Global National: April 7

In Quebec and Ontario, hundreds of thousands of households remained in the dark on Friday after Wednesday’s powerful spring ice storm downed trees and power lines, leaving three men dead in the two provinces. Hundreds are expected to gather in downtown Winnipeg, calling for justice for Linda Mary Beardy after her body was discovered at a landfill and police ruled that her death was no longer being investigated as homicide. In Israel, rockets streaked across the sky, as local officials said it struck targets belonging to the Palestinian militant group Hamas in southern Lebanon and Gaza. The strikes took place as tensions continued to simmer, days after Israeli police stormed the al-Aqsa mosque. And finally, technology has helped mathematically confirm that a jawbone in Alberta did in fact belong to a direwolf, making it the northern-most confirmed example of the species ever found.