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The House has returned from a three-month hiatus, and it’s giving first day of school. Here’s we got on tap.
The government tabled the Building Canada Strong Act, a major piece of legislation that includes changes to how projects are reviewed.
More coming from iPolitics.
Also, the Carney government has lost its bid to dismiss a lawsuit alleging Ottawa no longer has a credible plan to meet Canada’s 2030 emissions target, after a judge ruled the case can proceed to a full hearing.
The case is based on the Canadian Net Zero Emissions Accountability Act, a Trudeau-era legislation that requires setting national targets for greenhouse gas emissions and establishing a credible plan to meet those goals.
The three young climate activists leading the challenge, Marie Maltais, Sophia Mathur and Shirley Barnea, along with Environmental Defense and the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, argue that recent policy decisions have made the 2030 targets unachievable.
They are hoping the court will order Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin to amend the emissions reduction plan to include measures to meet climate goals.
Aya Dufour has more.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he won’t change his mind about his decision to eliminate the digital services tax and Canadian content contributions for streamers.
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet asked Carney in the House of Commons today whether he’ll reconsider those decisions after they failed to secure progress in trade talks with the United States.
The digital services tax would have imposed a three-per-cent levy on revenue from Canadian users on the biggest tech companies, including Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb.
Just before the first payment was due last year, Carney said he would eliminate the tax in order to restart trade talks with the United States.
In June, the government said it would also eliminate the financial contribution requirement for streamers set by the CRTC under the Online Streaming Act.
The Canadian Press reports.
Months into Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push to diversify Canada’s trade beyond the United States, an already-negotiated framework with Taiwan remains unsigned – prompting opposition members to question about whether renewed relationship with Beijing is contributing to the delay.
The Taiwan-Canada Trade Cooperation Framework Arrangement (TCFA) is not a traditional free-trade deal and would not cut tariffs. Instead, it would give the two sides a formal structure to deepen cooperation in areas such as supply chains, technology and investment — sectors where Taiwan’s semiconductor-heavy economy and Canada’s push to diversify trade could overlap.
Substantive negotiations wrapped up in 2025, and the agreement has been ready for final signatures since April.
But months later, the framework remains unsigned as Carney looks elsewhere for economic opportunities, while simultaneously rebuilding relations with Beijing.
Sydney Ko has more.
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Elsewhere, U.S. President Donald Trump braces for loss in lawsuit brought by media organizations, expects to “go for appeal”
Donald Trump is bracing for a loss in the lawsuit brought by three media organizations, as he considers that the judge presiding over the case – his own appointee – previously ordered the White House to restore credentials for journalist Jim Acosta.
“They have drawn a great Judge, for them, a man who ruled in favor of Jim Acosta, who now seems to have disappeared from the Planet,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, referring to a lawsuit filed by CNN in 2018. “The Judge’s name is Tim Kelly, and he was, sadly, appointed by ‘TRUMP.’ In other words, almost without question and, as usual, we’ll go for appeal because Fake News people and publications that only write negatively, and who violate our National Security by writing false and defamatory stories with unknown ‘sources,’ shouldn’t be allowed access to the most important Office anywhere in the World.”
Read more from the Guardian.
With striking speed, the widespread debate around data centers has become a fault line in American communities, cutting across political parties, splitting constituencies and forging unexpected alliances.
In city halls and county commission chambers, east to west and north to south, people are squaring off against their local representatives.
Data centers have “upended politics as we know it,” says Darrell West, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. It’s more than a not-in-my-backyard issue, he says — it also reflects existential fears that artificial intelligence will take jobs or eliminate humanity entirely.
“People just feel like they no longer have control over the technology, [and] that worries them,” West says. “This is a real grassroots movement. It’s ordinary people all across the country, both Republicans and Democrats.”
NPR has more.
