Global National: May 14

Dozens of wildfires are raging from B.C. to Manitoba, with many communities under threat. The rising anxiety among evacuees, the new evacuation orders, the local states of emergency declared, and the hopes the weather could provide a much-needed reprieve. Correctional Service Canada (CSC) instructed staff to keep quiet over murderer Luka Magnotta’s August 2022 transfer from a maximum to a medium security prison, according to newly-obtained documents. The CSC’s rationale, and the calls for more transparency. Honda has selected Port Colborne, Ont., as the future site of a lithium ion separator plant, the first of its kind in Canada and a key part of the country’s multibillion-dollar electric vehicle supply chain. The news coincides with the U.S. slapping heavy tariffs on Chinese electric cars, batteries, and minerals used to make those batteries. What’s behind the White House’s decision, what it likely mean for Canada, and the broader ripple effects of a trade war. Plus, Canadian author and Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro has died at the age 92. How this literary icon mastered the art of the short story.