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San Francisco will become the first major city in the United States to ban the sale of e-cigarettes as officials look to control the rapid uptick in teenage use of nicotine devices made by companies such as Juul Labs. Source

Former Progressive Conservative prime minister Kim Campbell says that the Conservatives' climate strategy falls short. "They produced a plan that has no targets," she told Power and Politics host Vassy Kapelos in a recent interview, airing today. Source

UBC researchers are tracking wild chinook salmon on their expected migratory route in the Salish Sea. They're trying to find out why salmon-eating southern resident killer whales appear to be malnourished. The study is the first to track the movements of chinook salmon while killer whales are hunting prey. Source

GRAPHIC WARNING: This story contains a photograph of a young child and a man who died, an image readers may find distressing. The image is lower down in the story. MEXICO CITY — The man and his 23-month-old daughter lay face down in shallow water along the bank of the Rio Grande, his black shirt hiked up to his chest with the girl’s head tucked inside. Source

MONTREAL -- Two advocates are challenging in court new air travel rules that allow tarmac delays of nearly four hours, arguing the regulations violate the charter rights of some Canadians living with a disability. Bob Brown, a disability rights advocate, says the long-awaited rules reduce by up to 2,000 kilometres the distance he can travel by air without putting his health at risk. Source

The "best thing" U.S. President Donald Trump could do to secure the release of Canadians detained in China is to abandon Washington's push to extradite Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, Canada's former ambassador to China said today. John McCallum — who was fired from the high-profile diplomatic post by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in January after he waded into Meng's extradition case in front of Chinese-language journalists — told CBC News from Beijing that the prime minister's options for…

The world is on course for "climate apartheid," where the rich buy their way out of the worst effects of global warming while the poor bear the brunt, a UN human rights report said on Tuesday. Source

The federal government has completed a ‘first of its kind’ land swap that sees the privately-held lands that previously belonged to a Regina residential school - containing the graves of dozens of Indigenous children - transferred to an advocacy group. Source

The federal government has completed a ‘first of its kind’ land swap that sees the privately-held lands that previously belonged to a Regina residential school - containing the graves of dozens of Indigenous children - transferred to an Indigenous commemorative group. Source

WARNING: This story contains a link to a disturbing police body-cam video CUMMING, Ga. -- A Georgia sheriff released dramatic body-cam video Tuesday showing the rescue of a newborn girl who was found alive inside a plastic bag in the woods. Source