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Iran is in revenge mode after the killing of its top leaders, three now in the last two
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And a new poll suggests most Canadians want this country to stay out of it.
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This is Big headlines, everything you need to know to be in the know in just five minutes.
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For the third time in two days, Israel's claiming it's assassinated a top official in the
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Iranian regime, now saying the Iranian intelligence chief has been killed.
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Iran has been retaliating with cluster bombs over Tel Aviv.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Truth Social now suggesting what if the United States finished
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off Iran and let allies deal with the Strait of Hormuz?
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He's been calling out NATO allies for not helping.
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Congressman John Garamendi is a senior member of the U.S. Armed Services Committee.
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I have no idea what that statement's all about except he's upset that the rest of the
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world doesn't want to go to war with him.
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And I can understand that because it's not all clear what he wants to do.
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This as the U.S. drops one of the most powerful non-nuclear weapons in its arsenal, 5,000
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pound-deep penetrator bombs on Iranian missile sites along the crucial oil shipping
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President Trump has expressed disappointment that none of his allies wanted to donate
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their military resources to guard commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz, then
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said he wasn't surprised in NATO worked on what he called a one-way street basis.
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So how will Trump's miscalculation of ally support cost Canadians?
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First Karen C. Olin speaks to Willie Lowry, one of the hosts of two blocks from the White
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House, and a correspondent for CBC News in Washington today on the big story.
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Can the U.S. reopen the Strait and I guess more broadly see this war through without the
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Well, that's a great question.
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I mean, again, you know, the U.S. would probably argue that it is in many ways open, right?
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That they possess aerial superiority that they've got.
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There's aircraft carriers in the region that it is more or less safe, but again, it's
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that threat, the unknown that Iran possesses that are deterring these ships.
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So is it that military escort that some in the Defense Department have suggested with
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You know, I'm not sure.
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It doesn't necessarily take away the threat of an Iranian, some sort of kind of attack,
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It just wouldn't perhaps make it less likely to be effective.
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So it's really hard to eliminate threats until you kind of resolve this conflict.
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You can listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.
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As the war in Iran rages on for a 19th day, a new leje poll suggests most Canadians believe
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the government of Canada should remain neutral, while one in four say this country should
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support the U.S. and Israel in their attacks on Iran.
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Leje's executive vice president for Central Canada says the political divide by party support
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puts the government in a sort of difficult position.
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You see that a little bit in how the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense are being
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very careful at choosing their words and sometimes getting caught up in terms of what they
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say and having to explain things.
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And I think it's challenging for them because I think their supporters want a much more
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And we should be taking a strong stand against it.
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Liberal and blockade by qua voters were more likely to say Canada should remain neutral
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Conservative voters were more likely to say Canada should support the U.S. and Israel in their
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Also making big headlines, the Bank of Canada held its benchmark interest rate at 2.25 percent
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today as the economy performs below expectations.
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But war in Iran is threatening higher inflation.
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The central bank's decision to keep to the sidelines was widely expected, but the future
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path for the policy rate is much less clear.
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Governor Tiff Macklems says the Bank of Canada is in a dilemma with U.S. trade uncertainty
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keeping the economy soft, but the war in Iran is sending global oil prices surging and
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is likely spurring higher inflation in the months to come.
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The federal government is appealing a ruling on its use of the Emergency Act to the Supreme
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The Act was used four years ago to remove blockades at multiple border crossings and to end
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the week's long freedom convoy protests in downtown Ottawa.
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Jason White of the Canadian Press has more.
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The Emergency Act defines a national emergency as a temporary but urgent and critical situation
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that seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians, exceeds the capacity
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or authority of a province to deal with it and cannot be effectively dealt with under any
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other law of Canada.
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The federal court of appeal concluded the government did not have reasonable grounds to believe
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a national emergency existed.
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The government has previously said the steps it took were targeted, proportional, time-limited
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and compliant with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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It was a nail-biter finale of the World Baseball Classic in Florida, a team Venezuela nearly
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losing the game after blowing a two-run lead to Bryce Harper and Team USA in the A-Finning
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before Venezuela managed to come back and hold off any last-ditch efforts from the U.S.
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This is the first World Baseball Classic Championship title for Venezuela, ESPN's Jason Roberts
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Venezuela's acting president has declared today a national day of joy and made it a non-working
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holiday, except, of course, for essential workers.
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