Western Standard News Update | Feds to remove gas tax, saving consumers $0.10 a litre | 14 Apr 2026

In this Western Standard News Update, Dave Naylor covers the latest headlines from across Canada. Prime Minister Mark Carney says Ottawa will remove the federal gas tax next week as fuel prices climb amid the Iran war, a move expected to save consumers 10 cents a litre. Naylor also looks at a deputy minister facing backlash for an ethics breach tied to helping a relative land an $80,000-a-year government job, an RCMP warning in Lloydminster after five overdoses linked to tainted drugs, Alberta’s new law tightening vaping rules, and growing questions around what could happen to British Columbia’s NDP if Premier David Eby steps down.