Let’s enjoy this long weekend, ahead of what tensions countertariffs will bring on Tuesday.
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Via Rail cars shift to domestic production
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cars → shift → production
While the trade war continues to simmer, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that the federal government will spend $4.7-billion to build and maintain more than 300 Via Rail passenger rail cars in Canada, using facilities in Quebec and Thunder Bay.
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government → continue → Quebec
Carney says the move represents a shift away from importing trains from south of the border.
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The context: The trains currently operating outside of the Windsor-Quebec City corridor have an average age of 77 years.
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trains → operate → years
The replacements are scheduled to begin entering service in 2031.
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They will include sleeper cars, dining cars and cars with panoramic views.
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Trade tensions between Canada and the United States could further escalate next week as Ottawa plans to impose new countertariffs on Tuesday.
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Senior U.S. officials have said that Canada should expect an additional response if the Sept. 8 countertariffs go ahead.
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Keep reading
- End of USMCA would be “severe but not cataclysmic” for Canada’s economy, Deloitte says
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Canada wants to be ambitious.
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That means getting immigration going again
Ottawa issues guidelines for building data centres
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More than 20 artificial-intelligence and digital-infrastructure companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, have signed on to a new federal framework for data-centre development announced by AI Minister Evan Solomon.
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But local opposition to these facilities grows and could prove to be a political vulnerability (or opportunity) for some elected officials.
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The principles: Five broad principles for building data centres were shared.
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Developers must minimize water use and other environmental effects, be transparent about the impact on the local area, and not shift electricity costs on to Canadians.
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Developers must also create lasting local benefits and bring “strategic value” to the country.
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A comprehensive federal report was released with little fanfare yesterday.
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Canada’s latest climate assessment charts a country changing faster than predicted, as Ottawa defends its decision to abandon its emission targets.
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The report documents how climate change has already transformed the country and details how those trends are likely to become more evident and challenging for Canadians if greenhouse-gas emissions remain on their current trajectory – from floods and heatwaves to vanishing glaciers and permafrost.
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Brace for thousands in unexpected university costs
A surprise for many families is that tuition – which last year averaged $7,734 for Canadian undergraduate programs, according to Statistics Canada – isn’t the full cost of enrolment when you attend university.
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Students are also hit with a long list of fees, and these charges are climbing, even when tuition isn’t.
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The numbers: In the 2025-26 school year, the average undergraduate student paid $1,214 in mandatory fees, up $215, or 21.5 per cent, from four years earlier.
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Those fees cover student services, athletic facilities, transit passes, student associations and more.
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Plus, many programs come with extra costs that students may not discover until classes begin.
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Here’s why students are still choosing Quebec schools despite soaring out-of-province tuition fees.
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Getting ready for TIFF
With almost 300 titles to choose from at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival, ticket-buyers need to know which movies to keep on their radar.
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To help, The Globe and Mail has been busy digging through this year’s slate to bring you our most anticipated TIFF 2026 prospects.
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While TIFF fans have grown accustomed to tickets edging up by a few percentage points every festival, this year was the first time in recent memory that films, other than the opening and closing night galas, cracked the $100 mark.
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The Take
To say the knives are out for Ms. Findlay wouldn’t quite capture the moment.
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It would be more apt to say she’s surrounded by a seething army of critics, skeptics and full-on haters who want her gone – yesterday.
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— Gary Mason, National affairs columnist
Kerry-Lynne Findlay’s shambolic reign has handed the B.C. NDP a gift, writes Gary Mason.
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The Shot
PEI’s River Clyde Pageant blends the theatrical and the natural, and marked its 10th edition this summer.
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What else we’re following
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Gloria Steinem, a feminist icon for more than five decades and celebrated writer, has died at 92.
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Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives held on to two seats in Thursday’s Ontario by-elections while the NDP retained a third.
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On the ballot: Elections Alberta says results from the separation question will be reported before other ballot questions.
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Iran held a funeral for the victims reportedly killed by a U.S. bomb during a wedding, and Tehran launched missiles and drones overnight at a U.S. base in Kuwait.
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The NHL announced a new 12-year French-language broadcast arrangement in Canada, with TVA Sports securing rights through a sub-licensing agreement between Rogers and Quebecor.
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The federal court ordered the government to declassify more of a report about the resettlement of Nazi war criminals in Canada after the Second World War through a secret CIA program.
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The Aporia
