1. Brazil kick-off: The 2014 FIFA World Cup officially gets underway when host country . The month-long competition will see 32 countries from across the globe go head-to-head for football supremacy.

2. Ontario votes: Thursday to vote for their choice of premier. The provincial election will determine whether Kathleen Wynne and her Liberals stay in power, or if Tim Hudak's Progressive Conservatives or Andrea Horwath's New Democrats will take over office.

3. NDP ordered to repay: A House of Commons . Last week, the committee determined that the NDP broke the rules when it used taxpayer-funded resources to send nearly two million mailings across the country.

4. On the force: Danny, the police service dog whose partner Const. Dave Ross was killed in Moncton last week, will be . Widow Rachel Ross says the dog loved his work as much as her husband did.

5. Aid to Iraq: The United States is , a country that has seen two cities taken over by insurgents over the past two days. Up to 500,000 people have fled the city of Mosul, which was seized by members of the group called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.