Global National: Feb. 13

Finding medical help can be difficult in rural and remote parts of Canada. Now the federal government is increasing student loan forgiveness for medical and nursing students if they choose to work in these areas. Why health-care workers say the solution is more complicated than just money. The murders of Amanda Clearwater, her three children, Bethany, Jayven, and Isabella Manoakeesick, and her niece Myah-Lee Gratton, have ignited calls for the government to help people fleeing domestic violence. What advocates say needs to be done to make sure a similar tragedy never happens again. After wreaking havoc for millions of people in the U.S. northeast, a strong Nor’easter is barrelling across Atlantic Canada. Global News meteorologist Anthony Farnell tracks the storm’s path. The Critical Injury Benefit is meant to help Canada’s most critically wounded soldiers, but many of them say their applications are being unfairly delayed and denied. Heidi Petracek speaks with veterans about how they think the program is failing them. And 84 years after it set off for what would be its final voyage, the SS Arlington has been found in the depths of Lake Superior. How the Second World War era steamship was finally found, and the mystery of the ship captain’s actions the day it sunk.