In the news today: Microsoft outage, plane loses wheel, Carney heads to Manila

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed …

Thousands in Canada affected by global Microsoft outage

Canadians wake up this morning to what could be another full day of a global Microsoft outage.

The cause of the outage remains unclear, though it’s affecting most of the company’s platforms, including Outlook and Teams.

Microsoft has said it is working to identify and fix the problem, adding that there is nothing to suggest the outage was caused by malicious activity. 

The outage has caused headaches for authorities, governments and businesses worldwide, including here in Canada.

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PAL Airlines says it is pulling a plane out of service after it lost a wheel while departing from Goose Bay in Labrador on Thursday, the second such incident for the same plane in less than two weeks.

The flight was en route to Deer Lake in western Newfoundland, but it was diverted to St. John’s and the airline says it landed safely.

Spokesperson Joseph Galimberti says the Dash 8-400 also lost a wheel during a flight late last month and the airline did extensive maintenance work on it.

He says the Newfoundland-based airline is doing wheel assembly inspections on the other Dash 8-400 planes in its fleet as a precaution and that passengers will be rescheduled on new flights to Deer Lake.

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Carney heads to Southeast Asia summit as Rohingya refugee crisis grows worse

Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to the ASEAN summit in Manila, where the ongoing Rohingya refugee crisis is expected to be a major topic of debate.

Nearly one million Rohingya people remain in crowded camps in Bangladesh after fleeing violence in Myanmar in 2017.

Secretary of State for International Development Randeep Sarai, who recently visited the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh, says Canada has not abandoned the Rohingya.

The International Court of Justice is set to rule this month on whether Myanmar has committed genocide against the Rohingya minority.

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British spy tale about Cold War defection sheds new light on Canadian mole hunt

New evidence suggests a Soviet spy who defected to Britain in the early 1980s played a key role in helping Canada track down a mole who passed secrets to Russian intelligence.

The recently published book Redwood, by journalist and author Ben Macintyre, tells the story of Vladimir Kuzichkin, who agreed to defect in the hope he would receive medical treatment for his impotence.

It also fleshes out earlier claims that he alerted Canadian intelligence officials to a high-ranking traitor within the ranks of the RCMP — a tip that led molehunters to zero in on former Mountie Gilles Brunet.

Kuzichkin, a former KGB agent, was stationed in Tehran in 1981 when he approached the British about working for them.

The book says that in August 1982, the British told the RCMP that “a top-level defector” had pointed to a KGB mole, code-named NIKON, in the Canadian police force.

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Toys ‘R’ Us Canada quits fight with Calgary swingers club over ‘Club R’ trademark

The new owner of Toys “R” Us Canada appears to have abandoned the retailer’s fight to keep a Calgary swingers club from using the phrase “Club R.”

The toy chain’s previous owner argued that letting Club Rendezvous use “Club R” would cause confusion because in some markets, Toys “R” Us has called its loyalty program R Club.

Toys “R” Us Canada had until Sept. 30 to file a statement of opposition, but the intellectual property office’s database shows Next Century failed to meet the deadline and didn’t ask for an extension.

With no one actively fighting the use of “Club R,” the case was closed one month later by the trademark opposition board, which handles intellectual property disputes. 

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This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 13, 2026.