Terrifying video is captured as 20,000 people in B.C.’s Okanagan region fled for their lives Friday night. A fire that was first reported at 5:30 p.m. near the community of Summerland suddenly exploded in size, leaving little time to escape. Premier David Eby has declared a provincewide state of emergency and B.C.’s wildfire service warns the conditions are explosive and unlike anything they’ve ever seen before. Sarah MacDonald reports. | Global National
Kyla Ronellenfitsch: So is Poilievre’s “weakened leadership” fake news? Well, no. There’s real intraparty conflict, and many have lost confidence in him. But are Conservative voters feeling the same? That’s a much more difficult case to make. Few are convinced someone could do the job better. Some really interesting number-crunching from Kyla here. | Relay
Heather Scoffield: The federal government has now released a second full year’s worth of data and tables about who opens FHSA accounts, confirming earlier trends set out in research by the Canadian Tax Observatory. In 2024, 2.6 per cent of Canadian tax filers — a total of 834,360 individuals — claimed FHSA deductions. That’s almost double the 2023 number. Over the course of the two years, they sheltered about $8 billion in savings in the accounts. Who are they? Predominantly, and increasingly, they are relatively well-off individuals, often in their 30s but there are several thousand over the age of 65. | Substack
He is replacing Mr. Champagne’s long-time chief of staff Ian Foucher, who signalled he would leave his post in the spring. Mr. Foucher has held senior positions within the Liberal government for more than a decade and was also Mr. Champagne’s top aide during his previous posting at industry. He followed the Minister to the finance department last year. Prior to working for Mr. Champagne, Mr. Foucher was a senior aide to former finance minister Bill Morneau and helped shepherd Ottawa’s initial response to the pandemic. | The Globe and Mail
The Prime Minister’s Office issued a statement Friday letting press gallery members know that the, as of Monday, Prime Minister Mark Carney will be “on a reduced schedule” in Italy until August 17. “During this period, he is in close contact with his team and officials on several priorities, including the ongoing Canada-U.S. trade negotiations. All relevant rules have been followed and will be followed at all times, in consultation with the Ethics Commissioner, who did not identify any concerns or inconsistencies with the Prime Minister’s obligations,” Carney’s press secretary Audrey Champoux wrote. No other details were provided about his itinerary in Italy. - DA
« Pour moi, c’est un retour là où tout a commencé », a-t-il déclaré dans une publication sur ses réseaux sociaux, samedi matin, faisant référence à sa candidature aux élections de 2022, lors desquelles le député solidaire sortant, Vincent Marissal, avait été réélu. « Je reviens dans une circonscription qui m’est profondément chère, animé par la même conviction qu’en 2022, mais avec une expérience accrue et une détermination renouvelée », ajoute M. Brillant, qui habite Rosemont. | La Presse
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I had a good dinner with @KerryLynneFindl last night. We had a long talk about the challenges facing B.C. and how to tackle the road ahead. We also discussed the hurdles conservatives are facing from the establishment - in the media and elsewhere. We share the number one goal of
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There’s a growing diplomatic spat between Italy and Spain after thousands of migrants rushed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta last week. Italy temporarily re-imposed border controls with Spain, defying the EU’s open border policy. And now Spain is firing back with travel restrictions of its own. | Global National
Split-ticket voters — many of them women who saw Collins as a role model — forgave the senator after she voted in 2018 to confirm Brett M. Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice. But some have struggled to see her in the same light in Trump’s more aggressive second term. The high-profile times she’s broken with Trump — most recently, over his attorney general pick Todd Blanche, as well as his defense secretary, on the Iran war, and on his signature bill to cut taxes and some social services — have not been enough for them, given she usually votes with her party. | WaPo (🎁 link)
55% now say they have confidence the upcoming midterms will be conducted fairly and accurately. This is up from 47% in the summer of 2024 and 46% in the summer of 2022. Joe Biden was president in both years. | Pew Research Center
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New Michigan Senate ad just dropped from Senate Majority PAC
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“Canadian Heritage has recently engaged a team of independent industry experts to develop a local news directory — a multi-phase, multi-year project that will ultimately measure the extent and spread of news deserts and areas of news poverty in Canada,” the department said in a December memo to the culture minister. The memo, obtained through access-to-information law, said the government is responding to stakeholder calls for better data and that the information would allow it to better target its policy efforts. | CP via Yahoo
On average, around the world, people do not believe the news media are doing a good job in their coverage of any of these stories (see above). The most divisive stories - particularly climate, Gaza and immigration - are also those where audiences feel least well served. | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
The new gas-burning plant, if built to specifications, would be permitted to release 33 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, regulatory records show, more planet-warming gases than any other power plant in the country. Amazon has been struggling to meet its promise that it would effectively eliminate its planet-warming emissions by 2040 as part of the Climate Pledge, a voluntary agreement among companies that Amazon co-founded several years ago. Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas is the main driver of global warming, which is dangerously heating the planet. | NYT (🎁 link)
0945 ET : Ottawa, - LPC MP Anita Vandenbeld marks National Peacekeepers Day
1300 ET : Toronto - LPC MP Yvan Baker hosts a community picnic.
… in 1915. Sc 132 pa. King George V “Admiral” Coil Stamps.
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