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[South Korean] President Lee Jae Myung proposed expanding bilateral cooperation during a summit with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday, describing Canada as “a key partner for Korea that goes beyond a friendly nation, one akin to an ally.”

Lee held a summit with Carney, who was in Korea for the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting, at a hotel in central Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang, on Thursday morning.

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We are already cooperating in many areas beyond defense, including the economy, and I expect to see even greater collaboration moving forward,” Lee continued. “Canada’s leadership in foundational AI research has greatly benefited the world.”

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"Despite the complexities of the global order and the many challenges it presents, I hope Korea and Canada can work together to overcome them,” Lee said.

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“Korea is an important partner for Canada in all areas, including defense, commerce and culture,” Carney said. “Our trade relationship is important, and cooperation in defense and cultural exchanges is increasing. This is a very significant moment for the Korea-Canada relationship.”

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Ontario is proposing to consolidate its 36 conservation authorities into seven, a move the environment minister insists will improve services and result in no job losses.

Environment Minister Todd McCarthy announced Friday that the government will soon introduce legislation to establish a new provincial agency to oversee the amalgamated conservation authorities and consult on the proposed boundaries of the new regional authorities.

NDP environment critic Peter Tabuns said centralizing environmental decision-making is the wrong move.

"(The premier) is hollowing out the very agencies that defend our land, water and wildlife, all so his developer friends can build wherever they please," he wrote in a statement.

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Taoiseach [Ireland's Prime Minister] Micheál Martin was in Ottawa in September, where boosting business links was on the agenda. And earlier this week, the [Irish] Government backed a new report that examined opportunities for increasing trade between the Republic and Canada.

The report says Canadian companies already employ more than 22,000 people [in Ireland], while more than 19,000 in Canada are working for Irish companies.

However, it states that there is significant potential for future growth in trade and investment. In particular, the report points to the clean tech, fintech, agri-food and life sciences sectors.

The study, commissioned by the Government, employers’ group Ibec, and the Ireland-Canada Business Association, suggests that there is potential to increase trade in goods between the two countries by €1.2 billion annually – a 34 per cent increase – and to expand trade in services by almost €500 million.

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The report states that trade between the two countries has nearly doubled since a deal between Ottawa and the EU was reached in 2017, reaching approximately $9.6 billion in 2023. The Republic is now Canada’s 15th largest trading partner.

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“Canada has the potential to increase exports in financial services, air transportation services and management and consulting services. Ireland has potential to increase exports in computer services [eg, tech sector exports] and insurance and pension services,” it says.

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Canada and the Philippines, both staunch critics of China’s increasingly coercive actions in the disputed South China Sea, signed a key defense agreement on Sunday to boost combat drills and expand security alliances to deter aggression, officials said.

Canada and other Western nations have been bolstering their military presence in the Indo-Pacific to help promote the rule of law and expand trade and investment in the region. The strategy dovetails with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ’s efforts to build defense ties with other countries to help the Philippines’ underfunded military face a militarily superior China in the disputed waters.

There was no immediate comment from China, which has accused the Philippines of being a “troublemaker” and a “saboteur of regional stability” following joint patrols and combat drills with the United States and other countries in the South China Sea.

Beijing claims the waterway, a major trade route, virtually in its entirety, despite a 2016 arbitration ruling that invalidated those claims based on a 1982 U.N. convention.

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September 30, 2025, marks the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation in Canada and 10 years since the Liberal government promised to implement the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action. A decade later, only 15 have been completed—a reality the Yellowhead Institute describes as a “decade of disappointment.”

It is also 10 years since Canada entered the Paris Agreement, pledging to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. That target is now out of reach as Canada continues to expand fossil fuel production.

It’s a pattern that has become all too familiar in Canada: rhetorical commitment to Indigenous rights and climate action while doubling down on resource extraction and the continued violation of Indigenous sovereignty.

“We remind you, Mr. Minister, that the site used in Chalk River is located very close to the source of drinking water for millions of Quebecers,” the three MPs write. “This is probably one of the worst possible and imaginable places to decide to store nuclear waste.”

licence this past January to allow it to build a near surface disposal facility to store contaminated soil, industrial radiation sources, and radioactive demolition debris in a 25-metre-high stack of lined and covered disposal cells.

In March, the plan was stalled after a federal court

And yet, over the summer the Canadian National Energy Alliance—a consortium of multinational corporations (...) secretly transported high-level radioactive waste (...) to the Chalk River site

“Now she wants the federal government to intervene in B.C. to help Alberta, but don’t do anything in Alberta to help the rest of Canada,” Chrétien said in an interview with The House airing Saturday morning.

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'We will have to do less of some of the things that we want to do,' Carney says

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"The upcoming budget will balance the operating deficit in three years by reducing wasteful government spending and doing more with less," Carney said. "But the fact is, even with such efficiencies and with better management, we will have to do less of some of the things that we want to do, so we can do more of what we must do to build a bigger and better Canada."

It remains unclear exactly what those sacrifices will be or how they will be distributed.

Australia and Canada will jointly invest in critical minerals, including processing each other’s resources, in a landmark collaboration designed to wean themselves off China.

Resources Minister Madeleine King said global efforts to diversify supply chains for the vital minerals had concentrated in response to China’s recent restrictions on exports.

Even though China President Xi Jinping put a year-long pause on these restrictions after meeting Donald Trump this week, the volatility had made other countries conscious of their vulnerabilities.

“The arbitrary nature of that export restriction and the equally arbitrary nature of it being taken off – with little detail around the nature of that lift of those restrictions – just shows why it’s important to have an alternative, trusted supply chain,” Ms King, pictured below, told The West from Canada, where she has joined G7 energy ministers shaping the critical minerals action plan leaders agreed to in June.

That plan is about creating an alternative market for critical minerals and rare earths that reflects the price of production in “open-market countries” with high ESG standards, such as Australia and Canada.

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Canada’s energy minister Tim Hodgson said Ottawa would use the country’s Defence Production Act to stockpile critical minerals. The move echoes the US’s use of national security legislation to strengthen its domestic supplies.

“This enables Canada to launch our own defence stockpiling regime, and to support multilateral stockpiling efforts,” Hodgson said.

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The announcements come as Canada tries to position itself as a crucial supplier to western economies that have grown concerned about China’s stranglehold on rare earth and critical minerals supplies.

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For decades, Canadian governments, both Liberal and Conservative (under Brian Mulroney), wisely declined to participate in earlier versions of the Golden Dome under former U.S. presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Canada’s refusal was largely on the grounds that these so-called “missile defence” systems are not just defensive. In fact, they undermine arms treaties and encourage arms races.

A former Saskatoon police officer, fired in September with two other officers after an off-duty hot tub party in his backyard, is now charged with assault.

Dylan Kemp was arrested, charged and released on Thursday, according to a news release from the Saskatchewan Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT). He is scheduled to appear in Saskatoon provincial court Nov. 27.

On Aug. 28, CBC reported that five officers were suspended because of a house party in September 2024 hosted by a member of the elite Emergency Response Team, also known as the tactical team.

That host was Dylan Kemp.

Officers who contacted CBC said that a tactical team member allegedly physically assaulted a junior female officer at the party. That officer is the complainant in Kemp's assault charge.

On May 13 and 15, CBSA border services officers examined two marine containers from China that were both destined for Calgary, Alberta. The containers were flagged and referred to border services officers by CBSA intelligence personnel in the Pacific Region and from the National Targeting Centre.

Within the containers, CBSA officers found 60 clear jugs and 20 blue drums containing the following precursor chemicals:

- 3,600L of 1,4 Butanediol – precursor for GHB, also known as the ‘date-rape drug’
- 500L of Propionyl Chloride – a fentanyl precursor
- 200L of Gamma butyrolactone (GBL)

The investigation is ongoing.

Canada is officially designating certain critical minerals as a national security priority under the Defence Production Act, a move that would allow the federal government to support the mining industry by guaranteeing it a buyer and a minimum price.

The move was announced at a G7 energy and environment meeting in Toronto on Friday, where countries discussed countering China’s overwhelming dominance of critical mineral production. Those minerals are essential for modern technologies like electric vehicles and clean energy, and Western nations have been growing increasingly anxious over China’s control of their supply chain.

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