Global National: July 17

The situation in Canada’s emergency rooms has grown critical, with patients overwhelming understaffed hospitals and the pandemic pushing facilities to the brink and burning out doctors and nurses. U.S. health officials are battling rising concerns and case counts on two fronts: monkeypox and a new COVID-19 variant. Out-of-control wildfires in southern Europe are forcing thousands of people from their homes and record-breaking heat is linked to over 1,000 deaths. Beginning in September, rescue dogs from over 100 countries considered high-risk for rabies will no longer be allowed to enter Canada, which has left charitable groups chasing their tails to find a solution. Finally, a two-spirit Indigenous golf champion and an intergenerational survivor of Canada’s residential school system hope that her success will drive reconciliation forward.