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Jul 18 2025

The Roundup: C-5 pitch. Candidate threatened. Teenaged voters.

David Akin's Roundup
C-5 pitch. Candidate threatened. Teenaged voters.
Canada
Sceptical First Nations chiefs hear Carney's C-5 pitch
Prime Minister Mark Carney is promising Bill C-5, his signature law that fast-tracks major resource and infrastructure projects, will create prosperity for everyone in Canada, including Indigenous peoples. But as David Akin explains, most First Nations leaders are sceptical about whether the One Canadian Economy Act will respect their rights. [Global National]

'The Liberals handed out tens of millions of dollars to high priced consultants while the very Canadians this program was intended to help have been neglected,' the Tory MPs said. [Global]
Independent candidate Sarah Spanier, 33, of Castor, Alta., says she has told Mounties about the online threats, which include a social media comment saying she would be met with a shotgun if she showed up at someone's door. [CP]
The commanding officer of the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa has been removed from his post in connection with a probe into the "Blue Hackle Mafia" social media group, Lt-Gen Michael Wright said in a statement to army ranks Wednesday. [CP]

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says dropping interprovincial trade barriers would push the total number of annual housing starts close to 280,000 over time. [Global]
The Provinces
Moe urges provinces to join expanded western trade agreement
Amid concerns over U.S. tariffs and global trade tensions, the Saskatchewan government says expanding the New West Partnership could ease internal barriers and strengthen Canada’s domestic market. [CJME]
While the report says it wasn't meant to assign blame, it notes that town and Parks Canada officials trained together and had an integrated command structure, but things became challenging when the province got involved. [CP]
Three of the six surveys asked respondents to comment on the province creating its own pension plan, police force and tax collection agency. But those who filled out those surveys weren’t allowed to disagree with the concept. That is changing, said Smith's spokesman. [CP]
Aurora
Elsewhere
Voting age to be lowered to 16 by next general election
Other planned changes include expanding voter ID to include bank cards and moving to automatic registration. [BBC]

The controversy over President Donald Trump’s handling of records from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation entered a new dimension Thursday as his administration struggles to make good on its promises to release details on the sex trafficking case involving a one-time friend of the now-president. [AP]
Media

“A lot of the public kind of assume journalists are already using AI but are really confused about what that would mean, how that might look,” Mayer said at the conference, citing May 2024 research from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. Newsrooms are most commonly using AI tools to produce summaries of stories, and for transcription and language translation, Mayer said. [Journalists Resource]
Science and Technology

Spiking demand is sending energy bills skyrocketing, while the governor threatens to pull the state from the grid. [Tom's Hardware]
Technique transforms the Internet DNS into an unconventional file storage system. [Ars Technica]
The Calendar
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