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5 things you need to know this morning: May 7, 2024

Start your day off right with five things you need to know this morning.

Five things you need to know

1. Shooting outside Drake's Toronto mansion

Police in Toronto are investigating after a man was seriously injured in a shooting outside Drake's mansion this morning. A heavy police presence remains in place outside the rapper's home, according to reports.


2. Plot to assassinate Zelensky foiled, Ukrainian security services says

A plot to assassinate Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has been foiled, according to security service officials in the country. The officials claimed Russia was behind the plot.


3. Feds to stop supplying provinces with COVID-19 tests

The federal government is planning to stop giving provinces and territories free COVID-19 rapid tests, according to the CBC. Ottawa currently has about 70 million of the tests.


4. Museum seeks to turn exhibit into women's toilet to keep out men

A museum in Australia that excludes men from an exhibit containing artworks by the likes of Picasso is continuing its fight to privilege women. Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art said it now wants to convert the exhibit into a "toilet," thus allowing men to be legally excluded.


5. Weather alerts another barrier preventing kids from being active: report

The increase in weather alerts across Canada has become an added barrier in the struggle to keep kids active, according to a new report. ParticipACTION's latest review gives children a "D+" on physical activity, claiming that only 39 per cent of people aged between five and 17 are getting at least 60 minutes of moderate exercise a day.



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