But things changed dramatically when Donald Trump took back the White House, and Carney replaced fellow Liberal Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister in 2025. At the time, Trudeau and his Liberals had been way behind in the polls, battered by Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s attacks on his climate policies — in particular an unpopular consumer carbon tax.

Carney’s first act as prime minister was to scrap that tax.

Following his surprise victory in the elections that April, Carney set about promoting Canada as an “energy superpower.” To the dismay of environmental groups, he supported the “Pacific Link,” an oil pipeline costing tens of billions of dollars, designed to carry Alberta crude to Canada’s Pacific coast for export to Asia.

He then pushed for thawing relations with Beijing in January, a not-so-subtle pitch to find a new crude oil client that isn’t the U.S. Germany, rushing to replace its dependence on Russian energy, signed a long-term agreement in July to buy Canadian liquefied natural gas from a proposed port in British Columbia, despite backlash from environmental and indigenous groups.

He also scrapped laws on electric vehicle adoption, dropped plans for an emissions cap on oil and gas companies, watered down an existing industrial carbon price and introduced legislation to weaken environmental permitting rules for big infrastructure projects, which critics dubbed the “bulldoze nature bill.”

A landmark moment, according to Gray, came in November 2025, when Carney signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of Alberta, Canada’s biggest oil-producing province. That document, which promised to turn Canada into a “global energy superpower,” contained a string of promises to promote oil and gas and water down federal climate laws.”

The list of climate laws Carney has watered down, repealed and canceled makes the EU’s own recent backtracking on green laws look minor. Some environmentalists argue it is comparable to U.S. President Donald Trump’s wholesale dismantling of environmental protections.

“The track the Carney government has taken on climate and environmental regulation has been a decisive move in the direction of the U.S.,” said Tim Gray, executive director of environmental non-profit Environment Defence. Carney, he said, “seems to be all in on fossil fuels.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/mark-carney-canada-climate-change-europe/

https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/carney-government-considers-lifting-ban-on-offshore-oil-and-gas-exploration-in-the-western-arctic/article_9956a8e2-ad64-4dd0-be53-5710b1e5401b.html

Millions of dollars in fines, hundreds of thousands of tickets, but little evidence that the roads are getting safer

https://www.techspot.com/news/114489-america-school-buses-becoming-ai-powered-ticket-machines.html

Good samaritan rushed to help Jim Brennan after he was struck in south Ottawa last month

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/this-cyclist-was-hit-by-a-pickup-truck-it-cost-the-driver-110-and-2-demerit-points-9.7411743

John Woodside

Massive fossil fuel reserves in the Arctic can’t be tapped because of a federal moratorium and Nunavut Premier John Main wants to see that changed as Ottawa’s latest budget pledges cash that could make it happen.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/11/06/news/nunavuts-premier-wants-lift-ban-arctic-oil-gas-development

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/youtuber-discovers-aircraft-noise-trick-that-can-geolocate-your-videos-to-within-100m-doppler-effect-pinpoints-locations-from-just-60-seconds-of-audio

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Using a Doppler effect technique (more on that below), the location of a video or audio recording can be identified to within 100 meters through a combination of inaudible audio, flight data and math. This is no movie magic or scriptwriter invention: it’s real and it’s a little bit scary too.

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As Colsto explains, the key is the ‘Doppler effect’. That’s the way sounds appear to change based on the distance between a moving source and the listener. You hear it all the time: it’s what makes fire engine and ambulance sirens, car stereos and airplane propellers seem to change pitch as they go past.

What’s clever here is that Colsto has focused on the sounds made by aircraft in the backgrounds of videos. In many parts of the world the skies are very busy, and a faraway airplane that’s inaudible to you or other listeners might still leave a sonic footprint on your video or audio that can be isolated and analyzed. That’s definitely the case in the US data Colsto used.

Once you’ve got the audio, the aircraft sound can then be matched with publicly available flight data and Doppler curve measurements. By triangulating the sound from multiple aircraft, you can then identify where the audio was recorded. This is enormously clever.

Even when they’re right, linked sources don’t always support the summary’s claims.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/googles-ai-summaries-are-regularly-lying-to-you-report-finds

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Google’s AI Overviews Botched My Own Work. Here Are 8 Ways I Get Around Them

After Google’s Gemini-powered AI incorrectly summarized an article I’d written, I went in search of ways to limit AI Overviews from appearing in my search results.

https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/googles-ai-overviews-botched-my-own-work-here-are-8-ways-i-get-around-them

In the latter half of the twentieth century, another obstacle emerged, when public sentiment turned on nuclear after accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl in 1979 and 1986. At that time, the AECL was developing a small reactor for district heating—an experiment that also foundered, both due to cost and because of a lack of social acceptance in the countries Canada wanted to export it to. That suggests we should be careful with technological promises, says Khelfaoui. “Technical feasibility is not the same thing as commercial viability.”

Allison Macfarlane, former chair of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and current director of the school of public policy and global affairs at UBC, was also dismissive about the viability of SMRs. “There’s a reason that we only have large reactors around the world, and that reason is economies of scale. It is simply much cheaper to build one large reactor pressure vessel than it is to build six small ones for the same amount of electricity generated.”

Despite the rosy projections from what Macfarlane calls the “nuke bros” (the numerous SMR startups that have emerged in the past decade), it’s just not straightforward to build a nuclear reactor in a factory, she says, noting that in her tenure as chair, she watched the American company Westinghouse go bankrupt over its attempt to build a reactor in a factory in the state of Georgia.

https://thewalrus.ca/carney-wants-ten-new-nuclear-reactors-who-will-build-them/

The federal government’s AI-powered translation tool, GCtranslate, has only been around for about six months, but in that time, it’s racked up a concerning number of errors, including some really unfortunate translations.

According to documents CBC/Radio-Canada obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, GCTranslate introduced several mistranslations and hallucinations in government documents, particularly when used for translations from English to French.

Errors range from simpler mistakes, like translating a common abbreviation for the transportation bureau, TB, to Tuberculosis, to more severe errors, like changing someone’s name from “Mike” to “Stephanie.” There were also some other funny translation errors, such as the tool translating “Buy Canadian Policy” into “Achetez une politique canadienne,” which means “Buy a Canadian policy.”

https://www.blogto.com/tech/2026/11/canada-ai-translation-tool-making-mistakes/

The 28-year-old international student from Egypt said he works across several delivery apps and at a coffee shop on weekends to make ends meet. Despite working nine-hour days, he earns about $600 a week on the apps.

“Delivery workers are treated like the worst people in the community,” Abdelrehim said adding that newcomers like himself are increasingly taking on delivery work out of financial necessity.

“When no one is around to do this work, it’ll be filled with international students and newcomers,” he said. “In the winter, it’s only delivery people who are out on the streets.”

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/he-works-9-hour-days-on-delivery-apps-and-can-t-make-ends-meet-why-900-gta-couriers-are-now-fighting-back/article_f8fc7ff2-380a-4971-ab55-87e1fd863620.html