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Parts of Ontario and Quebec will be slammed with “dangerously hot” temperatures for at least the next few days.
Environment Canada issued its first significant heat warning of the season on Saturday for southern and eastern Ontario and southern and western Quebec.
The agency said hot and humid conditions will begin in Ontario’s far south, including Windsor, and will likely continue until Wednesday.
Areas a bit further north, including Toronto and eastern Ontario, are expected to feel the heat on Sunday.
Daytime highs are forecast to hit 31 C to 36 C, with the humidex making it feel more like 40-50 degrees.
The weather agency says a cold front is expected to push through late Tuesday, but noted it’s uncertain how far south it will reach.
It says that could mean the higher temperatures extend into Wednesday in southwestern Ontario.
In Quebec, a warm and humid air mass will gradually move over the southern part of the province starting Sunday and will ease on Wednesday.
Maximum temperatures will exceed 30 C during the day and remain above 20 C at night. The brunt of the heat will come Monday and Tuesday, when humidex values will make it feel like 40-to-45 C.
People are encouraged to stay hydrated by drinking water before they’re thirsty and to watch for early signs of heat exhaustion.
Environment Canada’s seasonal forecast says the summer is expected to be hotter and more humid than normal across Ontario.
Studies have shown human-caused climate change, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, is increasing the likelihood and length of Canada’s heat waves.
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Interest has spiked in the Canadian military, with recruitment levels hitting their highest point in a decade. But as more people walk in the door, thousands of enrolled members are deciding to walk out.
Numbers obtained by Global News show the retention crisis worsened year over year, as Prime Minister Mark Carney who is attending the NATO summit in Brussels, vows to rebuild the Armed Forces and reduce Canada’s dependence on the U.S.
“The reason why retention has not been improving is because the military has been putting all of his eggs in the recruitment basket,” said Charlotte Duval-Lantoine, a defence analyst with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.
According to figures from the Department of National Defence, attrition rates in the regular forces increased, with 5,026 leaving the military between 2024 and 2025, compared with 4,256 during the same period the previous year.
Retention among reservists improved slightly during the past two years. Overall, the situation has remained largely stagnant, the DND numbers show.
“This is knowledge and readiness that we’re losing that new recruits cannot replace immediately … and skills that are necessary to defend Canada,” Duval-Lantoine said.
Recruitment in the regular forces hit a record high this fiscal year, but not all 6,706 enrolled will pass basic training. The gains are offset by the loss of 5,026 members.
More people are considering careers in the Canadian Armed Forces, as Canada’s relationship with the U.S. undergoes a major shift, and Ottawa vows to prioritize defence and increase pay for military personnel.
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened Canadian sovereignty and has not backed away from punishing tariffs. The CAF cautions it’s too early to link the jump in interest to Trump’s rhetoric and policies.
The military has widened eligibility recently to include permanent residents and applicants with certain medical conditions, while modernizing recruitment with a new online portal. 
 
Unless the military can hold onto more currently serving members, Duval-Lantoine doubts it will fill a shortage of roughly 13,000 personnel or meet its targets of 71,500 regular force members and 30,000 reservists by 2030.
“It’s too slow of a growth. There really needs to be more aggressive measures,” she said.
“The lack of urgency is quite scary from my point of view.”
 
DND says the “fluctuation” in the attrition rate is “within the normal range” and consistent with Canada’s allies.
“There are a wide variety of reasons members choose to stay in or leave the CAF, so it is difficult to attribute it to one or a few specific factors,” department spokesperson Derek Abma said in a statement to Global News.
But defence experts point to issues around training and career management, a lack of affordable housing, and pay.
Earlier this month, Defence Minister David McGuinty said CAF personnel will be getting a salary bump, but did not specify when.
“That’s where a lot of the initial investment will be, of course, including a 20 per cent pay increase,” he told reporters June 10.
A day earlier, Carney announced an additional $9.3 billion in military funding to meet the NATO target of spending two per cent of GDP on defence.
Of that, $2.6 billion will go towards recruitment, salary hikes and hiring an additional 1,400 new staff, said government officials, speaking on background, at a technical briefing on June 9.
More than 77,000 people hit “Apply Now” on the Armed Forces’ website, the highest number in five years, but less than 10 per cent — 6,706 – made it to the finish line and enrolled
The military says a large number of people never finish their applications. It’s not clear how many are completed, but Duval-Lantoine insists there isn’t enough staff to handle the intake.
Canada’s former chief of the defence staff, retired general Wayne Eyre, acknowledges there is no “silver bullet” to solve the personnel crisis, but he would like to see the military be less risk-averse, something the CAF, like most government institutions, has struggled with.
“The secret to success is the willingness to experiment, to try new things. If it doesn’t work well, fine. Learn from it. If it does, take it up to scale,” Eyre said.
“We’ve got to keep our foot on the gas…. We’ve got to get as many qualified members of Canadian society in the door as quickly as possible.”
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Donald Trump claims key nuclear sites in Iran were “obliterated” by US strikes overnight on Saturday. The Iranian armed forces have threatened the US with a “decisive response”. Follow the latest below and listen to The World podcast as you scroll.
Monday 23 June 2025 08:20, UK
Iran has fired missiles toward Israel, the Israeli defence forces says.
The Israeli military instructed residents to take cover in protected spaces.
The UK was not involved in US strikes on Iran that took place over the weekend, the UK’s armed forces minister Luke Pollard has said.
When pressed on if the UK agreed with US action in Iran, the minister told Wilfred Frost on Sky News Breakfast that he would not comment.
“What we can say is we were not involved in the military action that the US took, nor have we been involved in the action the Israeli government have been taking against Iran,” he said.
“Our focus and the work that we are doing in conjunction with our US allies… is to put the pressure on the Iranian regime to get back to negotiations, because a diplomatic solution is how we bring this crisis to an end.”
Pollard also said the UK was not “asked to participate in the strikes”, and “we did not provide UK bases for those strikes”.
Asked if the UK government would organise flights for Britons who want to leave Israel, Pollard said that the government is “looking at scheduling planes out of Tel Aviv airport”.
The Israeli defence forces says it attacked six airfields across Iran.
Some 15 jets and helicopters were destroyed in western, eastern, and central Iran, the IDF said.
This included F-14, F-5, and AH-1 aircraft.
By Sarah Taaffe-Maguire, business and economics reporter
The latest escalation between the US and Israel against Iran has unsurprisingly increased the cost of oil.  
But after an initial spike on the open last night, prices eased.
A barrel of Brent crude – the benchmark price – actually costs less than it did on Thursday at $78.16.
As oil markets opened for the first time since the weekend strikes, the price shot up to $80.13, a five-month high last seen in late January.
It’s worth remembering that this is around the average price for 2024.
While the increase since late last week isn’t so sharp, oil is up substantially throughout June. 
This time last month, a barrel cost $64, when prices were depressed after the world reeled from Donald Trump’s April tariff announcements.
Iran is not the world’s largest producer, and no oil sites have been hit, allowing investors to remain relatively calm, for now.
There is a “solidarity among the Iranian people”, a journalist from the country has said.
Speaking from Tehran, Emad Anshenas told Wilfred Frost on Sky News Breakfast that anyone in Iran who was in favour of negotiations over the US strikes were now on the “weak side”.
“The [government] cannot come out and tell the Iranian people we are going to negotiate the US which attacked us,” he said, adding “it will be very hard for them to talk about negotiations”.
Asked where the majority of public opinion is, he said: “For the first time in four or five decades I see a solidarity among the Iranian people which was never seen inside Iran before.
“We probably had this solidarity during the Iran-Iraq war and now it is back again.
“If you walk through the Iranian streets everyone is asking for a hard response, especially against Israel.
“And now everyone is questioning why the nuclear bomb is not being produced.”
The Iranian armed forces says the US should expect heavy consequences for its strikes.
The attacks have expanded the scope of legitimate targets for Iran’s armed forces, a spokesperson for its Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said.
Ebrahim Zolfaqari ended his statement in English: “Mr Trump, the gambler, you may start this war, but we will be the ones to end it.”
The Israeli air force says it is striking military infrastructure sites in Kermanshah, a city of about a million people in western Iran.
More than 15 Israeli jets were involved in the assault, which the air force said destroyed several missile launch and storage sites.
Israeli strikes on Iran’s Yazd province killed ten Revolutionary Guards yesterday, according to the semi-official Tasnim News Agency.
The Israeli Defence Forces said fighter jets struck a strategic missile command centre, where long-range missiles were stored.
Approximately 60 missiles have been launched from this command centre toward Israel, it said.
The US strikes came after a week of open conflict between Israel and Iran, sparked by Israel’s sudden barrage of attacks against Iran’s nuclear and military structure.
Here we give you a recap of what has happened so far.
Israel attacks: Israel attacked Iran on 13 June, striking Iranian military and nuclear sites and killing several top military officials and nuclear scientists. 
Why? Israeli leaders argued Iran could quickly assemble a nuclear weapon, making it an imminent threat, while US intelligence and the International Atomic Energy Agency assessed Tehran was not actively pursuing a bomb.
Iran retaliates: Iran retaliated by firing missiles and drones at Israel, some of which penetrated the country’s vaunted Iron Dome air defence system. 
More strikes and counter-strikes: Israeli strikes on Iran killed at least 950 people, including 380 civilians, and wounded 3,450 others, according to the Washington-based group Human Rights Activists. Israel said Iranian attacks killed 24 people and wounded hundreds.
US joins conflict: Bombers carried out “massive precision strikes” on Iran’s Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites on Saturday night, Trump said. American bunker-buster bombs were the only munitions that could have hit Fordow, buried beneath a mountain.
Aftermath: Defence secretary Pete Hegseth said the strikes were not aimed at toppling the Iranian government, but Donald Trump suggested regime change would be a positive outcome. For its part, Iran has threatened the US with a “decisive response”.
Watch: Mark Stone explains US strikes on Iran
Iran has executed a man convicted of collaborating with Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, according to reports.
Mohammadamin Shayesteh was arrested in late 2023, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
He was described by Tasnim as “the head of a cyber-team affiliated with Mossad.” 
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