Global National: June 13

Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he is “alarmed” about allegations of MPs colluding with foreign states, after reading the unredacted version of that bombshell report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP). Singh’s assessment of the report, how it contrasts with Green Party Co-Leader Elizabeth May’s opinion, and who else will or won’t read the report. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, the first American journalist arrested on spying charges in the Russia since the Cold War, will face trial, Russian prosecutors have confirmed. The accusations widely condemned by the West, and how Gershkovich is said to be doing. Southern Florida’s flash flooding emergency has no end in sight, with more than 600 millimetres of rain having fallen this week. The deluge in the Miami area, and how it’s a hint of what’s to come for Florida this summer. As electric vehicles become more common, Canada’s fishing industry is getting plugged in, too. How electric fishing vessels are getting closer to becoming mainstream, how governments are floating millions in funding to make it a reality, and the work to be done to win over consumers. And Calgary’s Heritage Park had to dock its popular paddle wheeler ship for part of last summer after its captain retired and no replacement could be found – until now. How two pals from Ukraine, Capt. Mykhailo “Mike” Lomov and his first mate Paul-Khrystyan Kurganskyi, are giving the S.S. Moyie new life by ditching the Red Sea for the Glenmore Reservoir.