Global National: May 22

Widespread rain is finally bringing relief to Alberta communities ravaged by wildfires. The optimism among evacuees eager to return home, and the RCMP’s warning about how some people are hindering firefighting efforts. The European Union has slapped Meta, Facebook’s parent company, with a record $1.75 billion CAD fine for privacy violations. The concerns over what Meta does with data, the mammoth task the company is being ordered to carry out, and how it’s responding. With alcohol consumption being increasingly linked to cancer and other serious health conditions, Ireland will soon become the world’s first country to put health warning labels on booze products. What the labels are supposed to say, when the changes will take effect, and the reaction. Nearly 90 years after one of Canada’s worst riots over race, a Toronto theatre collective is producing a play about this shameful chapter in history. How the group hoping to educate a new generation about the infamous Christie Pits Riot. Plus, how a frightening but fake photo of an explosion at the Pentagon made the rounds and caused the stock market to tumble.