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While you were sleeping: Ice cream full of bugs, and a stress-ball heist

As if that weren't enough, there was a huge snowstorm in Newfoundland, and Trump wants big tariffs on imported trucks.

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Here are a few things you might have missed while you were sleeping.

That extra crunch: Montreal’s edible bugs week culminates with a pop-up event on Thursday, from 2 to 6 p.m. in which chefs Maurin Arellano and José-Carlos Redon will be selling ice cream that has been infused with ant eggs. They’ll hitch bicycles to trailers with coolers of the ice cream and cycle and ride from park to park in Mile End and Plateau Mont-Royal, including the Marché des possibles on Bernard St. E., Sir Wilfrid Laurier Park and Jeanne Mance Park, selling it for $5 per sustainable cup. Their route will be posted on Facebook and on Arellano’s Instagram account, Maurin_Chef.

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Better there than here: A spring storm that has buried cars in snow and closed a slew of schools in Newfoundland has prompted dismay — and disbelief — from residents along the northeast coast of the island. Photos posted on social media show a barbecue entombed in snow and drifts that reached halfway up a front door. “Meanwhile in Gander … my daughter is waxing her skis. Why? Why? Why?” wrote a Twitter user with the name David Newell. Environment Canada said strong northeast winds gusting to 80 kilometres an hour were expected to persist throughout the day, and drivers were warned that visibility could be reduced due to blowing snow. Meanwhile, parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan remain under a heat warning, where temperatures could reach 29 C.

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Give with one hand, take with the other? U.S. President Donald Trump’s push for tariffs on imported cars and trucks threatened a shake-up of the global auto industry while motivating nations including China and Germany to reiterate commitments of varying strength to free trade. The U.S. statement that it’s investigating auto imports on national security concerns drew pointed responses from Japan and South Korea — two nations that have been at pains to placate Trump — as well as Germany. “I fear that they’ve now crossed the Rubicon into wholesale protectionism,” said Rufus Yerxa, president of the National Foreign Trade Council. It also ended the temporary calm between the U.S. and China, which in contrast to Washington’s actions announced on Thursday it will reduce import duties on a range of consumer goods in a bid to open its market to outsiders.

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A less-stress heist: Fake promotional gold bars apparently appeared so much like the real thing that someone broke into a western Michigan flooring shop to take them. WXMI-TV reports Old to Gold Hardwood Floors owner Rowdy Lapham arrived at work to find his store in Grand Rapids burglarized. Foam rubber gold bars featuring the company’s logo were strewn about. A rock was used to break through a window and the burglar was seen on surveillance video roaming through the shop. Employee Nick Butler tells WZZM-TV that the thief may have walked past a window and saw the stack of bars and “thought, wow, someone forgot to put these gold bars away.” The squeezable bars are for stress relief. Butler says the company’s motto is stress-free flooring.

The Canadian Press and Associated Press contributed to this report.

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