Racism and the lack of primary care providers mean off-reserve First Nations, Métis and Inuit women and girls have poorer health overall compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts, says a study. [CP]

Despite an early postwar presence of Canadian diplomats in the region, significant development assistance and participation in key security initiatives and dialogs, Canada’s engagement in recent decades has been inconsistent and more limited. To renew its credibility in the region, Canada should commit to comprehensive, long-term investment in its ties with ASEAN countries. [Canadian Foreign Policy Journal]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in West Kelowna Friday, where he met with first responders working on the Central Okanagan wildfires. Global BC Legislative bureau chief Keith Baldrey has more on what the prime minister had to say during his stop and why he is not visiting the Shuswap. [Global]

In recent months, Claudia Sheinbaum, the former mayor of Mexico City, and Marcelo Ebrard, the country’s former foreign minister, have fiercely competed for the candidacy of populist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s party. [AP]