Big Headlines: A tragic end to the search for an 11-year-old Calgary boy and WestJet's flight attendants are preparing to strike

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A nearly two-week-long search for a missing 11-year-old boy with autism has come to a tragic end as police say they've found the boy's body. Calgary Police Chief Katie McClellan. For nearly two weeks, so many people woke up hoping it would be the day Parker came home. Instead, we are here sharing news that it is heartbreaking for his family and for everyone

who has been carrying that hope. Parker had been missing since July 16th when he was seen walking away from his daycare home. Police believe he entered a stormwater tunnel system

where his body was found on Wednesday after a tip from a member of the public. The investigation into exactly how he died is ongoing. Police do not believe foul play was involved.

WestJet and the union representing thousands of its flight attendants have issued dueling lockout and strike notices. Flight attendants could walk off the job just after midnight Eastern Sunday morning. The potential job action could have a major impact on Canadian summer travel plans.

This traveler says WestJet offered her free rebooking. We received an email that between certain dates, between July 30th and August 4th, we could rebook for free. The flight attendants union says contract talks are bogged down on issues, including flight attendants pay when planes are on the ground. WestJet operates around 600 flights per day to and from Canadian airports.

Also making big headlines, the prime minister doesn't appear interested in using oil exports to the U.S. as leverage ahead of the latest American tariff threat from President Donald Trump. City News Parliament Hill reporter Cormac McSweeney has the latest from Ottawa. Prime Minister Mark Carney continues to keep his cards close to his chest on strategy,

but does signal that one leverage point may not be on the table. Speaking in Red Deer, Alberta for a housing announcement, the Prime Minister was asked about using Alberta's oil as a bargaining chip, something being suggested by Ontario's Doug Ford, but rejected by Alberta and Saskatchewan.

We have many things we can do. First and foremost is to work towards an agreement. That's what we're going to do. But there's other things we can do if we needed to address the situation. Carney noted that Canada and the U.S. are engaged in intense negotiations and that Canada U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and our chief negotiator Janice Charette are in Washington at this moment. A New Brunswick politician says he's learned a lesson after admitting he used AI to help prepare a speech in the provincial legislature. Bill Oliver delivered the speech on June 9th.

It included a few odd references that turned out to be prompts from the AI tool he was using. Here's a more natural flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points. In a statement on Wednesday, Oliver acknowledged the AI prompts in his speech to cause concern, but said the sentiment of his speech was certainly his. John Gillum is the CEO of Originality AI, which uses software to detect AI for clients like universities and news organizations.

He says his company analyzed thousands of speeches in the New Brunswick legislature between 2022 and this year and found almost 23 percent of the speeches this year likely contained AI passages, which is up 3 percent from 2022. 2022. Toronto's fire chief is calling lithium-ion battery fires the greatest public safety risk facing the city. Jim Jessup made the comments to Toronto City Council on Wednesday. Lithium-ion batteries are used in devices like e-bikes and e-scooters. Cities like Toronto, Vancouver and

Calgary have put out official material acknowledging the danger posed by these batteries and giving residents tips on how to use them safely. But current regulations on the batteries are mainly focused on safe disposal. Jessup told Toronto City Council more regulations are needed, including limiting the number of e-bikes that can be stored in a single apartment.

He says he's seen situations where batteries explode while firefighters are searching a unit, including one case in recent weeks where crews were trying to rescue someone trapped on a balcony and multiple e-bikes that were stored on the balcony had their batteries explode. If you haven't listened yet, today on The Big Story, the term looks-maxing has started to pop

up everywhere in recent months, made popular by social media personalities like Brayden Eric Peters, also known as clavicular. Some looks-maxing influencers have advocated for extreme methods of improving one's looks, like smashing jawbones with a hammer so they regrow in a way deemed more physically attractive. Host Maria Kastain is speaking with Dr. Jordan Foster,

an assistant sociology professor at McEwen University, about the looks-maxing phenomenon and what it means for men's sense of themselves. Objectively speaking, like someone waking up at five in the morning, going and doing his workout, like eating a good breakfast, having, you know, a cold glass of water with like a squeeze of lemon juice. Objectively, it doesn't sound bad,

but where, like, where does it transgress into that dangerous area, you think, or how? I think one of the things that I worry about is that boys and young men might stumble on conversations that actually feel pretty harmless, but inevitably get into a space where we're starting to see some more aggressive forms of language or conversations. If we're scrolling

on our phone and we like something, right, it's not long before all of a sudden I get a lot of content that's very much related to what I've just liked, right? As if now that's sort of my new area of focus. So you can imagine then for a boy or young man who stumbles upon content that