Overview
- In a Winnipeg Sun opinion piece, Marco Navarro-Genie argues Prime Minister Mark Carney’s forthcoming budget risks repeating costly state-directed spending, using GM’s Ingersoll EV van project as a cautionary example.
- The column cites roughly $518 million in combined federal and Ontario funding, reports about 3,500 vans produced in 2024, and says the plant’s workforce dropped from about 2,000 to fewer than 700.
- Soraya Martinez Ferrada has been elected mayor of Montreal, defeating Projet Montreal’s Luc Rabouin as voters chose Ensemble Montreal’s promise of change, according to The Canadian Press.
- Yukon residents are voting in a territorial election that also includes a non-binding question on electoral reform as the territory contests seats in a newly expanded 21-riding map.
- RCMP say Chris Fahlman, 42, is charged with manslaughter and several weapons offences in the Sept. 12 Highway 39 shooting that killed Tanya Myers and is due in Regina Provincial Court today, and a separate RCMP investigation is examining an alleged intimidation-themed Halloween display in Tache, Man.