We’re starting tonight’s newsletter on the new governor general, former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour.

The accomplished former jurist is fluently bilingual, and has served as UN human rights commissioner and chief prosecutor at The Hague.

Arbour, 79, was chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and made history when she became the first to indict a sitting head of state, president Slobodan Milosevic, for crimes against humanity.

Carney said Arbour gave voice to the powerless and “those whose dignity was denied, in places where the powerful preferred silence.”

“Across more than five decades, in every role she has held, the honourable Louise Arbour has carried the same conviction: That a free society depends on institutions being properly held to account,” Carney said at an announcement in Ottawa.

The Canadian Press has more. 

Over on the West Coast, Premier David Eby is clarifying up some claims about a B.C. minister who’s under investigation for helping China.

He says neither the RCMP nor Canada’s spy agency have ever raised concerns about his cabinet or caucus, after Vancouver’s ex-mayor said a minister was being investigated for collaborating with China’s government.

Eby says he has “had multiple briefings with CSIS, with the RCMP” and none pointed to any concerns about any member of the government, and if there were, he would have removed that person from cabinet.

The premier was responding in question period after being asked about the comments by Kennedy Stewart on Monday that federal lawyers interviewed him about a B.C. cabinet minister who he says is under investigation.

Stewart, who was Vancouver’s mayor from 2018 to 2022, told CKNW’s Jas Johal show that Eby and other cabinet members were aware of the investigation.

CP’s got this one too. 

Also, former Suncor executive Martha Hall Findlay helped build the pitch and sell the vision for the massive Pathways carbon capture project – but she’s now among the first publicly calling for it to be shelved.

In an op-ed late last week, she argued Canada should back away from carbon capture and storage and focus on infrastructure like pipelines.

She told iPolitics the piece got a lot of attention. “People know how much I put into Pathways, people know the thing practically killed me.”

Findlay worked on Pathways for years before taking on a role with the University of Calgary.

She now argues the project is the wrong solution at the wrong time, citing global political and energy uncertainty. She also says it’s too small a lever to move the needle on global emissions.

On Monday, the Oil Sands Alliance became the latest industry voice to warn the federal government against a strong carbon price.

But Ottawa has, so far, stood firm on the importance of Pathways and carbon pricing.

Aya Dufour has more. 

In Other Headlines

Internationally

Elsewhere, Romania’s pro-European government has collapsed after losing a confidence vote, unleashing renewed political turmoil less than a year after the ruling coalition was sworn in and with the far right surging in the polls.

“This censure motion is false, cynical and artificial,” the liberal prime minister, Ilie Bolojan, told parliamentarians before the vote on Tuesday. “Any country in a multitude of crises would try to consolidate governments, not to change them.”

The motion, tabled by the Social Democrats (PSD), the largest party in parliament, and the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), won 281 votes in the 464-seat parliament. Bolojan’s PNL party and its USR allies did not vote.

The AUR’s leader, George Simion, called for early elections, saying the “voice of the people” had been heard and his party assumed responsibility for “the future of the country”. Romania’s destiny “must be decided by the votes of Romanians”, he said.

The Guardian has more. 

Meanwhile, at a press conference in March, Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia, flanked by American flags, had a collection of large checks to give out. The money was part of a pool of $250 million from the state, and one by one, four sheriffs posed with oversized novelty checks.

“Let’s start giving the money away,” Ingoglia told the room. “I am proud to give out these checks to these sheriffs standing in front of me for all the hard work that they’ve been doing, keeping our communities safe and helping to deport criminal illegal aliens.”

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office got around $100,000; the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office: nearly $1 million; the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office: more than $280,000; and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office: nearly $50,000.

The counties received the money after joining a federal program called 287(g), which gives local police the authority to arrest undocumented immigrants, normally the work of federal immigration officers. And the sheriffs were celebratory: They’re getting a lot of money for cooperating, from both the state and federal government.

Read more from NPR. 

In Other International Headlines

The Kicker

Three restaurants in Ottawa made it onto Canada’s 100 best restaurants list.

Led by Atelier at No. 54, the fine-dining restaurant features dishes that are “precise, complex, delicious and sometimes strange…”

The second restaurant is Antheia. Located on Somerset Street, it’s a new entry to the list this year ranked at 76th.

And finally, described as Centretown’s “busiest dining room,” Arlo ranks at 77th.

With that being said, perhaps one of the three restaurant could be reserved for when the right occasion calls for it.

CTV has more.