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Senior cabinet ministers wouldn't say Tuesday if the government is prepared to release the names of parliamentarians who are alleged to have conspired with foreign governments and to have consciously shared sensitive information with their agents — conduct that one expert says could amount to treason.There may still be police investigations into these allegations, the ministers said, and details could eventually be released as part of that process. But that raises the question of whether the voting public will know who's alleged to have engaged in such conduct before the next federal election, which is expected sometime in 2025. The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, a cross-party group of MPs and senators with top security clearances, released a report Monday that paints a troubling picture of what some unnamed parliamentarians are said to have done to undermine Canadian democracy and benefit the interests of a foreign state. The report was compiled after committee members reviewed information and intelligence gathered by ten federal bodies, including the RCMP, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Department of Justice and Elections Canada. It claims some unnamed parliamentarians — MPs and/or senators — failed in their duty to conduct themselves in the best interests of the country.Read the full story here.

Canada made a promise to block imports of products made by forced labour, to keep those goods from entering this continent as part of the new North American trade agreement.Now a U.S. senator heavily involved in the issue offers a blunt answer when asked by CBC News whether Canada is keeping that promise. "No, not yet," Sen. Jeff Merkley, who co-wrote his own country's legislation on the topic, said. That U.S. law created a list of products allegedly made in forced re-education camps in China's Xinjiang region — primarily clothing, food and electronics. The bill means those products must be stopped at the U.S. border. Then, because Merkley's bill creates a reverse-burden of proof, if the importer can't provide evidence that paid workers made those goods, they're turned away. "This system is having a real impact. There's teeth in the system," Merkley said. But he added a caveat, noting this program would be more useful if Canada and Mexico were also keeping these goods from the continent. Canada's enforcement tally? Nil, so far. The Canada Border Services Agency tells CBC News it detained one delivery in Quebec in the fall of 2021, but the importer challenged the detention, and the shipment was allowed in.Read the full story here.

Abusers are frequently using technology to harass, threaten and track the locations of their victims, according to a pair of new Canadian reports that highlight the prevalence and danger of this form of gender-based violence.But while being able to use technology such as their own smartphones is critical for survivors — whether it's to access supports, pay bills online or connect with family — the existing policies at the major telecommunications companies create barriers for them, note the reports from Women's Shelters Canada officially released on Wednesday. The first report surveyed front-line workers at shelters and transition houses across Canada. The second studied three telecom companies and their policies, and specifically found two major barriers: the cost of changing one's phone number, and the hurdles in trying to opt out of a family plan or abuser-owned plan without alerting the abuser. "It really puts survivors' safety and lives at risk," said Rhiannon Wong, a report author and the Tech Safety Canada project manager at Women's Shelters Canada, a national charity that supports shelters across the country.Read the full story here.

Kenneth Arsenault, an oyster grower in East Bideford, P.E.I., says he and others in the industry are running out of time as they wait for their compensation claims to be settled over gear damage from post-tropical storm Fiona.The massive storm struck the Island almost 21 months ago, causing great disruption to the province and many of its resource-based industries. In early April, a provincial government spokesperson told CBC News that of the 89 damage claims that oyster growers had filed since the disaster, only 28 had been approved by the Canadian Red Cross, the non-profit administering the post-Fiona Disaster Financial Assistance Program on the province's behalf. As of June 4, the spokesperson said 47 claims approval letters had been sent out to aquaculture companies, out of 104 claims in total. A "very frustrated" Arsenault is one of the growers still waiting for a response to his application. His company, KBM Oysters, has a lease on the Lennox Island channel off P.E.I.'s North Shore, and suffered significant damage during the storm. "[It] pretty well wiped out over half my oyster operation," Arsenault told CBC News.Read the full story here.

Kory McDonald says nobody would confuse his geography-themed game Worldle for the hugely popular New York Times-owned word game Wordle — even if there is only one letter of difference.The Seattle software developer is in the middle of a trademark dispute with the media giant over his cheekily named online game, in which players try to identify locations based on images from Google Street View."I was kind of surprised and disappointed about it, really," McDonald toldAs It Happenshost Nil Köksal."If people are looking for a word game and they end up on worldledaily.com, then they will immediately know that they're not playing a word game."The Times, however, disagrees. When asked for comment, the newspaper pointed to its legal filing challenging McDonald's trademark application.In it, the newspaper accused McDonald of "capitalizing on the enormous goodwill associated" with Wordle, and argues that approving McDonald's trademark would be "likely to cause confusion, mistake or deception."Read the full story here.

Now here's some good news to start your Wednesday:Only a few years ago, Allison Hill thought running just wasn't her thing. "I didn't think that it was something that was available to me. It just seemed really hard," she toldThe Current's Matt Galloway. She preferred working out at the gym, spin classes and yoga. That is until the pandemic shuttered gyms and fitness classes, leaving Hill with no outlet for exercise other than running. So she strapped on a pair of beat-up running shoes and hit the pavement. Her runs got progressively longer and more joyous. Now, Hill says she couldn't imagine her life without running. That newfound love of running prompted her to start Hill Run Club, a body-positive, size-inclusive and culturally sensitive running group for Black women of all running levels. Now in its fourth season, the club boasts over 500 registered members across Canada.Read the full story here.

1876:The Supreme Court of Canada hears its first case.

1947:In a speech at Harvard University, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall proposes massive economic aid for postwar Europe. What became known as the MarshallPlan channelled over $13 billion US (more than $161 billion US in today's dollars) to western and northern Europe between 1948 and 1951.

1981:A report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control describes a rare lung infection among a group of gay men in Los Angeles. It marked the first official report of what would later be named AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).

1991:One of Canada's oldest department store names disappears from themarketplace. Simpsons had been in business since 1871. The Hudson'sBay Company, which had taken over Simpsons a few years before,turned some stores into Bay outlets and sold others to Sears Canada.

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