Global National: Jan. 17

Despite Canada’s inflation rate dipping to 6.3 per cent in December 2022, its lowest point since February 2022, soaring grocery prices are still stressing out families trying to feed their families. How food banks are struggling to keep up with growing demand, what one couple has sacrificed to feed their children, how provinces and territories could do more to combat food insecurity, the forecast for a recession, and the impact on interest rates. Consuming more than two standard alcoholic drinks per week increases your risk of heart disease, stroke, or cancer, according to the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction. The new thinking about the risks of drinking, how the organization arrived at this conclusion, and what Canada’s wine industry is suggesting. Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital in Montreal is facing a crisis with nearly 100 emergency room nurses threatening to quit unless the province meets their demands. The deadline, the dispute, and how health authorities are trying to appease the union. In New Mexico, former Republican candidate Solomon Peña has been charged in a series of shootings targeting his political rivals. The accusations against Peña, and his apparent devotion to former president Donald Trump. Also, why German police detained climate activist Greta Thunberg. Plus, preserving and protecting Ukraine’s cultural sites: how a team of architects is using 3D technology to save history threatened by Russia’s war.