Canada's government will not appeal a court ruling about the Impact Assessment Act. This law lets Ottawa review big projects, like pipelines, for harm to nature. In Canada, the provinces and the federal government each control different areas. In October, the Alberta Court of Appeal said parts of the law are still unconstitutional. This means they break Canada's highest law. The court said Ottawa could still stop a project in a provincial area over even a small federal concern. In 2023, the Supreme Court struck down much of it. Ottawa will now change the law. It has not said when.
Young people in Canada who lose their jobs are taking longer to find new ones. A study by the C.D. Howe Institute, a research group, looked at jobless people aged 20 to 24. Among these men, 27% have looked for work for six months or more. That is the highest share since 1983. For women, it is 28%, the highest since at least 1976. This year, university graduates did no better than people with only high school. The study points to slow hiring and worry about U.S. tariffs, or import taxes. It found little proof AI is taking their jobs.
PAL Airlines has stopped flying one of its planes. The plane lost a wheel as it left Goose Bay, Labrador, on November 12. It was going to Deer Lake but went to St. John's and landed safely. The same plane, a Dash 8-400, also lost a wheel on October 30. After that, PAL did repair work on it, following advice from De Havilland, the company that makes it. No one knows the cause yet. PAL is working with Transport Canada, the federal department for travel safety, to find out. It is also checking wheels on its other Dash 8-400 planes.
Prince Edward Island plans to spend about $1.34 billion over five years on things like hospitals, schools and roads. This is called a capital budget. It is $289 million less than last year's plan. Finance Minister Jill Burridge shared it on November 10. In 2027-28, the province plans to spend $372.6 million. That is about 23% less than last year. Burridge wants to finish work already started and control costs and borrowing. The auditor general, who checks government spending, warns the province's debt could reach $6 billion by 2031. Health care would get $418 million. Opposition parties criticized the plan.
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Nova Scotia will pay about $470 million to public sector workers, who work for the government or public services. In 2015, a law called Bill 148 stopped their pay from rising for two years. It limited raises for two more. In February, a judge said the law broke workers' right to bargain, or negotiate, together in unions. A court order on November 9 says about 81,000 workers must be paid by December 31, 2027. Each could get up to $5,000. Finance Minister John Lohr says the province is still working out how to pay. Non-union workers will not be paid.
A new study looked at three First Nations in New Brunswick. First Nations are Indigenous communities. It compared Neqotkuk, Esgenoôpetitj and Elsipogtog with nearby towns: Perth-Andover, Neguac and Rexton. It used census data from 2021. A census counts all people in Canada. In the First Nations, the share of people with university degrees was less than half of that in the nearby towns. There were also gaps in jobs and income. People in the First Nations are also much younger. Pierre-Marcel Desjardins, an economist at Université de Moncton, did the study. The three communities want more federal money for education.
Three people face criminal charges in Quebec. The SAAQ is Quebec's government auto insurance board. It also handles driver's licences. Police say a former SAAQ employee used her job to get private information about people from a confidential database. They say she sold it to two other people. Quebec's anti-corruption police unit arrested all three. They are charged with breach of trust by a public official and unauthorized use of computers. Breach of trust means misusing a public job. These are charges only. A court has not found them guilty. They will go to court in Montreal on December 17.
People in the Greater Toronto Area, or GTA, need to earn at least $27.60 an hour to have a reasonable standard of living. The Ontario Living Wage Network, a non-profit group, says this. A living wage is the pay a person needs to cover costs like food, housing and transportation. The GTA's living wage is Ontario's highest. It is $9.65 more than Ontario's minimum wage of $17.95. The minimum wage is the lowest pay allowed by law. The group says minimum wage is not enough anywhere in Ontario. A small business group says many businesses cannot pay a living wage.
Two Manitoba health-care unions paid for a report on workplace safety. A union is a workers' group. The report is not final yet. It says hospitals and other health-care workplaces get fewer safety inspections and penalties than other workplaces. But health care had 2,827 injury claims in 2025 where workers missed work. That is more than any other industry counted. Only one health-care employer has been taken to court under safety rules since 2008. Injury claims from violence rose 41% since 2022. The report gives seven recommendations. The province says workers are already protected. It says it will consider them.
A data centre is a building full of computers that store and process information. Large ones use much land and electricity. On November 10, a Saskatoon city council committee voted to send ideas for stricter rules on large ones to budget talks later this month. A report says a full study would take 18 months and cost about $500,000 with new rules. For now, council must approve any large data centre. This temporary rule lasts until August 2028. City staff said a large data centre in Saskatoon is unlikely. None has applied. Councillor Scott Ford may not support the spending.
Calgary is a city in Alberta. Its draft budget says city debt would grow from $3.8 billion to more than $10 billion by 2030. Debt is borrowed money that must be paid back. A draft budget is a plan that is not final. City council starts debating it on November 23. It would spend $21 billion on building projects over four years, including the Green Line, a new train line, and water plants, buses and roads. The city would use 80% of the debt it is allowed, up from 43% this year. Mayor Jeromy Farkas supports it. Some councillors worry.
People use the EducationPlannerBC website to apply to public colleges and universities in British Columbia. It has been shut down for over a week after a data breach. A data breach is when someone gets into private information without permission. It says it found the problem November 3. It says someone got some applicants' names, contact details and gender. It says the person did not get social insurance numbers or bank information. It is working with schools to help applicants who have deadlines. Simon Fraser University says it will not change its deadlines. They close at the end of January.
Five Inuit from Igloolik, Nunavut, sued the federal government in 2019. They say the government did medical experiments on them in the 1960s and 1970s, including skin grafts. A skin graft moves skin from one body part to another. A court has not decided if this is true. This week, lawyers for Ottawa and three universities asked a Nunavut judge to dismiss, or end, the case. They argue legal time limits for the lawsuit passed long ago. Two universities say they were not involved. The plaintiffs' lawyer says ending the case would set a harmful example, especially in the North.
Yellowknife is the capital of the Northwest Territories. Its draft budget for 2027 plans to raise property taxes by 5.25%. Property owners pay this tax to the city. A draft budget is a plan that is not final. City staff shared it November 12, at the first public meeting of the new mayor and council. The plan would spend $167.5 million, including $55 million on building projects. It expects $145.4 million in income. The city must balance its budget, so it uses $22.1 million in transfers and other changes. The council will now decide what stays and what is cut.
Whitehorse General Hospital is the main hospital in Yukon. The Yukon Hospital Corporation wants to make it bigger. On November 9, officials told members of Yukon's legislature this would cost about $1.1 billion. They said about 500 more workers would be needed over time. The plan adds 56 beds for patients, four operating rooms and eight intensive care beds. Right now, the hospital is so full that some patients are treated in an old kitchen and meeting rooms. Maternity ward work should start in spring. The full project could take five to seven years. It is still only a proposal.
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