Canada

Montreal-based Bombardier is putting US$270 million into the first phase of a U.S. expansion, planning 800 hires in Kansas, Texas, Indiana and Connecticut. CEO Eric Martel cited talks with the U.S. administration, days after Trump dropped a threat to ban its plane sales.

— via iPolitics, The Canadian Press

Two Alberta Prosperity Project figures posted that its board fired CEO Mitch Sylvestre and lawyer Jeffrey Rath in September. Sylvestre rejected the claim, saying the posters were never board members and had no authority, as the group prepares for the UCP annual general meeting in Calgary.

— via The Tyee, David Climenhaga

B.C. is moving to lower the Agricultural Land Reserve food-processing rule from 50 per cent locally grown product to five per cent, which farmers and the BC Agriculture Council warn could fuel land speculation and weaken local markets. The parties differ on the issue, with Eby pledging to scrap the 50 per cent rule.

— via The Tyee, Sukhmani Sandhu

Canada Post has started moving homes with doorstep delivery to community mailboxes, beginning in Winnipeg and Quebec City, with 620,000 addresses planned in coming months and the rest by 2031. The Crown corporation lost $1.57 billion in 2025 and expects the shift to save about $500 million.

— via iPolitics, Marco Vigliotti

Ahead of the B.C. election, the Conservatives, Greens and NDP have all pledged to bring more ferry construction in-province, after BC Ferries' June 2025 contract with a Chinese state-owned shipyard drew backlash. Unions and Seaspan back building the vessels locally.

— via The Tyee, Isaac Phan Nay

During BC's snap election, DRIPA is absent from the NDP platform, while the Greens give it prominence and the Conservatives pledge repeal. Premier Eby ties the issue to a Gitxaala Court of Appeal ruling, and First Nations leaders and the Green leader criticize the NDP and Conservative positions.

— via The Tyee, Andrew MacLeod

The House health committee opens its own investigation into what its terms of reference call the "opioid epidemic and toxic drug crisis" today, hearing from Assembly of First Nations regional chief Wendell LaBobe and Montreal public health deputy medical director David Kaiser. Elsewhere on the Hill, economist Trevor Tombe and CFIB chief Dan Kelly brief MPs on Canada-U.S. relations.

— via iPolitics, Kady O'Malley

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford are set to announce a support package for Canada's steel and automotive industries on Parliament Hill at 2 p.m., with critical minerals support also expected, according to a source cited by QP Briefing. Carney then flies to Ankara for the first bilateral visit to Türkiye by a Canadian prime minister.

— via iPolitics, Kady O'Malley

Some British Columbians wait more than five years for a family doctor, and ER waits of six hours or more are common. Every major party is now promising fixes, but the NDP's costed plan puts its health pledges at about $2.5 billion in capital costs plus a little over $300 million more each year.

— via The Tyee, Tyler Olsen

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Prime Minister Mark Carney will announce new support for Canada's steel and auto industries in Ottawa on Wednesday, a source says, with critical minerals also expected to be included. The cost and how the money would be distributed haven't been disclosed.

— via iPolitics, Barbara Patrocinio

Ottawa's "final" electricity strategy is due by the end of the year, and it could settle how a doubled grid gets paid for. Under consideration: a standard formula for splitting costs among governments, proponents and ratepayers, plus a Canada Energy Regulator role in linking regions east to west.

— via iPolitics, Aya Dufour

Doug Guzman, CEO of Canada's Defence Investment Agency, told MPs the reports that he planned to quit over bureaucratic frustration were wrong, saying "I'm in front of you right now." His testimony came as the government moved to make the agency a Crown corporation under a new bill, C-40, just months after the original plan in C-31.

— via iPolitics, Marco Vigliotti

A Justice Department Charter statement found Bill C-39 won't infringe the right to strike, according to Jobs and Families Minister Patty Hajdu. The bill would bar preemptive use of Section 107 of the Labour Code, requiring that a strike has already begun and that a special mediator publicly back intervention, though the Canada Labour Congress says it still invites employers to expect government action.

— via iPolitics, Marco Vigliotti

Three ministers, Rebecca Chartrand, Patty Hajdu and Stephen Fuhr, are booked back-to-back at the Finance committee at 10 a.m. as members keep digging into Champagne's bid to roll out measures from his first budget. Northern affordability, home energy retrofits and global talent recruitment get their own hearings at 3:30 p.m.

— via iPolitics, Kady O'Malley

What’s happening on (and off) Parliament Hill, plus the news you need to start your day.

— via iPolitics, Kady O'Malley

With about 1.8 million votes counted, 75.5 per cent were to stay in Canada in Alberta's separation referendum, and the nine extra questions Premier Danielle Smith's government wrote drew thinner support. Official results aren't due until Oct. 29, but the columnist argues the UCP is now badly split and the NDP may be pulling ahead.

— via The Tyee, David Climenhaga

In early returns, about three-quarters of Albertans voted yes to staying in Canada, while one-quarter wanted a second, binding referendum on leaving. Prime Minister Mark Carney called it "a great result for Canada," and Premier Danielle Smith will address the province on TV Tuesday night.

— via iPolitics, The Canadian Press

Trump has dropped his threat to ban Bombardier jet sales in the U.S., saying he now sees a company with a Kansas presence he doesn't want to hurt. He credited a call from Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, who is in a tight race in a state that hasn't elected a Democratic senator since 1932.

— via iPolitics, The Canadian Press