Global National: June 18, 2023 | Dauphin residents lean on one another in wake of Manitoba tragedy

In Dauphin, Man., there is immense pain in the small city of roughly 8,500 people on Sunday, a community shattered by loss after a fatal highway collision earlier this week. Just about everyone has some kind of connection to the 15 people killed, and six people are still fighting for life. Marney Blunt speaks to life-long friends of those who died.

As the identities of those killed in a Manitoba highway collision slowly surface, a police investigation into how the crash happened is underway. Mike Drolet looks back at the history of accidents and near-misses at the intersection of the incident, where so many died last week.
Sunwing will no longer be a choice for air travellers in Canada, as its new owner WestJet will be absorbing Sunwing aircrafts into its existing fleet over the next two years. Sean O'Shea is in Toronto with more on what this means for Canadians.

Despite very chilly relations between China and the U.S. these days, both countries are calling the start of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s Beijing two-day visit “candid and constructive.” As Redmond Shannon reports, the agenda will mostly involve trying to rebuild some much-needed trust between the two superpowers — in the first such visit in five years.

Several German museums are returning family heirlooms — stolen from Jewish families during the Second World War — to the descendants of their rightful owners. Mike Armstrong explains how they're doing it and what it means to the families getting the items back.

The Trans-Canada Highway is a lifeline that runs across this country. Taken for granted in the modern day, paved roads outside of our cities were relatively rare until the 20th century. Dawna Friesen speaks with those from Manitoba’s Professional Truck Driving Championships held this weekend on their memories and hopes for the future of this open road.

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