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Joly meets with Stellantis, union as PM calls Brampton plant sale ‘partial’ solution

Sammy Hudes, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: 10:54 AM EST

TORONTO - Industry Minister Mélanie Joly is set to hold a four-way meeting Thursday with automaker Stellantis, the union representing its more than 9,000 workers in Canada, and representatives of the Ontario government.

The discussions in Toronto come days after Stellantis announced it was selling its Brampton, Ont. assembly plant to Canadian armoured vehicle manufacturer Roshel for an undisclosed amount. More than 2,000 workers have been laid off from the plant since it was idled in 2023.

The announcement has been met with backlash from Unifor and the federal government over implications of the move for employees and the automaker's obligations, but some have also questioned the extent of Ottawa's involvement leading up to the deal.

Prime Minister Mark Carney initially called the sale of the plant a "betrayal" to laid off Stellantis workers and Canadians as a whole, saying the deal "violates the obligations that Stellantis has under several agreements.'

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Shelter-in-place advisory issued near Squamish, B.C., due to flooding from heavy rain

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Shelter-in-place advisory issued near Squamish, B.C., due to flooding from heavy rain

The Canadian Press 3 minute read Updated: 10:25 AM EST

VANCOUVER - A shelter-in-place advisory has been issued for residents north of Vancouver, where roads are beginning to flood due to heavy rain triggering run-off from a local dam.

The District of Squamish says BC Hydro has advised that flooding is expected due to rising dam discharge at Daisy Lake in the Paradise Valley area, about 80 kilometres north of Vancouver.

British Columbia's emergency information system says on social media that Paradise Valley road has begun to flood and is unsafe for travel,

It says residents in areas including Sunwolf Lodge and Cheekye Ranch should stay inside if they can.

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Updated: 10:25 AM EST

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Carney in Ireland for meetings with European leaders, ahead of Asia summits

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Carney in Ireland for meetings with European leaders, ahead of Asia summits

Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press 3 minute read Updated: 10:54 AM EST

DUBLIN - Prime Minister Mark Carney will hear from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this afternoon about the state of negotiations with Russia, as the two join European leaders anxious about the continent's security.

"Security guarantees are a European responsibility — with Canada, with the United States. So there are tiers for security guarantees," he said in French, at the start of the European Political Community summit in Dublin.

The summit is an informal meeting with leaders spanning Iceland to Azerbaijan that has occurred every six months, starting after Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

For the second time, Canada will be the only non-European country represented at the table. Since the last meeting in May in Armenia, Carney and European Union leaders have floated Canada becoming an "associate member" of the EU — a title they have yet to define.

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In Mexico, journalists face threats from attackers – and from the system meant to protect them, too

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In Mexico, journalists face threats from attackers – and from the system meant to protect them, too

Fernanda Pesce, The Associated Press 7 minute read Updated: 11:00 AM EST

TLAXCALA DE XICOHTÉNCATL, Mexico (AP) — Three years ago, Alberto Amaro was sitting at home when he heard two gunshots. His son, playing in the garden, ran inside in terror. When Amaro reached the front gate, he saw two armed men running down his street.

Amaro, 38, a journalist in the central Mexican state of Tlaxcala, says he immediately reported the shooting to the federal agency responsible for protecting journalists and requested emergency measures. “More than 48 hours passed without a response,” he says. Amaro eventually turned to a court, which ordered security for his family.

His is not an isolated case. What happened to Amaro was one of multiple frightening encounters that exposed shortcomings in Mexico’s federal Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists, a program created in 2012 to safeguard people threatened because of their work.

Between 2017 and 2022, eight journalists were killed while enrolled in Mexico’s federal Protection Mechanism, according to a joint investigation by Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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Updated: 11:00 AM EST

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Joly didn’t meet with Roshel before deal signed with Stellantis: minister’s office

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Joly didn’t meet with Roshel before deal signed with Stellantis: minister’s office

Sammy Hudes, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Yesterday at 8:38 PM EST

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly's office is disputing media reports that characterized the federal government as having played an active role in negotiations that led to automaker Stellantis selling its Brampton, Ont. assembly plant to defence contractor Roshel.

Mathis Denis, a spokesperson for Joly's office, said Wednesday evening that reporting that Joly "was involved in the deal is false."

"The minister had no part in negotiating with Stellantis or Roshel on the deal," he said.

"The minister was in a conflict resolution (role) between Stellantis and the union. That's it. The minister didn't meet Roshel."

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Advocate calls for ban on sports betting ads as legislation moves through Parliament

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Advocate calls for ban on sports betting ads as legislation moves through Parliament

Alyssa Wheeler, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 5:26 PM EST

OTTAWA - A psychologist is calling on the federal government to ban all advertising promoting sports betting while it considers a new national regulatory framework.

Bill S-211, sponsored by Sen. Marty Deacon, would ask the government to create a plan to regulate sports betting ads and set national standards to limit the risk of problem gambling.

The Senate approved the bill more than a year ago and it has made it most of the way through the House of Commons process as well. The heritage committee passed the bill with some amendments on Nov. 4 and it will now go back to the House for final votes.

Dr. Steven Joordens, a spokesperson for the Canadian Psychological Association, said it's disappointing the bill has taken two years to get to this stage in Parliament and the federal government must take action now to ban the ads.

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Updated: Yesterday at 5:26 PM EST

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Judge allows Trump defamation case against BBC to proceed but tosses 1 claim

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Judge allows Trump defamation case against BBC to proceed but tosses 1 claim

Jocelyn Noveck, The Associated Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 4:49 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation case against the BBC remains on track, for the moment.

A federal judge in Florida ruled late Tuesday that Trump’s defamation claim could go forward, though he did not rule on the merits. The publicly funded British broadcaster had sought to dismiss the case.

Judge Jeffrey Kuntz did dismiss part of the lawsuit, tossing out a Trump claim that the BBC’s actions violated a Florida law concerning unfair business practices.

Trump filed his lawsuit against the BBC in December. The Republican president accused the BBC of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices related to a documentary, “Trump: A Second Chance?” The 33-page lawsuit accused the BBC of broadcasting a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump,” calling it “a brazen attempt to interfere in and influence” the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

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Updated: Yesterday at 4:49 PM EST

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TV providers say Rogers’ Monday hockey move inflates prices, ‘erodes’ sports viewing

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TV providers say Rogers’ Monday hockey move inflates prices, ‘erodes’ sports viewing

Sammy Hudes, The Canadian Press 5 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 1:29 PM EST

TORONTO - A trio of television providers are accusing Rogers Communications Inc. of violating competition rules and inflating Canadian sports fans' bills by moving Monday night hockey broadcasts exclusively to its Sportsnet Plus streaming service for the current NHL season.

In a letter to Canada’s broadcasting regulator on Tuesday, the companies — Cogeco Inc., Eastlink and SaskTel — say Rogers is forcing fans to pay a $12.99 monthly add-on fee to access hockey games on Monday nights, unless they already subscribe to Sportsnet on Rogers TV or Sportsnet Plus.

The rival providers are asking the CRTC to order Rogers to immediately offer the content to independent companies for distribution to their customers for free, "ensuring parity" with Rogers' offering.

"Without swift, decisive, and binding regulatory intervention by the commission, this predatory siphoning of must-have live sports content will inflict immediate and irreversible structural damage on the Canadian broadcasting ecosystem," stated the letter, adding that without regulatory action, Rogers' actions would establish "a dangerous precedent."

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Updated: Yesterday at 1:29 PM EST

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Future of 66-year-old McMahon Stadium in the spotlight ahead of Grey Cup

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Future of 66-year-old McMahon Stadium in the spotlight ahead of Grey Cup

Donna Spencer, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 12:18 PM EST

CALGARY - Conversations have begun in Calgary to make the 2026 Grey Cup the last one held at McMahon Stadium.

The 66-year-old building will host the Canadian Football League's championship game Sunday between the Edmonton Elks and Montreal Alouettes.

The home of the CFL's Stampeders since 1960, and the site of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympics, is the second-oldest pro football stadium in Canada and one of the most venerable in North America.

Montreal's Percival Molson Memorial Stadium, built in 1915, has been the home of the Alouettes since 1998.

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Updated: Yesterday at 12:18 PM EST

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Carney arrives in Dublin to begin four-country trip

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Carney arrives in Dublin to begin four-country trip

Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 10:34 PM EST

DUBLIN - Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Dublin late Wednesday as he gets set to attend summits in Ireland and Asia where he'll look to advance trade and security ties.

His travels are to take him to four countries and put him on the ground as high-stakes diplomacy takes place between the United States, China and Russia.

Vina Nadjibulla, co-founder of the Centre for Strategic Statecraft, said the trip is Canada's chance to build on new agreements and partnerships it has signed with countries around the world.

"We're now entering a much more consequential phase of actually implementing and delivering on all of these agreements, and sustaining the momentum," she said.

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Updated: Yesterday at 10:34 PM EST

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Budget 2026 shifts Liberal government’s language on home construction targets

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Budget 2026 shifts Liberal government’s language on home construction targets

Craig Lord, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 1:44 PM EST

OTTAWA - The federal housing minister's office is reasserting Ottawa's goal of doubling the pace of home construction — even though references to the Liberals' hallmark affordability pledge were missing from Budget 2026.

The budget, which was tabled last week, dropped any mention of that original target, which was introduced in the Liberals' 2025 election platform and repeated numerous times in that year's budget.

Instead, the 511-page document outlines a new plan to triple the pace of non-market housing construction to 24,000 starts per year over the next decade.

Non-market housing is usually more affordable and relies on government support to get built, but those homes account for only a small share of the overall number of units built in a year.

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Updated: Yesterday at 1:44 PM EST

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Prada’s new Milan exhibition turns a century of fashion into fresh discoveries

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Prada’s new Milan exhibition turns a century of fashion into fresh discoveries

Colleen Barry, The Associated Press 4 minute read Updated: 8:38 AM EST

MILAN (AP) — Iconic A-line skirts twirl overhead, silver-covered handbags gleam in a secret underground passage and a spacesuit prototype brings more than a century of fashion history into the future at Prada’s new permanent exhibition in Milan, called “Pradasphere.”

The highly visual journey through the Italian luxury brand’s evolution is connecting Prada aficionados with the fashion house’s heritage in ways that go beyond nostalgia, and already is promising a commercial payoff.

“The exhibition is a multiplier,” said Lorenzo Bertelli, Prada Group's chief group marketing officer.

Prada projects that the Pradasphere exhibition anchoring the brand's expansion in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele shopping arcade will add 100 million euros ($111 million) in annual revenues, and Bertelli said that target could be surpassed.

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Prince Harry’s wife Meghan makes first public appearance since father’s arrest

Geert Vanden Wijngaert And Danica Kirka, The Associated Press 2 minute read Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026

BRUSSELS (AP) — Prince Harry urged tech companies to be more transparent about issues involving children as he and his wife, the former Meghan Markle, made their first public appearance Tuesday since her father’s arrest on suspicion of possessing images of child abuse.

Harry spoke at the European Parliament in Brussels during the opening of a memorial to children who have died as the result of harm suffered on social media. The Lost Screen Memorial features replicas of oversized smartphones with the photo of a deceased child on each home screen.

Meghan, also known as the Duchess of Sussex, was originally scheduled to speak alongside Harry but withdrew because she was not “strong enough emotionally,” a person familiar with her reasoning said. She still accompanied her husband to the event.

The allegations against Thomas Markle Sr. surfaced last month. He was ordered to jail Tuesday because he removed an electronic monitoring device from his ankle, just days after he was charged with possession of child sexual abuse material.

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Appeals court limits order for LinkedIn to disclose journalists’ communications in leak probe

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Appeals court limits order for LinkedIn to disclose journalists’ communications in leak probe

Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press 3 minute read Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge must narrow an order requiring LinkedIn to divulge journalists' communications on the social media platform to the Trump administration as part of a leak investigation, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a case with profound free-speech implications.

A three-judge panel from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the government isn't entitled to a “blanket” order for LinkedIn to disclose a broad array of user records belonging to the journalists, whose employer isn't identified in court records.

“A request by the government to scoop up reporters’ records wholesale and ascertain the identity of their sources would tip the balance against informed discourse in a manner inimical to democratic health,” Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III wrote in the court's unanimous opinion.

But the panel also rejected LinkedIn's request to entirely quash the district court's "substantially overbroad” disclosure order. The panel recognized that the journalists' First Amendment rights must be balanced against the administration's duty to protect national security information.

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Ottawa releases list of companies lending staff to major projects office

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Ottawa releases list of companies lending staff to major projects office

Nick Murray, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026

OTTAWA - The major projects office has seconded employees from banks, oil and gas companies and mining firms as it pursues its mandate to improve Canada's review process and get shovels in the ground faster, a new document shows.

The list of 41 employees was released Tuesday by the federal government after it initially balked at making the information public.

Conservative and Bloc Québécois MPs have for months pressed Ottawa to reveal the list, citing concerns about potential conflicts of interest.

Ottawa initially refused to disclose the list and federal Energy Minister Tim Hodgson last week accused opposition MPs of peddling "conspiracy theories" when he was asked to reveal it. 

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Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026

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Press Forward completes nearly $600M in journalism investments about 2 years early

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Press Forward completes nearly $600M in journalism investments about 2 years early

Glenn Gamboa, The Associated Press 6 minute read Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026

Press Forward, the nonprofit launched in 2023 to strengthen local news as outlets struggle with economic and technological changes, announced Tuesday that it has completed investing nearly $600 million in journalism organizations, about two years ahead of schedule.

However, Press Forward Executive Director Dale Anglin said the organization’s work is far from complete. Not only will the group continue raising and investing money, it will also expand its range of initiatives to support journalism.

“The industry is going through an incredible transformation,” Anglin told The Associated Press in an interview. “It took 20 years to get to this point – if not longer. It’s going to take us a while to get out of it.”

According to “ The State of Local News 2026 ” from Northwestern University, the number of news deserts – counties that have no locally based professional sources of news – grew by 12% this year to 238, as advertising and audiences continued to decline. Though there were dozens of newsrooms started this year, more than two newspapers closed for each outlet launched.

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