- Special Counsel Jack Smith has delivered a report to Attorney General Merrick Garland outlining the evidence against Donald Trump related to the Jan. 6 putsch and the hoarding of classified documents. Smith says that the evidence was sufficiently strong to convict Trump had the case gone to trial, but unfortunately that is now moot as the cases have been dropped.
- There are more signs that Mark Carney plans to seek the federal Liberal leadership, with a report that some 30 MPs are willing to back him. Liberal house leader Karina Gould is also expected to announce a run for the party leadership shortly; meanwhile Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne and former B.C. premier Christy Clark have announced that they will not be running. Clark was apparently planning a run but has decided not to following revelations that she misspoke herself when she said she'd never been a member of the Conservative Party.
- Janice Morley-Lecomte, who served as Minister of Mental Health and Community Wellness under Heather Stefanson, has been nominated as the federal Conservative candidate in Winnipeg South. She probably has a good chance of unseating Liberal MP Terry Duguid.
- Wally Daudrich, a businessman and candidate for the leadership of the Manitoba Tories, is in damage control mode after his campaign shared someone else's Facebook post, which just happened to contain a comment on the necessity to keep Obby Khan, a Muslim, from winning the leadership. Daudrich's campaign manager tried to downplay the issue, pointing out that the post in question originally came from outside the campaign, but it definitely raises questions about the kind of people he attracts.
- Quebec-based pilot Pascal Duclos flown water bombers for many years, and has worked 14 seasons in California alone, but he says he's never seen conditions like he's seeing now. Of course the fact that this time it's a huge sprawling city that's burning, plus the fact that the Santa Ana winds are still gusting up to 70 km/h and idiots are flying drones in the path of the planes, would tend to make for a challenging job. In related news, 93 seniors had to be evacuated from an Los Angeles care home shortly before the structure was consumed in flames. The director the facility was dreading the possibility of having to decide who would be saved, and no doubt had the fate of some residents of the Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina gnawing at the back of her mind. And the major record labels are cancelling all Grammy-related events; for showbiz to be impacted in L.A. of all places you know things are bad.
- A home security camera in PEI has been credited with the first known video and audio recording of a meteorite impact.
- A wandering senior in Guelph, Ontario was successfully located and brought home with the help of a tracking bracelet. While many praise the program for saving lives, some are also a bit uncomfortable about the privacy implications.
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