Global National: April 23

The RCMP has charged two men of violating international sanctions by conspiring to sell Chinese drones and other military equipment to Libya. They are both former employees of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a United Nations (UN) agency based in Montreal. Nishan Duraiappah, the chief of Ontario’s Peel Regional Police, was photographed meeting with the inspector-general of Sri Lanka’s police, who was recently found to have personally participated in torture. Reporting on the meeting and the reaction. David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer and a longtime friend of former U.S. president Donald Trump, testified in Trump’s criminal hush money trial. Pecker described his “catch and kill” strategy, which involved paying sources for negative stories about Trump to “take them off the market,” so they would never run. Plus, while service dogs are already used to detect early warning signs of many dangerous medical conditions, new Canadian research shows some canines can sense also sense oncoming symptoms of emotional trauma. How this groundbreaking study backs up what people with PTSD say they have experienced first-hand.