Canada and the Philippines have finished talks on a free-trade agreement. A free-trade deal lowers taxes on trade between countries. Prime Minister Mark Carney and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed a paper in Manila to officially end the talks. They met at a summit of ASEAN, a group of 11 countries in Southeast Asia. The deal itself is not signed yet. Canada wants to sign it next year. In 2025, trade in goods between the two countries was $3.4 billion. Businesses mostly support the deal. Some community groups worry about the Philippines' record on nature, workers and human rights.
About 800 Amazon workers in Delta, British Columbia, now have a union contract. A union is a group that works for workers' rights and pay. Their union, Unifor, says it is the first binding contract for Amazon workers in North America. Binding means both sides must follow it. An arbitrator, an outside person who settles disputes, chose the terms. The deal lasts three years. Unifor says pay will reach $29 an hour by the end. Workers with 10 years get an extra week of vacation. Amazon says this was unfair because workers could not vote. It may go to court.
Gunshots damaged a fibre-optic cable in Labrador, Bell says. This cable carries phone and internet signals. On Thursday, this cut internet and cell service in the North West River area. Internet was down about five hours. Bell said service came back on Friday. Workers found more gunshot damage during the hard repair. Two schools, Lake Melville School and Sheshatshiu Innu School, sent students home early for safety. The Sheshatshiu school said people could not reach emergency services. The RCMP, Canada's national police, also think a gun was used. They are checking if a crime happened. No suspect has been named.
The federal government has proposed removing the GST/HST from some massage therapy. The GST/HST is a sales tax. In P.E.I., it is 15%. The plan was in the recent federal budget but is not law yet. The P.E.I. Massage Therapy Association likes the plan. Its president, Stacey MacLeod, says massage is the last major health therapy still taxed. Physiotherapy and chiropractic care are not taxed. She says the change would make treatment cost less. Patients' health benefit money would also last longer. Therapists would lose some tax credits for their business costs. For now, therapists must keep charging the tax.
EverWind Fuels plans an $8-billion data centre in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia. A data centre is a building full of computers that use lots of electricity. EverWind and Nova Scotia Power signed papers on connecting its first part to the grid. The grid carries electricity to homes and businesses. The power company can order EverWind to cut power use with 10 minutes' warning. This is meant to protect homes when the grid is under stress. EverWind must pay new grid costs it causes. Upgrades may cost $74 million or more. The Nova Scotia Energy Board must approve the payment method.
New Brunswick now expects a deficit of $1.31 billion for the 2026-27 budget year. A deficit is when a government spends more than it takes in. Finance Minister Rene Legacy shared the number on Friday. The forecast after the first three months was $1.66 billion, almost $350 million more. Taxes on companies and people brought in more money. But social development and health spent more than planned. The province's total debt may reach $15.7 billion. Opposition leader Daniel Allain said taxpayers, not the government, lowered the deficit. He said this is the second year with a deficit around $1.3 billion.
Hydro-Québec makes most of its electricity with water held behind dams. The Quebec government owns it. The areas with its dams have had their four driest years in a row since records began in 1943. So Hydro-Québec bought more electricity this summer to save water. From July to September, it spent $312 million more on this than a year before. It must also sell less power outside Quebec to keep enough for Quebec. From January to September 2026, it spent $3.6 billion buying power. That is about double what it earned from sales outside Quebec. Its quarterly profit still grew.
OSAP is the Ontario Student Assistance Program. It gives students money for school. Records obtained by The Canadian Press show growth at the Canadian College of Business, Science and Technology, a private career college. In 2021-22, 562 of its students got OSAP. By 2024-25, it was 17,157. At one campus, the number rose almost 6,000%. That year, its students got about $151 million in provincial grants. More than 97% studied online. In May, the government cut six schools from OSAP, but not this one. Critics asked why. The college did not answer questions. The minister has not named specific schools.
Premier Wab Kinew says Manitoba may need to spend much less on new power plants than planned. Manitoba Hydro is the province's power company. It said it needs three new natural gas turbines, costing about $3 billion, to meet high winter demand within a few years. Kinew says a Public Utilities Board report disagrees. This board checks Hydro's plans. He says the board found only one turbine, costing about $1 billion, and power lines are needed for now. More can be added later. Kinew says the government will likely follow the report. Manitoba Hydro says it has not seen it.
Saskatchewan's Court of Appeal ruled in a lawsuit about birth alerts. Birth alerts were warnings social or health workers put on files of pregnant women seen as high-risk. Government data show most were for Indigenous women. Babies were often later taken into government care. The court said parts of two national reports can be used as evidence: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report and the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The province opposed this. They will be used only to decide if the case can become a class action, a lawsuit for a large group.
Alberta is changing what high school students need to graduate. Students now need 56 credits in core classes, like math, science and English. Students who start high school in 2028 will need only 47. They need just one senior course in English or social studies. Senior math and science will stay optional. Gym class will be required in every high school year, not only Grade 10. The government also plans a new required course about wellness and money. Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides says students will get more choice. Students must still write at least one diploma exam, a provincial test.
The federal government will give $200 million over three years to Woodfibre LNG. LNG is liquefied natural gas, cooled into a liquid so ships can carry it. The project is near Squamish, British Columbia. Energy Minister Tim Hodgson says the money will help raise output almost 25%, to 2.6 million tonnes a year. He says this helps Canada sell energy to more countries. He says the Squamish Nation, a First Nation, led its environmental review. It is about 75% built, and exports are over a year away, its boss says. An economist and the BC Green Party criticized the funding.
A new 146-page report by researchers with Qupanuaq, a Nunavut children's group, and six universities says Nunavut is in a food security crisis. Food security means always having enough healthy food. Children are hurt the most. Using survey data, it says 7 in 10 Inuit children live in homes that skip meals, eat less or eat lower-quality food. A federally funded program gave food vouchers, like coupons for food, in Nunavut towns. The report says it seems to have reduced hunger. Canada's Indigenous Services department ended it in March 2025. Since then, few grocery requests were approved, the report says.
Fog over Yellowknife cancelled many flights Friday. Yellowknife is the capital of the Northwest Territories. Bad weather has hurt flights for several days. At least three Canadian North flights there were cancelled. WestJet and Air Canada also had problems. Air Tindi flies to smaller communities from Yellowknife. It said about 85% of its flights were cancelled or moved. It has tried to reach Wrigley for about six days. Air Tindi's president, Chris Reynolds, linked the fog and cloud to unusually warm weather. He said small communities are hit harder. After flights restart, catching up usually takes three or four days.
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People made 59 complaints about RCMP officers in Yukon in 2025-26. The RCMP is Canada's national police. The year before, there were 41. This is the most in five years. The numbers come from a report by the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission, which reviews complaints about the RCMP. It accepted 34 complaints for RCMP investigation and refused 24. In finished complaints, the most common claim was neglect of duty. That means not doing a job properly. The RCMP found 11 of these claims proven and 25 not proven. An RCMP spokesperson warned these numbers alone do not show causes.
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