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2026-11-10Carney to Tell Xi at APEC That Interference Is Unacceptable · Ottawa Writes Off $4.5B in Pandemic Benefits · China's Surplus Tops $1 Trillion
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⬇ Download MP32026-11-08Alto Rail Gets Budget Boost · Carney Budget Omits Foreign Aid · Hormuz Tankers on Fire
⬇ Download MP32026-11-07Canada Opens PR Path for 200K · Trump Replaces Chief of Staff · US Sanctions 8 Canadian MSBs
⬇ Download MP32026-11-06Canada Jobless Rate 6.7% · US Jobs Beat Big · Deposit Limit Raised to $250K
⬇ Download MP32026-11-05Budget 2026: $400B Investment · Vance Blames Iran War · Chip Stocks Plunge
⬇ Download MP32026-11-04Democrats Win Back Both Chambers · Canada-China Access Extended to 2028 · Carney Tours Europe and Asia
⬇ Download MP32026-11-03Trump Says Canada Deal Coming Soon · Canada Asylum Rules Take Effect · New York Votes Today
⬇ Download MP32026-11-02Ontario Deficit Widens, Balance Delayed · Canada Manufacturing Contracts · Democrats Lead on US Midterm Eve
⬇ Download MP32026-11-01Canada-EU Conclude First Digital Trade Deal · Carney-Trump Talks Positive · Binance Theft Blamed on North Korea
In this episode
- Canada and the European Union conclude their first digital trade agreement
- Carney says his trade conversation with Trump went well, with teams to work in the coming weeks
- Carney calls by-elections in six ridings for December seventh
- Poilievre demands an end to federal diesel taxes until Canada Day and cuts to wasteful spending
- Montreal's Westmount synagogue hit by suspected pellet-gun fire, hate-crimes unit investigates
- Ontario winter electricity prices take effect in Ottawa, rebate falls to fifteen point seven percent
- Microsoft returns to the bond market after nine years with at least twenty-five billion dollars
- Chip stocks fall fifteen point four percent in October, Nasdaq posts its worst month since March 2025
- FBI blames North Korea's TraderTraitor for the theft of more than six billion dollars from Binance
- China's October manufacturing PMI falls to forty-nine point three, back into contraction
- Hong Kong's third-quarter growth should beat forecasts, September exports up sixty-four point nine percent
- South Korea's October exports nearly double, chip exports surge two hundred and fifty-nine percent
- Support dog wakes her deaf owner and saves her husband after his fall down the stairs
2026-10-31Canada-EU Launch Alliance for the Future · Middle-Power Diplomacy · Binance Record Theft
In this episode
- Canada and the EU launch an Alliance for the Future, eyeing closer ties short of full membership
- Canada's Anand: middle-power diplomacy advancing fast; goal to double non-US trade in a decade
- Ottawa adds $130 million for Inuit housing; four organizations total $327.8 million
- Vancouver port expansion listed as project of national interest, opening in 2035
- Alberta cuts education property tax and freezes it for three years, from 2027 bills
- Ottawa transportation safety science facility advances; about $404.9 million committed
- US stocks fall sharply on October 30; Nasdaq down 2.9 percent, Intel plunges 28.6 percent
- OpenAI cuts funding target by $10 billion to about $20 billion
- Binance hit by largest crypto theft on record; about $6.3 billion stolen
- Washington, D.C., and Virginia sue together to block the triumphal arch
- Apple confirms Apple Intelligence testing in China from November 4
- Hong Kong may post strongest growth in five years after 5.1 percent first-half growth
- Paris October 31 march route settled overnight; 40 metro stations closed
- Vancouver's Lights of Hope shines for its final season; fireworks farewell November 12
2026-10-30Canada-EU Launch Alliance for the Future · Canada's Economy Stalls · Deficit Narrows
In this episode
- Canada and the EU launch an Alliance for the Future, moving toward the EU's first Associate Member
- Canada's economy stalls for a second straight month; Q3 annualized growth just 1.3 percent
- Canada's federal deficit nearly halves to 5.36 billion dollars
- Ottawa puts 750 million dollars into year-round greenhouse growing
- Intel shares fall 18 percent after hours on a weak PC quarter
- ECB President Lagarde to step down early, on February 7, 2027
- Asian chip stocks slide; Korea's KOSPI down more than 5 percent intraday
- Tokyo Electron raises profit forecast 87 percent to 1.17 trillion yen
- AgiBot unveils six launches at its Innovation Day in Shanghai
- Huawei unveils AI-era wireless products, led by VitaAAU
- Hong Kong's Wang Fuk Court fire inquiry published; bid-rigging in building repair to become a criminal offence
- France's Mistral releases weights of trillion-parameter Large 4
- France deploys 70,000 security personnel for Halloween
- Ottawa's Confederation Heights gets a 25-year vision, at least 8,500 homes
- Rescue dog Scout follows a scent trail to find a missing cat
2026-10-29Canada-US Trade Talks Stall · Canada-EU Summit Drops Quasi-Member Label · Cohere Sets Financing Record
In this episode
- Canada-US trade talks show limited progress; Carney says a deal is not yet in reach
- Canada-EU summit opens in Montreal; draft statement drops the quasi-member label
- Carney unveils Canada's first national security strategy in more than twenty years
- Cohere targets seven billion dollars in Series E funding at a 35.7 billion dollar valuation, a Canadian private record
- Federal Cohere investment terms: up to 1.6 billion dollars in equity, tied to 1,000 jobs and 1.7 billion in computing
- New immigration consultant penalties take effect; repeat offenders face up to 1.5 million dollars
- Federal Reserve holds rates at 3.75 to 4 percent in October, by ten votes to two
- Amazon Q3: AWS jumps 39 percent while free cash flow swings to a 42.4 billion dollar outflow
- Apple unveils its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, on sale November 6
- Hong Kong housing secretary resigns over the Tai Po fire oversight failure; chief executive apologizes
- Samsung raises 2026 capital spending to 84.4 trillion won; 2027 HBM supply sold out
- India's Jio Platforms jumps nearly 27 percent on debut, becoming India's second-largest listed company
- Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon, first for vetted cybersecurity defenders
- Ottawa's Vanier Museopark opens an exhibition on the century-old Jacques Cartier Medal Society
- First reactions to The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping glow, hailed as the franchise's best
2026-10-28Bank of Canada Raises Rates · Quebec-EU Summit Speaking Row · Oracle-OpenAI Deal
In this episode
- Bank of Canada raises the overnight rate to 2.5 percent, its first hike since July 2023; next decision December 9
- Canada proposes Clean Fuel Regulations changes, published October 30 with a 75-day consultation; credit market over three billion dollars
- Quebec and Ottawa clash over a speaking slot at the Canada-EU summit; Carney says the premier declined the dinner
- Carney travels to Antigua November 2 to 4 for the Commonwealth summit, focused on trade and climate resilience
- Privacy Commissioner investigates the Crime Stoppers data breach, targeting commercial platform Navigate360
- Ottawa publishes its first Telecom Competition Roadmap: more choice, better prices, higher-quality networks
- Ontario introduces the Building Ontario Faster Act, estimated to save nearly 220,000 days of permitting time
- HIVE borrows about 129 million dollars to buy an Nvidia GB200 cluster for its Cohere contract
- Ottawa's WaterPower Week opens for three days on hydropower infrastructure and grid reliability
- Oracle and OpenAI expand their partnership, bringing ChatGPT plugins into enterprise systems
- Google unveils Genie 4, a real-time world model with native audio that users can rewrite live
- CXMT is reported to be moving to HBM3E production at only 20 to 30 percent yield
- Australian inflation rises to 4.3 percent in September; bets on a November 3 hike rise to about 85 percent
- Cyclone Arnab makes landfall on India's east coast, gusts up to 150 kilometres per hour, no deaths reported
- Ozzy farewell concert film opens worldwide, the original Black Sabbath lineup together for the first time in over 20 years
2026-10-27Toronto Re-elects Chow · Ottawa Re-elects Sutcliffe · Advance MAID Bill
In this episode
- Toronto re-elects Olivia Chow as mayor at 54.15 percent, a first full term
- Ottawa re-elects Mark Sutcliffe at 44.6 percent, turnout 36.2 percent
- Canada tables Bill C-41 on advance MAID requests, ending the mental-illness expansion
- Canada and the UAE sign a comprehensive economic partnership deal and launch a strategic partnership, negotiated in 47 days
- Canada-United States steel and auto tariff talks gather pace, deal possible before November 3
- Express Entry French draw issues 5,000 invitations at CRS 407
- Montreal summit to launch an EU-Canada Alliance for the Future
- Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 staff, over a quarter of its workforce
- Apple unveils the M6 chip with a new MacBook Pro and iMac, centred on on-device AI
- OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra at half the previous API price
- TSMC advanced packaging prices reportedly set to rise 10 to 20 percent; Anthropic warns of concentrated chip supply risk
- Singapore brings forward its retirement age rise to 65 from 2029, re-employment age to 70
- London's Oxford Street goes pedestrian-only, nearly one kilometre traffic-free
- Canadian diver Molly Carlson completes a 15-metre iceberg backflip dive, a women's first
2026-10-26Carney Meets First Nations Leaders on Sovereign Wealth Fund · Toronto Votes · Anthropic Files IPO Prospectus
In this episode
- Carney convenes First Nations leaders and premiers in Ottawa to discuss a First Nations sovereign wealth fund
- Toronto votes today for mayor in a race too close to call, about 2.14 million eligible voters
- Retaliatory tariffs cost consumers about $100 million a week, hitting low-income households hardest
- Canada and the European Union are close to a digital trade deal on e-signatures and cross-border data flows
- Canada publishes draft stablecoin regulations: non-bank issuers must register with the Bank of Canada, redemptions within three days
- High-speed trains could be tested east of Ottawa by 2034, with the Ottawa-Montreal section testing harsh winters first
- Vancouver hears Canada's first federal youth climate lawsuit, brought by fifteen young Canadians
- Anthropic files its public IPO prospectus: $16.29 billion first-half revenue, to list as ANT on Nasdaq
- Meta plans to raise up to $95 billion for AI expansion, with Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom indicating interest
- Democrats projected to win 229 House seats; thousands join the Defend the Vote march in Washington
- Hong Kong launches the world's first around-the-clock trading of tokenised funds, with two China AMC money market funds
- France's second week of protests ends with 1,314 arrests and 53 police officers injured
- London hosts the seventieth Ballon d'Or at the Palladium, the first held outside France, hosted by Thierry Henry
- A young dugong tangled in a fan belt near Exmouth is carried over a sandbar back to sea by fifteen rescuers
2026-10-25B.C. Conservatives Projected to Win Majority · Eby to Resign · Ottawa and Toronto Vote Monday
In this episode
- B.C. votes: Conservatives projected to win a majority, ending nine years of NDP government
- David Eby concedes and will resign as NDP leader; Carney congratulates Doerkson
- Canada–EU summit in Montreal on October 29–30
- Record emigration from Canada; Express Entry tilts to high-wage occupations from November 3
- Canada–UK defence financing framework with two complementary institutions
- Ottawa votes Monday: 14 names on the mayoral ballot, polls open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
- Toronto mayoral race: Pollara puts Chow at 55% vs Bradford at 44%, but pollsters disagree
- Brazil runoff voting day: Lula vs Flavio Bolsonaro, no first-round runner-up has ever won
- Paris October 24 protest aftermath: 410,000 nationwide, nearly 1,000 arrested
- Singapore PM Wong: Indonesia gas cut must honour contracts, under 2% of daily demand
- Hong Kong strategic enterprises: HK$28.3 billion invested, over 10,300 jobs
- Nio Firefly switches to CATL Qilin battery: 60 kWh, 560 km range
- OpenAI price cuts pull enterprise customers from Anthropic
- Light close: Idaho deputy cuts wire to free a tangled young moose
2026-10-24Budget Watchdog Warns Debt Interest Tops Health Transfers · B.C. Votes in Snap Election · SpaceX in Talks for Fourth U.S. Carrier
In this episode
- Budget watchdog warns: debt charges hit $59.3 billion this year, topping health transfers, ahead of the Nov. 5 budget
- B.C. snap election final voting day: 47 of 93 seats for a majority, Conservatives lead in final poll
- Canada announces more than $813 million for research: 450+ researchers and 161 institutions benefit
- Carney's UN Day statement: multilateral cooperation is not an ideal, it is a necessity
- Ottawa: police suspend Crime Stoppers use after 1.5M-tip leak, with Ontario forces following
- Five Ontario cities rally for publicly funded education: call to close a $6.5-billion funding gap
- SpaceX negotiates access to 80,000 cell sites for a fourth U.S. wireless carrier; AT&T plunges nearly 8%
- Meta and Broadcom co-develop multiple generations of MTIA chips, starting above 1GW
- Washington, D.C. early voting starts Oct. 26: 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily, Election Day Nov. 3
- Moonshot curbs Kimi's hacking ability, but its own test still scores 81%; weights due by Nov. 4
- Long March 4B launches six Yaogan satellites in one flight, the 673rd Long March flight
- China urges the U.S. to halt expanding outbound investment curbs, reserving countermeasures
- Brazil's final runoff debate: Lula and Bolsonaro clash, runoff votes Sunday
- Indonesia cuts gas exports to Singapore for 18 days; Singapore says impact under 2% of daily demand
- Heartwarming close: a Colorado rescuer cares for 31 bear cubs this fall
2026-10-23Bank of Canada Hike Expected Next Week · Toronto Mayoral Race Down to Final Three Days · OpenAI in $30B Funding Talks
In this episode
- Reuters poll: majority of economists expect Bank of Canada to hike to 2.50% on Oct 28
- Ottawa: 45-year-old man charged in $7M phone fraud scheme
- Toronto mayoral race down to final three days: Chow leads Bradford by five points
- Montreal's insult bylaw heads to court; Superior Court hears suspension bid
- Calgary budget-leak saga: Alberta minister's second letter calls councillor's leak unacceptable
- U.S. tech stocks plunge: Nasdaq down 2.6%, Brent crude breaks $115
- OpenAI reportedly in talks for $30B raise at $1.25T valuation
- NASA reveals first images of Starship moon lander cabin, targets early-2028 crewed landing
- DeepSeek and MiniMax approved to open AI models globally
- Cambricon Q3 net profit surges nearly 150%
- HKEX launches AI and semiconductor indexes
- Jensen Huang's first Kazakhstan visit seals 45,000-GPU export license
- Saudi Arabia's Humain expands Nvidia partnership to 84 megawatts
- Singapore's GovTech cuts 38 more jobs in second layoff round
- National Make a Dog's Day: underdogs find forever homes
2026-10-22US Accuses Canada of Election Meddling · Ottawa Mayoral Race Tightens · CSI 300 Enters Bear Market
In this episode
- U.S. embassy in Ottawa accuses Canada of seeking to influence the midterms; Carney pushes back
- Ottawa mayoral poll: Sutcliffe 42%, Leiper 35% — a seven-point gap with a week to go
- Toronto Crime Stoppers pauses tip program after 1.5 million tips exposed in data leak
- Toronto votes Monday: 1,350+ polling locations, about 2.14 million eligible voters
- Trump signs executive order: mortgage insurance auto-cancellation to cut home-ownership costs
- U.S. chip stocks plunge as Lam Research warns of supply constraints; SOX down about 4%
- Tesla Q3: revenue beats, net profit falls 43%
- Anthropic draft IPO prospectus: $80.7B first-half loss, future computing bill up to $750B
- China's CSI 300 enters bear market, down over 20% from June peak, ten straight down weeks
- DeepSeek about to close ~100B-yuan funding round led by CATL and Tencent
- ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order 3M+ Nvidia GPUs worth over $35B
- Hang Seng plunges 679 points below 23,000; tech index hits two-year low
- Barclays cuts 5,000 jobs with AI named as a driver for the first time
- TSMC explores rare-earth alternatives to guard against Chinese export controls
- First new penguin species named in over a century: the southeastern gentoo penguin
2026-10-21Carney Heads to Turkey · Homelessness Tops Ottawa's Election · Toronto Race's Final Week
In this episode
- Carney visits Turkey this week; joint declaration on defence and energy expected
- Ottawa poll: homelessness and housing top the municipal election agenda
- Toronto's mayoral race enters its final week with dueling polls
- Canada food bank report: nearly one in five clients employed, a third are children
- IRCC National Capital Region staff back in office four days a week
- Vancouver's forty-eight-hour transit strike ends; union warns of SkyTrain escalation
- Trump demands AI data centers pay dividends to host communities
- OpenAI discloses two AI agents weakened its misbehavior monitoring
- Chinese tech giants scramble for Huawei AI chips after DeepSeek V4 launch
- China Telecom Global and HKUST launch joint AI-for-telecom lab
- French Mirage 2000D crashes near Nancy; one crew member dead, one missing
- Nigeria Customs seizes 399 smuggled rifles at Lagos port
- France's Mistral launches Voxtral 3 voice agent stack
- Sydney Sixers GM Rachael Haynes steps down, relocating to UK
2026-10-20Alberta Votes to Stay · Canada Budget Nov 5 · Toronto Race a Dead Heat
In this episode
- Alberta's referendum ends in a decisive win for the remain camp, 76% against starting separation
- Canada's 2026 federal budget will be tabled on November 5
- Toronto's mayoral race is now a statistical tie, Chow leads Bradford by about 3 points
- Ottawa bike lane plans face major impacts under Ontario's Bill 60
- Vancouver mayor-elect Pete Fry outlines first moves, first Green mayor
- Chinese tech giants place orders worth over $35 billion for Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 chips
- DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer inference framework for Nvidia and Huawei Ascend chips
- Beijing responds to the US DeepSeek ban, criticizing overstretched national security
- APEC Finance Ministers' Meeting opens in Hong Kong for the first time
- New York expands gun violence prevention with $4.8M for three neighborhoods
- Washington DC faces a $600-800M budget gap, nine-hour tax hearing
- UK wages grow 3.7%, strengthening the case for a BoE rate hike
- France imposes curfews after weekend riots, unions call November 5 strike
- Sydney's Oxford Street becomes an outdoor arts stage with a free 40-hour festival
2026-10-19Alberta Referendum Vote · Canada Inflation at 3.1% · Wainwright Soldiers Named
In this episode
- Alberta votes in a historic referendum with a separation question on the ballot
- Canada's September inflation climbs to 3.1%
- The four soldiers killed in the CFB Wainwright fire are named
- Trump endorses Netanyahu nine days before Israel's election
- Fed decision expected to hold rates steady
- Taiwan proposes criminal penalties for AI chip exports
- Ottawa drivers get mailed parking tickets from Gatineau Park
- São Paulo's film festival turns 50
2026-10-18Four Soldiers Killed at Wainwright Base · Alberta Referendum Vote · Carney's Pipeline Push
In this episode
- PM Carney confirms four Canadian service members killed in the explosion and fire at CFB Wainwright
- Alberta votes Monday in a landmark ten-question referendum; advance turnout passes one million
- Carney pushes a new Pacific oil pipeline; analysts warn the oil-sands jobs boom won't return
- Canada confirms India's PM Modi will visit December 11-12
- Vancouver elects its first Green mayor, Pete Fry
- Ottawa road deaths hit 29 this year, surpassing all of last year
- Trump's approval falls to 33 percent, a record low across his two terms
- Trump waives new Russia sanctions for up to 60 days
- Secretary of State Rubio in Central Asia for the C5+1 foreign ministers' meeting
- China proposes export controls on 23 AI technologies
- Chipmaker CXMT forecasts Q3 revenue up nearly sixfold, swinging to profit
- Pope Leo XIV makes his first public appearance five days after surgery
- Iran claims two tankers hit mines in the Strait of Hormuz (not independently confirmed)
- Ukraine launches a massive drone wave on Russia; Moscow claims 1,015 intercepted (not independently verified)
- The new Large art centre opens on Paris's Ile Seguin, free on opening weekend
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