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PoliticsPublic Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says "gaps" in Canada's security screening need to be addressed following the arrest of a Canadian NATO intern in Belgium on espionage charges. MPs investigating security screening process after high-profile summer arrestCatharine Tunney · CBC News · Posted: Oct 05, 2026 2:43 PM EDT | Last Updated: October 5Listen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Two men walk past the NATO logo at the alliance's most recent summit in Turkey. A Canadian intern was arrested on espionage charges in Belgium in July. (Hussein Malla/The Associated Press)Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says "gaps" in Canada's security screening need to be addressed following the arrest of a Canadian NATO intern in Belgium on espionage charges. Anandasangaree faced an hour of grilling from MPs on the House of Commons public safety and national security committee on Monday, who are probing how the intern gained security clearance from Ottawa to work at the military alliance.

Black women twice as likely to face maternal complications: studyOctober 5|Duration 2:02A new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal has found that Black Canadians face higher risks of complications during pregnancy, birth and postpartum compared to white Canadians — sparking renewed calls for culturally responsive care. The most comprehensive study yet of maternal health in Canada has found Black Canadians face a much higher risk of serious complications during pregnancy, labour, delivery and postpartum than white people — underlining the urgent need for better data tracking and tools to eliminate systemic anti-Black racism in our health-care system, researchers and advocates say. The research, published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), looked at more than 108,000 in-hospital deliveries to Black people, and more than 1.3 million in-hospital deliveries to white people across the country between 2012 and 2023.

Canada’s busiest airports could soon become laboratories for a new model of private investment as Prime Minister Mark Carney moves to hand decades-long operating concessions for those airports to private capital—a plan that is sparking questions about customer service, security for airport workers and impacts on municipalities that depend on the country’s largest aviation hubs. In his first budget, Carney hinted his government is considering changes to the ownership structure of airports across the country to “unlock more of the economic potential of Canada’s airports and consider new ways to attract private sector investment”.

Amazon Prime Deal Days is back in Canada, and there are plenty of deals that might get you to finally hit “checkout” on that home gadget you’ve been eyeing. From high-end coffee makers and air purifiers to robot vacuums, smart displays, and kitchen appliances, there are some great discounts for pretty much every room in the house.

PoliticsThe Liberal government plans to transform its year-old Defence Investment Agency into a Crown corporation. The proposed overhaul could fundamentally reshape Canada's notoriously cumbersome defence procurement system, while raising fresh questions about oversight, accountability and how far Ottawa will go. Legislation expected to transform Defence Investment Agency into independent bodyMurray Brewster · CBC News · Posted: Oct 05, 2026 8:10 PM EDT | Last Updated: October 6Listen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Doug Guzman, CEO of the Defence Investment Agency, left, listens as Prime Minister Mark Carney takes questions from journalists at the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries annual defence industry trade show on May 27. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)The Liberal government plans to turn the fledgling Defence Investment Agency (DIA) into a Crown corporation in order to move military purchases along more swiftly, two federal sources tell CBC News.

Sorrow of the children shipped to Canada all alone5 October 2026Angela FergusonNorth WestHome Children CanadaSiblings Rose and Fred Shapcott, pictured on their admission to Barnardo's in 1891, were among those sent away to CanadaWhen 10-year-old Rose Shapcott and her brother Fred, 14, were orphaned and put into a Barnardo's children's home in 1891, little did they know they would end up being separated and sent thousands of miles away across the Atlantic. The siblings were sent to Canada as part of the British Home Children child migration programme, which saw about 100,000 impoverished children from Britain sent to overseas colonies including Canada, between 1869 and the 1940s. These children were separated from their families and sent off to Canada as a source of cheap labour, often suffering mistreatment at the hands of those who took them in, said Rose's great grandson Malcolm Farrow. Farrow said Fred was sent to Saskatchewan first and then Rose asked to be sent over when she was 17, thinking they would be reunited. Instead, she was sent thousands of miles away to Peterborough in Ontario and went on to have "a very sad life", Farrow revealed.

PoliticsImmigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is struggling to handle a flood of citizenship applications — many of them from a change to federal law late last year that allows anyone who can prove they have a Canadian ancestor to apply. That backlog is preventing some Canadians born abroad from coming home. IRCC taking 33 months to process applications in wake of 'lost Canadians' lawElizabeth Thompson · CBC News · Posted: Oct 05, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: October 5Listen to this articleEstimated 7 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Pascal Sud and Meisha Smith are seen in Jamaica with their newborn daughter. They have been apart for months while they wait for their daughter's Canadian citizenship certificate. (Submitted by Pascal Sud)When Pascal Sud and Meisha Smith prepared in January for the arrival of their first child, the choice seemed simple. Smith would give birth in her home country of Jamaica where she had family support, and then they would together return to Montreal three months later.

Festive Meals, Full Hearts Campaign Launches Nationwide Today with Multiplatform Fundraiser Spanning TV, Radio, and Social TORONTO, October 6, 2026 – Flavour Network, a Corus Entertainment Inc. property, together with Food Banks Canada announced today a new, nationwide campaign serving to raise one million meals* for people in Canada facing food insecurity. The campaign is powered by Flavour Network’s reach across Canada and amplified by Corus’ extensive megaphone of assets across TV, radio, and social with the support of the campaign’s official restaurant partner, Swiss Chalet®. As food insecurity reaches record levels in Canada, food banks are seeing nearly 2.2 million visits each month, including 700,000 visits from children. In response to this growing need, Food Banks Canada continues to deliver critical support nationwide, distributing 324 million pounds of food valued at $1 billion and investing $275 million in communities across the country.

Open this photo in gallery:Pedestrians walk in downtown Toronto in October, 2025. Statistics Canada released new figures showing that the national population is estimated to have increased by nearly 300,000 last year. Fred Lum/The Globe and MailRemember those headlines about how, for the first time in Canadian history, our population shrank in 2025? It turns out that never happened. Two weeks ago, Statistics Canada released new demographic estimates. A national population that it previously believed had fallen by more than 100,000 people in 2025 is now estimated to have increased by nearly 300,000. This higher count is not the result of a new tally of births, deaths or immigrants arriving. It is almost entirely driven by what the statistical agency says is better information on temporary resident departures. Many of the visa students and visa workers the agency previously assumed had left Canada it now believes did not. On the same day as Statscan dropped that news, Prime Minister Mark Carney was in New York, sitting for an interview with The New York Times.

Open this photo in gallery:A supporter of Parti Québécois cheers as members of the party are elected in Montreal on Monday. ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP/Getty ImagesFour years ago, as the Coalition Avenir Québec rolled over the competition to win 90 of the National Assembly’s then 125 seats, the Parti Québécois looked like a spent force. The sovereigntist “party of a generation” had its worst election result since its founding in 1968 by René Lévesque – the ruffled, chain-smoking everyman who charmed baby-boomer francophones – taking just three seats. Its then rookie leader, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, only won his seat because the far-left Québec Solidaire candidate was forced to pull out of the race after being caught removing her rival’s campaign literature from a home mailbox. Now, Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon is a household name, known by most as PSPP, and, after Monday’s provincial election, set to become Quebec’s next premier. Parti Québécois projected to form government in QuebecThe PQ is back. Like it or not, Canada will need to brace itself for another rocky chapter on the unity file.

Diana Fox Carney, centre, Prime Minister Mark Carney, and Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon, right, visit technology startups at the Vector Institute, in Toronto, June 4, 2026. Arlyn McAdorey/The Canadian Press Last month, Ottawa wrapped up its pre-budget consultations, with the fall budget soon to follow. I’m guessing the consultations yielded many asks aimed at Canada’s innovation economy—a new startup fund, a new venture envelope, a new program to back whatever sector is hot this year, and on and on. Finance Minister Champagne should resist the temptation and turn down these requests.

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NewsAir Canada cancels 5 major long-haul international routesThe global carrier is dropping routes, leaving travellers with fewer nonstop flight options from Canada in 2027. Written by Laura OsborneEditor, Time Out CanadaMonday October 5 2026SharePhotograph: Brian Losito/Air Canada | Air Canada Air Canada is cutting several long-haul routes for 2027, including flights from Canada to India, the UAE, Singapore and Algeria. According to a report by Travel Pulse, several of the routes had already been suspended for 2026.

In the current political climate, maintaining a shared country code with the United States increasingly compromises Canada's digital sovereignty and distinct global identity.

TorontoThe University of Toronto says it's launching a new $100 million scholarship program designed to attract PhD talent to Canada. Presidents' Impact Scholarship Program will provide $80K funding per year for 50 scholarsThe Canadian Press · Posted: Oct 05, 2026 9:37 AM EDT | Last Updated: October 5Listen to this articleEstimated 1 minuteThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The University of Toronto says a total of 12 or 13 new scholarship recipients will receive four years of funding each year starting in September 2027. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)The University of Toronto says it's launching a new $100 million scholarship program designed to attract PhD talent to Canada. The institution says the Presidents' Impact Scholarship Program will provide $80,000 funding per year for 50 scholars for a total of $320,000 of funding over four years. The school says the program is the largest of its kind in Canada and is comparable to scholarship funds in other world-leading research universities in the United States and United Kingdom.