Shooting at Drake’s house leaves security guard with life-threatening injuries + Israel seizes Gaza’s Rafah border crossing

 Good morning. This is the Wednesday, May 8 edition of First Up, the Star’s daily morning digest. Sign up to get it earlier each day, in your inbox.

Here’s the latest on the shooting outside Drake’s home, Israel’s operations in Rafah and Canada’s immigration points system.

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A woman waits along St. Clair Avenue last fall for a streetcar that would not be coming, owing to work on the streetcars’ overhead power lines.

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”(W)hen I asked my helpful local pharmacy for more (COVID test kits) they said their supply had expired, too,” writes Andrew Phillips. “‘The government doesn’t give us new ones,”’ they said.

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A woman, cradling a dog, wades through a street flooded by heavy rains in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil on Monday.

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