Global National: Oct. 3

It’s been 10 days since post-tropical storm Fiona tore a destructive trail through Atlantic Canada, and electricity still hasn’t been restored to thousands of people. We look at many of those left in the dark and cold in Nova Scotia, and the toll it’s taking. Just minutes after the polls closed in Quebec, the results were clear. The decisive victory that was handed to Premier François Legault and his Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) party. In Alberta, the United Conservative Party (UCP) is about to choose a new leader, who will end up succeeding Jason Kenney as premier. How presumed frontrunner Danielle Smith’s proposed “Alberta Sovereignty Act” has resonated with the party base, and why Smith may have to start pivoting away from it. Moscow is engaging in political theatre over its illegal annexation of four Ukrainian regions. How that is masking Russia’s flailing defence against Ukraine’s agressive counteroffensive. As Indigenous women remain far more likely to fall victim to violent crime, families of three murdered British Columbia women speak out about what they call inadequate, negligent, and mismanaged police efforts. And hook, line, and stinker: the cheating allegations in a professional competition that have the fishing world reeling.