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Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem said Saturday the central bank will likely raise its inflation forecast at its Oct. 28 rate decision, with Brent crude trading near $110 USD against the $75 the bank assumed in July. Inflation has since edged higher: Statistics Canada reported Monday that consumer prices rose 3.1 percent year over year in September, up from 3 percent in August. Macklem said the bank cannot move today’s prices and must judge where inflation sits a year out—but economists argue a benchmark rate parked at 2.25 percent for seven straight decisions leaves little room to wait if oil stays near $100 USD and the Middle East conflict keeps the Strait of Hormuz closed. Speaking to reporters on a conference call from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok, Macklem signalled that events have overtaken the bank’s July outlook. That forecast had inflation easing to about 2.5 percent in the second half of the year. Instead, the headline rate held at 3 percent through July and August before ticking up in September.

Sylvan Lake town councillor Taylor “Teej” Johannesson (left) and Jon Alberta Patriot. WS CanvaPublished on: 19 Oct 2026, 4:23 pmLoading content, please wait...

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The provincial government doesn’t intend to stop Ithaca Energy’s entry into Newfoundland and Labrador’s oil sector despite the company’s ties to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territory. Ithaca is majority-owned by Israeli energy conglomerate Delek Group, which is blacklisted by the United Nations for its alleged role in “activities that raised particular human rights concerns.”

In Kaska territory, summer turns toward fall earlier than in much of British Columbia. Pressed up against the Yukon border, where the Alaska Highway cuts across the landscape, it’s a place where leaves start changing colour in August, and by September, snow already dusts the mountaintops. Seasonal change has always held meaning for Kaska, and this year autumn was supposed to mark something new: the final few steps in their effort to protect a massive swath of their territory, called Dene Kʼéh Kusān. But when BC NDP Leader David Eby called a snap election in late September, Kaska Nation leaders say it stalled that process. Now, they’re worried the election could derail, or at least slow, the entire multi-year planning process for the roughly three-million-hectare protected area.

BCWith six days left before final voting day in a snap provincial election David Eby called, the NDP leader is now pleading for BC Green Party voters to vote for him instead. Green Leader Emily Lowan calls the appeal "a scare tactic. "BC Premier David Eby arrives for a speech at the Union of BC Municipalities convention in Vancouver, Sept. 18, 2026. Mayors and councillors pleaded with him not to call a provincial election as their four-year terms come to an end, and days later he did. Image courtesy of ChatGPT/UBCMPublished on:19 Oct 2026, 2:57 pmLoading content, please wait...