1. Back to school, for most: It's back to the books for students across most of Canada today, except in British Columbia where the teacher's strike is extending approximately half-a-million public school kids' summer vacations. Children may be cheering, but it's left parents scrambling.

2. Dark lining for cloud storage: How did hackers manage to steal so many private celebrity images? And how can we protect ourselves when so much of our information is stored on servers over the Internet? Tech expert Tom Keenan explains in this extended interview.

3. Old battle lines redrawn: NATO leaders, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, are meeting this week. At the top of their agenda will be how to deal with Russian aggression in eastern Europe. Here's everything you need to know about NATO and the challenges it faces.

4. Homegrown terrorists: British Prime Minister David Cameron wants to give police the power to seize the passports of U.K. citizens suspected of having travelled abroad to fight with terrorist groups like Islamic State.

5. Hard court heartbreak: After Eugenie Bouchard had trouble with the high temperatures at the U.S. Open, losing her match after a medical time-out for dizziness and exhaustion, another Canadian star player, Milos Raonic, was ousted too.