Global National: March 14

A day after his business partner testified before a House of Commons committee, it was now Darren Anthony’s turn on the hot seat. The federal government paid his company, GC Strategies, millions to create the controversial ArriveCAN app. How Anthony bewildered MPs with his answers, including whether he read the auditor general’s blistering assessment of the app; and why he just didn’t seem credible. Jacques Delisle, a former Quebec Court of Appeal judge, has now pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of his wife, Marie Nicole Rainville. Delisle was originally convicted in 2012 of the first-degree murder of Rainville, who died in 2009. Mike Armstrong breaks down the complicated case, the lengthy legal battle that’s finally over, and what will happen to Delisle. The British Columbia government is committing $70 million to help the province’s wineries recover from years of climate-induced crop losses, a growing problem plaguing grape growers across Canada. The recent struggles of B.C.’s winemakers, who say their losses are so severe that the survival of the industry is at stake. And SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded while trying to re-enter the Earth’s orbit, but the test flight is still being celebrated as a success for going farther and faster than previous attempts. What SpaceX is trying to achieve immediately and in the future of space exploration.