It is Tuesday, June 16. Here are the top stories we are following today.
Shooters-for-hire scheme in U.S. consulate attack mirrors shootings at Jewish schools and synagogues
“What we know is that bad actors are using criminal elements in our city to carry out these dangerous incidents. And it is clear that some of these individuals want to create a sense of fear in our communities, including in the Jewish community,” Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw said Monday.
Scott Stinson: We are about to find out if the CBC can survive without NHL hockey broadcasts
When its deal to broadcast NHL games ends in the fall, CBC is seemingly going to make Olympic sports programming central to its post-NHL era. “It is a bold strategy. And possibly a doomed one, unless the platform of a prime-time Saturday show sparks an interest in amateur athletics not previously seen,” says Stinson.
FIRST READING: In Canadian first, Yukon to get Indigenous-only parking spots
Tristin Hopper writes: “Yukon Hospitals, like many Canadian government and health-care authorities, has publicly embraced the notion that its facilities are shot through with ‘systemic racism’ that can only be alleviated via differential treatment for marginalized groups.”
Hot mic at G7 summit catches Carney defending Chinese EV deal to Trump
“It is a cap… I thought you would actually like that,” Carney said to Trump during the exchange, their first in-person meeting this year. “That is good, I like it,” Trump replied.
The Western Surrender: The U.S. unleashed wokeness on a world incapable of handling it
“Fortunately, American culture is remarkably resistant to collectivist ideologies like wokeness. It is too bad we unleashed the toxic movement on a less immune world,” J.D. Tuccille writes in the latest instalment of this NP Comment series.
Trending: Hot mic at G7 summit catches Carney defending Chinese EV deal to Trump; CBC will no longer air Hockey Night in Canada as 12-year partnership comes to an end; Maya Gebala 'gets to experience life again' as family shares hopeful updates; Two Edmonton men caught with millions of contraband cigarettes they were selling ‘for profit and greed’; Carney announces first contract awarded to Canadian company under SAFE agreement with EU.
