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Powerful winds swept central and northern Alberta on October 14 and 15, causing outages that forced temporary closures of two advance voting locations in the Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock electoral division and disrupted travel for residents and services.
Statistics Canada will publish the Labour Force Survey for September 2026 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern today. Economists expect a modest payroll gain and a small rise in unemployment, a release that could influence Bank of Canada policy calculations and political debate over the economy.
The Parti Québécois has returned to power in Quebec after more than a decade, but its failure to secure a majority could complicate plans for another independence referendum as Canada confronts economic and political pressure from the United States.
On September 27, 2026, the federal government unveiled a new multimillion dollar investment to accelerate clean hydrogen demonstration projects in Canada, with immediate pilots in Ontario and Alberta. Officials say the funding aims to cut industrial emissions, secure domestic supply chains for low carbon fuels, and build export capacity for hydrogen technology.
A new poll and a wave of local actions are forcing Canadian and provincial leaders to reckon with community resistance to large AI data centre projects in Alberta, complicating Ottawa and Edmonton’s strategy to attract hyperscalers and build domestic AI capacity.