How Canada, and a Canadian widow, responded to 9/11; U.S., Mexico talk trade while Canada waits; and more
- Canada’s senior leaders faced significant challenges and uncertainty as the U.S. diverted its planes on 9/11, detailed in an exclusive excerpt from Jeffrey Robinson’s book, Ash and Honor: The Untold 368 Minutes of 9/11.
- Maureen Basnicki, whose husband was killed at the World Trade Center, has driven legal changes, raised awareness, and influenced Canada’s calendar, but continues to advocate for further progress.
- Following the recent collapse of trade negotiations, tensions between the U.S. and Canada have escalated, though Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum expressed support for trilateral talks to renew the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement.
- Ontario’s urban mayors urge the provincial government to implement forced addiction treatment in response to a surge in homelessness, sparking debate over civil rights versus the severity of the crisis.
It’s Friday, September 11. Here are the top stories we’re following today.
This exclusive book excerpt from Ash and Honor: The Untold 368 Minutes of 9/11, by Jeffrey Robinson recounts how Canada’s senior leaders scrambled — and fretted — as the U.S. diverted its planes.
Read the story
Maureen Basnicki, whose husband was murdered at the World Trade Center 25 years ago, has forged new law, sparked awareness and even changed Canada’s calendar, but — always the advocate — she says more needs to be done.
Read the story
The trade conflict between the U.S. and Canada has intensified following the collapse in trade negotiations between both sides last month. Canada’s trade minister said he was encouraged by recent comments made by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum that all three countries should be at the negotiating table for the renewal of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement.
Read the story
Ontario’s urban mayors are calling for the provincial government to enact forced addiction treatment amid an ongoing huge spike in homelessness. Concerns about effectiveness and civil rights around the controversial treatment are fair, Stinson writes, “but what else could you possibly call the situation in Ontario other than a crisis that requires an extreme response?”
Read the column
With summer over, Toronto’s long mayoral race is finally heating up. Chow’s re-election strategy “may not be complicated. It could just be to pivot to the centre, say little and lean into the incumbent advantage,” Furey says, because her opponents are trying to overcome “what has become a local political truism in Toronto — that an incumbent mayor can’t be beat.”
Read the column
As a provincial election approaches, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon admits he feels a “form of anger and indignation” regarding tariffs. He tells the Post that his sentiment is also directed at Canada’s counter-tariff strategy. In any case, he says, “there will be another very important question at the ballot box: do we really want 12 years of (a CAQ government)?”
Read the story