Canada
Carney, Trump signal optimism on Canada-US trade deal
After hosting Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House for the second time Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump hinted at a trade deal that he says will soon make Canada “very happy.” Mackenzie Gray reports from Washington on Carney and Trump’s meeting, the optimism, and where negotiations could be heading. Washington Bureau Chief Jackson Proskow sizes up the Trump-Carney relationship. | Global National
Liberals’ border security bill may be revamped amid privacy concerns
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree has given notice to the House of Commons that he will introduce fresh legislation on borders and immigration as early as Wednesday. In June, the government tabled a bill that would give authorities new powers to search mail, facilitate police access to personal information and make it easier for officials to pause or cancel immigration applications. | Globalnews.ca
Canada must now place restrictions on birthright citizenship. Here’s why.
CPC MP Michelle Rempel Garner: As part of the Conservative Party’s ongoing policy rollout to address Canada’s broken immigration system and restore the value of Canadian citizenship, Conservatives moved and supported an amendment during the clause-by-clause review of Liberal Bill C-3, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025), to impose restrictions on Canada’s overly permissive system of automatically granting citizenship to children of two non-permanent residents. Here’s why … | Substack
‘Freedom Convoy’ leaders Tamara Lich, Chris Barber given conditional sentences
Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two major figures of the 2022 “Freedom Convoy,” have been handed conditional sentences and spared further jail time. Barber was found guilty of mischief and counselling others to disobey a court order earlier this year, while Lich was found guilty of mischief. Both were found not guilty on several other counts. On Tuesday, each was given an 18-month conditional sentence: Twelve months at home with limited outings per week, followed by six months under a 10 p.m. curfew. | CBC News
Most Canadians now planning ‘pretty significant’ holiday spending cutbacks
“Consumers would have the intention and would probably love to spend more money this year, but I think the reality of the economic situation is that they’re just not able to,” said national consumer markets leader Elisa Swern at PwC Canada, which conducted the survey. | Globalnews.ca
Former Kitchener MP officially running in next election
“I could not be more pleased and proud to know that one of the best MPs in Canadian history – Mike Morrice – will be back in the House as MP for Kitchener Centre,” said Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, in a release. “Mike is the first nominated Green for the next election. I hope to be the second!” | CityNews
The Provinces
From the East and West, Alberta’s pipeline ambitions face pushback
Mr. Eby released a video on Monday on social media in which he warned that Alberta’s plan to front a pipeline application to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new Major Projects Office will jeopardize billions of dollars in private-sector investments in B.C. “The non-existent Alberta pipeline project would put tens of billions of dollars in real B.C. projects and jobs at risk. On top of that, it threatens one of the world’s most precious and intact ecosystems, our beautiful B.C. coast and Great Bear Rainforest,” Mr. Eby said. | Globe and Mail (🎁 link)
Alberta’s Smith defends oil pipeline future, blasts B.C. premier
Smith replied by characterizing Eby as “a parochial premier” and his remarks as “un-Canadian” and also possibly unconstitutional. “I would hope that Prime Minister Mark Carney would realize it’s his obligation to make sure that these kinds of projects get built,” she said. | Edmonton Journal
Fish plant fined $1M for worker mistreatment, owner says Mexicans ‘more rotten’
Bolero Shellfish Processing receives the largest penalty ever related to temporary foreign workers. At one point in the interview, [company owner] complained about the origin of the temporary foreign workers at the New Brunswick plant, stating he has had no problem with Filipino workers at the Prince Edward Island plant, while alleging “Mexicans are more rotten,” referring to the workers in New Brunswick. “They have a tendency to argue between themselves. That’s what I’m told.” | Telegraph-Journal
Elsewhere
With U.S. leadership in doubt, can its allies chart their own course?
U.S. allies in Europe and the Indo-Pacific have shown an increasing willingness in recent months to coordinate and cooperate across a wide range of shared interests, from trade to defense and alliance management to China. As democratic middle powers that are committed to open trade and investment, the U.K., France and Germany, Washington’s most important European allies, have much in common with Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea, the Indo-Pacific pillars of the U.S. alliance system. | NPR
From success to strategy: Three lessons from Moldova’s election
Moldova’s leaders should take this success as a starting point for continued efforts to protect their democracy. But the country is hardly alone in experiencing Russian interference in its elections. The EU, member states and aspiring EU members can all learn lessons from Moldova’s remarkable turnaround—and build them into their own strategies for democratic resilience in the future. | ECFR
French President Macron hit by government collapse and loyalty rift
Political turmoil has gripped France for more than a year, flowing from the National Assembly dissolution that triggered fresh elections. The result was a Parliament stacked with opponents of Macron who have brought down his minority governments one after another. Attal, speaking Monday night to broadcaster TF1, struck the first blow, saying: “Like many French people, I no longer understand the president’s decisions.” | AP
Media
Forged KGB Documents Used to Smear Journalist in Parliament
A few weeks ago, news broke of a forensic review by independent researcher Giuseppe Bianchin which found that the documents Alexander submitted last October were “crafted with deliberate intent to deceive.” According to Bianchin’s report, completed in July, Ukrainian archives could not verify the files, and the international typographers and graphologists enlisted by Bianchin—leading figures in their field—concluded they were a hoax. That these documents were paraded as fact—in a hearing devoted to disinformation, no less—was a bitter irony. Instead of unmasking a spy, Alexander may have ended up offering Parliament a case study in how falsehoods gain traction.
…Alexander’s insistence that these materials were genuine ran into trouble even before the recent revelations about their forgery. Global News discovered that neither of the two main Ukrainian KGB archives in Kyiv had any documentation similar to what Alexander claimed was both authenticated and in the hands of Canadian national security experts. | The Walrus
Science and Technology
The Pacific Ocean is overheated, making fall feel like summer
The unusually warm ocean temperatures are pushing the jet stream north, says University of British Columbia atmospheric scientist Lualawi Mareshet Admasu. The jet stream is a narrow band air that flows quickly west-east over the Northern Hemisphere, acting as a boundary between colder air in the north and warm air in the south. Scientists are still figuring out the complex link between ocean heat waves and the jet stream, but Mareshet Admasu says parts of Canada have felt “very warm air from southern or Equatorial regions” as it shifts north. | CBC News
If you can get past the terrible logo, Audacity 4 looks pretty great
If you do any audio editing, importing vinyl, etc., Audacity is the go-to software IMO. Been using it for years. Love it. Martin Keary, VP of product at Muse, posted a nearly hour long video to YouTube detailing the challenges facing Audacity, the logic behind the design changes, and updates on the development of version 4 (slated for release in early 2026). One of the biggest improvements is in minimizing what Keary calls “Audacity says ‘no’”. | The Verge
The Calendar
0930 ET : 025B West Block - The CPC National Caucus will meet.
0930 ET : 125B West Block - The BQ National Caucus will meet.
1000 ET : 225A West Block - The LPC national Caucus will meet.
1015 ET : Ottawa - The NDP national caucus will meet.
1030 ET : Washington, DC - PM Carney departs for Ottawa.
1200 ET : Ottawa - PM Carney arrives at Macdonald-Cartier International Airport.
1315 ET : Mississauga, ON - Industry Min Melanie Joly speaks to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
1600 ET : Ottawa - NDP Interim Leader Don Davies meets with Cuba Ambassador Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz
1630 ET : 420 Wellington - Canadian Heritage (CHPC) | Meeting 6 | Effects of Technological Advances in Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries
1630 ET : 025B Wesat Block - Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI) | Meeting 8 | Review of the Conflict of Interest Act
1630 ET : 410 Wellington - the Status of Women (FEWO) | Meeting 7 | Gender-Based Violence and Femicides Against Women, Girls and Gender-Diverse People (Consideration of Draft Report)
1630 ET : 035B West Block - Finance (FINA) | Meeting 6 | C-4
1630 ET : 415 Wellington - Indigenous and Northern Affairs (INAN) | Meeting 4 | Indigenous Policing and Public Safety
1630 ET : 425 Wellington - Industry and Technology (INDU) | Meeting 7 | Defence Industrial Strategy
1630 ET : 125-B West Block - Science and Research (SRSR) | Meeting 8 | Antimicrobial Resistance
Issued this day …
… in 2021. Sc 3297. Editorial Cartoonists. Brian Gable. Design: Réjean Myette.
Born in 1949 in Saskatoon, Brian Gable studied fine art at the University of Saskatchewan and education at the University of Toronto. In the 1970s, he became a freelance editorial cartoonist for the Brockville Recorder and Times while teaching art in Brockville, Ontario. Hired full time by the Regina Leader-Post in 1980, he later joined The Globe and Mail, where he was an a National Newspaper Award-winning editorial cartoonist for more than three decades. He retired in 2023.