Global National: Dec 6

The United States will stage a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, over what Washington calls the Chinese government’s “egregious human rights abuses.” What the move means for American athletes, the questions whether Canada will follow suit, and how Beijing could retaliate. After much pressure, Ottawa is now promising to release more than 12,000 of Canada’s residential school records. When it’s supposed to happen and the reaction to the commitment. Oil starts moving again through the Trans Mountain pipeline, but how did the weeks-long shutdown manage to push down British Columbia’s gas prices? And from floods to freezing weather: the new complications for residents of Merritt, B.C. as they try to recover from catastrophe.