National Post spoke with a half dozen current and former PMO officials, senior bureaucrats and caucus members. They described Carney as extremely focused on delivering an ambitious agenda of reshaping the Canadian economy in the era of U.S. Donald Trump. He is fiercely punctual, runs a tight ship during meetings and is very decisive — all marked differences from his predecessor. [National Post]

The Algonquin Anishinabeg Nation Tribal Council plans to bring forward a complaint over non-Indigenous companies being granted access for work set aside for Indigenous firms. [Global]

Voters only getting 2 more MLAs despite huge population boom. Alberta will have a new electoral map when the next provincial election is called. An Electoral Boundaries Commission has been named and will begin travelling the province next week to collect feedback from Albertans about how new riding boundaries should be drawn to reflect population changes since the last time the map was redrawn in 2017. [DaveBerta]

Jeff Wharton, one of three Tories found this week to have violated the province's conflict of interest law, is to remain in caucus but will no longer serve as critic for business, mining, trade and job creation. [CP]

La télévision privée fait face à des défis de taille et se bute à l’inaction des gouvernements, dénonce Pierre Karl Péladeau. [TVA]

The grueling work of navigating complex theory and the politics of academia can get to a person, even one as laid back as Brown University professor and astrophysicist Stephon Alexander. So Alexander plays the saxophone, though at this point it may not be accurate to call his avocation a spare time pursuit, since John Coltrane has become as important to him as Einstein, Kepler, and Newton. [Open Culture]