Global National: May 1

The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) has reached a tentative deal with the federal government, ending 12 days of strike action for 120,000 workers. The terms of the agreement, how it compares to what the union originally asked for, why 35,000 Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) employees are still on the picket line, and how that could affect your income tax return. Alberta’s provincial election campaign is officially underway, with NDP Leader Rachel Notley, who served as premier from 2015 to 2019, trying to regain power from Danielle Smith, who became premier and leader of the United Conservative Party in October 2022. Where the battleground races are, and the jabs both party leaders are taking at each other. Global Affairs Canada is urging people trapped in Sudan to make the perilous journey to Port Sudan, one of the last places left to escape the country since military flights have concluded. We hear from a Canadian trying to flee the violence, who says help is hard to come by. As Texas police search for Francisco Oropeza, the man accused of killing his five neighbours execution-style, officials now sharing new details about him, including the fact he was in the U.S. illegally. How many times he was previously deported, and how politics has now compounded the tragedy. And excitement is growing in London ahead of King Charles III’s coronation, as new details emerge about this monumental event. How the ceremony will be both unique and steeped in tradition.