Canada and the U.S. seem on track to return to the table for trade talks.
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Sources expect Canada-U.S. trade talks to restart
Formal trade talks are expected to resume shortly between Canada and the United States after what Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling a “good conversation” with President Donald Trump.
The details:
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A source familiar with the matter said that Trump ordered his team to resume formal talks as a result of the conversation.
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They also said negotiations are expected to begin in a few days.
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The context: Canada walked away from the trade-deal bargaining table with Washington in August.
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Canada → walk → August
Both countries would pick up where they left off before they were deadlocked over matters such as automobile trade.
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Federal by-elections to be held in December
Carney announced on Sunday that six by-elections will be held on Dec. 7 in Quebec, Ontario and Saskatchewan.
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The context: The PM will be looking to bolster his majority in the Commons after his party raised nearly $1-million more than the Conservatives in the third quarter of 2026.
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The Tories traditionally outpace other parties in political donations.
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Tories → outpace → donations
Carney’s government is preparing to table its second budget on Nov. 5, so we checked in on how his progress stacks up against his promises in nine areas.
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Taking place tomorrow, the 2026 American midterm elections are on track to be the most expensive in at least two decades, a Globe and Mail analysis found.
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Campaigns had brought in more than US$3.6-billion by Sept. 30.
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Here are seven charts that explain how parties are spending that money.
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Elected officials in Congress who are in a position to change the campaign spending system are the beneficiaries of it, writes David Shribman.
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Today, he has sided with his party’s critics of tariffs.
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Success for him in Tuesday’s midterm election could push Republicans from power in Congress.
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Growing wave of youth-led protests sweeps Europe
Around Europe, hundreds of thousands joined overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations inspired by young people, despite scattered unrest.
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Marchers in France, Germany and Portugal on Saturday demanded broad changes, from the cost of living to education and the fight against climate change.
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Police expect new protests as high schools at the heart of the movement reopen Monday after their autumn break.
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schools → expect → break
Fraudsters got a slice of the bread price-fixing settlement
Canadians were ripped off after retailers fixed bread prices.
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retailers → get → prices
But one of the country’s biggest-ever class-action settlements has a new problem.
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Bad actors found success at faking claims – that means legitimate claimants get a smaller slice of the pie.
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claimants → find → pie
Court records from June show that, at the request of administrators, Interac provided an estimate that roughly $3.7-million in payments were suspicious, and possibly fraudulent.
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Within a month, that had been revised to $8.5-million, a figure that has not been previously reported.
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The Take
Anointing pets and good friends as family is, I suggest, a cultural response to all the loneliness that has resulted from the push for individualism and self-motivation.
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— Meredith F. Small, professor emerita at Cornell University
The family unit has changed dramatically – but it’s still cut from the same cloth, writes Meredith F. Small in her recent book Family: How the Human Need for Connecting Forms and Shapes Our Lives.
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At a time when Canadian students have seen years-long poor performance in math, drag artist Kyne Santos is making it cool.
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What else we’re following
At home: This year’s Silver Cross Mother keeps her daughter’s memory alive after a 2002 training exercise accident.
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The wreath-laying ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa will take place less than a month after the devastating fire at CFB Wainwright.
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ceremony → lay → Wainwright
Twenty years later, supporters of the Uyghur political activist Huseyin Celil call for his release from prison in China, as the country refuses to recognize his Canadian citizenship.
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country → call → citizenship
Five years after buying UPS’s freight business, Canadian trucking company TFI International Inc. is struggling to turn it around.
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In the arts: A new wing is devoted to Jean-Paul Riopelle at the Musée national des beaux arts du Québec.
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wing → devote → Québec
Does his work live up to the star treatment?
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Could I get over it?
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I tracked my journey with the advice of a psychologist, as well as brain scans and therapy.
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The Aporia
