WASHINGTON, D.C. — As U.S. midterm elections loomed over the weekend, Prime Minister Mark Carney and President Donald Trump spoke and publicly suggested that trade talks could restart soon.
Carney said the two countries “will now be working in the coming weeks to deliver that outcome.”
Here we go. Watch this come true. https://t.co/zoQPwsQYUN
— Texas2AAttorney (@CJGRISHAM) November 4, 2026
Yesterday, I asked readers, did France just save America?
And voters promptly and resoundingly responded no.
The Republican Party suffered the worst midterm in 16 years. You may recall that midterm in 2010. The Tea Party rose, Republicans promised to fight Obama and the party gained 63 House seats and 6 seats in the Senate.
h/t Mauser
Einer der besten und berührendsten Spots, die ich je gesehen habe. Und das zu einem sehr schlimmen und traurigen Thema – zu dem es sehr wichtig ist, dass es viel Aufmerksamkeit bekommt. Daher bitte teilen. #MonstersEverywhere
@NOMOREorg https://t.co/OegUTq1FWJ— Torsten Dittkuhn (@TDittkuhn) November 1, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
For Canada, the Democratic Party’s sweep in the U.S. midterm elections Tuesday is a key battle, waged and won.
Don’t call it a successful case of election interference, as the U.S. has alleged. Think of it as an information campaign from north of the border whose message clearly resonated.
The Republican Party’s loss of control over the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives will see the arrival of Democratic lawmakers who won their seats by railing against President Donald Trump’s tariffs and trade policies, among a host of other issues.
Why that sounds like election interference!.
Workers inside Google’s artificial intelligence division are pushing executives to release them from non-disparagement agreements, arguing that they must be free to inform the public about the risks of the technology they are working to advance, according to people inside the company.
In London — a major base for its AI division, Google DeepMind, which grew out of the 2014 acquisition of a British start-up — some staff members are forbidden by their employment contracts from criticizing the company for the rest of their lives, even if they leave the firm, according to a contract reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with two current Google DeepMind workers. The workers spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid retribution from the company.
A second wave of suspected cyberattacks on European supermarkets has exposed a vulnerability that Canada’s food industry should take seriously. Grocery stores in at least nine countries reported refrigeration failures. One Swedish supermarket said its refrigeration systems had been remotely set to 50°C. Across the affected stores, tonnes of food had to be thrown out. An earlier wave had already hit stores in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Having quietly killed free speech in Europe, several European governments are now zeroing in on independent media and journalists to end the free flow of information.
Banning independent media outlets and journalists directly would not work: it would just give the game away. Instead, softer, more indirect ways to get rid of alternative and independent media have been devised.
The Donald Trump era in America — a uniquely destructive period of shattered norms, outrageous corruption and state-sponsored cruelty — began a two-year fade to black Tuesday night.
The final results of the American midterm elections weren’t available by the Star’s deadline. But early tallies suggest huge wins for a Democratic Party that, for more than a decade, has proven mostly incapable of standing up to and beating back Trump.
Full on TDS at the Star.
Adam Carolla says he went 10 days before he heard about the concealed carry father who ran into his daughters’ elementary school and took down the shooter, and that he knows exactly why the story didn’t get more airtime, according to a clip posted Thursday by The Vigilant Fox
A 32-year-old man is accused of following a woman and attempting to force his way into her Scarborough home earlier this week.
Toronto Police say officers began investigating the frightening case of alleged criminal harassment after the woman reported she noticed a man she did not know “following her home” in the area of Warden and Danforth Aves. on Monday.
Iran’s chief negotiator in talks with the US has said that Americans have “said NO TO WAR”, after President Donald Trump’s Republican Party suffered a stunning defeat in the midterm elections.
“We endorse this message,” parliament speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf wrote on X.
“If the US [government] betrays their public will to serve international paymasters and blackmailers, it will learn our NO comes with a Nightmare,” he warned.
Trump also blamed the war.
Trump blames Gasoline prices and Iran for Midterms loss 🌊🤣 https://t.co/q8ePvWkg5Z
— Navroop Singh (@TheNavroopSingh) November 4, 2026
There is a case for nationalizing Stelco.
It starts in Scunthorpe in northern England, where the British government formally nationalized British Steel in July to rescue the jobs of its 4,000 employees.
London wasn’t about to let the factory’s Chinese owner, Jingye, close British Steel and sell the plant for scrap. It seized British Steel, over the fierce objections of both Jingye and Beijing, and placed the steelmaker under government ownership.
Blood bank sites in France are the latest to be hit by cyber attackers.
The attack, which affected three regional blood banks, sought to raise temperatures to extremely high levels but was thwarted before it could do any damage, authorities have said.
The incident comes after cyber attacks on Tuesday affected the UK meat processing industry and supermarkets in European countries reported their fridges and freezers warmed up after they were remotely taken over – resulting in spoiled food costing millions of dollars.
h/t Patti Jo
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he “couldn’t be happier” with the results of the U.S. midterm elections because the result sends a message to U.S. President Donald Trump, whose tariffs have hammered the province’s economy.
“The American people spoke, and I couldn’t be happier,” Ford told reporters Wednesday. “They can blame everyone they want, but President Trump has to look in the mirror, take responsibility for the results of last night.”
