Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s legal team is telling CBC News to retract a recent news story about contact her office has had with Justice officials over Coutts border blockade charges, saying the outlet is seeking to revive a “manufactured controversy.”

Plus, a violent attack on a transit bus in Surrey over the weekend is deemed a terrorist attack by the RCMP.

And the prime minister’s official residence at 24 Sussex was closed following the discovery of walls filled with dead rodents.

These stories and more on The Daily Brief with Rachel Emmanuel and Lindsay Shepherd!

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