A new poll suggests the Liberals have not won over voters with their latest budget, though there is broad support for their plan to build millions of homes. [CP]

Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has at least one thing in common with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — neither will commit to reducing the toll to cross the bridge between P.E.I. and New Brunswick. [CBC]

A Conservative member of Parliament says he isn't seeking re-election because his party is not allowing an open nomination in a new riding. Akin riding note: This story doesn't mention it but Vidal was aiming essentially to unseat fellow Conservative MP Rosemarie Falk in what is now Battlefords—Lloydminster—Meadow Lake . (The new electoral riding map we will use for the next federal election went into effect on Tuesday). And Conservatives who know Saskatchewan politics believe VIdal would have won that nomination contest.  BLML should be an easy Tory win -- +60 points in my model right now -- while the remainder of Vidal's riding -- now called Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River -- has a chance of going Liberal (LPC by  200 votes.) [CP]

Former Nunakput MLA Jackie Jacobson is taking a shot at the nomination for the Conservative Party. The Tuktoyaktuk resident and long-time politician posted his campaign website to social media on April 23. Akin riding note:A Facebook post by Conservative MP Bob Zimmer suggest Jacobson is, in fact, the nominated Conservative candidate for the riding of Northwest Territories. The riding is held by Liberal Michael McLeod, brother of former NT premier Bob McLeod. Not sure if McLeod will run for re-election. He gave me a bit of a cryptic answer when I asked him about it outside the House of Commons the other day. In any event, voters here have not elected a Conservative since Mulroney's first big win in 1984. It's been all Liberal or NDP since and, in my model right now, McLeod, if he runs, holds by 10 points with the CPC finishing third. [NNSL Media]

The premier had critical words for both the federal government and NDP Leader Carla Beck for a recent trip to Ottawa. [Regina Leader Post]

Newly released documents highlight what provincial officials knew about spread of COVID-19 in fall 2021. [CBC]

Gary Davidson, former chief of emergency medicine at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, was installed as chair of the task force about a year ago. In September, 2021, Dr. Davidson claimed that the government had overblown the COVID-19 crisis in hospitals, an assertion AHS quickly rebuked. At that time, AHS data showed Alberta was being crushed by the fourth wave of the pandemic, with deaths and illnesses climbing, leaving intensive care units straining under the patient load. [Globe and Mail]

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says it’s a good idea to have a physician who accused the province of exaggerating COVID-19's impact on hospitals now lead a review of pandemic-era health data. [CP]

British Columbia has placed its proposed online harms legislation on hold after reaching an agreement with social media companies to "sit down in good faith" to find solutions. [CP]

With cameras not allowed at former President Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York, live news blogs are coming into their own as an important news tool. [AP]

The owners of the 124-year-old Whitehorse Star newspaper say their decision to close the business is final. That's put a halt to local fundraising efforts to save the paper as it prepares to publish its final issue next month. [CBC]

 Le ministre de la Culture et des Communications, Mathieu Lacombe, s’est montré ouvert à la proposition de Québec solidaire (QS) de créer un fonds financé à partir de la taxation des géants du web afin de venir en aide aux médias. [La Presse]

Apple is finally planning a Calculator app for the iPad, over 14 years after launching the device, according to a source familiar with the matter. Finally!! [MacRumors]