Global National: Jan. 18

In tonight’s top story: Twenty per cent of Canada’s land mass will soon be in the hands of the government of Nunavut. In Quebec, Premier Francois Legault says an influx of asylum seekers has nearly pushed the province to its breaking point. In the United States, a new investigation into one of the worst school shootings in the history of the nation has found significant failures in the police response. In the Middle East, Pakistan has launched airstrikes in Iran, claiming it targeted Pakistani militants who were being harboured there. Also, an Ontario court has certified a new class action lawsuit that alleges a popular weed control chemical causes cancer. And, the three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, were born in Jerusalem. There are temples and shrines to all three within a short walk of each other. And thousands of years later, the struggle between them is still going on.