We’re starting the newsletter this evening with some math happening in the Upper Chamber.

Nineteen senators currently in office missed 40 per cent or more votes since the start of the 45th Parliament, a new analysis has found.

The study also determined that 24 senators participated in 90 per cent or more votes, including six who never missed one.

Conservative Sen. Dawn Anderson had the worst attendance record of any active senator, participating in only four of the 36 standing votes since May 2025.

Four now retired senators had better voting records than Anderson.

Anderson’s office said the senator missed the votes because of public appearances or other official business across the Northwest Territories, which she represents in the Senate.

Travelling across the vast territory and to and from Ottawa also contributed to her missing votes, her office said.

Marco Vigliotti has more. 

One of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s key staffers says he’ll be stepping away from his role as he considers running for a seat in Parliament.

Braeden Caley, Carney’s deputy chief of staff, thanked the prime minister in a letter posted to social media late Sunday for what he called “the honour of a lifetime.”

Caley didn’t specify a timeline or a particular riding where he would seek a nomination in his letter, only that he plans to run in his home province of British Columbia.

The riding of North Vancouver—Capilan will be contested in a forthcoming byelection. That seat had been held by former cabinet minister Jonathan Wilkinson, who resigned this spring to become Canada’s ambassador to the European Union.

North Vancouver—Capilano has consistently voted Liberal since Wilkinson was first elected in 2015.

The Canadian Press has more. 

Also, the Innu of Pessamit have voted against a multi-billion dollar agreement with Hydro-Québec and the Quebec government.

Sixty-three per cent of voters rejected the agreement, which could have settled the legal disputes that have been ongoing for years and paved the way to develop new energy projects.

A total of 1,287 members of the Innu community cast their votes in Sunday’s referendum.

The agreement included the payment of more than $2.535 billion to the community over 50 years.

The 42-page document also outlined other payments to the community of some 4,000 people located southwest of Baie-Comeau, in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec.

However, the agreement would have prevented the community from going to court to challenge future energy projects and opened its territory to projects by the state-owned corporation — provisions that have sparked controversy within the community.

CP’s got this one too. 

In Other Headlines

Internationally

Ukraine and nine other countries including the UK, Germany and France are to build a shared protection programme for Europe against ballistic missiles, using Kyiv’s experience in fighting Russia’s full-scale invasion for more than four years.

“Our goal is to build a shared ballistic missile defence capability for Europe,” the 10 nations said in a statement on Monday as leaders met the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for talks in Paris.

The announcement came as the UK also signed up to participate in the EU’s €90bn (£77bn) support loan for Ukraine, meaning UK firms will be able to provide more weapons paid for by the funds. The move is the latest push by the EU and Britain to work more closely after Britain quit the bloc in 2020 as a result of the Brexit vote.

The French leader, Emmanuel Macron, also announced after the meeting that the Multinational Force for Ukraine, to be deployed in the event of a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, will hold exercises in neighbouring countries in the coming months “to validate our deployment plans and demonstrate that we are ready, determined and credible”.

The Guardian has more. 

A dozen states, led by California, are suing to block Paramount from buying Warner Bros. Discovery in a Hollywood mega-merger that would unite some of the nation’s largest movie studios, television newsrooms, and other entertainment properties.

“The unlawful merger of these two entertainment behemoths would lead to higher prices, lower quality, and less content for film and television, harming movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and ultimately, audiences on every sofa and movie theater seat in the U.S.,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement announcing the suit, which was filed in federal court in California’s Northern District.