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TORONTO -- The very first cohort of high school graduates from l Kâpapâmahchakwêw – Wandering Spirit School in Toronto are celebrating the impact of their Indigenous-led education. "It is just an exciting time to be transitioning from high school to university, especially coming from a very Indigenous-based school,” said graduating student Ella Laforme to CTV News. Source

VANCOUVER -- British Columbia is welcoming roughly 100 firefighters who arrived from Mexico on Saturday to help battle the devastating wildfires raging around the province. “These highly trained crews will be on hand for 30 days, working shoulder to shoulder with our wildfire service crews,” said Mike Farnworth, B.C. Source

With every step inside Tokyo's Metropolitan Gymnasium on Saturday, Syria's Hend Zaza had begun to etch her name into the history books. At 12 years old, Zaza was already Tokyo's youngest athlete, and now, with the first swing of her paddle, she also became the youngest Olympian in table tennis history. Source

Protesters took to the streets in several Brazilian cities on Saturday to demand the impeachment of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, whose popularity has fallen in recent weeks amid corruption scandals against the backdrop of the pandemic. Source

OKOTOKS, ALTA. -- Warning: This story contains images some might find disturbing. April 26 is a day Tracey Tell will never forget. The Okotoks, Alta. woman was coming home from her lunch break when she discovered that a man renting her basement suite had died. Source

Out-of-state crews headed to Montana on Saturday to battle a blaze that injured five firefighters as the U.S. West struggles with a series of fires that have ravaged rural lands and destroyed homes. Progress was being made on the country's largest blaze, the Bootleg Fire in Oregon, but additional mandatory evacuations were ordered Friday evening and less than half of it had been contained, fire officials said. Source

VANCOUVER -- Mounties in Cranbrook, B.C. say a fight at a local gas station Friday night was the result of a clash between "rival outlaw motorcycle gangs from Alberta." Officers from the detachment were called to the business on Cranbrook Street North around 7 p.m. Source

VANCOUVER -- The BC Wildfire Service says there are 258 wildfires currently burning in the province. That's down from 275 fires reported in its last update Friday, and down from about 300 earlier in the week. Source

TORONTO -- Close to 3,000 forest fire evacuees from remote northwestern Ontario First Nations are settling into temporary accommodations across the province, including hundreds of people at a Mississauga hotel near Pearson International Airport. Evacuees Joyce Cook and Abigail Wesley made the trip earlier this week from Cat Lake First Nation, a fly-in community about 2,000 kilometres away. Source

Canadian steeplechase star Alycia Butterworth's mom had been saving her air miles for months so she could cheer her daughter on this summer in Japan. But COVID-19 means Butterworth will not be able to have her parents on the sidelines at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Source