Global National: Aug. 15

Evacuations are becoming more difficult in the Northwest Territories as more than 200 wildfires burn. The only ways to escape, the urgent plea to residents choosing to stay behind, how the military is being brought in to help, and what’s providing hope. Don Prestage, a Canadian man who has called Hawaii home for a decade, is among thousands of people who have lost so much in the Maui wildfires. The grief he and his employees are experiencing, how friends and strangers from Canada are lending their support, and how he’s looking ahead to the future. After a dip, Canada’s inflation rate has gone up again, rising to 3.3 per cent in July. What this might mean for interest rates, according to economists. For the fourth time in five months, former U.S. president Donald Trump has been charged with criminal offences. This time, a Georgia grand jury has indicted him over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in that state. The unique circumstances differentiating this case from Trump’s other ones, and how even the legal proceedings could unfold differently. The Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in August 2021, claiming women would “be very active in our society.” Instead, women and girls there just keep losing their rights and freedoms, just as critics predicted. What life is like for females in Afghanistan, as the Taliban works to erase them from public life. And inside the mind of King Henry VIII: historians have poured over his reign for centuries, including the lives and deaths of his six wives. Now an Ottawa professor has made a remarkable discovery filling in some of the blanks about the infamous monarch’s life.