Global National: Aug. 28

Admitted serial killer Jeremy Skibicki has been handed four life sentences with no chance of parole for 25 years in the 2022 murders of four Indigenous women in Winnipeg. Rebecca Contois, 24; Morgan Harris, 39; Marcedes Myran, 26; and an unidentified woman Indigenous community members have named Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or Buffalo Woman, were Skibicki’s victims. Melissa Ridgen reports on how the victims’ families are reacting; what the judge says he wished he could do; and the questions about whether Skibicki had more victims. The federal government has provided new details into how Ahmed and Mostafa Eldidi, the father and son who are accused of plotting a terror attack in Toronto in the name of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS), entered Canada. How Ahmed Eldidi went through the immigration system, and the Conservatives’ scathing comments about the major security failures. Concerns are growing about the spread of eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), also known as ‘Triple E,’ a rare mosquito-borne virus after the death of a New Hampshire man. What the symptoms are, what makes the virus so dangerous, and how its transmission can be limited. Plus, the Paris Paralympics are underway, and Team Canada is hoping to improve upon the 21 medals it won at the Tokyo Games in 2021. Canada’s confidence it can keep up with the best in the world, despite the competition getting tougher in recent years.