 Here’s what you need to know to get the day started: | | | He went to Gaza to help his wife make the journey to Canada. Now they're both trapped there | | |  | Ahmed Abuhussein is a hydrogeologist with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry. A Canadian citizen and Thunder Bay, Ont., resident, he's trying to cross the Rafah border in Gaza with his wife to get back to Canada, his friends say. (Submitted by Rami El Mawed) | | | A Thunder Bay, Ont., resident who's among the hundreds of Canadians stuck in Gaza as the Israel-Hamas war continues is trying to make the trek across the Rafah border into Egypt with his spouse.
Ahmed Abuhussein is a hydrogeologist for the provincial Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry. He obtained his Canadian citizenship last year, his close friend, Rami El Mawed, told CBC News.
This summer, Abuhussein received much-awaited news that his wife secured a visitor visa to come to Canada. Since the trip across the border from Gaza to Egypt isn't easy, even in the best of times, he took a flight there last month to help her make the journey to Canada, said El Mawed.
Five days later, on Oct. 7, Hamas militants launched a surprise attack against southern Israel that killed about 1,400 people, including several Canadians. In response, Israel launched an offensive against Gaza that has included airstrikes and ground troops.
Abuhussein and his wife have been there ever since.
"It's very dire consequences here that he's dealing with. It's definitely difficult on him, on everyone," said El Mawed.
Over 10,022 Palestinians have been killed, including 4,104 children, in Israeli strikes on Gaza since then, the Health Ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza said Monday. Some Western intelligence agencies have disputed the figures being given by the Health Ministry, though its reporting in previous conflicts has been viewed as generally accurate.
A lack of cellular services has strained communications between Abuhussein and his friends and family, and has made it difficult to get information to him from Global Affairs Canada, the body responsible for facilitating the departure of Canadians from Gaza.
El Mawed, who is a regulated Canadian immigration consultant, last heard directly from his friend on Friday. The next day, El Mawed got a call from Global Affairs Canada saying Abuhussein was on the list of Canadians approved to leave Gaza, but was told the federal government cannot facilitate his transportation to reach the border.
Global Affairs Canada has told CBC News it is in contact with more than 500 Canadian citizens, permanent residents and family members trapped in the war-torn region. It's hoped departures will begin as early as Tuesday, but "this will continue to shift until the border reopens," the federal department said in a statement. | | | | | Art with an edge | | |  | (Phil Noble/Reuters) | | | | The Knife Angel sculpture, also known as The National Monument Against Violence and Aggression, created by artist Alfie Bradley from over 100,000 knives obtained from knife amnesties and weapons seized by British police forces, is seen on display as part of a national tour in Bolton, England, on Monday. | | | | | | | | | In brief | | | A Toronto woman who uses a power wheelchair had her ventilator disconnected and a lift fall on her head, all on a single journey, as Air Canada staff struggled to transfer her between the aircraft and her wheelchair, a new Marketplace hidden-camera investigation shows. "I did not feel safe," Alessia Di Virgilio said after the incident. In light of the federal government summoning Air Canada to Ottawa this week to discuss a spate of reports about the mistreatment of customers in wheelchairs, Marketplace is releasing an exclusive preview of its hidden-camera investigation which documented a rarely seen first-hand account of the challenges faced by those flying with a disability. Marketplace accompanied Di Virgilio on a round trip with Air Canada from Toronto to Charlottetown where hidden cameras captured a multitude of issues. Di Virgilio agreed to let Marketplace document her journey to raise awareness of the ordeal people who use wheelchairs go through when getting on flights. Read the full story here.
The mayor of Humboldt, Sask., says Saturday was a "sad day" for the town of approximately 6,000 residents after three people, including a child, died after falling through the ice on nearby Humboldt Lake. "The loss of one life is tragic, but the loss of three is extremely tragic," said Michael Behiel on Monday. The three people were among five that fell through the ice at Humboldt Lake, which is also known as Stoney Lake and located 116 kilometres east of Saskatoon. RCMP responded to the lake at approximately 2:20 p.m. CST on Saturday after receiving reports that multiple people had fallen through the ice. First responders were only able to recover three of the five people seen falling into the lake. One of them, a female child, was pronounced dead at the scene. An adult woman and another female child were taken to a nearby hospital. An RCMP recovery team later found the bodies of the two other people, both adult men. Read the full story here.
Canada's premiers lashed out at the federal government Monday, panning Ottawa's signing of bilateral housing deals directly with municipalities while leaving provinces out of the mix. The premiers also faulted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for not having convened an in-person first ministers' meeting in five years. At a time when the country is facing a series of crises — a housing crunch, a stressed health-care system and big changes in climate policy — the country's premiers need face-time with Trudeau, they said. In the 2015 federal election, Trudeau campaigned on restoring "collaborative federal leadership," something he said was missing during former prime minister Stephen Harper's time in office. Some premiers said today he hasn't lived up to that promise. Read the full story here.
Donald Trump complained of unfair treatment in a defiant and rambling performance on the witness stand on Monday, prompting the judge overseeing his New York civil business fraud trial to threaten to cut his testimony short. Under questioning about his company's accounting practices, Trump repeatedly clashed with Judge Arthur Engoron, who is weighing whether to impose hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and other penalties that could hobble the real estate empire that vaulted Trump to prominence. Engoron warned the former U.S. president, who's running for office again in 2024 as a Republican, that he might remove him from the witness stand if he did not answer questions directly. "Mr. Kise, can you control your client?" Engoron asked Trump lawyer Christopher Kise. "This is not a political rally. This is a courtroom." Read the full story here.
Now here's some good news to start your Tuesday: Gail-Ann Breese never thought she'd get into powerlifting in her 60s — but now she's the world champion two years running. She just won gold at the World Masters Powerlifting Championship in Mongolia. CBC's Jim Agapito met up with her at her gym in Winnipeg. Watch the story here. | | | FIRST PERSON | I learned what it means to be Black after moving to Canada | Cecily Erzuah moved to Canada from Ghana at the age of 18. After grappling with racism for the first time, she eventually learned how to be confident and speak up for herself. Read her column here. | | | | | | |  | Whose police? | An investigation into a controversial RCMP unit in B.C. that’s accused of being a private security arm for resource companies, done by our colleagues at The Fifth Estate.
Listen to today's episode | | | Today in history: November 7 | | | 1867: Marie Curie is born Marie Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland. She shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1903 with her French husband, Pierre, and another French researcher for their work in radioactivity. She won a second Nobel prize, this one in chemistry, in 1911 for her discovery of polonium and radium.
1873: The Liberals form their first federal government under Alexander Mackenzie. John A. Macdonald's Conservatives had resigned two days before due to a bribery scandal.
1885: The last spike is driven at Craigellachie in B.C.'s Eagle Pass, completing the Canadian Pacific Railway's transcontinental line. Donald Smith, a principal CPR shareholder, did the honours.
1983: The world's first successful single-lung transplant is performed in Toronto. Tom Hall, a 58-year-old hardware executive, lived for another six years after receiving the lung of a 13-year-old car accident victim. | | | (With files from CBC News, The Canadian Press, The Associated Press and Reuters) | | | | |  | CBC NEWS APP | The most convenient way to get your news
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