Politics & World
Prime Minister Mark Carney met leaders from the Commonwealth's other 55 member countries in Antigua on Tuesday, November 3, as Americans headed to the polls back home. The summit is the first of several multilateral meetings this month where Canadian officials hope to build alternative partnerships in trade, security and diplomacy. Trade clearly dominated the agenda, with the Commonwealth aiming to lower barriers and double trade among members before its next summit in two years. Earlier, Foreign Minister Anita Anand and fellow ministers welcomed Gabon's return to elected government after its membership was partly suspended following a 2023 military coup.
Economy
U.S. asset manager Blackstone and four Canadian institutional investors have agreed to a US$3.1-billion deal for a 49.9 per cent stake in the Mitsubishi Corporation subsidiary that holds its share of LNG Canada, the country's first large-scale liquefied natural gas export terminal. The group includes CPP Investments, OMERS, the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario and PSP Investments. Mitsubishi, which owns 15 per cent of the Kitimat project, stays in control and keeps its full share of gas supply. The money will also help fund the Phase 2 expansion, which will double the terminal's capacity to 28 million tonnes a year.
Provinces & Territories
NLNewfoundland and Labrador
Some Indigenous people in Newfoundland and Labrador are cautiously backing Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew's call to abolish the 150-year-old Indian Act, which still defines who holds Indigenous status in Canada. At First Light in St. John's, knowledge sharing guide Kevin Coffey said the law should go, but only if First Nations lead the transition and keep the rights and benefits they now hold. Prime Minister Mark Carney said last month he shares Kinew's view, though he later noted a federal review may not necessarily end with abolition. Leaders recalled that Ottawa's 1969 White Paper attempt was rejected by Indigenous leaders.
PEPrince Edward Island
Amir Zuccolo will be the next mayor of Charlottetown after defeating incumbent Philip Brown in Monday's municipal elections held across Prince Edward Island. Unofficial results show Zuccolo won more than 5,000 votes, about 1,500 ahead of Brown, who was seeking a third term. She becomes the first woman to hold the job since Dorothy Corrigan in the early 1970s. Zuccolo said voters wanted change, and named housing, homelessness, city planning and municipal finances as her priorities. Summerside and Three Rivers also elected new mayors, with Cory Snow defeating longtime Summerside mayor Basil Stewart, who had served thirty-three years in total.
NSNova Scotia
The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada will require a federal review of St Barbara's 15-Mile Processing Hub, a gold-mining project spanning three open-pit sites on Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore. The Australian company called the decision duplicative and disappointing, saying it undermines the one project, one review approach championed by Prime Minister Mark Carney and supported by the province. Local councillor Scott Beaver welcomed the move, arguing Ottawa will assess risks to the St. Mary's River salmon habitat more thoroughly. The agency received more than 500 public submissions and flagged possible effects on fish, migratory birds and Indigenous rights before deciding.
NBNew Brunswick
Premier Susan Holt has released a strategy to expand New Brunswick's defence industry, aiming to raise defence-related economic activity from $762 million last year to $1 billion annually by 2030, about 31 per cent more. The plan includes a new defence task force and comes as Ottawa spends roughly $1 billion on ranges, training areas and air-defence infrastructure at Base Gagetown. About 14,000 New Brunswickers work in the sector, the second-highest rate per capita in Canada. Holt said she wants the province to become first. Federal defence spending reached about $63 billion in 2025-26, meeting NATO's two per cent target.
QCQuebec
Montreal police Chief Fady Dagher has dismissed seven employees following internal investigations into allegations of racist and discriminatory behaviour and other degrading acts. Five worked at Station 39 in Montréal-Nord, the centre of a racism scandal since June, and two at downtown Station 21. Separate criminal investigations are continuing and remain in the hands of the Crown. Dagher apologized to those affected and acknowledged that public trust had been badly weakened, promising further changes in the coming weeks. Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada called the firings an unprecedented step, while opposition party Projet Montréal said they were the bare minimum required.
ONOntario
Bruce Power, operator of the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station near Tiverton, Ont., faces two Fisheries Act charges after millions of fish died at the plant in early 2025. Fisheries and Oceans Canada estimates 3.3 to 4.3 million gizzard shad, drawn to warm discharge water during a cold snap, became trapped on intake screens. That was more than 200 times the plant's annual permitted limit by weight. One reactor shut down. Its own report blamed an organizational failure to adapt to climate change. Bruce Power says it has spent over $10 million on prevention and will appear in court November 24.
MBManitoba
Manitoba's Child Care Coalition says the province must create at least 77,000 more child-care spaces to reach a national access benchmark of 59 per cent coverage. Manitoba currently has about 44,850 licensed spaces, covering roughly 22 per cent of its children, according to figures the coalition gathered partly through a freedom of information request. Meeting the target would require about 23,000 more infant and preschool spaces and 54,000 school-age spaces. Advocates credited recent progress, including $10-a-day care and higher wages for early childhood educators, but said many families still face long waits, especially parents working evenings, weekends or rotating shifts.
SKSaskatchewan
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake rattled many homes around Esterhazy, Sask., early Tuesday morning, and Natural Resources Canada says it was most likely caused by mining. The quake struck at 7:04 a.m. local time, about nine kilometres east-northeast of the town, near a potash mine operated by the Mosaic Company. Mosaic said all employees were accounted for, safety inspections were complete, and production was not interrupted, adding that the event occurred in an older, mined-out section of its K3 mine. The area experienced three similar earthquakes last year, which were also considered likely to be mining-induced. Mosaic plans an expert review.
ABAlberta
Premier Danielle Smith says Alberta will assemble a legal team if the Opposition NDP follows through on a constitutional challenge to proposed new electoral boundaries. An advisory panel's report, released Monday, would stretch some Calgary ridings beyond city limits and give Lethbridge one urban seat plus three hybrid urban-rural districts reaching up to 140 kilometres away. NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi called the report illegal and unconstitutional, while two panel members dissented. Smith said she hopes the issue can be settled through debate in the legislature, arguing hybrid ridings work well elsewhere. The next provincial election is scheduled for October 2027.
BCBritish Columbia
First Nations in British Columbia have filed eight separate legal challenges against Ottawa's decision to designate the Pacific Link oil pipeline a project of national interest. The designation is meant to speed approval of the line, which would carry Alberta oil to the B.C. coast. The Tsartlip First Nation called the federal decision reckless and rushed, warning that the coastline holds fishing areas vital to its people. The challenges set up a significant new legal test of the government's push to fast-track major infrastructure, and they highlight the continuing tension between resource development and Indigenous rights and title in Canada.
NUNunavut
Tununiq MLA Brian Koonoo has resigned from Nunavut's cabinet, effective immediately, Premier John Main announced Monday evening, citing personal reasons. Koonoo had served as minister of culture and heritage, environment, languages and energy since joining Main's cabinet last fall, after he was first elected to represent Tununiq. No further explanation was given in the brief statement. Human Resources Minister Annie Tattuinee, who represents Rankin Inlet South, will serve as acting minister of culture and heritage and of languages. Netsilik MLA Cecile Nelvana Lyall, already responsible for the Nunavut Housing Corporation, will take on environment and energy in an acting role.
NTNorthwest Territories
Jail admissions in the Northwest Territories rose from 616 in 2024-25 to 901 in 2025-26, the sharpest rise since numbers began climbing in 2021, according to corrections reports. Yellowknife's North Slave Correctional Complex has been over capacity for months, holding 163 inmates in late October in a facility designed for 148. The Justice Department says the causes are complex and it is too early to link the rise to federal bail reform that took effect in July. Recorded use-of-force incidents by staff have grown from six to 30 since 2021-22, while only 71 inmates completed a rehabilitation program last year.
YTYukon
The Yukon government says its primary care waitlist has shrunk by 60 per cent since January, from 4,606 people to 1,827 in September. But records obtained by CBC News through an access to information request show that, of 5,304 people who registered, nearly 400 were removed because they had left the territory and three because they had died. Health Minister Brad Cathers said most people came off the list after being matched with a doctor or nurse practitioner. He credited the recent recruitment of 12 physicians and new nursing services, including a clinic set up at Dawson City's Yukon Spa.
