Start your day off right with five things you need to know this morning.
Five things you need to know
Three people were seriously hurt in a stabbing at the Calgary Stampede last night, police have said. Police added that they do not believe the attack was random.
Calgary police are investigating after three people, including a youth, were stabbed on the Stampede Midway last night #yyc https://t.co/BVlEJdu31w
— CTV News Calgary (@CTVCalgary) July 9, 2025
An envoy representing a part of Palestine in Canada has said Ottawa is on the brink of formally recognizing Palestinian statehood. But Mona Abuamara, the chief representative of the Palestinian General Delegation to Canada, also chastised her hosts by saying: "Canada could have done better and must do better."
Envoy says Canada is coming closer to recognizing Palestinian statehood https://t.co/YXSSbFaGkS
— CP24 (@CP24) July 9, 2025
The CBC news editor-in-chief has posted a blog attempting to justify his organization's approach to balance, explaining: "The goal is to give you a 360-degree view of a story so you can draw your own conclusions." Brodie Fenlon, writing in the wake of claims by a former employee that the CBC is biased against conservative perspectives, added: "We don't shy away from contrarian views or perspectives that challenge orthodoxy."
A brief but good reminder of the role of journalism in a democratic society: Who gets 'platformed' by @CBCNews. Not every view is equally valid, but in a democracy, the people should be trusted to hear & decide for themselves. https://t.co/lR8UGkC9Rw
— Jeremy W Johnston (@GandalfPirate) July 9, 2025
As evidence that the CBC is most certainly not biased in any way, the national broadcaster's top story today bears the headline: "That white guy who can't get a job at Tim Hortons? He's AI." The article concerns a series of AI videos in which a fictional character named "Josh" complains about a surge in Indian immigrants working at Tim Hortons in Canada. The author of the piece focuses on complaints that the videos are "racist," while asserting they are "inflammatory and controversial," though he remains incurious about why such content might gain traction in the first place.
That white guy who can't get a job at Tim Hortons? He's AI https://t.co/rO95jsGV1X
— Omar Alghabra (@OmarAlghabra) July 9, 2025
A group of academics – including a "professor of climate justice" at UBC – has penned an article for the Globe and Mail urging the federal government to allow more Gazans into Canada. Comparing Ottawa's response to people from Gaza to people from Ukraine, the authors claim: "This is certainly not the first time that the Canadian border has acted as a colour line. Chinese head taxes, bans on Black migration, the incarceration and exile of Japanese-Canadians, the denial of the Komagata Maru, and the 'none is too many' response to Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust, have all defined a border of welcome and unwelcome that was first forged in the dispossession of Indigenous peoples."
Opinion: Canada needs to follow through on its promise to help people in Gaza https://t.co/LYfEDrkNPQ
— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) July 9, 2025
