World Report - April 30: Thursday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: April 30, 2026

Iran’s soccer brass intercepted at Toronto airport and sent home ahead of FIFA summit. Elections Alberta says its List of Electors may have been used and possibly distrubuted inappropriately. Canada's real gross domestic product up 0.2% in February. Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak says Prime Minister Mark Canrey and all the provincial Premiers have agreed to a First Ministers’ Meeting dedicated to First Nations issues. Prime Minister Mark Carney names former environment minister Jonathan Wilkinson as next EU envoy. New court filing contradicts official account of shooting at White House press gala. New York Mayor Mamdani encourages King Charles to return Koh-i-Noor Diamond. 

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where the game's top decision makers are meeting ahead of the World Cup. But there's one notable absence, the head of the Iranian Football Federation. He made it all the way to the Toronto airport, only to be sent back. Iran is accusing Canadian border. agents of unacceptable behavior and misconduct. The CBC's Cameron McIntosh has more. Mehidaj is head of the Iranian Football Federation, but also served in and has ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which the Canadian government calls a terrorist organization. Non-state Iranian media is reporting Canada granted him a temporary residence permit to attend

the FIFA Congress in Vancouver. But on Tuesday night, he was denied entry to Canada after landing in Toronto. Foreign Affairs Minister, Anita Anan. It's not my personal lead, but my understanding is that there is a revocation of the permission. It was unintentional. Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rampel-Garner. How did this guy get on a plane? He's an Iranian regime official, like clearly documented. I think a simple Google search would have told them that. A temporary residence permit allows.

someone normally ineligible to come to Canada to visit for a compelling or specific reason. An official from a hostile country for an international event could qualify, says immigration lawyer David Garson, but to then have it revoked. If someone's issued a TRP and they're at the port of entry and the board and CBSA, Canada Board of Services says, you know, we're not going to let you win. That would be extraordinary. Iran is accusing Canadian officials of misconduct. Canada is hosting the World Cup with Mexico and the U.S. Iran's first three matches will be in the states where President Trump says Iran's team is welcome, but the Iranian regime is not.

Cameron McIntosh, CBC News, Winnipeg. Elections Alberta says its list of electors may have been used and possibly distributed inappropriately. It says the alleged inappropriate conduct was on the part of a registered political party, which got the list through legitimate means, but may have involved a third party. The list of electors contains voters' names, addresses, telephone number, electoral division, and voting area. CBC News has viewed an electors database posted online. Elections Alberta officials are seeking a court injunction to have the database pulled down. New numbers from Statistics Canada show the country's real gross domestic product was up 0.2% in February.

It says goods-producing industries drove the growth for the second. consecutive month. Senior business correspondent, Peter Armstrong, has more. A decent little surge in the manufacturing sector is the big story here. The largest monthly growth we've seen in that sector since January of 2023. The manufacturing of machinery was up. The manufacturing of transportation equipment was up. And after three straight months of declines in motor vehicles and parts manufacturing, that sector jumped too. And if you zoom in just to look at motor vehicle manufacturing itself, you see a 20.4% month-over-month increase. Now, some of that is just ramped up production in Ontario as lines were retooled.

But it is very good news and very welcome news for a sector that's been one of the hardest hit during the trade war. And if you take all these numbers and you combine them with the Statistics Canada's preliminary estimate for March, we see the Canadian economy likely grew at an annualized pace of 1.7% in the first quarter, coming in slightly better than economists had been expecting. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinac says a long-awaited meeting is happening later this year. She says the Prime Minister and all the provincial premiers have agreed to a First Minister's meeting dedicated to First Nations issues.

Woodhouse Nepinac says it's been decades. since this sort of gathering has happened. The commitment we negotiated with the prime ministers and the premiers gives me some hope. It's not an easy discussion with the premiers last summer. Let me tell you, it was really hard to sit there and argue with a few of them. But at the end, we became friends, and they agreed to work together towards an FMM. The National Chief says she expects to meet with Ontario Premier Doug Ford tomorrow to begin hammering out an agenda for that national summit.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is appointing MP Jonathan Wilkinson as Canada's new ambassador to the European Union. Canada has been without an ambassador since last fall. Rafi Bucci Canyon is following the story from Ottawa. Rafi, why was Wilkinson chosen for this role? Peter, when Mark Carney became Prime Minister, he did not keep all of Justin Trudeau's cabinet. Jonathan Wilkinson was out. He had many portfolios under Trudeau, including Natural Resources Minister, Environment Minister, Minister, he was seen as one of the more pro-environment MPs. But he did hold his northern Vancouver

writing for the Liberals for four elections in a row. And his appointment as ambassador to the EU is kind of unique. It's a political appointment by the Prime Minister for a position traditionally thrown at a civil servant. So it kind of shows the attachment card he has to the EU and the idea of building up his ties to that continent. Wilkinson's new job means one fewer liberal MP. So what does another by-election mean for that slim majority in the House of Commons? It is one of three by-elections in the near future. There's beaches east York in Toronto, which Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine Smith said he's vacating this summer because he's running for the leadership of the provincial Liberal Party in Ontario.

There's Montreal's Rosemont La Petrie, which NDPNP, Alexander Bulgis, announced he's leaving behind. And now there's Vancouver North Capulano, which unlike the other two, again, go to. vacant immediately. It might seem like a temptation for the NDP's new leader of E. Lewis. We know he said he has time to run, does not have to be in the House of Commons. And Lewis himself is a long-time resident of Vancouver. Now granted, the NDP has never held this seat in the past. Before Wilkinson took it for the liberals, it was in conservative hands. Rafi Bougi Bougi Canyon in Ottawa, thanks so much. You're welcome. The man accused of trying to assassinate U.S. President Donald Trump is due back,

in a Washington, D.C. court today. New court filings are painting a chilling picture of a meticulously planned attack, including mirror selfies taken just moments before the security breach. Willie Lowry is following the story from Washington. Willie, what more are we learning about the suspect's motive? According to the court filings, Cole Allen made a reservation at the Washington Hilton back on April 6th.

Now, that's nearly three weeks before the dinner. He traveled from his home. in Los Angeles by train transiting through Chicago. He checked into the hotel a day before the event, and he sent a scheduled email to family and a former employer apologizing for the trouble he was about to cause. Selfies from his hotel room show him dressed in a black suit with a red tie tucked into his belt,

a tactical ammunition bag, shoulder holster, and sheath knife are visible in the photo. In a manifesto he allegedly wrote he specifically noted he would use buck shots rather than slugs to minimize casualties by preventing rounds from penetrating through the walls. So why are there such conflicting accounts now about who actually fired the shot that struck the Secret Service officer? So Wednesday's detention motion does not accuse Alan of actually striking the Secret Service officer. That's a pretty significant pivot from the initial state. from the acting Attorney General.

Here's Attorney General Todd Blanche on Monday describing the sequence of events. One Secret Service officer was shot in the chest but was wearing a ballistic vest that worked. This heroic officer who was hit fired five times at Allen, who was not shot but fell to the ground and was promptly arrested. Prosecutors now say Allen fired in the direction of the stairs

leading to the ballroom rather than directly at the officer who was wounded. The CBC's Willie Lowry in Washington. Thank you so much. My pleasure. King Charles and Queen Camilla are wrapping up their four-day visit to the United States, and we'll be watching to see what kind of reception the royal couple gets on their final stop in Virginia. After appointed comment yesterday from New York City's mayor,

Zoran Mamdani was there when Charles and Camilla attended a reth-playing ceremony to honor the victims of 9-11. He didn't have a private meeting with the kids. king. But when a reporter asked Mamdani what he would say to Charles, given the chance, here's what he said. If I was to speak to the king separately from that, I would probably encourage him to return the coin or diamond. That diamond is a 105 carrots, about the size of a chicken egg. It's been in Britain since 1849, but India wants the diamond back. It says it was taken immorally from a 10-year-old Maharaja whose kingdom was seized by the British. That's the latest national and international news from World Report.

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