Morning Update: Rats? Rats. Rats!

Good morning. Cities like Toronto and Ottawa are trying hard to get a handle on their rat problem – more on that below, along with a nature-based rehab program for wounded vets and Justin Trudeau’s Mark Carney recruitment campaign. But first:Today’s headlines

• Biden slipped in his unscripted remarks at the NATO summit last night, but reasserted he is still fit to run amid growing pressure to end his campaign
• Trudeau says Canada will meet its NATO’s defence spending target by 2032, but dismissed the benchmark as a “crass mathematical calculation”
• A judge found an admitted serial killer guilty of first-degree murder in the slayings of four Indigenous women in Winnipeg