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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.

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BusinessBuild Canada Homes promises to scale up the delivery of affordable housing at a time when industry leaders are raising the alarm about the lagging pace of housing development across the country. After one year of existence, the agency has only begun construction of about 2,000 units. Of the 19,000 units slated for construction, only about 2,000 are currently being builtListen to this articleEstimated 5 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. Prime Minister Mark Carney launched Build Canada Homes last year to help scale up the construction of affordable housing, something the federal government had effectively stopped funding for decades. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)A little more than a year ago, Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in Ottawa in front of a backdrop of partly constructed, prefabricated houses to announce the launch of Build Canada Homes, the federal government's initiative to tackle the housing crisis and speed up residential construction.

WorldThe U. S. Coast Guard has named all six people, including four Canadian crew members and two Bermudian passengers, aboard an Ontario-based air ambulance that went missing off the coast of Massachusetts on Saturday. Transportation Safety Board of Canada will be leading investigation into the incidentThe Canadian Press · Posted: Oct 05, 2026 10:50 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. Members of the U. S. Coast Guard search for a missing air ambulance off the coast of Nantucket, Mass. The plane was carrying four Canadian crew members and two Bermudian passengers when it lost contact with air-traffic control early Saturday morning. (United States Coast Guard/The Canadian Press)The U. S. Coast Guard has named all six people, including four Canadians, who were aboard an Ontario-based air ambulance that went missing off the coast of Massachusetts on Saturday.

Canadians have given Ottawa permission to build fast. New polling from Abacus Data and Vantage shows what that permission assumes, and why foreign ownership is where it runs out. Oct 05, 2026Over a week ago, I stood up at Cassels in Toronto and walked a room of smart and interested leaders through what Canadians think about building things. It’s a particular kind of audience: people who finance, permit, lobby for and lawyer the projects Ottawa now calls nation-building. They’ve spent a year listening to everyone speak for the public. The go… Continue reading this post for free, courtesy of David Coletto.

Jesse Marsch has never shied from the spotlight. Throughout his 15-year management career, Marsch has routinely spoken his mind, even when, perhaps, staying silent might be the better course of action. Unafraid of any potential blowback, Marsch is a reporter’s dream, always ready to offer a controversial soundbite. It should come as no surprise, then, that ahead of Canada’s friendly with the United States on Tuesday night in St. Paul, Marsch has once again made himself the lightning rod during a period of frayed ties between the traditional allies. You can catch Canada vs. the United States LIVE on Tuesday night with pre-game coverage getting underway at 7pm ET/4pm PT ahead of an 8pm ET/5pm PT kick-off on TSN1, TSN.ca and the TSN App. In a wide-ranging interview with The Guardian’s Joe Callaghan, Marsch directed some vitriol towards the nation of his birth and its soccer program. That’s nothing new for the native of Racine, Wis. The 52-year-old Marsch has never hidden his dislike for U. S. Soccer after he believes he was close to becoming the USMNT manager in 2023.

In my view, one of the best things about Canada is how the country found a way to settle fundamental differences—including debates over the future of the country—through democratic means. Even as other major democracies endured decades of violence and repression related to separatist causes, Canada collectively agreed to keep violence out of the question as it worked through the complex question of Quebec sovereignty. When things went too far—whether in the form of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) crisis or in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police running amok in the years that followed—Canadians again and again found a way to take a step back, change course, and settle things peacefully, democratically, and within the rule of law, among ourselves. That last point is crucial. Conversations about the future of Canada must be the purview of Canadians alone. Here, too, history is a useful guide. When Charles de Gaulle made his notorious speech from the steps of Montreal’s City Hall in 1967, declaring “Vive Le Québec libre!” the Canadian government responded immediately.

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