’t receive significant damages compared to communities in the area.

“It’s definitely pretty impactful … the fire department, everybody’s really good for getting out there immediately and trying to help as much as they can,” Churchill noted.

“Especially with the grocery store because the closest one is in Estevan, which is a little further away you got to drive to if you can’t get any groceries here,” Monsinger added, referring to the town’s only grocery store being temporarily closed due to the damages from the storm.

Investigation underway

According to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), the thunderstorm cell responsible for the tornado developed over North Dakota before drifting into southeast Saskatchewan.

Both ECCC and the Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) confirmed an investigation was underway into a tornado that touched down in the Oxbow area.

Teams with NTP were already in the area investigating a tornado that touched down near Hirsch on June 7.

That tornado has been rated as an EF-1 while the Oxbow tornado received a preliminary rating of EF3 from NTP.

If confirmed, the Oxbow tornado would represent the strongest tornado in Canada since 2023, when an EF4 struck near Didsbury, Alta.

Both ECCC and the NTP made reference to damage in the area, with one farm being directly hit.

“The confirmed tornado that affected the Oxbow, SK area east of Estevan unfortunately directly hit at least one farmstead and caused major damage,” the NTP said in its update.

“So far no reports of injuries, thankfully.”

ECCC meteorologist Terri Lang told CTV News Wednesday there’s common misconceptions on how experts rate the severity of tornadoes.

“It’s a common belief that we rate tornadoes on how they look, and that’s not true. We rate tornadoes on the damage that they do,” she explained.

“This looks like it was on the ground for a fair time, so it’s going to take time to assess the entire path of where it went and the damage that it did.”

Lang noted that cleanup efforts can actually delay or negatively impact the investigation.

“Because we’re in Saskatchewan, as soon as somebody’s farm is hit, everybody rushes out and tries to clean and help, and all that kind of stuff. Sometimes that takes away a little bit of the evidence, so it’s really imperative to get out there as fast as you can,” she said, noting that physical damage is used along with radar images, and reports from the public to complete a tornado assessment.

Tornadoes in Saskatchewan

• 2017 - 12
• 2018 - 20
• 2019 - 14
• 2020 - 7
• 2021 - 11
• 2022 - 25
• 2023 - 1
• 2024 - 18
• 2025 - 23

Source: Northern Tornadoes Project

Drought conditions in recent years has led to a decline in tornadoes - due to the role moisture and humidity play in creating severe weather.

“This is the time of year that we do get tornadoes, big hail, winds, all that kind of stuff. So it’s important that people sort of remember that,” Lang said.

“Past few years, we’ve had some dry summers, and we don’t get a lot of tornadoes during dry summers, so this is more typical of what we’re seeing.”

A night of severe weather

The tornado came at the climax of an evening filled with severe weather warnings.

Golf ball-sized hail and localized flooded was reported in Regina, while the communities of Weyburn and Indian Head both reported 30 millimetres of rain.

Much of Manitoba was under tornado watches Tuesday evening while several areas, such as St. Anne and Otterburne, were issued tornado warnings.

More than 100 km/h wind gusts and torrential rainfall were also reported through southern Manitoba.

On Wednesday at 11:35 a.m., ECCC issued a special weather statement for southern Saskatchewan, with conditions favourable for the development of funnel clouds due to a low pressure system.

Several parts of southeastern Saskatchewan were hit with extreme weather on Tuesday, including a reported tornado touching down near Oxbow. Regina didn’t come out unscathed either, as many residents reported seeing toonie to golf ball-sized hail.

“The siding on the house is all chipped away,” Frances Waterfield, a homeowner in the Regina Uplands neighbourhood said. “The big garage door is all pelted. I was hoping my front window wouldn’t have gotten broken. Thank God I got it replaced just last year.”

According to a weather summary from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) on Wednesday, localized flooding was also reported in Regina.

“You can see that the water went all the way up,” Joan Ellis, a volunteer at the Evangelical Free Church said. “Halfway up the lawn [the water] carried leaves and rubbish. I am glad it didn’t go right up to the door, otherwise we would have had trouble.”

Both Weyburn and Indian Head reported about 30 millimetres of rain, ECCC said. Wind gusts reaching 85 km/h were also reported in Yorkton and Estevan.

“We’ve seen this a few times before in heavy storms where we get tornado warning or watches that animals become injured. In most cases, they know to go somewhere safe and to get shelter but sometimes, they are caught off guard,” Megan Lawrence, the director at Salthaven West said.

Since the storm, Jeremy Pilon, a communication consultant at SGI, said they have received over 2,000 calls for vehicle claims, along with 200 more for home damages.

“We know that wait times are going to be long,” he said. “There are only so many adjusters around. But what we are doing is planning what we call an appraisal blitz so that people can come through and get their appraisal done really quickly.”

Moscow called Canada a “warmonger” for signing a drone production deal with Ukraine and vowed to publish the address of a Canadian company working with Kyiv.

Defence Minister David McGuinty said Canada will not be intimidated.

Two weeks ago, Ottawa announced a corporate partnership between Canadian and Ukrainian drone makers that could see drones made in Canada deployed to Ukraine’s front line.

The deal involves Ukrainian company Airlogix and Canadian drone maker Sentinel R&D, which is based in Hamilton, Ont.

At a press briefing Wednesday in Moscow, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in Russian that she will be sharing the address of the Ontario company involved.

She argued the deal allows Ukraine to hide vital military supplies in a third country and that Canada is not living up to its peacemaker rhetoric when it behaves like “a warmonger.”

Russia’s ambassador in Ottawa has said the drone deal means Canada is seeking to profit from the ongoing conflict — which Russia insists is not a war. He and Zakharova both said Moscow is taking Canada’s drone deal into account in Russia’s military and political planning.

McGuinty said military officials work to keep Canada safe and Ottawa will continue to support Ukraine.

“We would expect to see the Russians to be critical, because they don’t appreciate the fact that NATO is coming together to assist a country that’s in need,” he told reporters on Parliament Hill.

“We’re going to continue to monitor the situation, but we’re going to continue in steadfast support of our Ukrainian colleagues.”

Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and its full-scale invasion in 2022 has caused a rapid evolution in drone technology, which now accounts for most of the casualties in the ongoing conflict.

Asked Wednesday about the upcoming review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, the free trade deal between the three countries, U.S. President Donald Trump said, “I’m not looking to renew it.”

“We don’t need anything” that Canada or Mexico has, said the president.

By July 1, all three countries must say whether they would like to renew the agreement for 16 years, or commit to annual reviews, per the schedule baked into the deal.

On-and-off informal negotiations between the U.S. and Canada have been going on for months, and the latter has already indicated it’s interested in renewing the trade pact. The U.S. and Mexico, meanwhile, have said they’re making progress on their formal bilateral talks.

CUSMA, or USMCA as it’s known in the U.S., has shielded Canadian goods from a large portion of U.S. import tariffs.

Leaders on both sides of the border have called it the best trade deal with the U.S. in the world. Trump sang its praises on Wednesday, but for one reason specifically.

“It gave the right to terminate,” he said.

“NAFTA was the worst trade deal I’ve ever seen,” said Trump, referring to CUSMA’s 1994 predecessor, the North American Free Trade Agreement. “I made it better, but I had the right to terminate. And with NAFTA, we didn’t have the right to terminate.”

“USMCA did one thing that I love. After six years, it comes up for renewal,” he added. “I don’t know that I’m going to renew it. Because to be honest with you, the United States does much better, OK? We don’t need anything that Canada has. We don’t need anything that Mexico has, but they need everything that we have.”

Canada has exported US$127-billion worth of goods to the U.S. so far this year, according to the American census bureau. Canada imported US$114 billion-worth of American goods, meaning the U.S. has accrued a US$12 billion trade deficit so far in 2026.

The trade deficit, a measure of the difference between imports and exports, has irritated Trump, who has repeatedly cited it as a problem with Canada-U.S. trade.

“We should have surpluses with them,” he said, referring to both Canada and Mexico.

During a scrum on Parliament Hill Wednesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney didn’t answer when asked by reporters to respond to Trump’s statements. CTV News has reached out to Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc’s office for comment.

Canadians in Washington

Canada has been on the charm-offensive in recent days as the review date draws nearer.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has wrapped his two-day tour to Washington to push his “Fortress North America” for tariff free trade with the U.S. He posted photos of a discussion with the industry group Autos Drive America. He also had a meeting with the American Farm Bureau Federation and sat down with the American Automotive Policy Council.

Last week, LeBlanc made Canada’s intentions to renew the deal clear with a letter to his counterparts in the U.S. and Mexico.

“This agreement is highly beneficial to each of our countries and to the integrated North American economy,” LeBlanc wrote in a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Mexican Secretary of Economy Marcelo Ebrard.

‘Typical Donald Trump bluster’

CTV News political commentator Tom Mulcair chalked Trump’s latest rhetoric as a negotiating tactic ahead of the July 1 deadline. The American economy is deeply intertwined with those of Canada and Mexico, and Mulcair says “(Trump) knows it, we know it, and again, this is all typical Donald Trump bluster.”

“The trade deficit is largely due to the fact that we export, cheaply, lots of petroleum straight to the United States to be refined there,” he said, adding Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made a similar point during a keynote speech in New York.

“So, if Donald Trump wants us to put an end tomorrow to the trade surplus, we can. And we’ll stop shipping them oil cheap. And they can pay much more on the global market,” he added.

An October 2025 analysis of crude oil exports by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) found energy exports accounted for $197 billion in 2024. That’s more than metals and minerals ($124 billion), food and produce ($102 billion), transportation ($98 billion) and forest product ($38 billion).

After meeting domestic refining needs, 95 per cent of Canada’s oil exports go to the United States, “due to proximity and Canada’s limited access to alternative trade partners,” the report notes.

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