Global National: June 10

The federal government has officially tabled a motion to increase the capital gains tax, which it hopes will add nearly $20 billion in new revenue to fund investments over the next five years. It’s also been billed as an effort to improve ‘tax fairness’ in Canada. Why doctors and business owners are unhappy about the proposal, and how the Conservatives are staying quiet about how they will vote. French President Emmanuel Macron has called a snap parliamentary election, following his Renaissance party’s humbling defeat to the far-right National Rally in the European Parliament vote. The risks of Macron’s big political gamble, and the gains made by other far-right parties across Europe. Beachgoers on Florida’s Gulf Coast are being reminded that they can often find themselves in the same waters as ocean predators, after three people were injured in two shark attacks, just a few kilometres apart on the same day. What they mean for Atlantic Canadians as sharks follow their food north. Plus, more than two decades after Vancouver’s Notic streetball crew rose to international fame, two of the team’s former members are now mentors for at-risk youth at a school district in Surrey, B.C. What’s inspired Joel “King Handles” Haywood and Jonathan “Johnny Blaze” Nkada Mubanda to take their story from the court to the classroom.