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Carney in Ireland for meetings with European leaders, ahead of Asia summits
Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Dublin for an informal meeting with European leaders, ahead of summits in Asia.
Carney is attending the European Political Community summit, where leaders discuss geopolitical issues every six months, ever since Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
For the second time, Canada will be the only non-European country represented at the table.
Carney is also set to have bilateral discussions today with his counterparts from Greece and Cyprus, two European Union countries that haven’t ratified a decade-old trade deal with Europe.
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Stellantis Canada president and CEO Trevor Longley, left, and Unifor National President Lana Payne exchange a negotiation binder to mark the opening of bargaining between Unifor and Stellantis, in Toronto, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026.
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Joly set to hold meeting in Toronto with Stellantis, union and Ontario minister
Industry Minister Mélanie Joly is set to hold a four-way meeting today with automaker Stellantis, the union representing its more than 9,000 workers in Canada, and representatives of the Ontario government.
The discussions in Toronto come days after Stellantis announced it was selling its Brampton, Ont. assembly plant to Canadian armoured vehicle manufacturer Roshel for an undisclosed amount.
Collective bargaining negotiations between Stellantis and Unifor broke down in September after the automaker signed a memorandum of understanding with Roshel to target a sale of the facility.
Unifor national president Lana Payne has called the sale a “worst-case scenario,” while Joly’s office has denied reports that she was involved in negotiations that led to the deal.
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A person rides a bike in the rain in Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024.
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Impacts from B.C. drenching mount as water levels rise
The impacts of the drenching on British Columbia’s south coast have been increasing as heavy rain triggers evacuation orders and alerts, flood warnings and the shutdown of a water treatment plant.
The Village of Pemberton has issued an evacuation order for properties on Airport Road, including the community’s airport, wastewater treatment facility, wildland fire management base and a public golf course due to flooding and “high-risk river levels.”
The Lilʼwat Nation has also issued an evacuation order and an evacuation alert for the area from Kwetsa7 along the Lillooet River corridor to Lillooet Lake due to flooding.
The Strathcona Regional District issued a water conservation notice for the Village of Sayward on the northeast coast of Vancouver Island as high flows in Newcastle Creek lead to extra sediment in the water.
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Kayla Francique, left to right, Lashana Francique, Anne Marie White, Latvia Francique and Richelle Reid, pose for a photograph during a community barbecue honouring the lives of their brother and son, Jamal Francique, and D’Andre Campbell, two black men who were killed by police in 2020, among others, in Brampton, Ont., on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020.
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Coroner’s inquest set to begin for Jamal Francique, shot in head by police
A coroner’s inquest is set to begin today to examine the circumstances surrounding the death of a man who was shot in the head by police west of Toronto nearly seven years ago.
Jamal Francique died in hospital on Jan. 9, 2020, two days after police shot him during a botched arrest in Mississauga, Ont. He was 28.
About a year later, Ontario’s police watchdog cleared the Peel regional police officers of wrongdoing, saying the officer who opened fire reported fearing for his life when Francique drove at him.
Francique’s family disputed the agency’s findings, and they later filed a negligence lawsuit against the Special Investigations Unit, police and local paramedics over his death.
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Diane McDowell is shown posing in Delphi, Greece, in this undated handout photo.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout — David Slater (Mandatory Credit)
His wife died by suicide. He wants the government to reconsider its MAID bill
A Toronto widow is urging Parliament to reconsider new legislation that would ban medically assisted death for people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness.
David Slater says his wife, Diane McDowell, a 71-year-old retired litigation lawyer, battled severe depression for decades before dying by suicide on Oct. 25.
Slater says McDowell wanted a medically assisted death but was ineligible, and that access to the procedure would have preserved the dignity with which she lived.
Justice Minister Sean Fraser, who introduced the bill in late October, says he acted cautiously because experts cannot determine with certainty whether a person might recover with further treatment.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 12, 2026.
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