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NewsOntario Superior Court finds second teen guilty of conspiracy and seeking a prohibited firearm in 2023 case. The RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team investigated the case. CBCPublished on:16 Oct 2026, 7:02 pmLoading content, please wait...

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre in Calgary on October 16, 2026. WS/David Wiechnik Published on: 16 Oct 2026, 6:54 pmLoading content, please wait...

The Toronto Chinatown Land Trust elects board members, reviews financials and announces its first property acquisition campaign at its AGM. These meeting notes are part of Documenters Canada, which is partly funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Learn more about our program here. The Green Line maintains full editorial independence to ensure journalistic integrity.

Depending on your point of view, New Brunswick was blessed or cursed when Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the Sisson mine project as a “nation building project” on November 13, 2025. The proposed Sisson open-pit tungsten and molybdenum mine in the Upper Nashwaak Watershed had already held provincial and national focus for 18 years and counting.

As voted by our readers in the 2026 Best of MTL readers poll, here’s where you can find the best pizza in Montreal. For more results from the Best of MTL, please click here. These are the best restaurants for pizza in Montreal. To read the 2026 Best of MTL issue, please click here.

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Federal immigration policy, and its effects on the ongoing housing and affordability crisis, is front and centre in Canadian politics once again. First off, Prime Minister Mark Carney, while speaking outside of Canada to journalists at the New York Times on Sept. 23, suggested his Liberal government is looking to increase immigration following efforts to reduce numbers since forming government in 2025.

A new study by EKOS has found disinformation to be the strongest predictor of support for secession ahead of the upcoming Alberta referendum. While support for secession is just 16% nationally, support among the most informed Canadians (7%) is significantly lower than among the most disinformed (51%). Support for secession in Alberta sits at 29%.

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Seasoned entrepreneurs Janice Waugh and Bryceson Dodge are working to empower new business owners through their Scarborough-based nonprofit. Based out of Scarborough, founders Janice Waugh and Bryceson Dodge are devoted to making entrepreneurship accessible for all.

A Montreal police officer has been suspended for deliberately urinating on a homeless man in the middle of the street. According to La Presse, the SPVM is now looking into other alleged instances of “inappropriate urination” by the same officer during police operations. Another SPVM officer from the same station, Station 21 — which oversees downtown, Centre Sud, Old Montreal and the Ste-Hélène and Notre Dame islands — has also been suspended for mocking a suspect who was placed in a “humiliating position” during an arrest.

Welcome back to Our Readers Write, our weekly round-up of the sharpest, most thoughtful comments left on The Hub, chosen with the help of your thumbs-up. Alberta dominated the conversation again this week, and our readers brought family history, constitutional memory, and plain-spoken demands to the question of what a fair deal within Confederation looks like. Elsewhere you pulled out Edmund Burke to referee a debate about conservatism’s future, ran the arithmetic on a new pipeline, took the Nobel committee to task, and argued for a feminism with room for mothers. As always, it is the reasoning, not the volume, that earns a spot here. Thank you for writing. On “Alberta’s $630-billion case for re-federating Canada, not leaving it”

A UNB councillor is raising alarms that drought is leaving portions of the watershed without surface water — threatening fish, ceremony and his family’s connection to the water Brian Holmes, a councillor for the Upper Nicola Band, walks through a dry stretch of the Nicola River on Sept. 18, 2026, a few minutes downstream from his community of spaxmn (Douglas Lake) in the Nicola Valley, in B. C.’s southern interior. Photo by Aaron Hemens

Welcome back. Nothing below is leaked, overheard or guessed at. Every line comes from the government’s own proactive disclosure records, filed by the departments, agencies and Crown corporations that spent the money. We simply read them so you don’t have to—and this week, they read like a travel agent’s dream and a grocery list. Tom Clark, Canada’s Consul General in New York, hosted 72 attendees—66 federal attendees and six guests—on August 4 for what the records call “furthering multilateral interests abroad.” Total: $2,922, or about $41 a head. The vendor line is the charm: Trader Joe’s, Wild Fork Foods, Costco, FreshDirect, Amazon, and four named wait staff. Diplomacy, it turns out, can be done with a membership card and a cart.

Jessica Hutchinson, executive director of conservation group Redd Fish Restoration Society, remembers the long, restless night in December 2025 listening to the thrum of a rainstorm in Tofino, B. C. Lying in her bed, she hoped the culmination of years of planning, weeks of construction and eye-watering helicopter bills would hold. As Hutchinson lay awake, rain poured down from the steep hillsides surrounding Tranquil Creek like it normally did, sending a surge of water into the river below. But now the deluge had an obstruction: a tangled mass of around 50 trees, tufted like a giant bird’s nest and lodged into the riverbed, causing the flow to ricochet and swoop under and above. Pools and eddies had begun to form below the wooden mass of the river’s new intruder, also known as an engineered logjam, reflecting a years-long effort that is relatively uncommon in B. C.

Montreal’s September 2026 calendar has turned into a useful snapshot of what collecting looks like when it moves offline. Card-focused events are landing across the city and its immediate orbit in unusually quick succession, from a September 20 show on Rue Lafond to a three-day sports-card gathering in Laval the following weekend and a large trading-card market at Centre Mont-Royal on September 26. That concentration matters because cards occupy an unusual place in culture. They can be pieces of a game, records of sporting careers, design objects, nostalgic objects and, occasionally, assets worth serious money. Yet saying that “cards have value” can hide an important distinction. A card does not automatically store financial value simply because numbers, characters or famous faces appear on it. In most contexts, cards communicate or reflect a value created somewhere else: a game state, a player’s popularity, scarcity, condition or a community’s current level of interest.