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Winnipeg family seeks public inquiry after inquest into teen's fatal police shooting
Family renews call for inquiry into police deaths
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth (Mandatory Credit)
The family of a First Nations girl fatally shot by Winnipeg police is renewing calls for a public inquiry into police-related deaths of Indigenous people.
Eishia Hudson was killed in 2020 after the vehicle she was driving was involved in a liquor store robbery and police chase.
The inquest into the 16-year-old's death, which concluded last week, heard an officer fired two shots at Eishia because he believed the lives of his fellow officers were in danger.
William Hudson, Eishia's father, says he is pushing for the province to call a public inquiry to examine the broader issue of police-related deaths and how Manitoba investigates them.
The inquest examined whether the use of force was appropriate and whether systemic racism played a role in Eishia's death because the suspects were identified as Indigenous.
Judge Margaret Wiebe is to deliver her final report at a later date on ways to prevent similar deaths.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 20, 2026.
By Brittany Hobson | Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
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McDonald's drone drop at Quebec maximum-security prison highlights contraband risks
McDonald's delivery to prison highlights risks
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It was after dark last Wednesday when a drone dropped silently from the sky over the special handling unit of a maximum-security prison in Quebec.
Slipping into the gap between the chain-link fencing and the window — which was broken from the inside — it delivered its contraband contents to the man waiting within: a McDonald's meal and a bottle of alcohol.
Prison guards making the rounds in the morning found the intoxicated inmate along with the remains of his late-night snack.
Frédérick Lebeau, national president of the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers, said the fact that this happened in this particular high-security unit is a warning.
"It's kind of a funny thing, the McNugget trio … but it could be worse. It could be firearm, it can be a ceramic knife," he said.
"We are seeing an increase of violence in every institution in this country."
Lebeau said security cameras on the outside of the Regional Reception Centre at Ste-Anne-des-Plaines, Que., failed to capture the drone drop. Counter-drone technology also did not pick up the intrusion.
Drone deliveries of contraband are an ongoing problem at prisons across the country.
Correctional Service Canada uses measures like radio frequency detection to alert staff when a drone is in the area. Lebeau said that technology is not sophisticated enough to catch the newer drones.
A spokesperson for Correctional Service Canada said incidents like this "underscore the need for ongoing investment in technologies and infrastructure."
Kevin Antonucci said in an email that the correctional service is implementing "physical mitigation measures" such as nets at the Regional Reception Centre.
"These measures are designed to disrupt and prevent the delivery of contraband, such as drugs, weapons, and other prohibited items that can threaten the safety of staff, inmates, and the public," he wrote.
Lebeau said there were stepped-up measures in place after the incident became public, but extra outdoor patrols at the facility were ended on Monday.
He said the federal government needs to spend a lot more money to prevent this kind of thing from happening.
"We need to take it seriously," he said.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 20, 2026.
By Sarah Ritchie | Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
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Trump walks back threat to ban Bombardier sales in U.S.
Trump walks back threat against Bombardier
U.S. President Donald Trump is backing down on a threat to ban Bombardier Inc. plane sales in the United States.
Trump said Monday night in Wichita, Kan., that he's changed his view of the Quebec-based business jet maker as a purely Canadian company and does not want to follow through on "hurting" it, given its presence in the city, where the company employs 1,500 workers.
Wichita serves as the seat of its defence division, and is one of several states where Bombardier counts about 3,500 American employees in total.
Kansas, where farmers have felt the cost of the Iran war in higher diesel prices, has turned into a political battleground as Republicans and Democrats fight for control of the typically red state ahead of next month's midterm elections.
Last month, Trump suggested he would bar Bombardier's business in the United States unless it moved its operations there, despite the harm experts said such a move would inflict on American workers.
Bombardier shares rose $9.10 or about three per cent to $320.57 by midday Tuesday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 20, 2026.
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By Christopher Reynolds | Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
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