Good morning. It's 19 degrees in Brantford, 17 in Kitchener and 20 in Hamilton. The dollar is trading for 72.08 cents US. Gas is up to $1.73.9 a liter at most GTA stations. It's Wednesday, August the 19th and I'm Rob Kerwain. The federal government is giving Niagara and Hamilton $2 million each to address homelessness. Ten municipalities across Ontario will be receiving $45 million in funding through the Unsheltered Homelessness and Encampments Initiative. In April, the Government of Canada announced a $125 million investment to extend the UHEI by one year following two years of initial funding. The funding will help communities strengthen local responses to homelessness and enhance outreach and support services. Prime Minister Mark Carney says there has been substantial progress regarding trade with the US after the US president announced he would delay new tariffs set to hit Canada. Carney says there is still important work to do and that Canada is focused on building a stronger, more independent and more competitive economy at home. The US had threatened to impose 50% levies on roughly $28 billion worth of Canadian goods. Meantime, the Ontario government will spend $10 million on 6 programs to give people training in the skilled trades. Its skills development fund gained notoriety after the province's auditor general found last year that the way the government had been selecting successful applicants was not fair, transparent, or accountable. An investigation into Labour Minister David Pacini was launched after he was accused of breaching ethics rules and handing out the skills training funding. The government says it has made changes to how it selects projects through its sixth round of funding. In sports, Kazuma Okamoto broke Toronto's rookie home run record with his 25th. Josh Smith and Alejandro Kirk also homered and the visiting Blue Jays crushed the AL leading Tampa Bay Rays 10-5 in Tuesday's opener of a three-game series. The Blue Jays have now won 13 of their last 19 games. Your light 92 forecast, mainly cloudy today with scattered showers and risk of a thunderstorm. High 28, humid X of 31. Clear skies tonight becoming partly cloudy near midnight with a low of 13. Tomorrow a mix of sun and cloud, a high 25. Sunny on Friday with a high of 27 degrees. Right now it's 19 in Branford, 17 in Kitchener and 20 in Hamilton. I'm Rob Kerwain.