Global National Nov. 12, 2023

Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital is in despair as it has been without electricity for three days, leaving the sickest patients without the medical help they desperately need. Meanwhile, rising tensions over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Europe are causing political divisions and social unrest. In Canada, a Jewish school in Montreal has been targeted again, raising concerns about rising bigotry and hatred towards the Jewish community in the city. Canadian fashion entrepreneur Peter Nygard has been found guilty of four counts of sexual assaults by a jury in Toronto, while he was acquitted of a fifth count along with a charge of forcible confinement. During this Remembrance Day weekend, a Canadian soldier who served two tours in Afghanistan is currently homeless due to an ongoing dispute over permits at his family’s mobile home in Manitoba. Finally, new research out of Belgium is shedding new light on the long-standing mystery of what caused the dinosaurs to go extinct.