By Canadian Press

In the news today: Liberals take 4th mandate but size of win unclear

Apr 29, 2025 | 2:15 AM

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…

PM Carney vows to stand firm against U.S.

After coming out victorious in a tight election campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney is vowing to unite a divided country in the face of ongoing tensions with the United States.

In a speech delivered to supporters early Tuesday morning, Carney promised to lead a government that represents all Canadians and said the country works when Canadians work together.

Carney — who will now take a seat in the House of Commons for the first time, having won his Ottawa-area riding — is continuing in the role of prime minister in the middle of a trade war with the U.S.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh lost his Vancouver-area seat and announced he’d be resigning as party leader once the party selects an interim replacement.

At least a dozen NDP MPs have lost their seats, and preliminary results show it may be difficult for the party to maintain official party status — which gives a party access to research funding and more opportunities to ask questions during question period.

Here’s what else we’re watching…

Family of 3 killed in festival attack: brother

Richard Le sent a text to his 16-year-old son on Saturday at about 8 p.m., saying he and the teen’s stepmother and little sister would soon leave the Lapu Lapu Day festival in Vancouver.

Instead, Le, his wife, Linh Hoang and their five-year-old daughter Katie were run down moments later; the family is among the 11 people killed in a ramming attack, Le’s brother said Monday.

Police and witnesses have said a black SUV raced down a crowded street lined with food trucks, leaving the dead and dozens of injured victims in its wake.

Of the 32 people sent to hospital on Saturday, police say seven people remain in critical condition and three more have serious injuries.

Festival suspect’s brother was killed in 2024

Vancouver Police have confirmed that the suspect in Saturday’s deadly ramming attack that killed 11 people in the city is the brother of a man who died in an unrelated killing last year.

Thirty-year-old Adam Kai-Ji Lo — who has been charged with eight counts of second-degree murder with more charges anticipated — is the brother of Alexander Lo, who was killed in January last year in Vancouver.

A fundraiser was set up by Adam Lo for his brother’s funeral expenses, but it has since been removed from the GoFundMe crowdfunding platform.

Adam Lo wrote that his brother had been killed in a “senseless act of violence” and that despite their “disagreements,” the death had hit him with “overwhelming force.”

A second request for funding was set up by Adam Lo in September 2024, where he said his mother tried to take her own life after his brother’s killing.

Hockey players’ sex assault trial continues

The sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team is set to continue today in London, Ont.

Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote have all pleaded not guilty to sexual assault in connection with an encounter at a hotel room in the city in 2018.

McLeod has also pleaded not guilty to an additional charge of being a party to the offence of sexual assault.

Jurors heard the detailed allegations against the players for the first time Monday as the Crown made its opening submissions.

Prosecutor Heather Donkers told the court the complainant felt she had no choice but to go along with what the group of men told her to do inside the hotel room that night.

Ruling today on Quebec daycare bus crash case

A Superior Court judge is to render a decision today on whether a Quebec man is not criminally responsible after he drove a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023, killing two children and injuring six others.

Justice Éric Downs will tell the court whether he accepts the joint recommendation of criminal non-responsibility from the Crown and the defence in the case of Pierre Ny St-Amand.

Separate psychiatrists — one for the Crown, the other for the defence — evaluated Ny St-Amand and came to the same conclusion: it is likely he was experiencing psychosis when he drove the bus into the daycare in Laval, Que., on the morning of Feb. 8, 2023.

Ny St-Amand, a former Laval public transit employee, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder, and assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm in relation to the six other children who were injured.

The Crown has said it will seek to have Ny St-Amand declared a “high-risk accused,” a designation that involves stricter rules governing absences from any treatment facility.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 29, 2025.

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