National News Briefs
- Random Attack In Toronto – An elderly woman is dead and a suspect is in custody after an unprovoked attack in downtown Toronto Friday morning. The woman, believed to be in her 70s or 80s, was walking along a sidewalk at the corner of Yonge and King streets when a suspect pushed her to the ground and then fled. (CP24)
- Ford Confident Developers Weren’t Told – Premier Doug Ford said he was confident no developers were tipped off to the proposed changes to the Greenbelt. Eight of the 15 parcels of the Greenbelt where development will be allowed were purchased since 2018 but Ford emphasized that the properties that sold were not government land. (Toronto Star)
- No Leopard Tanks For Ukraine – The United States and its allies failed to agree on supplying German battle tanks to Ukraine as Russia issued threats the war could escalate in Europe. The failure to come to an agreement on the tanks may signal growing divisions within NATO over supplying such weapons. (Aljazeera)
- Trump Fined Nearly $1M – Donald Trump and one of his lawyers were ordered to pay nearly US$1 million for filing a spurious lawsuit. The lawsuit argued that Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, and former FBI director James Comey engaged in “malicious conspiracy” to fabricate connections between the 2016 Trump election campaign and Russian collusion. (Global News)
