Canada
Trudeau tells inquiry he has names of Conservatives involved in foreign interference
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has testified at a federal inquiry that he has the names of Conservative parliamentarians who are "engaged in" or are at "high risk" of foreign interference. "I have directed Canada's spy service and others to try and inform the Conservative Party leader to be warned and armed,” Trudeau added, “to be able to make decisions that protect the integrity of that party—of its members—from attempts at foreign activities around foreign interference." David Akin reports on how Trudeau criticized Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for "choosing to play partisan games with foreign interference" and how Poilievre is responding, as Trudeau faces mounting calls from within the federal Liberal Party to resign.
Trudeau says there’s intelligence Tories ‘engaged or are at high risk’ from foreign interference
In an earlier closed-door interview with the commission’s lawyers, Trudeau talked about the difficulty of the government stepping in when other political parties are under threat from foreign interference. Trudeau pointed to one case, without specifying when, in which his national security and intelligence advisor gave him information about “significant” foreign interference operations related to an opposition party.
Offered ‘off ramps’ to diplomatic crisis, India doubled down, Trudeau testifies
Rather than cooperating with the Canada’s investigations, India opted to attack, Trudeau says.
Two running to replace Charlie Angus for the NDP
Two people are vying for the federal NDP nomination for the new riding of Kapuskasing-Timmins-Mushkegowuk. Nicole Fortier-Levesque and Terry Metatawabin are the names on the ballot for the nomination meeting on Nov. 23.
The Provinces
Moe and Beck spar in televised leaders’ debate
Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe and Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck are scheduled to participate in a televised debate this evening.
In their words: B.C. leaders lay out vision on economy ahead of provincial election
Ahead of Saturday's provincial election, Global News sat down with each of the three major party leaders to ask them their vision for the province's economy.
N.B. election debate: Tory leader forced to defend record on gender policy, housing
But it was an exchange about the policy of the Blaine Higgs government on gender identity in schools that got particularly heated. Higgs, running for a third term in office, told the discussion moderator, "there was an outcry across the country" when parents learned about "secrets being kept from them about what their kids were doing at school."
Elsewhere
U.K. urges India to co-operate with Canada amid diplomatic dispute
Amid the ongoing diplomatic dispute between Canada and India, the U.K. has called on New Delhi to co-operate with Ottawa's legal process.
Australian tanks to go to Ukraine but why so late?
Latika Bourke: The announcement, which constitutes Australia’s most significant military contribution to Kyiv and one of the largest allocations of tanks from an ally, was oddly made at a low-key early-morning press conference by the minister who was in London for a brief stopover en route to Brussels to NATO to attend the first Defence Ministerial involving the Indo-Pacific 4 countries.
From rodeos to radio, inside the Arizona fight against misinformation
Radio Campesina has a big goal this year: combat misinformation about elections among Arizona Latinos.
Media
Facebook, X and TikTok: How social media algorithms shape speech
“In its early days, social media did function as a kind of digital public sphere, with speech flowing freely,” Kai Riemer and Sandra Peter, professors at the University of Sydney Business School, tell the BBC. However, “algorithms on social media platforms have fundamentally reshaped the nature of free speech, not necessarily by restricting what can be said, but by determining who gets to see what content”, argue Professors Riemer and Peter, whose research looks at why we need to rethink free speech on social media.
The reality of layoffs, beyond the national numbers
While journalists of color make up only 17 percent of the industry, according to Pew Research Center data, they represented 42 percent of the laid-off individuals who responded to the IIJ’s survey. Women hold about 46 percent of journalism jobs, but they made up 68 percent of the survey participants. People aged twenty-six to thirty-five accounted for 41 percent of those responding to the survey, while those aged thirty-six to forty-five made up another 30 percent. (Pew didn’t have comparable data on the age of working journalists.) Finally, people with seven to fifteen years’ experience in journalism made up the largest group of those laid off, by tenure in the industry.
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Science and tech
Men accused of DDoSing some of the world’s biggest tech companies
The service, branded as Anonymous Sudan, directed powerful and sustained DDoSes against Big Tech companies, including Microsoft, OpenAI, Riot Games, PayPal, Steam, Hulu, Netflix, Reddit, GitHub, and Cloudflare. Other targets included CNN.com, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the US departments of Justice, Defense and State, the FBI, and government websites for the state of Alabama. Other attacks targeted sites or servers located in Europe.
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The Calendar
- Calgary - Deputy PM and Fin Min Chrystia Freeland visits a small business and meets with energy sector leaders.
- 900 ET: Sydney, NS - LPC MP Jaime Battiste makes a funding announcement
- 930 ET: - Public Services and Procurement Min Jean-Yves Duclos makes a funding announcement
- 1000 ET: Winnipeg - Immigration Min Marc Miller attends a citizenship ceremony.
- 1000 ET: Gatineau, QC - Labour Min Steven MacKinnon and LPC MP Stéphane Lauzon make a funding announcement.
- 1000 ET: Sydney, NS - LPC MP MIke Kelloway makes a funding announcement
- 1045 ET: Yellowknife - Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Justice Min Arif Viranie meet with provincial counterparts.
- 1100 ET: Toronto - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh speaks to reporters.
- 1100 ET: Elliot Lake, ON - LPC MP Terry Sheehan makes a funding announcement
- 1200 ET: Calgary - LPC MP George Chahal makes a funding announcement.
- 1300 ET: 135B West Block - The Concussion Legacy Foundation Canada speaks to reporters.
- 1430 ET: Buffalo River Dene FN, SK - Crown-Indigenous Affairs Min Gary Anandasangaree makes an announcement.
- 1500 ET: Calgary - Women and Gender Equality Min Marci Ien makes a funding announcement
- 1500 ET: Calgary - Indigenous Services Min Patty Hajdu makes a funding announcement.
