Good evening, readers.
The federal government should take over Stelco’s operations to avert announced layoffs blamed on U.S. tariffs, says NDP Leader Avi Lewis.
In a statement on Tuesday, Lewis said nationalizing the plants would “protect the jobs and industry our country depends on,” and provide more immediate relief than threatened legal action against the company’s U.S.-based parent company.
“We cannot let that happen. You don’t save Canada by allowing American investors to dismantle steel production in this country piece by piece,” said Lewis.
“It’s time for the Liberal government to take back control of our industry by nationalizing Stelco.”
Stelco began issuing layoff notices this week after announcing plans to lay off up to 500 workers at its Hamilton and Lake Erie facilities.
TC Energy Corp. says it has closed a deal that gives five First Nations an economic interest in the Coastal GasLink pipeline, which brings natural gas from northeastern B.C. to the LNG Canada plant and export terminal in Kitimat, B.C.
Financial terms of the deal were not immediately available.
“This agreement turns years of partnership into long-term economic opportunity and shared prosperity,” François Poirier, president and chief executive of TC Energy, said in a news release Tuesday.
Under the agreement with the FN CGL Pipeline Ltd. Partnership, the First Nations have obtained an economic interest in the entity that holds TC Energy’s limited partner interest in Coastal GasLink. Its members include the Haisla Nation, Halfway River First Nation, McLeod Lake Indian Band, Saulteau First Nations and West Moberly First Nations.
Canada has joined allies France, the U.K. and Australia in expressing deep “regret” over the postponement of Palestinian presidential and legislative elections.
The votes were set to happen next month but Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has delayed them until September 2027.
In a statement, Canada and its allies say the delay deprives Palestinians of the chance to vote and elections are an important element of the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to reform.
The statement also acknowledges what it calls significant challenges and impediments to the ability to conduct elections in a manner consistent with international standards.
In Other Headlines
- More than 300 advance polls open across Alberta in historic referendum on separation (Global)
- Parts of northwestern Ontario moving to permanent daylight savings time in November (CBC)
- Ford government begins removing bike lanes in Etobicoke (Toronto Star)
- David Eby defends his family receiving $10-a-day child care, says he donated to centre (Daily Hive)
- India’s Modi to visit Canada in December, Carney’s office says (Reuters)
- Manitoba’s newest ministers have ‘few tools,’ no department to run, expert says (CBC)
- Chrystia Freeland’s book spills the tea on her ‘Unreliable Boyfriend’ and Justin Trudeau does not come off well (Toronto Star)
- Majority of Canadians support closer formal ties with European Union, poll finds (The Globe and Mail)
- How a Mexico-U.S. trade deal could set the terms for Canada (National Post)
- Can Alberta opt out of federal programs? ‘Impossible,’ experts say (CTV)
Internationally
Elsewhere, ads promoting President Trump and his policies continued to be paid for by the U.S. government well after Trump announced he would have his MAGA Inc. super PAC take over funding the ads and kept airing despite a federal judge ordering them to come down.
An NPR analysis of data from AdImpact finds that nearly $22 million in taxpayer dollars has been spent to air the ads since the campaign began in late September. Nearly $10 million of that total was spent after Oct. 5, when the president pledged to fund it privately in a post on Truth Social.
“The Radical Left is upset with the fact that I am taking Ads, which I consider to be a positive promotion for our Great U.S.A., and paying for them with U.S.A. money,” Trump posted at the time. “This is a rather standard thing to do but, rather than doing that, although nothing will make them happy, I have decided to do the Patriotic Ads, among others, and pay for them myself, and with money I raised for MAGA, Inc.”
Saudi Arabia has launched a series of strikes on a strategic oil depot on the outskirts of Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, while later on Tuesday it said it had intercepted missiles launched toward Dharan, location of the headquarters of the national energy behemoth Saudi Aramco.
The attacks on both sides were a fresh escalation of the conflict between Riyadh and the Iran-backed Houthi forces. Before its offensive on Tuesday, a Saudi spokesperson warned civilians to leave the target area, in an apparent attempt to strike fear into the local population before the biggest attack so far on Houthi energy infrastructure.
The Central Sabaha Station oil depot on the western side of the city contains large tanks that often hold substantial quantities of fuel derivatives, although the Yemeni Oil Company said its storage facilities were empty at the time of the attack.
In Other International Headlines
- Kimberly Guilfoyle steps down as US ambassador to Greece after alleged misconduct (The Guardian)
- Cornell cancels fraternity parties over sexual assault case (BBC)
- Supreme Court will review dispute over records from Elon Musk’s DOGE (The New York Times)
- German airport briefly shuts after ’emergency code’ transmitted in error by incoming plane (CNN)
- Iran sees ‘false flag’ operations after UK blames IRGC for airbase incident (Al Jazeera)
- 12 U.S. senators, including 6 Republicans, tell Trump to drop diesel deal with Russia (CBC)
- Pope Leo recovering after ‘successful’ surgery to remove growth on his lung (CNN)
- Hegseth wants a livestream execution. Here’s how firing squads work (Axios)
- Greta Thunberg joins French teens on new day of school protests (Reuters)
- ‘Block, blunt, break’: What’s in NATO’s new Russia war plan? (Al Jazeera)
- Benjamin Netanyahu orders prosecution of ‘NAZA’ documentary interviewees (Euronews)
The Kicker
And finally, for the politicos and the readers, former cabinet minister Chrystia Freeland’s new book ‘Unreliable Boyfriend’ is out, and online reviewers are saying it’s got tea.
Described as an insider’s view on dealing with U.S. President Donald Trump, the book also offers a peek behind the cabinet room doors during Justin Trudeau’s time as a prime minister.
According to a Toronto Star op-ed recounting what Freeland wrote, cabinet meetings featured tears, tissues and occasional hugs from Trudeau, but also sharp reprimands.
Freeland recalls him berating a colleague for describing something as “crazy,” saying it was offesnive to people with mental health issues. Ministers were told to say “bananas” instead.