Global National: Sept. 9, 2023 | Powerful Morocco earthquake stuns nation as death toll rises

Panic and disbelief on the streets of Morocco in the immediate aftermath of a powerful earthquake, the strongest to hit the country in 120 years. More than 2,000 people have been killed and more than 2,000 others have been injured — most of them are in critical condition. There are fears the number of dead will grow. The 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains and flattened historic buildings in Marrakech, the city closest to the earthquake’s epicentre. Roads are impassable and it could take days to reach the hardest-hit villages in Morocco’s remote mountainous region. Caryn Lieberman has more.

On Saturday, many Moroccans living in Montreal gathered in a nearby cafe to get updates from their country's local news as the death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck their home country on Friday night continued to rise. As Gloria Henriquez reports, a resident with family in Morocco is hoping the nightmare back home ends soon.

During the opening session of the G20 summit in India, the host country’s prime minister Narendra Modi offered his condolences to those affected by the earthquake, saying the global community is with them and ready to help. On day one of the summit, the leaders including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reached a consensus on the war in Ukraine calling for peace. But as Touria Izri reports, Ukraine’s foreign ministry is criticizing the declaration because it does not directly mention Russia.

The war in Ukraine has triggered a sharp rise in the number of people killed or injured by cluster munitions. An annual report funded in part by the Canadian government found there was almost an eight-fold increase in cluster bomb casualties last year. And as Redmond Shannon reports, those figures don’t even include the controversial shipments to Ukraine from the United States.

As the Conservatives ride a wave of support in the opinion polls, the party wrapped up what’s likely its only policy conventions before the next federal election. The gathering in Quebec City attracted a record number of more than 2,500 delegates and they now have recommended a diverse set of policy proposals they want their party to campaign on. David Akin looks at what is being proposed.

Executives at Hockey Canada have spent the past two days in meetings in Calgary trying to make the sport more safe and more inclusive. But just last week a former NHL coach, who was fired for making racist comments was re-hired. Bill Peters was named the head coach of the Lethbridge Hurricanes hockey team and apologized to the victim he used racial slurs against, former NHLer Akim Aliu. It’s been more than a decade since the comments were made and more than four years since Aliu came forward with these allegations.