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[00:00:00]Tonight, a chilling connection linking the Mexico shooting to the Coline massacre.

[00:00:10]What investigators uncovered about the shooter's motive.

[00:00:13]>> Some of the tourists started screaming, ducking, and running.

[00:00:17]>> Plus, new eyewitness accounts of the chaotic escape. The new power players on Canada's trade council.

[00:00:24]>> Negotiations necessarily don't take place in public. and where tense US talks go from here. Plus, breaking the ice.

[00:00:37]>> Why this giant ice block became the hottest thing in town.

[00:00:52]CTV National News with Omar Sachadina.

[00:00:55]Reporting tonight, Heather Wright.

[00:00:58]>> Good evening. Security has been stepped up at tourist sites across Mexico a day after a Canadian woman was shot dead and more than a dozen others wounded at a popular historic site. Authorities believe the attack was planned. CTV's Adrien Gobriel looks at what we know about this shooter and the potential motive.

[00:01:19]Gunshots can be heard piercing through the air as screams echo from the base of the Teot walk-in pyramids as tourists run for cover. This all taking place at one of the most popular tourist destinations on the planet. The shooting was initially reported at 11:20 a.m. on Monday. This web camera recording of the historic site shows the first moments as visitors began to run for their lives.

[00:01:42]>> Let's go. Let's go. A closer look shows the gunman pacing, holding the 38 caliber firearm he used to kill one Canadian. The deadly attack injuring at least 13 more, including a 29year-old Canadian woman and a 6-year-old boy from Colombia. The Teaotiwakan pyramids are located here, roughly 45 km northeast of Mexico City, making it a popular day trip from Mexico's capital.

[00:02:11]The shooter has been identified as 27year-old Julio Caesar Yaso of Mexico.

[00:02:16]Seen here carrying a backpack. Mexican authorities say inside they found pamphlets related to an infamous US mass shooting.

[00:02:24]>> A shooting up here at Coline High School.

[00:02:26]>> The Monday attack coinciding with the April 1999 anniversary of the Coline High School massacre in Colorado where two students opened fire, killing 13 classmates and one teacher. Today, Mexico's president shared her condolences with the family of the Canadian killed, as did Prime Minister Mark Carney.

[00:02:44]>> We're working with Mexican authorities on the situation. But it's a it's a sad day.

[00:02:48]>> It's a day that many witnesses who survived are still coming to terms with.

[00:02:53]>> Some of the tourists started screaming, ducking, and running.

[00:02:56]>> While some ran, others jumped to a landing below alongside the pyramid. We kind of try to hold on with our hands and kind of extend our full body length and then let ourselves drop from there.

[00:03:10]Following roughly 10 minutes of terror, the Mexican National Guard shot Ramirez in the leg as he climbed near the pyramid's peak. That's where he turned the weapon on himself and took his own life. With Mexico set to co-host the upcoming World Cup alongside the United States and Canada, there are now calls for tighter security measures at historic sites in that country. Ottawa is calling on a prompt and thorough investigation.

[00:03:36]Heather.

[00:03:37]>> All right, Adrien Gobriel in Toronto.

[00:03:39]Thank you. US President Donald Trump says he will extend the ceasefire with Iran that was set to expire tomorrow.

[00:03:47]Trump posted online that he's directed the military to continue the blockade and remain ready and able. He says he'll extend the ceasefire until Iran comes up what with what he calls a unified proposal.

[00:04:00]Meanwhile, the US military says it boarded an oil tanker in the Indian Ocean that had been sanctioned for smuggling Iranian crude oil. The Pentagon says they boarded without incident. As Canada, the US, and Mexico prepare for July's KOSMA negotiations, today Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled a new trade advisory council. A group of some familiar political faces along with union, industry, and financial executives. CTV senior political correspondent Mike Lucur on the makeup and the mandate of the panel.

[00:04:37]As the crossber tensions ramp up in the playoffs, the prime minister is assembling his own team to enter the trade arena with the US.

[00:04:45]>> I'm very pleased to have that group.

[00:04:47]It's a it's a diverse uh a diverse group, leaders in uh from the union movement, uh experts in industry.

[00:04:55]>> A carney's reconstituted Canada US advisory committee brings together 24 CEOs, former politicians, and business leaders. Holdovers from the previous version include Unifor president Lana Payne, former Quebec Premier Jean Shah, and Flavio Vulpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association. Now, there are plenty of new faces, including former Conservative leader Eron Tul, the president of the Aluminum Association of Canada, Jean Simal, and the head of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.

[00:05:28]>> We can't forget about our small and medium enterprise businesses. That's 98% of our businesses. While conservative leader Pierre Polyv didn't criticize the committee, he took aim at Carney's pace of negotiations.

[00:05:40]>> He's done absolutely nothing on this file in the last year other than use it to stoke fear.

[00:05:46]>> The minister leading trade talks with the US pushed back on that idea.

[00:05:51]>> Negotiations necessarily don't take place in public. We have made a deliberate decision not to discuss the content of our conversations with American officials publicly. There's a lot of focus on July 1st, which is kind of a checkpoint. It's not a cliff.

[00:06:07]>> Speaking to a business crowd, Canada's lead trade negotiator with the US downplayed the deadline for the KOSMA review.

[00:06:14]>> There is no need to renegotiate. There's no need to open it up and and change fundamental underpinnings of it. It is a robust agreement.

[00:06:23]>> While Shet said Canadians will need to hold their nerve, she also warned, "We may not go back to a tariff-free existence. We once had Heather >> Mike Lucur in Ottawa. Thanks Mike. CTV's chief political correspondent Vashi Capellis joins us now. And Vashi, where do Canada's trade talks with the US stand and where do we go from here?

[00:06:46]>> Hi Heather. Well, it's not really easy to get an answer to that question. I had a chance to talk to the minister in charge of those talks, Dominic Leal, this evening, and I asked him point blank, "Look, the US ambassador is saying there have been no serious negotiations since October. Is that the way that he would characterize it? He said no that there are ongoing active discussions. They are serious in nature.

[00:07:07]But it is also true that when you stand in contrast to the to Mexico rather who has formal negotiations like formal meetings that are taking place have in March and will at the end of May with the United States as a starting point for the KSMA review. We simply don't have any of those dates set yet and I think it does beg the question why not?

[00:07:27]Now the minister insists that nothing is a miss that Canadians should not read into that. But he also accuses the United States like the prime minister has in the past of weaponizing Canada's dependence economic dependence on it. It all leads me at the end when you say where is this all going to ask the minister does the government want KSMA to remain intact if that's the way you're framing the economic relationship with Canada and the United States. The minister's answer was conclusive. He said absolutely. Heather. All right, Vashy, thank you for this. Executives with Loheed Martin made a stop in Quebec today, part of a charm offensive as Ottawa reviews how many F-35 fighter jets it will purchase from the US defense contractor. Canada had ordered 88 jets, but began reassessing its options after Donald Trump took office.

[00:08:15]Here's CTV's Quebec bureau chief Jean Boschman.

[00:08:19]>> With signatures and a handshake, Loheed Martin penned a plan. the aerospace giants executives landed in Marbel with a memorandum of understanding on the maintenance of F-35 fighter jets. This executives to maintain even create jobs.

[00:08:34]>> This partnership that we're here to celebrate today just continues an extension of this trust and the relationship that we've already established and really builds upon that foundation that we have with Canada.

[00:08:45]>> This Marbel facility has maintained Canada's armed forces fleet of now aging CF-18s for decades. It has now set its sights on the F-35s.

[00:08:55]Ottawa initially planned to purchase 88 of those Loheed Martin jets and has bought 16, but as US Canada tensions flared up, it announced a review. The government is now weighing whether to run a dual fleet and replace a number of F-35s with Swedishmade Grippins.

[00:09:11]>> The original contract certainly uh is what we we hope uh to be able to support up to 88 F F-35s. None of the executives would link the maintenance plan to a minimum number of purchased F-35s. L3 Harris MAS wants federal money to upgrade. This in a bid to transition to a maintenance depot for F-35s from other countries too.

[00:09:32]>> But on their short visit to Marbel, Loheed Martin executives also packed a message about the benefits of a full fleet of F-35s.

[00:09:40]>> We are very excited though about the full 88 airplane buy of Canada. Knowing that having a single fleet, what that does with the interoperability with NATO, what it does to ensure one training program, one infrastructure program.

[00:09:53]>> Ottawa hasn't said yet when it will unveil its final decision on the contract. Jean via Bosch, CTV News, Miraabel, Quebec.

[00:10:00]>> Toronto police are looking for a Montreal man who they say opened fire inside a shopping mall.

[00:10:06]>> I just heard the big bang the minute I opened the door.

[00:10:10]>> I heard the shock, loud bang, and saw the victim fall down as well. and there was like blood coming out.

[00:10:15]>> Police say the security guard was shot and left with life-threatening injuries after confronting the 53-year-old suspect during an attempted jewelry store robbery. Police did not disclose the quantity of jewelry the suspect ran off with.

[00:10:32]In a Vancouver courtroom today, Crown attorneys argued that an ex-RCMP officer was not only working for China, but also putting the life of a Vancouver realtor in danger. CTV's Judy Tren now on the foreign interference trial of William Micer.

[00:10:48]>> No, not right now. Only because he doesn't want to say anything.

[00:10:51]>> William Mer, charged under Canada's official secrets law, is accused of laying the groundwork to force a Vancouver real estate agent named Kevin Sun to return to China to face punishment for alleged fraud. His lawyer says the crown's evidence is circumstantial.

[00:11:09]>> Mr. Sun himself says it's all rubbish.

[00:11:11]China doesn't want me. Nobody's ever asked for me.

[00:11:14]>> The Crown alleges Micer participated in China's Fox Hunt program launched to repatriate Chinese nationals suspected of corruption. Human rights groups say the campaign was used to threaten and intimidate the diaspora. After retiring from the RCMP, Micer, a money laundering expert, moved to Hong Kong to help corporations recover stolen assets. The Chinese government was one of his clients. His business among other things uh helps others in collecting debts in effect as do lawyers who sue people as do you know collection agencies.

[00:11:53]>> In 2021 CEUS issued an espionage alert for Micer. Vancouver police detective Paul McNamera was also flagged for his connections to the exmounty. I want an answer as to why CEUS provided false and misleading information to the United States government and I lost my job.

[00:12:13]>> The trial judge has already tossed out some evidence in this case and has ruled that Micer's arrest in 2023 without a warrant violated his charter rights.

[00:12:24]Judy Trin, CTV News, Vancouver.

[00:12:27]Police have released footage of a dramatic winter weather rescue after a person got lost while taking wildlife photos in Sous St. Marie, Ontario.

[00:12:36]>> Hypothermia is going to set in. This is your toque. Got to get your toque on.

[00:12:42]>> This happened last February when the woman lost the trail in frigid temperatures and called a friend who then alerted police. She was outside for 3 to four hours stuck in deep snow when rescue crews arrived. Doctors said she wouldn't have survived much longer in the cold.

[00:13:02]Moving east to Sudbury, where water levels have hit historic highs as spring flooding has triggered a state of emergency.

[00:13:13]>> Persistent flooding around the Ottawa River has forced some rural communities to shut down roads. Dozens of homes remain at risk due to the rising water.

[00:13:26]And in New Brunswick, the St. John River near Frederickton continues to climb faster than expected as snow melt and rain have triggered flood warnings there. In Manitoba, some residents have evacuated Peguis First Nation and others remain on high alert as water there continues to rise. Here's CTV's Alex Karpa.

[00:13:47]>> Yeah. So, this is my house. Thousands of sandbags protect Angela Flet's home in Pegasus First Nation, a community that is preparing for an incoming flood.

[00:13:56]>> It took the crews here 3 days to prepare.

[00:14:00]>> According to the province, over half a million sandbags and over 11,000 super sandbags have been sent to the community and placed around the some 225 homes in need of protection. As crews continue that work, the community has begun evacuating some residents, including those with medical needs. Three of them left yesterday. The rest of them wanted to wait until today and now today only three of that remaining group want to leave. So the rest of them are going to be uh just staying back in the community.

[00:14:32]>> Officials are keeping a close eye on the rapidly changing situation and will evaluate if the remaining residents with medical needs will have to evacuate in the next day or so.

[00:14:41]>> Currently it's just a dayby-day waiting game. At this time, there are no current plans to evacuate more people, but leaders are preparing for that possibility. Flet says she is holding out hope she doesn't have to leave.

[00:14:53]>> I'm not probably not going to evacuate.

[00:14:55]I got to stay and watch my house cuz I said, who else is going to do it?

[00:14:59]>> That determination is shared by Fred Sinclair, whose home is now surrounded by a mud dyke.

[00:15:05]>> I wouldn't go anyway. So, not not from the experiences I had last time. I have I bought went out. I my niece helped me.

[00:15:13]We shop, bought enough groceries, everything I need.

[00:15:16]>> Officials say there are contingency plans in place if more than 5,000 people here in Pegus have to evacuate, but for now the community is staying put. Alex Karpa, CTV News, Peg First Nation, Manitoba.

[00:15:29]>> An active landslide has forced evacuations in the community of Old Fort just south of Fort St. John, BC. This drone footage shows where the landslide remains active and the community that lies below. The Peace River Regional District says there is no safe road access and emergency services are unable to reach the area. An evacuation was carried out last night during a limited period where officials deemed it safe.

[00:15:56]It's >> like we figured, you know, a big melt, it's going to start shifting. Then we started seeing cracks, you know, and then then, you know, all hell broke loose.

[00:16:06]Coming up, online manipulation.

[00:16:09]>> There are players, I think, that are that are taking advantage of chaos.

[00:16:14]>> How AI and YouTube are fanning the flames of separation in Alberta.

[00:16:27]New concerns tonight about a network of fake YouTube channels targeting Albertans. Researchers say the videos pose as local voices pushing Alberta separation and even US annexation.

[00:16:39]Here's CTV's Kathy Lee.

[00:16:42]Joe Trotz has lived in Crows Nest Pass all his life and supports Alberta separation.

[00:16:47]>> Uh definitely, you know, down east has really stuck it to Alberta.

[00:16:50]>> The 74year-old emphasizes most supporters want independence, not annexation. But a new report identifies a network of about 20 YouTube channels posing as Albertan voices, pushing US annexation and Alberta separation.

[00:17:05]Researchers say they're not real and appear coordinated using the same scripts, the same clips, and even posting at the same time, together, reaching nearly 40 million views.

[00:17:14]>> Some of the channels have actual like AI body and avatars um performing the content, and some just have AI uh voiceovers. Chris Ross, the lead author of the report, says the videos often use real news about Alberta's separation, but distort and exaggerate the grievances and sometimes getting the facts wrong. The lawyer for the Alberta separation movement warns the fake videos help no one.

[00:17:37]>> Anybody promoting, you know, an you know, US annexation or US statement, they're not part of our movement.

[00:17:42]>> With a possible Alberta separation referendum this fall, researchers say the report's message and timing are important. It's important for Albertans and Canadians broadly to know which voices are real and which are fake.

[00:17:54]>> In response, Elections Alberta says a new unit is being established to track all forms of deep fakes, misinformation, and disinformation. YouTube says it's reviewing the channels and will remove content that violates its rules. Ken Williams, who opposes separation, worries about outside influence.

[00:18:12]>> There are players, I think, that are that are taking advantage of chaos.

[00:18:17]Trotz also rejects the messaging in the videos.

[00:18:20]>> Totally think that's wrong. I mean, facts are facts. Let them speak for themselves, good or bad.

[00:18:25]>> One thing the report couldn't answer, who's behind the fake videos or where they're located, and that makes them hard to stop. Kathy Lee, CTV News, Cronis Pass, Alberta. Still ahead, what it takes to become a wildfire fighter in BC.

[00:18:50]Firefighters across the country are preparing for wildfire season after one of the worst on record last year. CTV's Andrew Johnson on the new recruit boot camp in BC.

[00:19:02]>> Guys, open that up. Get that heat.

[00:19:04]>> Call it Fighting Wildfires 101. And once you enroll, you need to be able to take the heat.

[00:19:10]>> I've never worked so hard for anything in my life. and pushing myself both physically and mentally.

[00:19:16]>> She's got the hands to prove it.

[00:19:18]>> Callus is ripping open.

[00:19:20]>> Keep the spray in. You're doing good.

[00:19:22]Good job.

[00:19:23]>> At the BC Wildfire Services new recruit boot camp, they're putting out fires, laying hoes, digging fire breaks, and building trust by working together. You have a lot of organized sports um ex-athletes come in and current athletes come through and it's the same kind of bond that you build on those teams.

[00:19:43]>> A bond forged through exerting themselves to their breaking point. Boot camp is about a lot more than fighting fires, including some of the less glamorous parts of the job, like carrying a lot of gear, more than 100 pounds, up a steep hill over and over again. The reporter was doubled over by the halfway mark.

[00:20:05]>> I've had enough.

[00:20:06]>> Everyone else has TO PUSH THROUGH.

[00:20:08]>> PUSH >> and lean on each other.

[00:20:11]>> What's going on? You got this.

[00:20:12]>> To get one step closer to the front lines where in a wildfire emergency there isn't much downtime.

[00:20:18]>> Sometimes that can be 24 hours a day.

[00:20:20]Sometimes that's a 10-hour day and up to a period of 14 time 14 days in a row.

[00:20:25]>> A record 2400 people applied for about 200 openings. We did uh just about 600 interviews and brought it down to this group.

[00:20:35]>> A group of young people including Ila who's following in her father's footsteps.

[00:20:40]>> I've grown up listening to all his stories. And I wanted to get my feet in there and see it for myself.

[00:20:46]>> And Max, who loves the outdoors and wants to protect his home province.

[00:20:51]>> I'd love to make this my career. I want to come back every single summer and eventually full-time. That would be my dream.

[00:20:56]>> WE NEED WATER. The dream and the season start now. This crew is expected to be fighting fires right up until the end of October. Andrew Johnson, CTV News, Merit, BC. Still ahead, how a cool marketing campaign caused some chaos in downtown Toronto.

[00:21:22]Drake's latest publicity stunt has brought chaos, confusion, and excitement to Toronto with fans flocking to a massive formation of ice blocks, hoping to find the release date of his next album, Inside. Here's CTV's Jessica Smith.

[00:21:39]>> Fans have been gathered around this massive ice structure at 81 Bond Street since Monday evening.

[00:21:44]>> You got it. You got it. YOU GOT IT.

[00:21:51]TORONTO STREAMER Kishka arrived midafter afternoon seemingly to help crack the code on this ice structure of what Champagne Poppy aka Drake's release date for his latest album Iceman is going to be.

[00:22:05]>> After a few minutes, the streamer revealed a blue waterproof bag. Toronto police asked the streamer to get down and asked the growing crowd to not climb the ice. He climbed down and took off in a waiting vehicle. Later in the afternoon, showing the contents of the bag online with a large picture book and the words Iceman May 15th. Fans still waiting at the ice structure reacted to the news.

[00:22:27]>> People were like uh shouting open it, open it. Even I was like excited to see the bar like what's inside.

[00:22:34]>> I said shout out to the marketing cuz it definitely has to do something the like Yeah, it's the right place cuz look, it's full. So yeah, especially downtown also. Yeah. The posts are officially circulating online saying that Drake's release date for his next Project Iceman is May 15th. And even with all that information, fans are still flocking to downtown Toronto to see when this ice melts. Jessica Smith, CTV News, Toronto.

[00:22:59]That's our show for this Tuesday. Omar is back tomorrow. For all of us at CTV National News, thank you for watching.

[00:23:06]Have a good night.