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Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau to step downOpen this photo in gallery:

Michael Rousseau gives a speech at the Montreal Chamber of Commerce in 2021. The Air Canada CEO will retire later this year, the company said on Monday.Mario Beauregard/The Canadian Press

After his English-only video in response to the fatal crash at New York’s LaGuardia Airport triggered a political firestorm, Air Canada chief executive Michael Rousseau is leaving the company. Mr. Rousseau will retire by the end of September, the airline said in a news release Monday, but he’ll continue to lead the company and serve on the board of directors until that time.

Andrew Willis and Eric Atkins report that the CEO sped up his planned retirement by 12 months after the controversy. The Montreal-based company is interviewing internal and external CEO candidates. Three potential candidates include executives who know Air Canada well and speak fluent French. One target in the search is the airline’s former chief operating officer, Benjamin Smith, who left in August, 2018, to become CEO of Air France-KLM Group.

Stellantis proposed building Chinese electric vehicles at idled Brampton plantOpen this photo in gallery:

The Stellantis vehicle assembly plant in Brampton, Ont., in October, 2025.Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press

Stellantis was discussing plans to build Chinese electric cars at the automaker’s idled factory in Brampton, Ont., reported Eric Atkins. The company has proposed assembling Chinese cars using parts imported from China, or “knock-down kits,” in partnership with Leapmotor, a China-based automaker it partly owns. The investment is not finalized at this stage.

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly, however, has rejected the plan. The initial plan from Stellantis was met with opposition from Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Unifor, which represents 3,000 laid-off Brampton workers, saying the process would require few jobs and contributes nothing to the local parts supplier base.

The Brampton plant closed more than two years ago for retooling. Stellantis moved planned production of the Jeep Compass to Illinois last year after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed 25-per-cent tariffs on Canadian-made cars.

The gas price shock isn’t hitting Canadian cities evenly

Canadians are feeling even more pain at the pump as oil futures soared to their highest levels since 2022 on Thursday. For Canadian drivers, the turmoil in the Middle East adds to the average 33-per-cent jump in regular gasoline prices nationwide since before the war began. But, as Jason Kirby reports, the price shock across Canada has been far from even. Year-to-date prices are up by nearly 55 per cent in Prince Albert, Sask., according to a database of retail fuel prices. Meanwhile, cities that had higher prices from the start – particularly Vancouver and Victoria – have experienced smaller price shocks.

Experts point to three main factors that drive the price discrepancies: fuel taxes, commodity markets (both global and regional) and local market competition.

The historic Artemis II launch, and a burn to fling itself moonwardOpen this photo in gallery:

This screen grab from NASA’s feed released on April 3 shows the four Artemis II crew members as they head to orbit the moon. From left, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover.Supplied/AFP PHOTO/NASA

Long delayed by a series of technical challenges, NASA launched Artemis II on April 1 in its first human mission to fly around the moon in more than 50 years. The mission sends four astronauts – commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen – on an approximately 10-day journey into deep space with the aim of opening a new and sustained future for exploration and development on the moon.

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The mission lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. ET on Wednesday – and the day leading up to the launch proceeded with very few hitches. The Globe’s science reporter Ivan Semeniuk described the scene from Cape Canaveral, Fla.: “The intense glare of the rocket’s powerful exhaust made for a striking sight as it roared upward into a clear blue sky brightly illuminated by the setting sun. The rocket then arced eastward, pushing its crew toward outer space with increasing speed and remained visible as a glowing spark that persisted for more than three minutes before receding from view.”

On Thursday evening, the astronauts started a 5-minute 50-second engine burn that pushed the spacecraft from a 24-hour-long high orbit around Earth onto a path that will send it wheeling around the moon a few days from now.

BHP’s new potash mine is a test case for Canada in how to build bigOpen this photo in gallery:

Graham Reynolds, general manager of BHP’s potash operations. The Jansen mine is a core part of the company’s shift to what it calls ‘future-facing commodities.’Heywood Yu/The Globe and Mail

Mining giant BHP Group Ltd.’s new $18-billion Jansen potash mine is the biggest investment in the history of Saskatchewan and in the history of the world’s largest mining company. The Australian juggernaut is digging into the Prairie Evaporite Formation to extract a prized pink salt essential to global food production. The potash from this mine will travel on 2,000 kilometres of rail to a port in British Columbia and then supply 10 per cent of the world’s demand by 2031.

A mining project of this magnitude is a rare case across the country, but it could be a lesson for Canada in how to build big as Prime Minister Mark Carney lures global investment. Kate Helmore visited the Jansen potash mine and spoke with employees about BHP’s historic investment and decades-long potash ambitions in Saskatchewan.

What key level did gas prices surpass in the United States this week?

a. US$2 a gallon

b. US$3 a gallon

c. US$4 a gallon

d. US$5 a gallon

c. U.S. gas prices jumped past an average of US$4 a gallon for the first time since 2022 as the Iran war pushed fuel prices higher worldwide. The last time U.S. drivers were collectively paying this much at the pump was after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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