This months' Verus Nuntius speakers discuss the recent heat wave in Canada and its connection to the global climate crisis, as well as North Korea's food shortage amid its COVID-19 border closure with China, its main trade parter, and international sanctions. We also go into the discovery of unmarked graves of indigenous children discovered in Cranbrook, British Columbia, and the process in the US to allow for a third "X" gender marker in its passports.