Canada
Labour vote splitting as Canada's political parties battle for workers' support
When the votes were counted on election night, the news for the NDP was grim. The party was shut out of Ontario completely, including across multiple union-heavy ridings in cities like Hamilton and Windsor.
It was the definitive proof that Canada's political landscape has shifted. Where labour unions and workers were once a safe vote for the NDP, the party can no longer count on their support. Senator Hassan Yussuff, former president of the Canadian Labour Congress, said there are about four million unionized workers in Canada and that political parties recognize the power they wield more than ever before. | CP
Housefather, 31 Liberal MPs issue call to action against antisemitism
In a statement from Quebec’s Anthony Housefather (Mount Royal), co-signed by 31 of his Liberal colleagues, the four-term member of parliament said Jewish Canadians deserve the same right to feel safe as all Canadians. | National Post
Number of sick days taken by public servants growing post-COVID
The figures shared by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat indicate that in 2020-21, when the pandemic had most office employees working entirely remotely, the average number of sick days for the public service was 5.9. That number grew to 8.1 in 2021-22, 8.8 in 2022-23 and 9.2 days in 2023-24. | CP
Some Indigenous businesses halt exports to U.S. despite long-standing free-trade ties
"There needs to be a resolution to allow Indigenous Peoples to continue to undergo the trade routes that they have established and practised, and the treaties that have been signed in the past have suggested that these would be honoured," said Matthew Foss, who serves as the vice president of research and public policy at the Canadian Council for Indigenous Businesses. | CP
The Provinces
Une manifestation demandant des élections organisée à Québec lundi
« On juge que le gouvernement Legault, qui est projeté à zéro siège en ce moment, est complètement en dehors de ses bottines, a fait un mal considérable au contrat social, à la société civile, à nos acquis », a soutenu Matthieu Brien, organisateur du rassemblement. « S’il y avait des élections aujourd’hui, la CAQ disparaîtrait complètement, a-t-il continué. | La Presse
Quebec premier François Legault set to take centre stage at SAAQclic scandal inquiry
The commission, overseen by Judge Denis Gallant, is examining how the creation of the online platform known as SAAQclic incurred cost overruns of at least $500 million. “I was the one who launched a public inquiry, it’s important that Quebecers know exactly what happened,” Legault told reporters | CP
Elsewhere
Modi and Xi reset India-China relations at high-stakes SCO summit
Despite years of deadly border clashes, the leaders of India and China appear to be resetting relations. Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping met at a regional summit in China on Sunday to bolster cooperation and potentially rebalance international relations. Russian President Vladimir Putin was also at the summit. As Mackenzie Gray explains, it's a meeting Western countries like Canada and the U.S. are watching closely. | Global National
Indonesia’s Prabowo scraps China trip over protests, TikTok halts live feed
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has cancelled a trip to China, as deadly antigovernment protests spread outside the capital, and social media platform TikTok suspended its live feature, citing concerns over the “increasing violence” in the Southeast Asian country. | Al Jazeera
Foreign minister says possibility of U.S.-North Korea summit at APEC 'very low for now'
Speaking on a KBS news program, Cho was referring to speculation U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un could meet during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang, at the end of October. | Korea JoonAng Daily
Media
Building a new environmentalism: News media access and framing in Canada's environmental movement
This study provides a content and frame analysis of the news media advocacy of prominent environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) in Canada. We find that these organizations have an important voice in shaping how climate change is framed in news media, but that ecological modernization frames and narratives, which avoid issues of power, conflict, and social-transformative change, are dominant. | Canadian Review of Sociology
Inside the White House’s norm-breaking social media strategy
It’s a significant break not only from how past administrations have used social media, but also how Trump’s White House operated online in his first term. Trump himself has defied tradition in huge ways, including online, where he often favors using informal posts to Truth Social to provide details on critical meetings and policies rather than press releases or more official statements. It appears his social media team has at least tacit permission to follow suit — illustrating the Trump administration’s broadly increased comfort with bucking norms. | CNN
Science and Technology
Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission
All of the virtual celebrities have been shared on Meta’s Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms. In several weeks of Reuters testing to observe the bots’ behavior, the avatars often insisted they were the real actors and artists. The bots routinely made sexual advances, often inviting a test user for meet-ups. | Reuters
[Web resource] LandChad.net
This is LandChad.net, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords by showing them how to setup websites, email servers, chat servers and everything in between…. Most of the internet’s problems could be solved if more people had their own personal platforms, so the objective of this site is to guide any normal person through the process of installing a website. | LandChad.net
Issued this day …
… in 1987. Sc 1145. Air Canada. Design: Debbie Adams and Derrick Carter.
Issued to mark the 50th anniversary of the creation of Air Canada.